[MRM]

I don't see the issue. The guy is clueless and didn't pick up on the subtle hints that most socially aware people would. He's not doing it to ---- off Mr. Neighbors. He just doesn't know any better.

What's wrong with telling him the truth straight up and unvarnished by social convention? Just say that Jim Neighbors likes to keep his yard really neat and that it isn't polite to set the woodpile and grass growing around it that close to Jim's property. It would be a neighborly gesture sure to be appreciated if he pulled his woodpile back a few feet from the property line just to make sure there wasn't any spillover onto Mr. Neighbors' property and he could mow the back side of the wood pile and keep it from creating an eyesore for Mr. Neighbors when he looked out on his property.

I don't think a cord of wood is too much to move easily, but if he does, just have the same conversation and tell him it would be very neighborly of him to trim around the woodpile with a weed whacker to be considerate of what the neighbors have to look at from their side of the property.