Harvesting fallen wood legality?

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Aod

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Morning all!

My friend and I would like to get hold of some wood for a project we're thinking of, and in a small grass-area near his house there is a tree that has recently fallen due to the blustery conditions earlier in the year.

The trunk of the tree has completely broken approximately three feet above ground level and all of the trees leaves are dying off, I think it's a safe conclusion that the tree is dead.

The area isn't a woodland/forest area, I don't think there's any need for natural deadwood of any kind.

I'm wondering if it'd be legal to go out to it with a couple of saws and hack off some branches?

This is the tree in question;
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Meh, I'd just go for it.

If you want to know for sure, phone your local council and put it to them? Though I think they might say no regardless of the circumstances.

Are you building a tree house?
 
Contact your local Police Station before you go so they can make a log of it, you don't want to get lumbered if someone starts barking up the wrong tree and phones Special Branch thinking you're Enviro-terrorists or something.
 
doofer said:
Contact your local Police Station before you go so they can make a log of it, you don't want to get lumbered if someone starts barking up the wrong tree and phones Special Branch thinking you're Enviro-terrorists or something.
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Nice :D
 
doofer said:
Contact your local Police Station before you go so they can make a log of it, you don't want to get lumbered if someone starts barking up the wrong tree and phones Special Branch thinking you're Enviro-terrorists or something.
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My my, that post was really a cut above the rest, you really saw this thread coming didn't you? At least I was here to witness it, can you imagine if it fell on deaf ears?
 
Zefan said:
My my, that post was really a cut above the rest, you really saw this thread coming didn't you? At least I was here to witness it, can you imagine if it fell on deaf ears?
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I'd be left out hanging on a limb, completely stumped.
 
Plenty of people go out to collect branches and stuff for firewood and collect sea coal off the beach.

Maybe that is just an up north thing which soft southern softies know nowt about. :p
 
Sea coal eh?

I wood have thought its the Land owners decision but i advocate a Sherwood forest mentality in this instance.
 
Legally you can't, all land belongs to someone and thus all wood belongs to someone and you can't collect it.
Some places like the forrestry commission allow you to collect dead wood and/or buy a license to collect dead wood.

However saying that, depends how much your taking and if you need chainsaws etc. if its small amounts and you won't disturb people I would just take it.
 
If it's common land you may have the right to collect the dead wood by law, if you live in one of the properties nearby which classifies you as a commoner for that land. Otherwise it's theft without the permission of the land owner.
 
I believe that the land is council property, it forms part of a greenish-walkway thing behind those houses that roughly follows the tube line.
 
It's a tree, would anyone really care, assuming it's damaged enough to have fell over. You might even be doing them a favour shifting it.
 
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