Arborists are extremely expensive, but they're also super skilled and have specialty tools so they don't destroy anything or injure anyone while they work. The same cannot be said for regular people trimming trees lol, there are some baaaad horror stories
I've taken down a few dead ash trees on my property, fairly sizable, intimidating a bit actually. Tree felling is scary and if a tree is in a sketchy spot, it's never worth it to risk it for the biscuit
California lawyer here. If utilities are included in the rent, the landlord has to keep the power on. If the landlord stops paying for utilities it counts as wrongful eviction (labeled a constructive eviction) and would subject the landlord to penalties and liability.
I think this is a very special episode. I especially love how everyone talking over each other, each and everyone having his own monolog from around 10:00 to 14:00. I love it. Truly authentic for the podcast
Allen's story about his college time are so relatable. I am basically living in a house from the 1900s and our heater failed 5 times this winter. With basically no isolation, wood on wood window frames, the whole flat was barely above 10°C. Also the heater only fails on fridays afternoons, so it takes till Monday to contact a contractor, which we are not allowed to do otherwise we had to pay. All in all not great, but we are just wearing hoodies and caps. Love the podcast!
I love they just now noticed Alan has had legal eagal RUclips videos in the background for several of these. It's clearly genius level marketing to try and convince Devin from Legal Eagal to come on the podcast by saying they have been advertising for him lol
Hi safety third team! Love the content, just wanted to say something regarding one of today's topics: leasing from a stueldent housing complex. I worked as Front desk staff (tour guide, mail clerk, leasing agent, calls) at my complex in college and it was actually managed by one of the biggest student housing companies. Actually, I went to college in FL so it could even be that the company from the complex in Kevin's experience (@49:00) is the same. The biggest issue with the whole model is what's referred to as "turnover". See student housing complexes make one-year leases to mimic the college calendar so that hopefully students will move in at the beginning of the school-year, and move out at the end. The biggest problem with this model is that as opposed to a people moving in and out through out the year, which means that as a unit is vacated, you inspect it, trash it (charges to res), repair any damages (charges to res), new coat of paint and clean (all of this is what we call turnover or "turn"). Instead, EVERYONE moves in at once and out at once. the reason why the first year of the contract is a bit weird and the first month starts on the 20th or so is because from the last day of month before (move-out day) until moving day, EVERYDAY, from 6:45AM to 10-11PM, Mon-Sun, we are "turning" apartment units. You might think they get a special team to do it or maintenance but due to the structure, the year-round maintenance staff is nowhere near big enough. For those weeks they hire a bunch of people and everyone from front desk to management is required fo work those hrs. We get meals and some snacks, kind of a bonding experience like what I imagine going through bootcamp feels like; mentally breaking. It's also an expensive endeavor to hire the required staff to do this things since they need to be done in that window of time. So, as someone who became best friends with all the staff at my property. I know they weren't trying to rob anyone but corporate does expect that all the costs of repairs will be covered by the tenants and they put that on the lease and going through the numbers with my bookkeeper $50/trash bag was about right to pay all the people we needed to get to handle all the trash from a lot of messy college students. The policy for all roommates being charged, has to do with the weirdness of trying to lease individual rooms of an apartment (If your roommate had claimed that the trash in the living room was his, maybe because you contacted him, they would have charged it entirely to him. Otherwise they can't know and must legally split it equally) I also know that becaus the leases are based around the school year, evene if your roommate did move out a bit earlier, all leases run from August till end of July and if he moved out before the summer he either was sub-leasing illegally or he re-let (transfered the remaining part of his lease to somone else) Either way his lease would have actually ended at the end of July. Assuming it was legal, it's the usual turnover process but actually done by the maintenance team since those happen way more scarcely and it's also only in the room where a new person is moving in (anything that might need fixing in the common areas is fixed but nothing is thrown away as it is assumed to be property of the other residents in the apt unless it's rotten food or something like that, but it COULD just not have been rotten when they fixed up the unit and then nobody ever threw it out because it was your old roommates and everyone was grossed out by it, I get it I'm just lyk another college student getting paied min wage and working overtime probably had to be the one throw it out amongst many other worse things that day. Ultimately they COULD just not charge as much and pay more of the repairs out of pocket but (they=corporate) the sad thing is that other apartment complexes won't do the same, which means their competitors sticker price would look better and soon they would stop doing it. I'm not saying it's a good system but what people actually don't know must of the time is that nobody in the staff is usually ever trying to bs you or take advantage of you. TL; DR: Worked in a student housing complex like the one mentioned in the ep, while in college. At least in the case of the property I worked for, managers are just trying to do the best they can and the rest is just college students that live on property and get paid min wage (and maintenance ofc). I get your frustration, just know that the explotational nature of this system goes deeper.
Gum trees don't just fall over regularly, they also have a habit of dropping large limbs either when it's windy AF, or in the middle of summer on a perfectly still night. They're great!
30:50 I have this too! I hate it when people touch my stuff because I don’t know where it is then. But I can tell you where anything is unless someone moves it.
Talking about screw jar, my grandfather had a screw bin full of all sorts of screws, nails, hinges, nuts, bolts, etc... Years later I learned with one of Adam Savage videos the same thing but kind more organized. Thanks to him I have now multiple "log jam" bins all over the place instead of a monolithic screw jar.
