Wood vultures

[davey_b]

Moved out to the country last summer after renovating a place and was amazed to see after the high winds we had a couple of weeks ago what happened with downed trees. The only way I can describe it is wood vultures. What I mean is cars and vans pulling up when a windblown tree is and stripping all the wood they could take. All that's left is the big bits at the stump and thin branches at the end. Is this normal? It leaves the tree and are looking like a carcass that has been stripped of flesh by vultures. Even saw a couple of old ladies with a Yaris putting 2 inch thick branches in the boot... What do they want with them?

 

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[whiteoaks]

i see it all the time and most contractors around here leave it on the floor next day all gone

[marsonpee]

Moved out to the country last summer after renovating a place and was amazed to see after the high winds we had a couple of weeks ago what happened with downed trees. The only way I can describe it is wood vultures. What I mean is cars and vans pulling up when a windblown tree is and stripping all the wood they could take. All that's left is the big bits at the stump and thin branches at the end. Is this normal? It leaves the tree and are looking like a carcass that has been stripped of flesh by vultures. Even saw a couple of old ladies with a Yaris putting 2 inch thick branches in the boot... What do they want with them?

 

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Haha I now have images of grannys in shawls with a 346xp taking off branches.

[timtree81]

yes its what happens ,im in the game and even i will collect timber going begging i had a large beech trunk the other day that the la had left

[born2trot]

Yip , I'm a vulture aswell .

[swinny]

i would be given the opertunity, but it seems everyone has a chainsaw in their pocket and there at the right time lol

 

there is one tree that i walked past the other day and i can only assume that it had shed a limb then was felled...... it was felled into a farmers field, but was on the side of a road on the road side of the fence..... who's tree is it then? the councils, the farmers, or now the farmers as its in his field?

[Stereo]

Welcome to the countryside. Practicality rules. If its not on private land then it's fair game as far as I can see. Good luck to those grannies and may their feet be toasty.

[felixthelogchopper]

Shame to see good firewood go to waste. I try to save 4 inch stuff from the chipper when I'm subbying (with permission, obviously)

[davey_b]

That's the thing, one tree was on a golf course and the other in grounds of an old hospital. Both private land so wouldn't this be classed as theft?

 

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[skyhuck]

That's the thing, one tree was on a golf course and the other in grounds of an old hospital. Both private land so wouldn't this be classed as theft?

 

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Yes it is theft!!!!

 

It belongs to the owner of the land where it grew, regardless of where it falls.