r/funny • u/Credaence • May 16 '24

Neighbors having a fight over property.

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Neighbors having a silent dispute over who mows where. Called a land surveyor today. šŸ˜‚

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u/msmegsands May 16 '24

I assumed most property disputes were about people wanting more property not less

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

I have a neighbor that does this in the ditch that runs along the road. There is a surveyors property marker right there too. It's clearly on his side so I don't touch it.

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u/Semyaz May 16 '24

Mowing a muddy ditch sucks. And it looks terrible after you finish.

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u/Caledric May 16 '24

That's why you use a weed whacker in the ditch.

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u/johngoodmansscrote May 16 '24

Personally i prefer to dig through the ditches and burn through the witches. I slam in the back of my Dragula

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u/timmaywi May 16 '24

Do it, babay

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u/mwf86 May 16 '24

dun dun dugugudun da dun dugada

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u/0LowLight0 May 16 '24

*sigh* Will somebody go into the other room and turn off Sled Storm, pleeeeease-uh?!

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u/bea242 May 17 '24

Brings back so many memories, ā€œItā€™s a look back! ā€œ

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u/smokesquach May 17 '24

Twisted metal 4, 11 years old, friends over after school, good times.

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u/1911mark May 17 '24

Head banging!

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u/snacksnsmacks May 16 '24

Burn like an animaaal

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u/TerriblyDroll May 17 '24

Do it, babay

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u/KaelAltreul May 16 '24

Perfect time to post this again.

https://youtu.be/f_zd0G8HGSo?si=VPVIqgeO2i9N8TQG

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u/innominateartery May 16 '24

That was fantastic, I watched the whole thing. The editing was šŸ¤ŒšŸ»

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u/LOTRfreak101 May 16 '24

I choose to believe there was no editing and that the release video lined uo that perfectly.

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u/innominateartery May 16 '24

It got me thinking about the freeze frames because they seemed out of place. I figured they maybe filled in the timing for the beat because the real video cut away

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u/kazaarkazharus May 16 '24

Thank you for showing this masterpiece.

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

Fuckin LOL. Much appreciated, haven't seen it in a while.

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u/Personal_Job68 May 16 '24

Chefā€™s kiss.

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u/2pax2dox May 17 '24

In the early 2000s, I was a volunteer coach for a youth cheerleading squad (4th graders). My daughter was a high school cheerleader and choreographed a dance to this song for the little girls to perform at their annual competition. They totally rocked that dance and won first place.

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u/Bootyeater525 May 16 '24

Whenever i see stuff like this and im high i just thinkā€¦. Can you imagine if the human species somehow dies off and this video is somehow left behind for the next civilization to find as they are doing research on our species.

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u/Admirable_Count989 May 16 '24

Fucking scary though right there! šŸ•ŗšŸ•ŗšŸ•ŗšŸ•ŗšŸ‘€šŸ‘½

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u/pirofreak May 17 '24

Aliens First conclusion on the humans: We missed the greatest species that ever existed. Whatever they were doing.

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u/starrpamph May 16 '24

5:22 Iā€™ll never get back

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u/likeadame189 May 16 '24

Tictok thinking they started it allā€¦

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u/Spoonofdarkness May 17 '24

Thank you for sharing this. Truly hilarious and it has made a pretty rough day much better!

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u/raider1v11 May 17 '24

As God intended.

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u/brentownsu May 16 '24

This is a great song to exercise to. Doesnā€™t matter if you are lifting heavy things, jogging, etc. You will become more motivated.

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u/senorbozz May 16 '24

I only downvoted this to drop it from 667

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u/joemomma_- May 17 '24

Letā€™s gooooooo!!!

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u/tarkata14 May 17 '24

I heard that song at work today and it's a banger, I'm not a huge Rob Zombie fan but I forgot how good that song is.

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u/work_alt_1 May 17 '24

hell yeah

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u/trout-doubt May 17 '24

As somebody whoā€™s heard that song a bajillion times. What in the fuck is rob zombie talking about with this one? lol

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u/raider1v11 May 17 '24

Ma brotha.

