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Just go collecting faggots on common land?
Harvesting fallen wood legality?
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I've done this, but for loads of firewood. It took some sawing etc.
if no one heard it fall then did it really fall at all?
yea lol no one questions a hi-vis jacket
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-20312678
yea lol no one questions a hi-vis jacket
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-20312678
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I'm not saying this is right but... I know a chap who happened across an XR2i smashed into a lampost, cordoned off with police tape. He came back an hour later with a flatbed pickup truck, wearing a hi-vis of course, and proceeded to strip the car of all the bits he wanted for his own. Not one person questioned what he was doing, and he took nearly everything
Yeah i remember their was something on the radio about this the other year ago. Legally you have to ask the land owners permission first, as they might want it for firewood.
But if its owned by the council then i'd just cut it now. With all the trees round this area, if one falls over, the council come by not long after and chops it up. But then last year the council chopped some trees and left the sections on the grass to get the next day - this was next to a main road. So i just drove by in the pick up and loaded the back. Nobody battered an eyelid.
But if its owned by the council then i'd just cut it now. With all the trees round this area, if one falls over, the council come by not long after and chops it up. But then last year the council chopped some trees and left the sections on the grass to get the next day - this was next to a main road. So i just drove by in the pick up and loaded the back. Nobody battered an eyelid.
That's a bit risky though. If someone can be bothered, surely he'd get done for theft.
Some parts round ere if a person falls over they will be stripped of anything of value within minutes. I doubt a tree is going to cause much agro.
When we had the crazy storms a year or so ago there were 4 or 5 huge trees fell down in the local park. The council were so busy sorting all the trees that had fallen on cars/in the road that by the time they got round to sorting out the trees that posed no real threat the locals had totally disposed of them. My neighbour has enough wood piled round the side of his house to fuel his fire for the next 5 years or so.
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When we had the crazy storms a year or so ago there were 4 or 5 huge trees fell down in the local park. The council were so busy sorting all the trees that had fallen on cars/in the road that by the time they got round to sorting out the trees that posed no real threat the locals had totally disposed of them. My neighbour has enough wood piled round the side of his house to fuel his fire for the next 5 years or so.
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The only beef I can see anyone having is health and safety tbh, with an outside possibility that the land owner would want the wood for themselves. But, then you'd have expected the tree to be gone by now if that were the case.
Top drawer wood poaching, OP!
Top drawer wood poaching, OP!
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I remember sawing up and taking an entire fallen tree once, loaded it on a flatbed and drove off with it, used it as seating in the garden.
Never got nicked for it, even though some busybody was taking photographs of the truck as we drove off.
Way I saw it we were doing the council a favour.
Never got nicked for it, even though some busybody was taking photographs of the truck as we drove off.
Way I saw it we were doing the council a favour.
Thanks for telling us allI'm about to send down 5 people to fall over what you left and sue you for pain and suffering
This really could happen.
We placed all waste cuttings underneath the remainder of the fallen tree, good luck getting to them to trip over without going underneath the tree itself