I think the problem with most people & organizing is they don't realize it's a complicated, ongoing process. As you use items & buy new things, your sorting process has to adapt. I love Alan's wire kit - he has the right idea, for sure. But it doesn't always work for things that have multiple uses (especially in terms of tools that aren't cheap to have multiples of). I'm constantly struggling as a crafter to keep things organized - in terms of tools, I have to keep those separate bc I use them for multiple projects. I would love to be able to have a kit like Alan's though, but in my case, it's not entirely practical. It also depends on space. If you have the space, you can spread things out, whereas if you're short on space, you have to combine things to save space. Props to the guys for it being something that they want to do.
I do the same thing as Alan, an adhesive one is always good to have. All your glues, epoxies, toothpicks, rags, little cups, etc. Even if different boxes have duplicate stuff, you can always grab one case and have everything.
The key with Hoarding is to work out how much you are paying or have paid per square metre/foot of your house/workshop and see if you would pay for storage for those objects at that price. Really helps with the perspective of whether it's economically worth keeping something. Space really does have value mentally and efficiency.
My dad took me to Toronto once and we saw them trimming trees with a giant chainsaw suspended from a helicopter. Sounds like an interesting video idea of Wills issue 🤣
I was on holiday in the alps recently and I awoke to the sound of a helicopter at regular intervals of two minutes. They were clearing trees with a helicopter! They cut the trees most of the way on the mountain then attached a chain and flew them to a pile. Heli-logging is insane.
my grandfather had the whole "everything is a mess but I'll always just remember where everything is" mentality, and it served him very well. of course he did eventually develop alzheimer's and die without writing much of anything down, and now his 14-acre estate is me and my dad's problem. let this serve as a cautionary tale for organized chaos.
Even if you do everything Will mentioned you can still be screwed by Landlords. I moved out early with permission from my landlord, who then immediately went to the cops and said I abandoned the place and damaged everything on the way out. I had an inspection and written proof of everything. The landlord took me to court to try and nail me but their lawyer pulled out when I showed up with a briefcase full of emails and texts. I did not get my deposit back.
We had a Tennant that due to the property manager going bust just as they moved in hadn't signed a lease agreement and was refusing to and basically squatting. It meant they also couldn't get power or water but refused to leave and we weren't allowed to evict them, only way we got them out is they overdosed and went to hospital then got arrested on drug charges.
For the power supply bin you could put tape on each of the power supplies so you could have the wattage written in big numbers so they're easy to pick out.
We call eucalyptus trees widowmakers in Australia, their massive branches randomly dry out and fall randomly. I've nearly been hit a bunch of times and my friend's place got crushed by a massive one that ruined half of his entire house and landed on him, lucky to survive. I'd 100% get them away from your house.
"I don't want to give IKEA an anti-advertising, since they haven't harmed me in any way." That has to be one of the best things a thinking human ever said about any major company xD
Allen admitting he cannot mentally map his home/work space for groups of items, it just baffling to me, and I'd love to see what his workspace actually looks like, and see him work in the space.
Very topical discussion about hoarding, I'm going through my stuff at the moment. I have the same power supplies problem - after Will's suggestion, I'm thinking rather than organising them further than one box, what about inventorying them? So you know before you go digging through the box that you definitely have what you need or know without digging through that you don't.
I was an arborist for 16 years. 1k a tree is stupid expensive for most jobs, but if you're clearing houses and power lines that's not far off from my average quote depending on how complicated it is. Most services charge between $150 and $300 per hour of work if hauling the debris but that can go up quite a bit if there is lots of climbing and rigging involved.
the way we do it in italy, we stop paying rent for 2 months (usually the deposit is 2 months worth of rent) and the deposit is to pay the last 2 months. That way you pretty much don't use your deposit for what's it's supposed to be. If there are damages they can ask you later, but usually don't cause it's not worth the hassle. You move the hassle on the landlord
With some para cord, a sawsall and chain saw and some hunting hooks I’ve trimmed trees 60’ tall. It’s slow and steady work this way but it’s free/cheap if you have the tools.
I literally build and replenish hardware assortments for a living, and fill some hard to get parts with McMaster Carr. This is the most relevant podcast to my job I've ever listened to.
Man I lucked out at the two places I rented in college. The first one, I was not going to try to organize with the people I lived with because it would be a nightmare, but essentially it needed a carpet cleaning, kitchen cleaning, problem some new paint on some of the walls. So I got like $300 bucks back after living there two years. The second place, my cats fucked up the carpet, I fucked up the carpet, there was a hole I don't remember making in my closet door, another damaged door, and then just the normal lived in things. But I had lived there for like five years, and I was good friends with management, and they knew my situation for why I was leaving, and so they told me, don't worry about anything. You've lived here so long, we're going to refinish and repaint every wall, redo the countertop, completely redo the carpet, everything else anyways, so don't worry about cleaning up, and you'll get your deposit back too. They were like the most amazing landlords I've ever heard of, let alone got to live under (and I doubt I'll ever meet landlords/management like that again). They always had free food events, and never cared if we brought friends over to partake. If something got clogged or broke, the main couple, a lovely pair of grandparents, lived on site, and never grumbled at any issue I had. Granted they charged a fair bit more than other places in town, but man, I'll never forget them.