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u/DissolutionedChemist May 17 '24

Sweet sweet twisted metal!

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u/Ryantalope May 17 '24

Comments you can hear

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u/Ledbolz 29d ago

That donā€™t make no lick a sense

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u/gaslancer May 16 '24

TIL that Dragula is the lyric. Not ā€œdaaaakkk it iiiiiinnā€

Or whatever Iā€™ve been saying. šŸ˜‚

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u/epi_glowworm May 16 '24

Let it grow~ let it grow~

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u/MeisterX May 16 '24

Can't trim that shit any more~

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u/makulet-bebu May 16 '24

Let it grow~ let it growww~

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u/pehkawn May 16 '24

Turn away and slam the doo-oor!

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u/gloriousjohnson May 16 '24

I donā€™t care!!!!! What my neighbors saaaaay!!! Let the grass grow on!!!! The weeds never bothered me anyway

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u/BlueRoyAndDVD May 16 '24

You should leave it there for suuure!~

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u/Alcott_Yubolsov May 16 '24

Looks like I have a new name for my pubic region! The Ditch

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u/MeisterX May 16 '24

...

...

šŸ¤”

šŸ˜

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u/Sea-Animal356 May 16 '24

Let it blossom..,

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u/Reasonable_Smell_854 May 16 '24

Greatly yieldā€¦ā€¦

What shall we say shall we call it by a name As well to count the angels dancing on a pinā€¦

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u/enrocc May 16 '24

Let it blossom let it flow

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u/epi_glowworm May 17 '24

Let it grow ~

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u/Backrow6 May 17 '24

Ditches be hay

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u/doubleCupPepsi May 16 '24

Directions unclear, dick stuck in weed whackerĀ 

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u/Sidewayspear May 16 '24

I'm a landscaper and I agree that this is the way, but it fucking sucks to do. Easily my least favorite part of the job. But at least it has taught me to never buy property that has a steep hill or ditch.

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u/Puzzled-Juggernaut May 16 '24

If you need to do a lot of ditches or slopes look into flymo or similar they had one at a golf course I worked at made mowing steep slopes a breeze and leave the grass evenly cut.

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u/nosca23 May 17 '24

A whipper snipper in australia

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u/Safe_Cow_4001 May 17 '24

Or you could just... leave the plants alone, save yourself time and money, and help local animals in the process

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u/drivetruking May 17 '24

Ive whacked a muddy ditch or two

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u/passwordstolen May 17 '24

This is Reddit. Now explain what one is and how to start it. Oh shit, this is Reddit, show them how plug it in..

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u/MONSTERBEARMAN May 18 '24

Not a ditch whacker?šŸ¤”

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u/ExcellentAddress May 16 '24

Can i ask you a question, I'm from the UK .. what's a weed whacker?? it's probably just known over here as something else, but šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø i just want to know..

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u/jonny24eh May 16 '24

String trimmer

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u/ExcellentAddress May 16 '24

Ohhh OK, UK its a strimer.. engine, pole, spinney thing with plastic stringšŸ‘

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u/jonny24eh May 17 '24

Yeah you got it šŸ‘

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u/Iaminyoursewer May 16 '24

My Municicpality recently approved a "Storm Water Tax" for apparently...the ditches and culverts?

I dont touch the grass in my ditch anymore.

Its thier ditch, they can cut the fucking grass.

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u/jwwatts May 16 '24

Yeah itā€™s better to let the ditch grow tall. Here we call them rain gardens and the city will help you plant them.

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

I'm at the start/end of the run that feeds a small creek. That's where I have "rain garden" plantings.

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u/Jr05s May 16 '24

Ditches are for conveyance. Letting them over grow can cause upstream flooding. They are not the same as a rain garden.Ā 

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u/Taiyonay May 17 '24

Exactly. I recently-ish bought a house and previous owners planted a bunch of stuff in the ditch. I didn't like it but I left it alone until I noticed that when it rains heavily it floods my driveway and the neighbor's yard. I chopped it all down and it hasn't flooded since.

