If you responded to 9-1-1 calls, you would be appalled at how some people live.

With an open front door, you can be ten feet outside the house, and smell the stank from inside the house.

We've been in homes so filthy, we believed that even taking them all the way down to foundation, and no sheet rock on the walls, you'd still never get the stank out.

I wouldn't move a muscle without the skid steer and grapple on location.

One of my attempts to get out of the O&G business I was a Telecoms man, doing residential and commercial Phone/Internet/Cable stuff. I was good at what I did but despised certain neighborhoods. Had a 3 service install at a residence that I smelled when I approached the front door. Nice old lady answered and went through the process of telling me everything that she wanted and where she wanted phone & cable jacks. We stepped over I don't know how many rotten litter boxes as she had 30-40 cats. I'm not a puss but that smell was way too much. I refused to do the install. It was that bad and I can handle some [censored]. I called my boss and he started in on me, I cut him off and said bring your [censored] over here.....he did, along with his boss....they both looked me in the eye and said let's get the hell out of here before somebody gets sick. Trash/[censored]/food waste piled up with cat [censored] & piss everywhere......no Sir.

Seen it.
Smelt it.

There's a street in our district that is notorious. We got a call, and the Captain yelled "GUARANTEED GROSS!"

Once you have it leveled, a couple thousand pound of quick lime where the house set might get rid of the smell.
Glad you got to purchase it and remove that element from near your place. Well done.

Finally got my security camera reliably connected over there. Got a dude locked up last week and ran some more off. Today I was able to run a trailer load to the dump and then load it up again for my guys to take tmw while I’m out of town.

skid steer makes work a lot easier and quicker ... still a lot of work

It's just time and diesel.

The Skid Steer is the Swiss Army Knife of machinery.

I'll never be without one.

Got some extended family that live like hoarders. Always been disgusted/ashamed of how they live. After I’ve been in and around random residences over the years for work I’ve discovered it’s not nearly as abnormal as I thought it would be.

It’s truly a mental issue. I’d say 8 of 10 homes/apartments I respond to calls for are hoarders or extremely unkept.

Many years ago, I was a fireman and later a cop in a small town. I remember several of those in rural areas.

We are the polar opposite of hoarders. Look at the amount of stuff I sell here cheap, give away for free and also set out in the alley for the old man that cruises the alley on Sunday afternoons taking things people leave out for him. If I know I'll never use it, it's not gathering dust very long.

Old people keep everything. My grandparents kept underwear to use as rags.

In Red River County, drive from Bogota towards Cut Hand, then on to the river. If you don't like the looks of a place just be patient, a meth head cooking will set it on fire before too long and it'll be gone. One time a few years ago when I hunted out there, I counted 6 recently burned out places within a few miles of each other.

On the extremely rare occasion that I watch a reality Cop show, and they go inside someone's house, I'm always sorry I did. Not to mention the laborious effort it takes to get witness details about what they saw when they're so high they could hunt ducks with a rake.

And some are "sleepers".

Super nice neighborhood. Everyone's houses and yards are extremely well kept. Set foot in certain ones, and the inside is the polar opposite of the outside. Hoarder house with dead rodents and too many pets inside.

2 more loads this afternoon. Total weight out of the front yard so far is below

If I am reading this correctly you capitalized on a mentally challenged person’s family?

I have so many comebacks to that Shane I don’t even know which one to pick. I’ll just go with the default ‘bless your heart’

Crack head gone, now your hauling off the rats hang out.

Back in 2006 my friend's dad died in a comercial unit off Goodnight Lane in Dallas. He had been evicted by the city from his house 3 weeks earlier after a 10-year legal battle. He was a hoarder. The unit he died in was so packed ratted that the fire department and County refused to remove his body and I had to do it with help from an older DPD sergeant. It was probably 130° in the building and he had been in there dead for several days. He was soup that I had to scrape off the floor with a shovel to get into a mortuary bag. If I think about it hard enough I can still smell him. It took my friend and I nearly 5 weeks of working in the middle of the night to clear the place out. His father was a German immigrant that still had ties to the country and his death and the conditions surrounding it made national news in Germany for some odd reason. For several years after that I used to help hoarding support groups clear out horded houses. Towards the end of the sickness it gets so bad that they are saving their own crap and urine in jars and buckets.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/this-gross-house-6398023

Recently I replaced a customer's pool equipment and while doing so had to turn off the gas briefly. This is in the Disney Streets neighborhood around the intersection of Royal Lane and Midway and they are not cheap houses. This is a wealthy older woman's house who works for Morgan Stanley and probably makes a million and a half dollars a year. I had to go inside to relight the water heaters for her. She was the last person on the planet I expected to be a hoarder but there wasn't a horizontal surface in the house that wasn't piled high and I've seen less cats at the city pound. She owns several homes in that neighborhood that no one lives in and if I had to guess she simply uses them as storage.

I got tired of throwing away dirt so I drew this dude up. We have been modifying frac tanks so we have a ton of 3/8” plate drops, they covered all of the materials so all I had to buy was the quick attach plate. The sides bolt on/off

I like that...!!!

Awesome rock bucket. Need one of them for my tractor.

Nice work Ramball

End of day yesterday we were at about 23 tons removed. Going to make 2 today and then move around back to smooth out the old dirt bike track