Ya ….that guy could be the next breakout star of the channel….”On the next episode of what do you think Frankie?” I bet the answer would never disappoint…..very beautiful cabin….on the leaves…instead of burning you could compost or just leave it in a pile to break down…kind of a start to developing soil vitality in regenerative agriculture……also, just leaving in a pile for a while is a lot less hassle, unless you have another angry neighbor, than tending a burn pile so you don’t create a brush fire….just a thought…
Stanley. I commend you fairly keeping you cool. There will always be that individual. All you can do is pray for them.... Or let Frankie have a talk with em!
Exactly, I am with Frankie, I may of done some time too. Thank god my neighbor is pretty cool. We have a side patch of grass, and sometimes he mows it even my side of the property and the strip next to the road and side walk, and some times I do it. no issues about OH YOU WENT ON MY PROPERTY. He is pretty cool I guess I am lucky
Same guy that will complain about some leaves defiantly gonna give you problems if your renters get loud. Start a row of pines now. Privacy fence?? The only answer is buy him out. Good luck. Cheers 🥂
That's what you get for trying to be nice to certain people. I have had similar experiences myself. Some people drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. I thought the way you handled it was the best anyone could do. Love the videos.
People really need to mind their own buissness. I've learned in my short time in this industry, people are never satisfied with what you do. No Matter what.
They want to take as much as they can, time money and energy and will continue trying to take advantage! That is why it is extremely important to know all of the facts when providing a bid and if by chance you know the client is going to try and screw with you, add an extra 10 to 20% to provide some wiggle room and let them feel as if they were successful but most importantly, do it with a smile even if they snivel, smile bigger
Speaking of helping people out. I was awakened this past Sunday morning by someone knocking on my front door at 5:45 AM. I answered the door and this guy says he ran out of gas and asked if I had any. I said sure and lent him my full 5 gallon steel Justrite gas can. He walked down my driveway to his car parked on the side of the road and proceeded to empty the gas can into his car. He opened his hatchback put the can inside and said he would be right back with a fresh full can of gas. Needless to say, he never came back. So i was out not only 5 gallons of gas (Reg gas is $3.99 a gallon here) but a Justrite 5 gallon gas can which are not cheap to replace. Wow, you think you're doing someone a solid then they screw you. Live and learn I suppose.
I saw a teenager stranded by the road, no petrol. I was near my village so I popped back for my can, grabbed a tow bar just in case it was another problem, filled him up, and got a token few quid off him because at that point he never even offered to pay, but I’m still pretty much giving him free petrol here. Y’know, the word “thanks” never even passed his lips…? 😐 I’m still mad about that ten years later. Got a Grandson who has never thanked me for anything either. Society doesn’t work this way, it’s going to fall apart with attitudes like this
I started noticing the decline of gratitude being expressed about 25 years ago. I also learned if somebody ask for help we can charge but if we offered to help that we don't have a right to charge but by golly if anything bad happens you know they'll be s*** happy to sue
Sadly he was likely either just about out of gas or intentionally just looking for free gas out of a sad story. That hour of the AM only me and my friends Smith and Wesson are greeting an unknown person. These days you can just give them the number for AAA, anything else your exposed and could be your life in the worst situations. Sad state of times.
@@sepemail5849 Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson accompanied me before I answered the door as was at my side during the entire ordeal. I live alone in a very rural area so yes, they are my best friends along with Mr. Ruger and Mr.'s Heckler and Koch. Having some good friends are hard to beat.
I don’t understand why your neighbor is such a dick. You’re literally such a nice, helpful, knowledgeable man! Thanks for at least trying to be helpful to your neighbor. God will get him back Stan.
I do think that you're correct and neighbors should be nice. I clean my neighbors snow, leaves (sidewalks, driveway etc) and do the street areas when they don't have a chance or out of being neighborly. However, this is not common with neighbors or the younger generation. However, the best response would be to avoid your neighbor as much as you can and by doing this he will understand. But don't let your guard down. You will be able to forgive your neighbors, but YOU SHOULD NEVER FORGET. Never give them another opportunity to do something like this. Eventually he may apologize and figure out that it is important to be a good neighbor and get along because we do depend on each other. Being nice was old school thinking and we've become less civil nowadays. We need to get along and understand each other as neighbors. We have more in common than we have differences. Love watching you and what you do and although I don't have the same capabilities or knowledge it is always a learning experience watching your channel.
FWIW, Stan is an awesome neighbor. He goes out of his way to be helpful---seriously out of his way to help---and is just a legit good human being. You couldn't ask for a better family to live next to. It sucks that the neighbors at the cabin are crappy (I'm not part of that group).