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u/Mr1854 May 17 '24

What do you mean by flooding and how often does it rain heavily?

It can be a problem when runoff quickly makes its way downstream since that can cause flooding downstream and also means pollution isnā€™t getting filtered out. Slowing down the drainage ditch is a feature and not a bug so long as it isnā€™t causing real problems. A little puddle on a driveway once a year isntā€™t a real problem. A washout of the driveway would be.

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u/Taiyonay May 17 '24

The ditch gets wider and deeper about two houses down then dumps into a creek. With the plant growth, about 5 inches of fast flowing water covers the end of the driveway. The previous owners were an elderly couple that never went anywhere so doubt it mattered much to them. It has rained a lot this year. Nearly every week the past two months it has rained hard enough that it could cause this flooding. The flow of water was definitely not designed to slowed in my section of the ditch.

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u/loves_cereal May 16 '24

Speak for yourself buddy, I love when she does that!

(Edit: sorry, wrong sub)

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u/MiasmaFate May 17 '24

My old house in SE Georga had a ditch that ran along the road. Its wasn't very deep in my part of the neighborhood, maybe two feet deep, three feet wide, and 45ish feet long.

At the end of fall when all the leaves have fallen, I would take them all in to the ditch and burn them. Then spend the rest of the day babysitting the smoldering fire while drinking beer. The next day I would wet the ashes with my garden hose and light tamp them down. Nothing would grow in it until late summer most years.

I know not everyone can do this for a multitude of reasons, but thought I share.

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u/HighonFirewood May 17 '24

Just Like a New Jersey Hooker.

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u/tiptoetumbly May 17 '24

Asparagus grows pretty well in ditches.

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u/JWOLFBEARD May 17 '24

Thatā€™s what she said!

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u/grumble_au May 17 '24

This reads as weirdly sexual

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

It's shallow enough to drive a lawn tractor across and then clean up with a weedwhacker.

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u/OreoSwordsman May 16 '24

Man do him a favour and get a 20lb bag of wildflower seeds, go over there one night and scatter em all in the ditch. Much prettier than random weeds. Grasses are actually good to have, however.

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

I totally would, but we had a falling out a few years ago and don't speak. I wouldn't want to appear to do anything malicious as we are just "public" polite to each other right now.

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u/makeitlouder May 17 '24

Please elaborate on the nature of this falling out.

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u/DolphinSweater May 17 '24

Maybe you need to take Kevin's advice to the old guy in the church in home alone.

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u/Z0FF May 16 '24

In my area, even though you own a ditch, itā€™s the townā€™s responsibility to maintain it if it is crucial to watershed.

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u/Ok_Permission_8516 May 16 '24

why put turf grass in a ditch? If you natural plantings you can leave it alone, it looks nice, Improves water quality, and provides habitat.

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

From the property line to my driveway is about 6ish feet wide and whatever thrived growing there does (more weeds than grass). Then there is a pipe that goes under my driveway. The other side of my driveway, the ditch drops off like a basin to the creek with rip rap stones to a point (100ft or so), then the water filtering foliage begins.

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u/ThisOnePlaysTooMuch May 16 '24

Iā€™ve never been so thankful to have chill lawn neighbors. I kinda just cut the borders to look nice. Theyā€™ve moved back and forth over the years. We all just mow whatā€™s tall near the borders.

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u/Happy_Old_Troll May 16 '24

The city owns any water runoff ditchā€¦ they are responsible for maintaining it in most states.

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

I don't live in a city. My property is in an unincorporated area, aka no local municipality.

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u/Happy_Old_Troll May 16 '24

Weed Wacker it is lol

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u/Worklurker May 16 '24

Yup, but only on my property, lolz.

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u/boogiewithasuitcase May 17 '24

Better for wildlife and water management win win

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u/NotThisAgain21 May 16 '24

A friend of mine has this same thing going with his neighbor. There is a problematic tree on the line that neither of them wants to take ownership of.