I've amazed myself by perfectly understanding everything what was said by 3 people talking over each other. It's a lot easier when it's split into 2 channels.
You simply go through the hassle of making the tenant have utilities set up under their name. Then it gets treated as if a regular home owner stopped paying and the company shuts it off.
I lived in UC Davis student housing, same sort of situation- I was charged hundreds of dollars because the faucet was loose (was like that when I moved in) and one of the panels on the blinds was bent.
Growing up in California before moving to Missouri and then Texas, I was blown away by the difference in tenant rights. California is way friendlier to tenants and I really miss it.
Here in Ontario canada, it takes 10 months or more to evict a tenant legally right now and security deposits r illegal, u only pay first and last to move in
The helicopter idea seems crazy, but it might work with a strong quadcopter and a light chainsaw, you could even dangle the power cable... Orrr you can make something that climbs up the tree like a Spider and then cuts of sections. Either way, sections are the way to go?
I was looking at being a tree trimmer, entry level pay is already over $28/hr no prior experience required. So if that’s what they are paying an entry level worker then they gotta be charging a lot. My current company pays me 22.50, and charge the customer $90/hr for me to be on site, and they need to charge that much to even stay afloat, between workers comp, fixing mistakes, vehicles, etc. business are expensive to run lol.
Yeah it's a lot of money, but if you break it down it kind of puts it into perspective. Say the company puts two people on the job, combine their wages, figure that the company has a lot of other costs on top (amortizing equipment, ancillary labor costs, vehicles etc). I'm wondering how long it takes to trim one of these trees though. If you estimate 3 hours, that's $333/h, if you figure 5 hours, that's $200/h
For the tree problem try putting a circular saw on a flexible track that can be ratcheted shut around a branch like a zip-tie. It might not cut all the way through the branch but you can tie a rope around the branch and pull on it until the branch snaps off. Maybe this would give you some control over where the branch falls. Or a model helicopter with a mini version of the highway tree trimmer. Also for storage check out the Gridfinity system, I'm surprised y'all haven't had Zack Freedman on the show yet.
Rented a place for close to 12 years. Part way through, they didn't like my yard displays and Pacman characters was the last straw for them. They did a drive by and decided not to renew the lease. I fought them and they put us on a month to month lease(extra). A year later I got asked to sign a new *yearly* lease. They also had an issue with overcharging for stormwater charges that they were getting stuck with because the land they were representing had it's contracts with the city run out. (late developments outran the contracts) They were now getting a lump sum charge and having to divvy it among the number of residents, while the rest of the city was being charged by sq ft of the lot. Everyone was basically paying stormwater for the sports fields in the area, plus what they rented. I had the lease rep add stormwater charges on the extra items in the new *yearly* lease, knowing this fee was going to increase even more moving forward as the development actually proceeded and the number of residents diminished. They had no lot values so it's impossible to calculate otherwise. Almost another year later they had so many problems trying to collect 2x stormwater charges themselves, they passed the job onto a 3rd party in another province without people's permission. It became basically 3x stormwater now. I took opposition to this as the charge was already included on my lease. When I'd tell the third party they would tell me to contact the property manager, the property manager says to contact the third party. So I did what anyone should do, I didn't give a dime to the third party, which now started to include water and sewage, so the bill started to grow pretty fast. I put the payments that would normally goto that in a separate account. Meanwhile documented all history, accounts. The third party started getting mad they weren't getting paid, they finally got the property manager , who then figured it would be a smart idea to cancel my *month to month* lease, which didn't exist anymore as it was yearly. They filled a claim in our provincial dispute system, I filled a 100 page counter claim with all the stormwater details, account info, emails, rental history, pretty much my history of being there 12 years. (This helped getting my own house later) A couple days before the "court"/dispute date, they finally realized the storm water was actually on my lease, and decide to waive those charges. The day before the dispute I get a new statement from the thirdparty with all stormwater charges removed. Managers are still going to the dispute over my month to month though, they want me gone. Though they checked the "yearly" box..... I pay the remaining bill to the third party with stored funds. Dispute day comes and the judge basically says it's one of the worse lease agreements she's seen and in no place does it specify that it's a month to month lease. We come to the decision that I should have my normal 3 months to move which will prevent any future problems. We win, and get 3 months to find a new place, instead of being thrown out by eviction, they continue to overcharge 500+ houses for stormwater.
I owned a house in Michigan and I found a guy through dumb luck who charged like half of the other tree trimmers. After talking with neighbors and telling them about this guy, a couple of them immediately hired him to cut down trees for them. I think most stuff about owning a house is a total ripoff and headache, but occasionally you find or hear about a good deal, in which case you must pounce immediately. Also, talk to your neighbors
In Idaho, the landlords usually just don't pay for the utilities to begin with and you as the tenant have to sign up for and pay for the utilities yourself. So if you can't pay the utilities then the utility companies will just cut you off after a grace period.
Oh by the way I’m Australian, eucalyptus trees drop their branches all the time. They literally call them widow makers. It usually happens on a hot day when a cool breeze comes through. The massive branches litterally just drop, like one Crack! Happened at a bush party (camping party) I was in a branch broke off in the dance floors and absolutely Foocked about 3 people up. Broken arms and legs and ribs. No one died luckily.
