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5 September 2015 at 7:24 pm #130114
Is it against the law to salvage trees? There is a green where I live where a huge huge massive totally enormous oak Tree fell over in a big storm. They cut up the branches and left the trunk of the tree which was cut in three sections each about 7m long three or four foot in diameter tapering to about 2-3foot on the last length.
The last tree the council did this to in swindon UK where I live they left and ten years later it’s rotting away. Do you think they’d let me have it or let me buy it? Do I need to ask for it or can I just take it?
I looked on the website and didn’t find anything and was hoping someone could offer some sage advice.
Thanks, Max
6 September 2015 at 9:54 am #130122The unwritten rule here in the US is if something, anything is left out on the curb right next to the road and as long as it doesn’t have a sign on it, it is free for the taking. However, if it is inland a bit, on the lawn, then you need to ask permission.
You should probably find out who it belongs to and get permission. I would hate to be reading about you in the papers.
7 September 2015 at 1:57 am #130132Sounds like you’ll need splitting equipment to get it to more manageable sizes if you take it. This is something I’d love to be doing. Of course, I have nowhere to keep the wood while it dries!
19 September 2015 at 11:10 pm #130655Ask that same question to the Council and you’ll have your answer.
Matt
10 October 2015 at 11:20 pm #131227Only a month late but I’ll throw in my silver tannersworth worth anyway.
1. Firstly, we are blessed (?) in our beloved isle with a law headed “Stealing by Finding”. This basically means that if you take anything that doesn’t belong to you, then it is theft. I know because I started on my long road of crime being charged with ‘stealing’ a Bic pen from an old trashed car on a tip. It cost me a £5 fine in court back in 1964, which was almost two weeks wages as an apprentice bricklayer. Since those heady days I have also succumbed to a number of further clashes with the law resulting in four or five speeding bans and more points on my driving licence than Burnley scored in the premiership last season. So all in all, you can see you are mixing with the criminal fraternity. I’m 70 next year so I don’t think Ive done too bad.
Anyway, I digress. As usual.
2. Assuming you are given permission to buy or take these logs, have you considered how you are going to move them given their respective weights? Oak is 600-900kgs per cubic metre which puts them at 2,3 and 4 tonnes approximately. Light they ain’t.
You could possibly try doing a deal with your nearest sawmill to see if they’ll cut one up into boards for you and they keep the other two. It’s all I can think of.
ATB,
Scott
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