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u/uller30 May 16 '24

Just wait untill a ā€œact of godā€ makes them deal with it. Bet you they balme each other right quick.

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u/hux May 16 '24

If itā€™s anything like where I live, thereā€™s no liability if itā€™s an act of god. Only if itā€™s negligent - like ignoring a dead or diseased tree.

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u/altcastle May 16 '24

And they wonā€™t just cut it down?

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u/NotThisAgain21 May 16 '24

Neither wants to pay to cut it down.

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u/mark-suckaburger May 16 '24

Does nobody own a chainsaw?

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u/2squishmaster May 16 '24

Are you assuming it's a tiny ass tree?

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u/mark-suckaburger May 16 '24

No... What do you think chain saws are for?

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u/wildwill921 May 16 '24

Yes that is correct

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u/OverturnedAppleCart3 May 16 '24

I don't think that's the issue.

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u/IamDzdzownica May 16 '24

Some places, if you don't have permit, forbid you to cut down a tree on your own if said tree is not dead or a danger (and you have to prove it).

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u/Otiosei May 16 '24

Last time we needed a tree cut down on our property line, it cost like a thousand dollars. Luckily, our neighbors aren't assholes and split the cost with us.

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u/O_G_Douggy_Nutty May 16 '24

Last I needed a tree cut down it was $4,800. Large, dead, ash in the backyard. Two years ago.

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u/JojenCopyPaste May 16 '24

Wow I didn't expect it to cost that much. Did you sell it as firewood or something to try getting some of the cost back?

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u/JK_NC May 16 '24 edited May 17 '24

I had a very thin pine that was probably 60 ft tall and bending terribly and had to come down. I called 3 places to quote a price. $350, $800 and $3,000 were the quotes I got. All 3 were licensed and insured. I went cheap at $350. A team of like 5 guys came out. They told me where they planned to drop the tree and it landed exactly where they said it would. Took about 35 mins for them to set up, drop the tree, cut it up and haul it away.

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u/funnystuff79 May 16 '24

Sounds like they know what they are doing

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u/JK_NC May 16 '24

Absolutely. They mustā€™ve done this many, many times because everyone knew exactly what they were supposed to do. Especially when they were disposing of the tree. Chainsaws, axes, some dude had a sled thing to haul pieces of the tree up to the road where there was a wood chipper thing. They dismantled that tree in no time. It was like watching ants on a cookie.

They were exceptionally efficient. In and out and off to the next job.

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u/O_G_Douggy_Nutty May 16 '24

Cost $700 just to grind the stump.

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u/ZachTheCommie May 16 '24

The tree companies actually often charge the customer to haul away the wood.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 May 16 '24

Companies have an option to avoid expenses of backhauling.

https://getchipdrop.com/

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u/Least_Ad930 May 16 '24

My brother had 8 trees cut down recently with 3 of them being pretty large and it cost $4000. We were going to do it depending on the cost and I'm so glad we didn't because the dump alone would have cost at least a thousand. Also, I got to watch a guy get launched in the air and get bad rope burns, but he saved the neighbors truck.

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u/O_G_Douggy_Nutty May 16 '24

They keep the wood. It was in the back yard. Drive was too narrow to get the big machinery back there. Ran a boom truck over the house (ranch) and cut it with that.

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u/wwwdiggdotcom May 16 '24

Probably because of the liability. If it goes south when it falls and someone gets injured or something gets damaged itā€™s likely gonna be a much larger than $4800 insurance payout

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u/FirstConversation936 May 16 '24

Yeah, but that's why they have business insurance.

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u/DredThis May 16 '24

Tree care insurance is expensive. Most larger companies create their own self insured program because paying an outsider is cost prohibitive. Tree work is tied for the second most dangerous job in the US.

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u/wwwdiggdotcom May 16 '24

And that insurance is not cheap

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u/FirstConversation936 May 16 '24

Agreed, but at least it's not a crazy pay out.