I'll do the trees myself if you want. I'd climb up, strap the branch I'm cutting to the trunk itself at a higher point, then I cut the target branch. Then it's hanging from the tree by a tether, close to the trunk instead of the house. You then loosen the strap.
If the trees are hanging over a house I would get a the tractor, hook it to a long chain/cable to the top of the tree. Then either climbing the tree , using a long ladder, or hiring a cherry picker( depending on the size of the tree) I’d cut the tree. Nah I’d cut out a wedge approximately just over half the tree width facing the tractor, then cut a a straight cut aiming to meet the wedge from the other side while the tractor is pulling the tree away from the house. Once it starts to move and you think the tractor can finish pulling it, GET OUT OF THE WAY. Let the tractor finish snapping it off. Either that or cut of small sections of the tree branches at a time, throw them down. Depends how much u care about the tree and what’s in the area below.
LOL , ive been "organizing" all of everything I own for the last year. selling stuff i dont need. I am down to all of my tools and shop stuff -parts- screws bolts , wires, materials, whatsits etc. It was suppose to take a month
Aussie here, yeah you don't want big eucalyptus over anything you like. In camping areas we call them widow makers. They randomly drop huge limbs for no reason, even healthy trees.
I was in the same type rental thing as Kevin, the share vacuum was full of cigarettes and didnt work when i moved in. 6 months later, a maintenance guy came into the shared kitchen and reported that the vacuum was broken and needed replacing. so the reception sent us an email saying we need to pay $150ea to replace the vacuum (5 of us). it was literally a $50 vacuum. so i emailed back and sent them a product link to the $50 vacuum and said "replace it with the exact same model vacuum and send us the receipt, oh by the way, the maintenance guy who worked for the building never sent us a prior notice of entry", I then sent a copy of the rental legislation which outlined the fine and penalty for doing so (unlawful entry by landlord). We did not have to pay for the vacuum 😂
FYI: That's not exactly what those tenant-landlord laws mean. Basically, the landlord can't come out and turn off the utilities himself in an attempt to force you out, but the utility companies can still come turn it off for non-payment. Where it gets complicated is if the landlord pays the utilities using the tenant's rent money. The landlord still can't come out and turn the utilities off himself, but he also can't intentionally stop paying in order to get them shut off by the utility companies for non-payment.
Will, I have power where I load money on to it every month and it charges daily from the deposited funds, the day after there's no money in the account, the power turns off, so if you're just forgetful, it cuts off on ya sometimes, but comes on pretty quick once funds are added.
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i'm glad nigel is back, if he missed twice I was going to file a formal complaint
Damn straight Devin, make sure they know it
straight up right into the manager. there HR is gonna have a bad day
Make sure the warranty isn't void, you may be entitled to financial compensation if Nile ever disappears again
Those go into the podcast's permanent record
Would it be William we'd need to contact for refunds on the podcasts without Nigel?
whenever nigel's not talking we all know he's looking at dad joke posts
@ 14:30
Lmao
Kevin: “I can trim the trees with a laser I think”
News Report: “Florida man causes California wildfire, blames RUclips influencers”
He's already posted the video. He does in fact start a fire.
Look, for such an occasion I'd contact StyroPyro, he'd probably make a video of it.
Somehow I only saw the bottom part of this at first and I was like, "That's definitely about Kevin"
nigel is admittedly the people's darling but the show is at it's best when all four of you are here :) great episode
the stereo audio conversation is literally one of the greatest running gags in any podcast ever
Greatest innovation you mean
It’s like double the content
and when that door fell apart I lot it completely 🤣🤣
It is truly innovative. I can listen to 2x the garbage at the same time.
Wait until I get 5.1 surround sound!
I like when Kevin and Allen are both telling stories at the same time, will responds to both of their stories
will and nigel are on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the chaos segments: will understands everything and nigel understands nothing
I love reading the whiteboard behind allen
“Fixing the worst childhood” lmao
I think it's "Fixing the worst childhood toy" and " Fixing history's worst toy"
Spiderman/ I'm sorry May
And legal eagle
3:56 Nigel starts talking
Arborists are extremely expensive, but they're also super skilled and have specialty tools so they don't destroy anything or injure anyone while they work. The same cannot be said for regular people trimming trees lol, there are some baaaad horror stories
I've taken down a few dead ash trees on my property, fairly sizable, intimidating a bit actually. Tree felling is scary and if a tree is in a sketchy spot, it's never worth it to risk it for the biscuit
@@fireandcopper yeah exactly, not worth the risk most times, especially if you don't have any experience 😬
Sounds like something an arborist would say🤔
21k is still ridiculous...
@@Geordiecrafts Trimming a tree and tree felling doesn't mean the same thing....
That quote seems pretty accurate for that many trees. I paid a little over 1k to clean up a single eucalyptus tree a few years back.
allen being so excited about organising makes me really happy
California lawyer here. If utilities are included in the rent, the landlord has to keep the power on. If the landlord stops paying for utilities it counts as wrongful eviction (labeled a constructive eviction) and would subject the landlord to penalties and liability.
Welcome to the Nigel Thirst Podcast 🌼
Kevin: Use a laser. William: Flash back to house burning down.
I think this is a very special episode. I especially love how everyone talking over each other, each and everyone having his own monolog from around 10:00 to 14:00.
