Gingernags
Well-Known Member
I'm fuming and gutted all in one!
I borrowed a lot of money earlier in the year to finally buy a trailer and a car capable of towing it - the trailer is shared between me and my sister, and after 20 years of horse ownership we are finally mobile. It was brand new in April and despite being a novice to trailer owning/towing and reversing - it has, as our new pride and joy, been looked after and I have not put so much as a scratch on it.
However... it has been kept this summer in a barn at the farm where we keep our horses. In winter, the farm owner, we'll call him Fred lets the farmer down the road or we'll call him Bill, keep his cows in it. We've been checking when we need to move the trailer and the answer was - from Bill via Fred - "nothing will happen in a hurry".
Fred insisted to Bill that we need a weeks notice for the weekend the cows are coming in so WE can move OUR trailer as it is hitch locked and Fred does not have the keys.
So Saturday, we went Christmas shopping at the Metro Centre for the whole day - a good hour away. Then I get a text message from Fred saying can we possibly move the trailer on Sunday as Bill wants to bring the cows in. I replied saying, fine, we'll be down in the morning. Thought nothing more of it.
Did the shopping, got home, went straight to the farm. Now as you drive the last bit of lane the barn is straight in front and it has a door with a large gap above and a small one below - and you can clearly see the trailer through the top gap... only it wasn't there! I was not best pleased...
Anyway, we started to muck out when Fred appeared, very apologetic, apparently what happened was Bill decided to take it into his own hands to move OUR trailer
Mrs Fred saw them start to move it and ran to tell her hubby, and he got into the big barn where they were moving it to - its "winter quarters" and shouted at them STOP!!!! But too late. They pushed it under a beam that was a bit low and have smashed the sky light/air vent.
Bill has said he'll pay for it. Fred and Mrs Fred are really upset but can't afford to fall out with Bill as they share a farm lane and maintenance and he does them favours. I can't blame Fred and Mrs Fred - its not their fault, they told him not to move it and to give us notice, and we keep the trailer there for nothing, and they are gutted. Poor Mrs F was waiting for us to appear for hours, dreading telling us!
In the scheme of things, its just the skylight I'm sure its repairable but I have no holiday time to take it to be repaired by the supplier, they don't work saturdays, NO WAY am I letting Bill get it repaired or take it so I'll have to see if they'll come out and fix it and send the bill to Farmer Bill.
BUT IT WAS OUR LOVELY NEW TRAILER AND HE'S BROKEN IT!!!!!
Not a happy bunnykins... I'm not really having an unreasonable rant am I? I know no-one has died but our property has been damaged by someone doing things he was expressly told NOT to do!
I borrowed a lot of money earlier in the year to finally buy a trailer and a car capable of towing it - the trailer is shared between me and my sister, and after 20 years of horse ownership we are finally mobile. It was brand new in April and despite being a novice to trailer owning/towing and reversing - it has, as our new pride and joy, been looked after and I have not put so much as a scratch on it.
However... it has been kept this summer in a barn at the farm where we keep our horses. In winter, the farm owner, we'll call him Fred lets the farmer down the road or we'll call him Bill, keep his cows in it. We've been checking when we need to move the trailer and the answer was - from Bill via Fred - "nothing will happen in a hurry".
Fred insisted to Bill that we need a weeks notice for the weekend the cows are coming in so WE can move OUR trailer as it is hitch locked and Fred does not have the keys.
So Saturday, we went Christmas shopping at the Metro Centre for the whole day - a good hour away. Then I get a text message from Fred saying can we possibly move the trailer on Sunday as Bill wants to bring the cows in. I replied saying, fine, we'll be down in the morning. Thought nothing more of it.
Did the shopping, got home, went straight to the farm. Now as you drive the last bit of lane the barn is straight in front and it has a door with a large gap above and a small one below - and you can clearly see the trailer through the top gap... only it wasn't there! I was not best pleased...
Anyway, we started to muck out when Fred appeared, very apologetic, apparently what happened was Bill decided to take it into his own hands to move OUR trailer
Bill has said he'll pay for it. Fred and Mrs Fred are really upset but can't afford to fall out with Bill as they share a farm lane and maintenance and he does them favours. I can't blame Fred and Mrs Fred - its not their fault, they told him not to move it and to give us notice, and we keep the trailer there for nothing, and they are gutted. Poor Mrs F was waiting for us to appear for hours, dreading telling us!
In the scheme of things, its just the skylight I'm sure its repairable but I have no holiday time to take it to be repaired by the supplier, they don't work saturdays, NO WAY am I letting Bill get it repaired or take it so I'll have to see if they'll come out and fix it and send the bill to Farmer Bill.
BUT IT WAS OUR LOVELY NEW TRAILER AND HE'S BROKEN IT!!!!!
Not a happy bunnykins... I'm not really having an unreasonable rant am I? I know no-one has died but our property has been damaged by someone doing things he was expressly told NOT to do!