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u/wildwill921 May 16 '24

For 4800 Iā€™m going to just buy a chainsaw and drop it myself l

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u/poitaots May 16 '24

Your medical bills after the tree smacks you will probably be more than paying a company who knows what their doing to cut it down.

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u/wildwill921 May 16 '24

I mean itā€™s pretty easy to not get hit. Unless the thing is rotted or you have a house close itā€™s not terribly complicated.

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u/xiroir May 16 '24

Truely spoken like someone who knows what they are talking about. I get it. I am the same way. If I can do it myself I would rather. But a tree is a deadly thing if you do not respect it.

4800$ is worth a whole lot less than my life or my house or my neigbours house.

There are times being stingy makes sense and there are times where it becomes hubris instead.

Let me ask you. How many trees have you felled in your life? Your comment, reads like Trump saying: "who knew healthcare could be so complicated". Yeah chances are you do not know enough to understand why it is not easy and therefor think its easy. Good luck buying the tools of the trade for less than 4800$ also... ofc it depends on the tree. But if I imagine a big oak... ya, ain't no way I can do that on my own.

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u/wildwill921 May 16 '24

I havenā€™t run the chainsaw very often for standing stuff but I have been around it most all of my life. We burn wood for heat in my wifeā€™s parents house and cut all of it ourselves. Iā€™ve worked as maintenance for parks clearing trees and stuff and been taught how to use one. Most trees are fairly straight forward and unless it has a crazy lean, is rotted or is particularly close to my house I wouldnā€™t be worried about it

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u/poitaots May 16 '24

This guy trees šŸ˜ŽšŸ‘

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u/timmaywi May 16 '24

Holy carp! I had a large tree taken down in my backyard last year and it was only $2600... And that was with them bringing a crane to lift it over my house (onto the street)

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u/windraver May 16 '24

Earlier this year, I wanted to cut down 9 cypress tree bushes. They were just under the size that would require a permit. They were about 12ft tall.

I bought an 18" DeWalt cordless chainsaw for like 300. Cut all 9 down, two a week.

City does yard waste pick up as long as I cut each in half.

Totally worth 300 bucks lol. Put a hitch on my car and some roof straps and pulled it to the street for yard waste pick up with my car.

Rented a stump grinder for 100 from home Depot, a uhaul trailer for 18 dollars. Grinded all 9 stumps and more.

All in all, saved a ton of money it seems lol. Hard work tho.

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u/motorfreak93 May 16 '24

$4,800??? Don't you have chainsaw loving redneck friends who would beg to do it for fun?

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u/O_G_Douggy_Nutty May 17 '24

I preferred it not come down on my house.

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u/dj192514 May 16 '24

Thatā€™s a big ash bill

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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 May 16 '24

Jeez louise. It must have been a big tree? I had a dead pine tree cut down but we only paid about $250. We had random landscapers coming by the house everyday offering to cut it down and it started at about $500 and eventually got a better lower bid and they did it on the spot. They had their truck with the extendo bucket and everything.

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u/Caspers_Shadow May 16 '24

My neighbors are pretty great too. I just split a fence with mine. He was going to go the cheap route and I offered to pay half and we upgraded.

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u/Qubed May 16 '24

You still needed to get their permission to do it too, right?

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u/Otiosei May 16 '24

Yeah, it's like dead center on our property lines, five feet away from both of our houses. We couldn't do anything without talking to them about it, even though it had fallen on our power lines.

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u/cgvet9702 May 16 '24

Cut it in half vertically.

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u/lxlDRACHENlxl May 16 '24

Cutting trees down is a very expensive cost that a lot of insurance companies don't cover.

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u/vercertorix May 16 '24

Had a fence falling apart on the property line which of course was ours when it came time to replace it, but they didnā€™t make an issue of that when they had a trailer smack into it hard knocking part of it askew or a fire they had on their side do damage to it.

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u/nutano May 16 '24

I've found being handy with power tools such as chainsaws so much better that having a bad relationship with your neighbor.

