mmm log burner and mini engineering porn!

Anyone know the rights (or otherwise) of foraging for logs? I walk my dogs through woods every day, and there’s a ridiculous number of fallen trees which are just left. Frankly, it affronts me that it’s just sitting there when it could be in my woodpile, but I really don’t want to get into legal trouble over a few logs.

There is some rule about how much you can forage – something daft like 20 sq m per year

Anyone know the rights (or otherwise) of foraging for logs? I walk my dogs through woods every day, and there’s a ridiculous number of fallen trees which are just left. Frankly, it affronts me that it’s just sitting there when it could be in my woodpile, but I really don’t want to get into legal trouble over a few logs.

Find out who owns the wood and ask them.

Frankly, it affronts me that it’s just sitting there when it could be in my woodpile, but I really don’t want to get into legal trouble over a few logs.

It may not be just ‘discarded’, but part of the management scheme – dead wood is a very important part of the woodland eco-system. You may not get in to trouble carrying a few logs home by hand….. anything more than that will likely be problematic, depending on ownership/attitude of the land owner.

there’s no right to collect fallen wood.

http://naturenet.net/blogs/index.php/2009/02/08/firewood

Like windfall fruit etc, you can ask the landowner and they may thank you for it, others may be using fallen timber for biodiversity.

Don’t go round collecting resinous woods like yew, pine and cypress; the resin will wreck your flue. Burn hardwoods like ash, oak and beech.

Don’t go round collecting resinous woods like yew, pine and cypress; the resin will wreck your flue. Burn hardwoods like ash, oak and beech.

Trying to burn wet wood knackers the flu. Properly dried softwood is an excellent fuel which burns hot. It will burn quicker than the hardwood, but as long as it is dry it will cause no problems.

Please Please think of the trees.