I love it. Truly authentic for the podcast
4:41 guys, the REASON Nigel is a thirst trap is his porcelain skin, quiet sense of humour and calming voice…
yes absolutely
Allen's story about his college time are so relatable. I am basically living in a house from the 1900s and our heater failed 5 times this winter. With basically no isolation, wood on wood window frames, the whole flat was barely above 10°C. Also the heater only fails on fridays afternoons, so it takes till Monday to contact a contractor, which we are not allowed to do otherwise we had to pay.
All in all not great, but we are just wearing hoodies and caps. Love the podcast!
I love they just now noticed Alan has had legal eagal RUclips videos in the background for several of these. It's clearly genius level marketing to try and convince Devin from Legal Eagal to come on the podcast by saying they have been advertising for him lol
Devin is quite boring in podcasts, he doesn't say "not legal advice", he simply doesn't say any meaningfull.
3 mins in Nigel is already distracted
Hi safety third team! Love the content, just wanted to say something regarding one of today's topics: leasing from a stueldent housing complex. I worked as Front desk staff (tour guide, mail clerk, leasing agent, calls) at my complex in college and it was actually managed by one of the biggest student housing companies. Actually, I went to college in FL so it could even be that the company from the complex in Kevin's experience (@49:00) is the same. The biggest issue with the whole model is what's referred to as "turnover". See student housing complexes make one-year leases to mimic the college calendar so that hopefully students will move in at the beginning of the school-year, and move out at the end. The biggest problem with this model is that as opposed to a people moving in and out through out the year, which means that as a unit is vacated, you inspect it, trash it (charges to res), repair any damages (charges to res), new coat of paint and clean (all of this is what we call turnover or "turn"). Instead, EVERYONE moves in at once and out at once. the reason why the first year of the contract is a bit weird and the first month starts on the 20th or so is because from the last day of month before (move-out day) until moving day, EVERYDAY, from 6:45AM to 10-11PM, Mon-Sun, we are "turning" apartment units. You might think they get a special team to do it or maintenance but due to the structure, the year-round maintenance staff is nowhere near big enough. For those weeks they hire a bunch of people and everyone from front desk to management is required fo work those hrs. We get meals and some snacks, kind of a bonding experience like what I imagine going through bootcamp feels like; mentally breaking. It's also an expensive endeavor to hire the required staff to do this things since they need to be done in that window of time. So, as someone who became best friends with all the staff at my property. I know they weren't trying to rob anyone but corporate does expect that all the costs of repairs will be covered by the tenants and they put that on the lease and going through the numbers with my bookkeeper $50/trash bag was about right to pay all the people we needed to get to handle all the trash from a lot of messy college students. The policy for all roommates being charged, has to do with the weirdness of trying to lease individual rooms of an apartment (If your roommate had claimed that the trash in the living room was his, maybe because you contacted him, they would have charged it entirely to him. Otherwise they can't know and must legally split it equally) I also know that becaus the leases are based around the school year, evene if your roommate did move out a bit earlier, all leases run from August till end of July and if he moved out before the summer he either was sub-leasing illegally or he re-let (transfered the remaining part of his lease to somone else) Either way his lease would have actually ended at the end of July. Assuming it was legal, it's the usual turnover process but actually done by the maintenance team since those happen way more scarcely and it's also only in the room where a new person is moving in (anything that might need fixing in the common areas is fixed but nothing is thrown away as it is assumed to be property of the other residents in the apt unless it's rotten food or something like that, but it COULD just not have been rotten when they fixed up the unit and then nobody ever threw it out because it was your old roommates and everyone was grossed out by it, I get it I'm just lyk another college student getting paied min wage and working overtime probably had to be the one throw it out amongst many other worse things that day. Ultimately they COULD just not charge as much and pay more of the repairs out of pocket but (they=corporate) the sad thing is that other apartment complexes won't do the same, which means their competitors sticker price would look better and soon they would stop doing it. I'm not saying it's a good system but what people actually don't know must of the time is that nobody in the staff is usually ever trying to bs you or take advantage of you.
TL; DR: Worked in a student housing complex like the one mentioned in the ep, while in college. At least in the case of the property I worked for, managers are just trying to do the best they can and the rest is just college students that live on property and get paid min wage (and maintenance ofc). I get your frustration, just know that the explotational nature of this system goes deeper.
14:11 Nigel just dying inside xD
"I just looked up a tree falling over and every picture is of a tree falling over"
William Osman 2023
Gum trees don't just fall over regularly, they also have a habit of dropping large limbs either when it's windy AF, or in the middle of summer on a perfectly still night. They're great!
they drop limbs to save water during drought
Finally, Nigel's back! I couln't stand all those other guys in the last one, what a RUclips decision to make the podcast without him
it was such a waste of hard drive storage...
conversely, though, it was quite youtube of them to bring him back
Fantastic audio editing when Kevin and Allen are both talking. Love the podcast! Keep them coming!
The stereo sound argument is amazing. Love the effort.
I'm re-listening this one cuz nigel is never on anymore
30:50 I have this too! I hate it when people touch my stuff because I don’t know where it is then. But I can tell you where anything is unless someone moves it.
Kevin (looking directly at the camera): "don't worry about it"
Talking about screw jar, my grandfather had a screw bin full of all sorts of screws, nails, hinges, nuts, bolts, etc...
