to think no one should own land and ignore a sign saying private woods

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Ok o will probably get flamed here.

But there is a badly managed woods near me with am old broken sign that say private woods. Aibu to collect a few broken branches for the wood burner? I know it is stealing, but this woods is overgrown and I'm thinking how unethical it is for anyone to own land.

Land used to all be free, until someone carved it all up to hoard for themselves. If land was still free now maybe we wouldn't have to all be working such stupid hours wasting our lives doing a job we don't like.

I always wonder how people with log burners who scavenge for wood survive.

We get through 3 pick up loads a winter.

But we have a sawmill owning friend so it's all free!

stubborn
You could buy this new wood from the Woodland Trust
search.struttandparker.com/rural/stane-street-five-oaks-west-sussex-rh14/6113%20

And there was me thinking I'd RTFT properly tunip . Never mind, it bears repeating....

Well, the OP has got a serious point (although I think that it could possibly have been expressed better).

Glad someone else thinks so, the vast majority here are calling this a stupid point.

I'd like to see more wood grown as fuel rather than empty fields and for people to use less fosil fules.

Or...get this:

ELECTRIC FIRES

WOW. Bet your mind is blown now op. Of course, it isn't fair that shops sell them, so just go to Argos and put one in your tracksuit. Totally fine obvs.

I thought wood for woodburners had to be seasoned so wood that has fallen this year and sat on the ground wouldn't be suitable anyway.

empty fields = often growing something, or being rested from grazing

op - pick...up...a...book.

Just a quickie.
I haven't read the fred, so hope this hasn't been mentioned...

Do all of you ask the landowner before picking blackberries?

You do it if you have to, Rita. When DS was a baby I was very, very poor, so it was a question of: see a likely looking bit on the side of the road, screech to a halt, leap out, wait for no cars coming, saw it up in haste, chuck it in the back of the van, drive on.....God, and I did actually have a woodshed in the yard of my (rented) house, but there was no access to the back, so I had to carry every bloody branch right through the house. And then wait for DS to have his nap so I could run out the back and saw some up.

stubbornstains I am currently eating my cake as I re-read the history books. This book learning is hard though.

The stag beetle is a globally threatened species, protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, as amended, and listed as a priority species for the UK and London Biodiversity Action Plans

They love to live in dead wood.
So, OP, by stealing your branches from a place which you, personally, have deemed an unsuitable and unmanaged plot, could potentially be harming the habitat of a protected species.

Finding a piece of wood on the roadside by chance is not the same as eyeing somebody's property up and nicking it, because it will do the job.

'empty fields'

what?

do you mean when they are just sort of brown dirt coloured, like when they've been ploughed or drilled or something?

I'll bear that in mind when I achieve oligarch-hood chaz

Wood often seasons well out of doors, especially if it's off the ground. Especially if it's oak, and you get biceps of steel into the bargain too! (oak's very hard).

Do all of you ask the landowner before picking blackberries?
No, because we have our own.
If someone came to pick mine, however, I'd have something to say to them

If they ask, all well and good.

Anyone else?
Do you ask permission before picking blackberries?

Never mind: 'sticking it to the man'.

All you with log burners (burning legal or illegally gained wood)
should read:

Stick Man by Julia Donaldson.

Empty fields! What on earth is an empty field?

How many 'empty fields' do you have round your way, op? There are none round here. That is, they would only look empty at certain times of the year to someone who didn't know how the land was being used or managed.

(There are often good reasons for a vast majority, btw.)

Yeah... what's with 'empty fields'?

Lots of those near us just now. Stubble, new plough. There will be more in a month or so when the cattle are put in the yard.

Seriously, OP, very little land in the UK lies idle. Much of what does appear to be idle is serving an environmental function - scrub (v good for wildlife) or grass for birds and butterflies.

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Will no one think of the little stick children?

Ok, I would say its commonly deemed acceptable to pick blackberries and that many on here do without permission from the landowner.

Yet, technically, they are the property if the landowner.

Is there a difference?

I don't pick them. But if I did want to pick fruit on someone's property, I'd ask, yes.

Permission to go blackberrying?
No, never ask. Think it counts as foraging. Also, many farmers are not fans of brambles, so they're unlikely to complain. If you pinch their firewood, on the other hand...