Claiming Abandon Logging Equipment In PA

I am looking at buying them as soon as I can figure out the legal "stuff"

RLS, correct me if i'm wrong but i'm taking it that the equipment is sitting on a piece of real estate someone purchased and they are not the original owner of the equipment?

Havent looked into the laws, but id presume the property owner would be able to give permission.

be very careful in P.A. They are weird about laws. They like to nail people with fines for stuff. Say even though you legally purchase this stuff. make sure you don't break any small laws like, destroying the natural habitat of whatever. or affecting the natural flow of a. waterway. even if it is. little tiny stream. people up here are nosy, like to call the cops, and cops like to write tickets. good luck with it.

Mine, mine, all mine!

Lot of rusty junk setting around in Pa.

If you're on conversational basis with the local magistrate or one of the locals might want to bring it up.

Ownership is probably the property owners after a certain time period...I think with vehicles it's 2 years in some places, but with heavy machinery like an old dozer or pay loader it might be longer, also might need a permit or something signed to remove it so that you're in the clear.

Here is what I have done so far ...
1: I contacted the PA State Police - they said that I need to contact the DMV
2: I than contacted thee PA Department of Motor Vehicles - they said they do not deal with heavy machinery that is not driven on public roads.
3: I than contacted the PA Department of Environmental Protection - they said that they can do nothing unless it is leaking toxic material into the environment.

my advice to you would be to contact a local tow yard , ask them what process they go through to get titles for cars they get stuck with....you may want to contact a tow yard that deals in semi trucks and large items..in my state after the owner makes no effort to pay for so many days, the tow company can get a title to the cars for storage fees....i would assume the owner of the property could do something like this where you are at.....also if they are on private property the owner of the equipment may not be able to give you permission by his self...the land owner may have a claim of some sort...i would contact them both if possible...if you cant reach both then you at least need to talk to the land owner

i came across several semi trailers one time when i was four wheeler riding on a friends land...they had been left there by a logging or mining outfit years ago....i was able to contact the owner through the license plates on the trailer...the phone bill cost me around 25 dollars because they were out of state and this was before everyone had free long distance.....
the best thing about it was, once i got a hold of the owner the first thing he asked me was," well son i know they need moved but how much will you charge me to do it". i said well sir i think 50 dollars a day for labor and you pay the fuel cost would be fair..he said that sounds great...of course short iron was only around 4 to 5 dollars per hundred back then but i still came out good..
i cant remember what i made but i know it was a good little score...i was able to sell most of the tires off them, and i burned the wood on the spot..not to mention i got reimbursed for all my gasoline and torch fuel via money order a few weeks after the deal was done

i know some people who got in some trouble with that kind of stuff. I asked some local people around me, and they told me it can go either way. If the equipment was purchased by a company no longer in use, then who ever's land it sits on, owns it. Its kind of like buying a camper, if some people used the camper before and left some valuable items in it and they sold it, the people who now own it own whatever was inside. BUT, id ask possibly near by law enforcement, etc.

Hope you get that stuff!

Up in the mountains, there's some old OLD logging equipment abandoned from when they were cutting down the old growth. All that really old equipment is considered relics and is illegal to remove. It's a shame that people do steal that and old mining equipment too. That's history they're throwing away. I for one enjoy seeing that stuff out in the woods but never take anything other than pictures.