I'm not gonna be cuttin on somebodys land that i didn't get approval. It's not like their gonna hear the saw anyway especially if their close enough to see you. I see what your sayin though, Just get approval and you don't have to worry about it.
I am cutting on my own land in my own backyard.
Point is the town has some real stupid codes that requires you to get a permit to cut trees if it's more than 9" circumference.
I had to get a permit to cut 3 trees down. And still got confronted by the bad neighbor about it.
Told him to get off my land and if he got problems, go and call the authorites.
2 times I had to stop work because the neighbor stood outside starring at me and was too close to my backyard property line when I was felling the biggest tree on that day (top of tree fell about a foot to two from the property line). The other time was cutting the 2 smaller trees and the police showed up over a complaint call and I showed them a copy of the permit and off they left with no further problems.