No matter how nice you are to Neighbors, remember tall fences make good neighbors. I’ve been burned by neighbors before. Just keep to your own yard and enjoy the yard.
I let my neighbor $10,000 he bounced a check and after eight months handed me $1900 which he said was $2000 and two weeks later he died. I was out 7,900. Learned a big lesson don’t lend money to anybody Especially family.
I got totally lucky with my neighbors. Moved to my new house about 6 years ago. I’ve became best friends with my neighbors. We do everything for each other. They grill out weekly and I eat over there every time. We help each other work in our yards. I have a lawn care/ landscaping business so any equipment needed for that I help with. He runs heavy equipment so anytime I need a excavator or anything like that he will loan that to me. I couldn’t ask for a better neighbor. It helps with think alike and same goes politically.
I love how you just ended up roasting his entire property 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 .. Once a person crosses that line after you been extremely nice to them first all bets are off lol lol lol
I just had a similar situation! I do everything for these neighbors, landscape, mowing, taking actual care of them when they've been sick. I get a new driveway (full concrete) done a couple weeks ago. This is replacing gravel and boards that I've hit a hundred times. She calls the township and the county (as they are breaking the old stuff out (and she's known we were doing this for months, even trimmed her trees for free to free up space on my side for the excavator two days before that!)) on me for replacing an existing structure without a permit. They gave me the permit on spot. Told me I was fine, but now she's had a survey done and for no reason. I'm like, why are you ruining a relationship over us improving our home?!? Ridiculous!!
@Dirtmonkey the worst thing is, she's a pastor! It's like the twilight zone! I have felt so betrayed... I'm sure you feel the same way, you go out of your way to help, loan tools and they stab you in the back!
@@Dirtmonkey I commented before you said why you were really picking up the leaves, which I'm very sure you wouldn't have done it just becasue of the neighbor.
Should have just said: "I'm so glad you are here to help me load up these leaves, thank you for coming over to help expedite this, I'm so underwater with everything."
When my neighbors moved in, the first thing they did was to move the survey stakes for my property. He was upset because his septic is on my property, even though I explained to him that I didn’t mind at all. He then asked me if I’d be willing to pay to have it dug up and replaced, since it’s on my land… needless to say, we don’t have a good relationship.
Was just about to comment about the safety stop when you started talking about it. In this case, i would say you are too gentle in your correction but I'm glad you take it seriously. People think they will be fast enough when the hydraulics fail, and I promise you, you wont be...
Hank Williams Jr said it best....Mind your own business,you won't be minding mine . Dealt with and still deal with busy body types my whole life...even living in a more rural area, still too many neighbors ,I guess.
The battery-operated grease gun is the best invention. I made sure to buy a Makita because I already have plenty of batteries for it, so I do not worry at all about it dying.
Thanks for using the hydraulic safety equipment Stan just yesterday Facebook had a video very clearly depicting what happens when hydraulics fail I don’t wanna see that video ever again the next time you catch someone under hydraulics like that you could save their life!
Make sure you burn when the wind is going in the right direction if you know what I mean. After everything you did for that there Tossa, Cabins look awesome,A bit of oil on that deck and your all done, loved the episode, keep it up regards Andy Perth Australia.
Unbelievable...The kind of person who uses kindness as a weakness..your neighbor sounds like a treat..it would be a cold day i would even offer him the time of day after that..I had similar experiences with my new neighbor..wanted to be neighborly and noticed he was walking all the time because he lost his license for some reason..He is 25 yrs old so i gave him a 300 dollar bicycle that we didn't use that my daughter rode rarely when she was a kid.. he not only didn't use it but sold it..When he did drive one day he left his car running in his driveway for 10 hours..He went in and fell asleep but didn't turn his car off..Went over to tell him three different times during that 10 hours but he didn't answer the door finally on the forth try he answered the door and he was upset that i woke him up..I gave up on this guy..Now that he is driving again i noticed he is parking in front of my house which is annoying but ok.. now every day it's half on the road and half on my front lawn..i finally had it with this guy and told him to please be mindful of my yard and his excuse is i want to get my car off the road as best i can..So whats that mean ?..He plans to continue to put ruts in my yard for his benefit ??..Sorry but it isn't going to go down like that my friend..
Neighbours can be great and then you get ones that are just self entitled nutters. You’ve more patience than I have Stan, especially after lending him some tools. Man the patriot cabin looks awesome
He assumed by loaning him your stump grinder that you were criticizing the stumps in his yard So he in return needs to criticize your yard I have noticed by helping some people with their obvious problems they take offense because the problem is not obvious to them .. at all
Yeah I had the same impression. If someone offered to lend a stump grinder to me I would say hell yeah and be all over it, but I can see how someone might take that as a passive jab at a messy yard.