Years later I learned with one of Adam Savage videos the same thing but kind more organized. Thanks to him I have now multiple "log jam" bins all over the place instead of a monolithic screw jar.
I watched ALL of yall for years and discovered this podcast a few months ago and it is the greatest thing ever.
I think the problem with most people & organizing is they don't realize it's a complicated, ongoing process. As you use items & buy new things, your sorting process has to adapt.
I love Alan's wire kit - he has the right idea, for sure. But it doesn't always work for things that have multiple uses (especially in terms of tools that aren't cheap to have multiples of).
I'm constantly struggling as a crafter to keep things organized - in terms of tools, I have to keep those separate bc I use them for multiple projects. I would love to be able to have a kit like Alan's though, but in my case, it's not entirely practical.
It also depends on space. If you have the space, you can spread things out, whereas if you're short on space, you have to combine things to save space.
Props to the guys for it being something that they want to do.
Omg please teach my wife this concept of buying things means time cost for adaptation...
That feel when you recognize one of your favorite youtubers on the screen of one of your favorite youtubers
I do the same thing as Alan, an adhesive one is always good to have. All your glues, epoxies, toothpicks, rags, little cups, etc. Even if different boxes have duplicate stuff, you can always grab one case and have everything.
The key with Hoarding is to work out how much you are paying or have paid per square metre/foot of your house/workshop and see if you would pay for storage for those objects at that price. Really helps with the perspective of whether it's economically worth keeping something. Space really does have value mentally and efficiency.
My dad took me to Toronto once and we saw them trimming trees with a giant chainsaw suspended from a helicopter. Sounds like an interesting video idea of Wills issue 🤣
I was on holiday in the alps recently and I awoke to the sound of a helicopter at regular intervals of two minutes. They were clearing trees with a helicopter! They cut the trees most of the way on the mountain then attached a chain and flew them to a pile. Heli-logging is insane.
I got a friend the Meesta Hambāga shirt, she said she loved it, good shit.
my grandfather had the whole "everything is a mess but I'll always just remember where everything is" mentality, and it served him very well. of course he did eventually develop alzheimer's and die without writing much of anything down, and now his 14-acre estate is me and my dad's problem. let this serve as a cautionary tale for organized chaos.
Even if you do everything Will mentioned you can still be screwed by Landlords. I moved out early with permission from my landlord, who then immediately went to the cops and said I abandoned the place and damaged everything on the way out. I had an inspection and written proof of everything. The landlord took me to court to try and nail me but their lawyer pulled out when I showed up with a briefcase full of emails and texts. I did not get my deposit back.
Allen: "How are we still talking about this?"
He is all of us. 🤣
We had a Tennant that due to the property manager going bust just as they moved in hadn't signed a lease agreement and was refusing to and basically squatting. It meant they also couldn't get power or water but refused to leave and we weren't allowed to evict them, only way we got them out is they overdosed and went to hospital then got arrested on drug charges.
For the power supply bin you could put tape on each of the power supplies so you could have the wattage written in big numbers so they're easy to pick out.
Sometimes you can actually sell your tree to a lumber company.
Out of the 4 people here, Kevin's most recent video was the coolest.
Nigel and Kevin are the only reason I subscribed to this Chanel
We call eucalyptus trees widowmakers in Australia, their massive branches randomly dry out and fall randomly. I've nearly been hit a bunch of times and my friend's place got crushed by a massive one that ruined half of his entire house and landed on him, lucky to survive. I'd 100% get them away from your house.
"I don't want to give IKEA an anti-advertising, since they haven't harmed me in any way."
That has to be one of the best things a thinking human ever said about any major company xD
Allen admitting he cannot mentally map his home/work space for groups of items, it just baffling to me, and I'd love to see what his workspace actually looks like, and see him work in the space.
Rope saws are good for relatively safe DIY trimming (although, would be time consuming for 20 trees). Seems like a good video idea!
Wooooo yaaaaayyy some dudes talking about some stuff best part of my week
Thanks for your work on this podcast! Every episode takes me back to shittalking with my CS study group in college.
Sorta happy to be part of the tens of people that listen to this podcast
"how do you know I'm boring" bruh you put me to sleep every night 🤣
Very topical discussion about hoarding, I'm going through my stuff at the moment. I have the same power supplies problem - after Will's suggestion, I'm thinking rather than organising them further than one box, what about inventorying them? So you know before you go digging through the box that you definitely have what you need or know without digging through that you don't.
I was an arborist for 16 years. 1k a tree is stupid expensive for most jobs, but if you're clearing houses and power lines that's not far off from my average quote depending on how complicated it is. Most services charge between $150 and $300 per hour of work if hauling the debris but that can go up quite a bit if there is lots of climbing and rigging involved.
I still don't know what this podcast is about, but I sure do love it when they talk.
its like it a "choose your story" book. you choose the channel you're more interested in.
the way we do it in italy, we stop paying rent for 2 months (usually the deposit is 2 months worth of rent) and the deposit is to pay the last 2 months. That way you pretty much don't use your deposit for what's it's supposed to be. If there are damages they can ask you later, but usually don't cause it's not worth the hassle. You move the hassle on the landlord
With some para cord, a sawsall and chain saw and some hunting hooks I’ve trimmed trees 60’ tall. It’s slow and steady work this way but it’s free/cheap if you have the tools.
