Scavenging for firewood

[David Goss]

Sounds like theft to me. Like Hama says timber is left on site to become dead wood habitat for a whole host of living organisms and you just stole their house to torch it.

[APC]

Where was it?

 

 

Down the back of the sofa with the TV controller and car keys.

[RichardT]

You can come down to my woods and scavenge all the fresh Sitka lop'n'top you like.

[hippytyre]

The branch initially landed in a field but then the farmer lifted it over his hedge and dumped it next to the cycle path. It's not from someone's forest.

If it was felled and left there I wouldn't have touched it. Thanks for all the replies.

[Pat Ferrett]

If you didnt ask the owner first then its theft

[likeitorlumpit]

sure

but everyone scavenges

I mean surely everyone here has taken stuff from a skip or maybe dead wood from a copse etc- mostly no harm done- seems to make sense to me

It's the gits who nick stuff obviously piled up for sale that give scavenging a bad name. When I was younger we had a small 'orchard' about 20 trees- there really was too much fruit for us and we were more than happy for scrumping to take place. Perhaps though asking the owner is the best way forward on this.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Imagine if woodland became a free for all scenario.

[treequip]

There was a time when some people had a right to gather fuel “by hook or by crook”

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

There was a time when some people had a right to gather fuel “by hook or by crook”

 

and back then it may have been O.K, but theres nigh on 65 million folk in the u.k now, should we let them loose on the woodlands?

[BARNSLEY BOB]

There was a time when some people had a right to gather fuel “by hook or by crook”

 

AND ...........????????????

 

has that right been repealed or what..???