Thank you all.
Are you sure about that? We have a dog door and the dogs free-roam in the back all of the time. If someone removed a fence, especially if we were at work, the dogs would be long gone by the time we could even know the fence was gone.
Did you miss where I both said IANAL and it was my WAG?
No, but I focused on this assumption
If I was going to remove a fence which was purely mine, but upon which my neighbor(s) sorta depended, and I knew they depended, I might well do it without their permission / approval, but I sure wouldn’t do it without advance notice to them.
No reason to be a dick about things. Until / unless they are.
This. It would be incredibly inconsiderate to just tear down a fence one day, when i knew my neighbor was using the fence. I’d let them know as soon as I’d hired the contractor to do it, or picked a date to do the work myself. And if they begged for a reasonable amount of extra time to make arrangements, I’d give it to them.
Sometimes a few minutes of roaming through weeds will reveal a property marker driven in the ground.
I’ve cut off chainlink poles with a reciprocating saw, but a neater solution is digging a hole right next to the concrete base. That let’s you move the pole sideways and, after some wiggling about, pull the pole from the ground. Post hole diggers or a hand auger (depending on the soil) are good tools for deep digging. Ideally you convince a young person to do the digging and pulling.
Not stated in the original question.
As @LSLGuy and @puzzlegal said, it would be inconsiderate at best.
These type of questions would require a lawyer.
If the zombie apocalypse and The Walking Dead have taught us anything, it is that in the future chain link fences will be easy to remove.
The poles can often be removed with a pipe wrench if you don’t mind leaving the concrete in the ground.