Advise for your Airbnb plan. Every summer we go to the same lakeside cabins. They have a great small beach and have kayaks and a rowboat for guest use with paddles and life jackets. They have a grill for each cabin, a fire pit and chairs, and a picnic table. They have cornhole boards and other outdoor games, and several board games in each cabin for rainy days. These small amenities make a big difference.
Hey hey hey stan, hope you guys are doing well n all, ive been so busy, the lawns are coming at me left n right, i am so glad that everything has been going strong. I picked up three more accounts, nothing too big but definitely good money for me. I hope your neighbors get straightened out. He is very daunting to even do that tho you, that is so rude, after such a Nice gesture to him. Also, i think your neighbor should be mindful of no trespassing signs that you will put up. He breaks the signs rule, he gets a warning, he does it again, he goes to jail. I would start now and if he does it, you go him, I’m no lawyer so i would make sure to check up on it. Luckily for myself, my neighbors and i get along very well. Oh and stan, but the end of the eek i will be in the newspaper, it’s something. Positive, don’t worry, it’s actually gonna benefit the town for what I’m fighting for. It is gonna be the catalyst that starts up everything
@@Dirtmonkey ill send you the link when the paper coms out, it’d either this Friday or next Friday, but i will make sure you get a chance to check it out
I had an old lady neighbor, and every time I stepped in my back yard she would start complaining that my sprinklers were getting on her rocks and causing weeds. I turned my sprinklers off, and didn’t water again for 7 years growing nothing but weeds.
I drove one of those old Mack trucks with a twin stick. Yep, 5 reverse speeds. I could run 50mph in reverse, and did it often, building a new highway. Had nowhere to turn around, so backing up 3/4 of a mile to drop stone it came in handy. Shifted it backwards, just like going forward. Favorite truck I ever drove.
Some of the most mind baffling moments of dealing with people have brought me to believe some of them are completely ignorant to how they are coming off..... In their delusional mind YOU NEEEEED their help and they can't fathom you not doing exactly what they would say... All while thinking they're " helping " you
They share audacity of that guy! He definitely has a screw loose.
9 месяцев назад
I've got a dozen of these stories, and you'd think I learned my lesson. A lot of people don't understand the true meaning of community, reciprocity and building trust. Couple of days ago my wife walks in and says our next-door neighbor asked if she could borrow some of my tools. Without skipping a beat, I said, "eff no". This woman has been nothing but a mean and horrible neighbor. She's unfriendly, and she lets her dog out unleashed as if it was a cat to crap anywhere, he wants. And yes, he's dropped a deuce in my yard several times after I've politely and diplomatically brought it to her attention. The neighbor across the street asks to borrow my ladder for a couple of days and it's been two weeks now and he hasn't returned it. I seem to be to "go to" guy for a lot of people on my street when they need something, or they can't figure out a problem around the house. I'm tired of being taken advantage of and made to feel like an idiot. No mas.
I haven’t made it in life yet. You think I would speak to the person that let me use a their equipment for FREE like that ?! Audacity is an understatement !
An Air BnB seems like a lot of liability issues, especially with a pond. Maybe make sure a lawyer has thoroughly looked through the contract/rental agreement including special rules for using the pond.
On the east side of my property line, it is a golf course HOA. I placed two forty foot containers twenty feet from my property line. Some guy from the HOA came over and blew up! Then he started ranting about me running chain saws and a skid steer all day long. I just looked at him and said "I am building a house here. Wait until I move in! Go Home!"
Again you’re a better man than me! I would send him an invoice for what you lent him. Are you in an HOA? If not I would take all those bags and dump them in your front yard! I truly hate people!!!
On a pump system. You need a purge or weep hole in the pipe or check valve from the pump to leachfield so it can drain back to the pump chamber if pitched properly. The pipe sits above other lines in dist. box and has a velocity tee in the box. That way the pipe won't hold water and freeze. Some cases I've seen the septic lines buried with ridged Styrofoam to protect it from frost..I have a few customers on the lake with Airbnb's I pump the septics a few times a year, depending on how much use they get. You need a set of rules .Ive seen Airbnb's have emergencies because they bring in large amounts of people for gatherings. They weren't listed on the paperwork for the rental agreement..I have pamphlets I can leave for airbnb owners on how to take care of the septic and what not to flush. Pamphlets are printed by my state DES agency. They have decals you can put on vanity mirrors also.