I think that's a pretty standard rate for trimming trees it's pretty expensive eucalyptus trees are pretty friggin heavy too.
I literally build and replenish hardware assortments for a living, and fill some hard to get parts with McMaster Carr. This is the most relevant podcast to my job I've ever listened to.
Man I lucked out at the two places I rented in college. The first one, I was not going to try to organize with the people I lived with because it would be a nightmare, but essentially it needed a carpet cleaning, kitchen cleaning, problem some new paint on some of the walls. So I got like $300 bucks back after living there two years. The second place, my cats fucked up the carpet, I fucked up the carpet, there was a hole I don't remember making in my closet door, another damaged door, and then just the normal lived in things. But I had lived there for like five years, and I was good friends with management, and they knew my situation for why I was leaving, and so they told me, don't worry about anything. You've lived here so long, we're going to refinish and repaint every wall, redo the countertop, completely redo the carpet, everything else anyways, so don't worry about cleaning up, and you'll get your deposit back too. They were like the most amazing landlords I've ever heard of, let alone got to live under (and I doubt I'll ever meet landlords/management like that again). They always had free food events, and never cared if we brought friends over to partake. If something got clogged or broke, the main couple, a lovely pair of grandparents, lived on site, and never grumbled at any issue I had. Granted they charged a fair bit more than other places in town, but man, I'll never forget them.
I've amazed myself by perfectly understanding everything what was said by 3 people talking over each other. It's a lot easier when it's split into 2 channels.
You simply go through the hassle of making the tenant have utilities set up under their name. Then it gets treated as if a regular home owner stopped paying and the company shuts it off.
Can't believe Kevin was 40 minutes late to the podcast
I lived in UC Davis student housing, same sort of situation- I was charged hundreds of dollars because the faucet was loose (was like that when I moved in) and one of the panels on the blinds was bent.
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I'm watching this while sitting next to my tub full of the same amount of power supplies. 😆
The tree cutting segment was a mess of bad ideas and its amazing that no one even thought of just burning down the house
Growing up in California before moving to Missouri and then Texas, I was blown away by the difference in tenant rights. California is way friendlier to tenants and I really miss it.
You guys should take the Clutterbug test to see how you organize your stuff.
Here in Ontario canada, it takes 10 months or more to evict a tenant legally right now and security deposits r illegal, u only pay first and last to move in
No one's talking about that MASSIVE Tank of Red Bull behind Nigel?
will should just brace the trees with the house's foundation then hang a giant roof using them as load bearing pillars
The helicopter idea seems crazy, but it might work with a strong quadcopter and a light chainsaw, you could even dangle the power cable...
Orrr you can make something that climbs up the tree like a Spider and then cuts of sections.
Either way, sections are the way to go?
I was looking at being a tree trimmer, entry level pay is already over $28/hr no prior experience required. So if that’s what they are paying an entry level worker then they gotta be charging a lot. My current company pays me 22.50, and charge the customer $90/hr for me to be on site, and they need to charge that much to even stay afloat, between workers comp, fixing mistakes, vehicles, etc. business are expensive to run lol.
Yeah it's a lot of money, but if you break it down it kind of puts it into perspective. Say the company puts two people on the job, combine their wages, figure that the company has a lot of other costs on top (amortizing equipment, ancillary labor costs, vehicles etc). I'm wondering how long it takes to trim one of these trees though. If you estimate 3 hours, that's $333/h, if you figure 5 hours, that's $200/h
It feels like i'm with my good old friends. Also cutting down the tree isn't so hard - you should try it by yourself!
For the tree problem try putting a circular saw on a flexible track that can be ratcheted shut around a branch like a zip-tie. It might not cut all the way through the branch but you can tie a rope around the branch and pull on it until the branch snaps off. Maybe this would give you some control over where the branch falls. Or a model helicopter with a mini version of the highway tree trimmer.
Also for storage check out the Gridfinity system, I'm surprised y'all haven't had Zack Freedman on the show yet.
Rented a place for close to 12 years. Part way through, they didn't like my yard displays and Pacman characters was the last straw for them. They did a drive by and decided not to renew the lease. I fought them and they put us on a month to month lease(extra). A year later I got asked to sign a new *yearly* lease. They also had an issue with overcharging for stormwater charges that they were getting stuck with because the land they were representing had it's contracts with the city run out. (late developments outran the contracts) They were now getting a lump sum charge and having to divvy it among the number of residents, while the rest of the city was being charged by sq ft of the lot. Everyone was basically paying stormwater for the sports fields in the area, plus what they rented.
I had the lease rep add stormwater charges on the extra items in the new *yearly* lease, knowing this fee was going to increase even more moving forward as the development actually proceeded and the number of residents diminished. They had no lot values so it's impossible to calculate otherwise.
Almost another year later they had so many problems trying to collect 2x stormwater charges themselves, they passed the job onto a 3rd party in another province without people's permission. It became basically 3x stormwater now. I took opposition to this as the charge was already included on my lease. When I'd tell the third party they would tell me to contact the property manager, the property manager says to contact the third party. So I did what anyone should do, I didn't give a dime to the third party, which now started to include water and sewage, so the bill started to grow pretty fast. I put the payments that would normally goto that in a separate account. Meanwhile documented all history, accounts.
