Right around the corner from me is a downed cherry. Its from a small wooded lot (normal size city lot here 75 ft×200) but fell across the sidewalk. Not sure who it belongs to to get permission to cut it up. Thinking of just doing it without asking since its been blocking the sidewalk for more than 2 wks. This is a fairly urban area so there's 0 chance of being covert about it Any ideas on trying to get permission or not?
Man just as soon as you do, an “owner” is going to claim you cut up their valuable cherry tree they had plans for.
Exactly. Maybe try the ol' buZZsaw BRAD trick and wear a high viz safety vest and put a cone or 3 out. If your lol like you're supposed to be there, they'll probably never even notice.
In this case and most id try to get permission, but i feel you hoarding pain. That tree laying there waiting for you to it. There was a MAJOR discussion on this on a now deleted thread a few weeks back.
Check with the local twp or village to find the owner & get permission. If it's blocking a sidewalk you have leverage, the local tax authority will charge them to remove it & you won't.
Check out your county website for a GIS mapper. Like google earth but with property lines and owner info.
I found this car parked in the street and I don’t know who the owner is. Can I just take it? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I tried that and our county plot maps are not user friendly. They're not in order. Found the map next to the pne I need but the adjacent pages aren't the adjacent map'.
Ask whatever municipality you're in. Of all the times I have asked over the decades of scrounging, I can not remember a single instance where I was refused. And if you don't get it, c'est la vie ! Its only one easy convenient highly desirable tree....they're growing more everyday!
You're saying you have always asked the muni or found the owner to ask? Batting 1000, you've got me curious.
Someone did that here back a few years ago. Property owner has a privately owned logging company/logging yard and quite a bit of land to harvest trees from. A scrounger was on one of the owners old logging sites grabbing what he could when the owner drove up. He had to unload all of his truck and leave with the warning that next time would be costly.
Given that it is real property with a serial number, public accessible ownership history and documentation and quite possibly tax liens that the current possessor may or not be liable for, probably not a good idea.