Wow I think your hole in the pipe is valid but has nothing to do with freezing. The hole is actually to avoid air lock in the pump from suction of water. It does allow the pipe to drain and this keeps the pump primed and not air locked next time it runs. Now, having made it this far I also added three 1/8 inch holes in the line after the check valve and before my now basically plugged drain field. This allows a good enough flow where the pump will actually get rid of effluent but also drain it there when pump shut off. I made basically a dry well using expanded clay pellets vs trying to repair my clogged drain field.
Stanley I use to be your neighbor on the lake about 7 years ago and I can confirm what an A$$ those two neighbors are. Don’t let them know you’re going to do an air-b-n-b. They are part of the reasons we moved away. You were one of the nicest neighbors ever with the best 4th of July fireworks shows.
You lend stuff to someone, you borrow something from someone. I borrowed friends stump grinder, i bought complete replacement set of carbide teeth and replaced the starting solenoid that hadn't worked for a couple years, and was happy to do so.
Most of my neighbors keep to themselves but I got a new next-door neighbor about a year ago and he's amazing; always eager to help me out, lends me his truck to move material. I help him with whatever I can. Another one of his friends and I just poured a concrete patio off his shed for him a week ago. Neighbors like that are what this country was built on, it's a shame they're so rare. I don't know about the air bnb thing, man. I've heard some real nasty stories about the renters or whatever you call them and Air bnb is making it harder to screen the good ones from the bad from everything I've heard.
9 месяцев назад
I envy you. I am literally surrounded by neighbors from hell.
@ I'm sorry to hear that. The norm certainly seems to be ones that either aren't interested in being friends or are outright hostile. Hopefully you get better ones eventually. :)
That cabin is looking nice. Got a neighbor like that up at our cabin up north. We put down some fresh gravel in the roadway that 6 of the cabins share and one guy on the end didn't want. He ended up taking it up and dumping it; said he didn't want people to see a nice roadway and think they can drive down it. I get it but i was sick of the mud. Needless to say me and 4 of the other cabins said f it and paved it ending at my cabin. None of have talked to him since
Honest to God, I would have loaded up all of those leaves and personally delivered to that guy's driveway! Hopefully while he was standing there slack jawed watching.
Stan hope you don't mind tearing up your property people don't respect other people's things that idea won't last long I have a customer that has a shore house rental last only 2 years. Your cabin is awesome it looks great since rebuild
I didn’t think them kinda people were up that way, that sucks Stan you handled it well it sounds like, and do zak and Frankie live up at that cabin? They are there quite often just curious, that place seems like paradise
If the guy was so worried about it why didn't he just ask if it was ok if he raked the leaves for you in payment of borrowing your equipment like really the audacity of some people
Where abouts you boys at? Im down here in Texas and I aint ever seen these cast loaders, but i NEED one of them, they look sturdy, good range of movements and also they look so fricken cool man!
Stan? What I would have done or said doesn't matter. The plain fact that you had to answer! to anyone else who thinks there intitlement, is there business to mind it ! And don't worry about the neighbors sounds as they themselves have issues needing addressed. But out of respect you mind your own business. I personally think you handled it well 👍👍
Hey Stanley, How are you? We meet a few years ago at the Las Vegas tool show convention. I have a tool called the B'root Bar Root Cutting Tool. I'm not sure if you remember, but it is a vertical axe used for cutting large roots were you can't use equipment. We have a few videos on You Tube if you want to see it again, and we have even had a few customers make their own videos on it. The landscapers in our area of South Florida say it's the tool their industry has been needing. It allows them to get under thorny bushes, cut the trees taproot, work in very tight areas, and more. I would like to send you one to get your input on it if you're still open to that?
You need to get a couple of manure forks. They are not only the best thing for shoveling manure, but they are excellent for moving beauty bark, leaves, mulch, etc..
I wish you could show him that article in today’s Philadelphia newspaper. The environmental benefit of fallen leaves is incredible - from providing habitat to beneficial insects and wildlife to the nutrients they provide the soil. Even New York City’s famous high line park was planted with shrubs and trees that thrive on fallen leaves and unkempt stems. The environmentally worthless manicured lawn may well become a thing of the past.
right after I was thinking, hey stay out from under equipment that's suspended by only hydraulics, you complained and put the support sleeve on. 😬 you can always tell who's seen or had hydraulics fail in spectacular fashion, sometimes injuring or killing people.
Probably because I am actually a gnome disguised as human, really suppose to be living in the woods by myself with little to ideally no human interaction whatsoever.
@@Dirtmonkey ahh with the hill people :) - I can understand that. Most human life is terrible anyway (not all, but most). Imagine the cool structures hou could design and build sans governmental interference?? :D
