best way of removing tree and stumps

[openspaceman]

18 minutes ago, daltontrees said:

Sorry to be a pain , but have you got the right legislation there? 1986 Act only allowed for restocking on conviction.

I'll have to check.

 

I know the amounts that could be felled without a licence changed, before I started work, with the 1967 act but I thought it was a later act that prevented conversion of forestry to agriculture.

 

The reason I remember is that I worked with a couple of chaps with a Cat 951 that  cleared such land and I would have the wood, for selling as pulp. The Cat would push them over and I would knot them out and cut off the root. That came to an end because of the change in the law.

 

I was nearly killed on one job, creating a pony paddock beside a manor house for new owners, the agricultural land all having been sold off to a neighbouring farm, I was working too close behind the cat snedding a birch when the back edge of the power fork caught another birch as he reversed and turned, the top landed on me

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

I'll have to check.

 

I know the amounts that could be felled without a licence changed, before I started work, with the 1967 act but I thought it was a later act that prevented conversion of forestry to agriculture.

 

The reason I remember is that I worked with a couple of chaps with a Cat 951 that  cleared such land and I would have the wood, for selling as pulp. The Cat would push them over and I would knot them out and cut off the root. That came to an end because of the change in the law.

 

I was nearly killed on one job, creating a pony paddock beside a manor house for new owners, the agricultural land all having been sold off to a neighbouring farm, I was working too close behind the cat snedding a birch when the back edge of the power fork caught another birch as he reversed and turned, the top landed on me

Best I could find:

 

https://hansard.parliament.uk/‌Commons/1985-06-17/debates/908b9d70-4768-490f-9230-c34828b551ad/ForestryCommission

 

Last paragraph.

 

The dates fit my recollection. 

 

It looks like the 1967 Act  applies and it was a change in the criteria the FC would grant a licence that meant it was not possible to convert the land.

[Hog a Log Hogson]

the trees are wild grown, it was once a railway line, ! do not own it nor do I know who owns it now as it is unregistered 

[Hog a Log Hogson]

the trees are wild grown, it was once a railway line, ! do not own it nor do I know who owns it now as it is unregistered 

[Mick Dempsey]

Looks like a well used path. 
If it’s not yours then leave it alone. 

[Steven P]

If I remember right, if the land hasn't changed ownership since I don't know 1980 or something then the records are all paper records, not online, you'd need to go to the council offices or somewhere to find that out - maybe you have done that - and also the railways rarely sell any land, they are kept as railway in case thy want to put a new track there, something in the back of my mind says they can just do that without needing acts of parliament.

 

So for no one owns it - I'd be betting that it belongs to Network Rail and you need to do a physical search on paper records to find the owner details. Very little UK land in 'unregistered'

[Oldfeller]

7 hours ago, Hog a Log Hogson said:

the trees are wild grown, it was once a railway line, ! do not own it nor do I know who owns it now as it is unregistered 

4 pages,,, and then this!  feckin' priceless.

 

[Deafhead]

14 hours ago, openspaceman said:

I'll have to check.

 

I know the amounts that could be felled without a licence changed, before I started work, with the 1967 act but I thought it was a later act that prevented conversion of forestry to agriculture.

 

The reason I remember is that I worked with a couple of chaps with a Cat 951 that  cleared such land and I would have the wood, for selling as pulp. The Cat would push them over and I would knot them out and cut off the root. That came to an end because of the change in the law.

 

I was nearly killed on one job, creating a pony paddock beside a manor house for new owners, the agricultural land all having been sold off to a neighbouring farm, I was working too close behind the cat snedding a birch when the back edge of the power fork caught another birch as he reversed and turned, the top landed on me

It wasn't me.

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Deafhead said:

It wasn't me.

No , it was a John whose surname escapes me, he worked for Ted Baker

[Muddy42]

All land, even unregistered land is owned by someone, ultimately its the crown. Being unregistered just makes it harder to find the owner, but there will be an owner.  If you aren't the land owner you can't just chop trees, remove stumps, plough, or use the land for access.

 

Whatever you do is bound to be noticed by the users of the footpath.