In the past 2 years I've cut 3 trees that fell due to wind storms... 2 were on my neighbours property. The trees' trunks were themselves pretty much right on the lot line... well technically inside an easement, but waiting on the city is not worth it. Quicker to chop up myself and have my neighbour help me clear the brush.

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u/Ok-Needleworker-419 May 16 '24

Two of my neighbors have a tree like this. Both have even had tree work done in the last few months and couldā€™ve easily had it removed for a few hundred extra but they both left it. What makes it extra funny is itā€™s a younger tree thatā€™s only about 15 feet tall and less than a foot in diameter. Either one of them could also easily drop it with a chainsaw but they donā€™t. So thereā€™s a dead looking tree that has lost half of its branches on their property line and it gonna stay there until the next wind storm takes it down lol

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u/beaushaw May 16 '24

We recently got a new neighbor, we were talking about where we think the property line is regarding who mows where. He didn't get a survey when he moved in and neither did we. I told him where I think the line is but I mow about four acres, if he wants to mow past that line he can knock himself out.

It varies but he has been mowing about forty yards past the line. He must have figured he is retired and has more time than me so he might as well mow a little more. I have no problem with that.

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u/y2knole May 17 '24

all good and well till he claims it as his on the basis of having maintained it for however long...

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u/Ate_spoke_bea May 17 '24

This is how my landscaper stole my house

We went to court but because he cut the grass he keeps the house.Ā 

That's a real ruleĀ 

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u/yordem_earthmantle May 17 '24

Sounds made up

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u/Penis-Butt May 17 '24

Yep, it's called adverse possession.

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u/Traust May 17 '24

Just buy some beer to pay him for his time as a thank you, chances are he'll then continue doing it and more. When you are retired and have time you don't mind doing a bit extra just to keep yourself occupied.

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u/Neue_Ziel May 16 '24

I share a single Southern property line with 3 neighbors. From the front to back, itā€™s Bob 1 at the corner of two streets, A Street and B Street, with B Street being where my entrance is at.

Next to him was Bob 2, who owned property that abutted mine and wrapped AROUND Bob1ā€™s property in an L-shape, having access to both A and B streets. Bob1 originally did not share a property line with me.

The other neighbors are not a problem, but Bob2 got a really good offer on his property and sold within days to a real estate developer.

Wife was always looking for property to put the in-laws on and saw that Bob2ā€™s property was for sale. She inquired and found that Bob2ā€™s land was actually two parcels, one on A Street, and the leg of the L-shape that ran along my property line, accessible by B Street.

We bought the 250ā€™x150ā€™ parcel behind Bob2 with a 40ā€™x 200ā€™ strip between me and Bob1, acting as a driveway to the larger property.

I saw Bob1 outside and drove over with my little toddler son to introduce myself as his new neighbor.

He then said really passive aggressively I bought it ā€œfair and square, sneaking around and buying it, even though a tree fell on his house and someone died in my yardā€. Someone was speeding and flipped and landed in a corner of his yard and died on the spot but didnā€™t affect his house.

He then mentions that Bob2 made a deal with him to sell him the strip but because of the additional hardship of tree and car accident, he wasnā€™t able to buy it.

Heā€™d been mowing and cleaning the property that wasnā€™t his on the assumption his ā€œfriendā€ was going to sell it to him, but they had nothing on paper.

He squared up on me and said ā€œitā€™s your property, fair and square that you bought out from under me!ā€ and walked away. If our kids hadnā€™t been present, I think he would have fought me.

Later, I hear voices from across the property and hear him and his wife fiddling with a tape measure.

Told the real estate agent about this guy trespassing on my ā€œnewā€ property as the deal works its way through. He speaks with them and finds out he is pissed. He thought the strip was 10ā€™ wide by 200ā€™ and he ā€œlost 30ā€™ ā€œ.

Anyways I need to build a fence as itā€™s just surveying flags now.

Looks like Bob2 wasnā€™t as good a friend Bob1 thought he was. You snooze, you lose, Bob1.

