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heres a pic of my neighbors brush pile.... wouldn't let me cut anything just pushed it up in a pile to burn.
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heres a pic of my neighbors brush pile.... wouldn't let me cut anything just pushed it up in a pile to burn.
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I wonder if there's more to the story. It's a sad thing, but sometimes a bad apple really can spoil things. I let a neighbor take some treetops from a timber harvest. He was told to take only treetops form a certain area and nothing else (no live standing trees, no dead standing, no blowdowns, no deadfall--only the fresh treetops).
He couldn't resist taking live standing black locust, so now he's not allowed to cut anything on the farm; and I'm reluctant to let anyone I don't know really well cut on the property, either.
he wont he said his insurance wont allow us to cut it on his property....so i said i would drag it across the street to my yard , he still wont. he's a dumb a...
the local air force base cleared a large area and piled the trees up into many burn piles. for a fee of $1 and an air-tight "hold harmless" agreement, i've been cutting off that. similar to your story.AFter most of a year begging, I finally got permission to log off a burned grove by signing a "hold harmless" agreement. You might try that.
Harry K
In PA, they just passed such a law regarding hunting a few years ago, and I always wondered if it covered other activities (firewood cutting, ATV riding, hiking, etc.). The important catch in the PA law is that the landowner must not charge a fee for the hunting privilege if the landowner wants not to be held liable for any mishap.
1) "Recreational use" laws are fairly common, though the details will vary by state.
Connecticut: 2005 Connecticut Code - Connecticut Chapter 925 — Statutory Rights of Action and Defenses (contains Secs. 52-555 to 52-572w) - Connecticut Law - Connecticut Statutes :: Justia -- US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases -- Justia
52-557f through j lay out the protections of the landowner who allows recreational use of their land without charge. Hunting, fishing, hiking, ATVs, snowmobiles, etc all end up falling within this series...basically anything that is "recreational."
52-557k is for firewood...and interestingly extends those protections even to landowners who charge for the firewood (provided it's less then 100 cords/year).
The recreational laws protect the landowner so long as the landowner doesn't do something deliberate to harm the users. The firewood one imposes on the landowner the additional requirement that you warn firewood cutters of any known hazard (although you also get the right to charge).
The following link provides a good generic description of liability if you're not protected by special statutes like the Connecticut one:
Duties Owed By Property Owners And Possessors
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As to the original poster, I do have to scratch my head and remember that you posted a few days ago that you've already lost two hedgerows to other folks because you didn't have time to get to them quick enough.
If I'm a farmer and I want the hedgerow gone, in my neck of the woods which I don't think is much different from Ohio, I only have a few weeks left that I can get it bulldozed and burned. By March 15th we'd be into mud season and high fire danger days too often.
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