The third party started getting mad they weren't getting paid, they finally got the property manager , who then figured it would be a smart idea to cancel my *month to month* lease, which didn't exist anymore as it was yearly. They filled a claim in our provincial dispute system, I filled a 100 page counter claim with all the stormwater details, account info, emails, rental history, pretty much my history of being there 12 years. (This helped getting my own house later)
A couple days before the "court"/dispute date, they finally realized the storm water was actually on my lease, and decide to waive those charges.
The day before the dispute I get a new statement from the thirdparty with all stormwater charges removed. Managers are still going to the dispute over my month to month though, they want me gone. Though they checked the "yearly" box..... I pay the remaining bill to the third party with stored funds.
Dispute day comes and the judge basically says it's one of the worse lease agreements she's seen and in no place does it specify that it's a month to month lease.
We come to the decision that I should have my normal 3 months to move which will prevent any future problems.
We win, and get 3 months to find a new place, instead of being thrown out by eviction, they continue to overcharge 500+ houses for stormwater.
I owned a house in Michigan and I found a guy through dumb luck who charged like half of the other tree trimmers. After talking with neighbors and telling them about this guy, a couple of them immediately hired him to cut down trees for them. I think most stuff about owning a house is a total ripoff and headache, but occasionally you find or hear about a good deal, in which case you must pounce immediately. Also, talk to your neighbors
I worked as an apartment caretaker, and they payed me to cut down trees. I miss it.
In Idaho, the landlords usually just don't pay for the utilities to begin with and you as the tenant have to sign up for and pay for the utilities yourself. So if you can't pay the utilities then the utility companies will just cut you off after a grace period.
Oh by the way I’m Australian, eucalyptus trees drop their branches all the time. They literally call them widow makers.
It usually happens on a hot day when a cool breeze comes through. The massive branches litterally just drop, like one Crack!
Happened at a bush party (camping party) I was in a branch broke off in the dance floors and absolutely Foocked about 3 people up. Broken arms and legs and ribs. No one died luckily.
I'll do the trees myself if you want. I'd climb up, strap the branch I'm cutting to the trunk itself at a higher point, then I cut the target branch.
Then it's hanging from the tree by a tether, close to the trunk instead of the house.
You then loosen the strap.
If the trees are hanging over a house I would get a the tractor, hook it to a long chain/cable to the top of the tree.
Then either climbing the tree , using a long ladder, or hiring a cherry picker( depending on the size of the tree) I’d cut the tree. Nah
I’d cut out a wedge approximately just over half the tree width facing the tractor, then cut a a straight cut aiming to meet the wedge from the other side while the tractor is pulling the tree away from the house.
Once it starts to move and you think the tractor can finish pulling it, GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Let the tractor finish snapping it off.
Either that or cut of small sections of the tree branches at a time, throw them down.
Depends how much u care about the tree and what’s in the area below.
LOL , ive been "organizing" all of everything I own for the last year. selling stuff i dont need. I am down to all of my tools and shop stuff -parts- screws bolts , wires, materials, whatsits etc. It was suppose to take a month
This one was proper chaotic and I absolutely love it. Very on-brand
Aussie here, yeah you don't want big eucalyptus over anything you like. In camping areas we call them widow makers. They randomly drop huge limbs for no reason, even healthy trees.
I was in the same type rental thing as Kevin, the share vacuum was full of cigarettes and didnt work when i moved in. 6 months later, a maintenance guy came into the shared kitchen and reported that the vacuum was broken and needed replacing. so the reception sent us an email saying we need to pay $150ea to replace the vacuum (5 of us). it was literally a $50 vacuum. so i emailed back and sent them a product link to the $50 vacuum and said "replace it with the exact same model vacuum and send us the receipt, oh by the way, the maintenance guy who worked for the building never sent us a prior notice of entry", I then sent a copy of the rental legislation which outlined the fine and penalty for doing so (unlawful entry by landlord). We did not have to pay for the vacuum 😂
i only wake up on thursdays for these
I am just here thinking, man if only I had the space to be able to sort things like these guys....
You can rent a lift for the week, or just ask for another bid from a competitor.
Are there any RUclips tree cutters you can make a colab video with?
The tool use kits are brilliant. Why aren't we all doing that with our garage tools and bits?
Zack freeman has a really good series on expandable modular storage stuff
nigel is actually the funniest guy i ever saw in the internet
I love how on Allen's whiteboard it just says spiderman/I'm sorry
Im pretty shure a meatball vending machine could work if its just a fridge and it heats it up before it gives it to you
We got a quote to cut down 1 tree and it was $27,000. Its a 350ft tall oak huge trunk, between houses, over powerlines lol
FYI: That's not exactly what those tenant-landlord laws mean. Basically, the landlord can't come out and turn off the utilities himself in an attempt to force you out, but the utility companies can still come turn it off for non-payment.
Where it gets complicated is if the landlord pays the utilities using the tenant's rent money. The landlord still can't come out and turn the utilities off himself, but he also can't intentionally stop paying in order to get them shut off by the utility companies for non-payment.
I feel like my friends are tired of me being excited about my organization so it is nice to see Allen excited about
Will, I have power where I load money on to it every month and it charges daily from the deposited funds, the day after there's no money in the account, the power turns off, so if you're just forgetful, it cuts off on ya sometimes, but comes on pretty quick once funds are added.
0:18 YAY Nigel !!!