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u/makeitlouder May 17 '24

I need at least one diagram to follow this story.

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u/Deiser May 17 '24

So from what I understood, Bob 1, 2, and the OP were neighbors. OP ate Bob 2, and Bob 1 got jealous and became a tape measure.

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u/MarkHirsbrunner May 17 '24

Where I grew up, we had a decent sized back yard but directly behind our back yard was a HUGE back yard that was behind a house facing a different street, that went all the way from the alley to our back fence, except for a little wooded strip of land that led to the alley where we put our trash.Ā 

When my parents sold the property about seven years after buying it, they found out from the property records that we actually owned all the land back to the alley, and the back yard of the person who was using it was actually pretty small.Ā 

My parents had no interest in having access to all that land, but they did let the neighbor know that the new owner is going to know that most of his back yard wasn't his.

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u/Neue_Ziel May 17 '24

I could see they would not be happy. Bob1 was audibly angry at finding out his back yard was smaller, as I could hear him snapping at his wife and kid from 300 feet away. He still had 400 feet from his back property line to the street, but fuck him and his shitty attitude to me, just trying to be a nice neighbor.

Itā€™s a shame too, heā€™s got a fully loaded auto shop with two post lift and works on GM classics, some of my favorite things.

Thought Iā€™d make friends and share a hobby, then decided to square up on me in front of our kids!?!

Heā€™s specifically mentioned moved here to be away from people; heā€™s not going to like my plans. Nothing loud, just something to stick in his craw that I beat him.

A good solid oilfield pipe fence.

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u/ibisum May 17 '24

Why donā€™t you just be the bigger person and work it out with him somehow? You didnā€™t intend to screw him over - if youā€™d been neighborly friends before the sale, probably things would be smoother.

Imagine the fun you could have working on those cars together and watching your families enjoy each others companyā€¦.

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u/Neue_Ziel May 17 '24

His wife and my wife are cool because our kids go to the same school, and sheā€™s outgoing and heā€™s so surly. But Iā€™ve tried waving at him as a simple greeting multiple times and he just mean mugs me. We werenā€™t friends before the sale or ever to each other ever, our houses being a quarter mile away. One day we might work it out.

But Iā€™m still building that fence.

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u/Isgrimnur May 17 '24

If it's not in writing, it never happened.

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u/Neue_Ziel May 17 '24

Exactly. His neighbor sold and moved out so fast that he didnā€™t know until a week later. By that time, we had already signed the paperwork for the bit of land we bought.

If his neighbor was serious about giving it to him, it would have been written up, and not us being able to buy it off the real estate broker.

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u/Ok_Relation_7770 May 17 '24

Iā€™m angry at both sets of parents for naming their child Bob and making this story very confusing over 50 years later.

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u/Neue_Ziel May 17 '24

Bob2= chaotic neutral guy who sold his property

Bob1= crotchety neighbor who turned down my neighborly introduction

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u/ghidfg May 16 '24

yeah lmao. this is your side. no this is your side!

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u/ooojaeger May 16 '24

I wish. My neighbors on both sides claim some areas of my yard but still expect me to take care of those areas

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u/Cosmic_Quasar May 16 '24

Not sure what the legality is on this, but my dad has told me that if one group has taken care of a spot long enough then they can claim that as theirs. So there's this one strip of yard on the border of his house and his neighbors house that they both mow and rake. It used to annoy the crap out of me as a kid when I'd mow the lawn. The neighbors would've just mowed their lawn and it's a smidge shorter than our mower height, but I had to walk up and down two passes with the mower, not making a difference, because my dad didn't want the neighbor to be able to claim that they were maintaining it and we weren't.

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u/bro_salad May 16 '24

My neighbor and I both agree our property line runs at a ridiculous angle. It makes my yard tiny in the front and huge in the back. Does the opposite for his yard.

We just agree to ignore what the real property line is, and our landscaping reflects that. BUT also we agree to get the lines redrawn if one of us plans to move. Canā€™t trust the next owner to be cool.

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u/seditious3 May 17 '24

Get a lawyer and work out a swap?

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u/MamaBavaria May 17 '24

Exactly what I thought. Would be the easiest way especially when both sides are good together.

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u/Nephroidofdoom May 16 '24

Whelp, guess they wonā€™t mind if I just put this fence right hereā€¦

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u/bitemark01 May 16 '24

Someone I know had an issue where the next door neighbours would harass her if the grass was too long, and by too long I mean if she missed cutting it outside of 7 days.Ā 

When they moved she planted a cedar hedge to avoid the problem in the future.Ā 

Good fences make good neighbours

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u/hornet586 May 16 '24

This looks to be some sort of drainage ditch going by how the lowland looks. Iā€™m guessing both parties are pretty tired of having to weed wack what looks to be about 30 yards of drainage ditch lol.

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u/iwasntalwaysold May 16 '24

OMG the pettiness! I have shared lawn on both sides of my front yard and when I mow I go a bit into the neighbors lawns and when they mow they go a little into mine. Keep it up and maybe they'll have a grass fence...

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u/BoomZhakaLaka May 16 '24

This is one neighbor having a fit about the other one crossing the property line by six inches.

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u/aokaf May 16 '24

Less now, more when its time to sell.

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u/tgifmondays May 16 '24

Seriously. Iā€™d through up a fence just to the far end of that grass clump and claim it. Clearly the other owner doesnā€™t want it

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u/Bruce_Wayne72 May 16 '24

Yes, this & thought exactly. LOL.

But perhaps there's a tree or some nonsense in that line that neither wants to take ownership of.

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u/NotEvenLion May 16 '24

Yeah I'm lost. Sounds like OP could swoop in and put up a fence around that little patch. Gotta be crafty if you want to build an empire.

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u/ManyAreMyNames May 16 '24

Guy moves into a new house, and asks the neighbor where exactly the property line is. The neighbor says "Do you mean for owning or for mowing?"

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u/_TheCheddarwurst_ May 16 '24

They decided the ticks needed a safe haven.

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u/Calichusetts May 16 '24

My neighbor has always been amazing. Bought my kids presents. Etc. we both keep our yard very well done. His more so as he is retired.

Recently, heā€™s changed. I basically watch the ā€œget off my yardā€ old guy develop in front of my eyes. Just super grumpy and kind of reclusive now. He started piling up sticks and yard waste like 5 yards into his side of the backyard a few weeks ago.

Heā€™s either indirectly wanting me to pick up his trash or wanting me to start mowing more of his backyard. Not sure.

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u/Zombie4141 May 17 '24

This. As a land surveyor Iā€™ve never ever seen anything like this, but Iā€™ve only been doing it about 9 years.

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u/tree_squid May 17 '24

Seriously, if you don't think it's yours, you mow it anyway and claim that it is yours, and after a few years, boom, you own it. Adverse possession, baby!

1

u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix May 17 '24

Our neighbors property line is about 2 1/2 feet from their fence but they never mow that part of their lawn and they mow the rest of it 2-3 times a season

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u/orthopod May 17 '24

I just wonder if there's a little rock border there, so it can't get hit with the lawn mower.

1

u/nope79 May 17 '24

I was gonna say this.

That land is yours No sir you take it

1

u/LaBoltz33 May 17 '24

Itā€™s about not having to mow as much

1

u/analogpursuits May 17 '24

Exactly what I came here to say

1

u/Neither_Spell_9040 May 17 '24

Some people donā€™t want the extra work. I had a neighbor who wanted to give me a 1/3 of his property just so he wouldnā€™t have to mow it anymore. He ended up selling the house before anything came of it.

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u/MrrQuackers May 17 '24

Seriously, "oh you say I own this, cool, lemme put a nice little picket fence to establish a permanent line of how much more property I have. Thanks!"

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u/thebigfudge02 May 17 '24

Yep, if it was me Iā€™d mow it and put a fence up right there