Thanks for all the feedback guys. It was a blow down from a recent storm and wasnt that big. Only got two pickup loads out of it. Whatever wood it is it all burns so I'm fine with it.
At this risk of hijacking the thread, but it does seem that a suitable conclusion has been met...
I've always wonder about the roadside "found" wood. I've driven past downed trees that are in anything from just a downed tree that's still intact to sectioned with limbs still on the logs to limbed logs to cut rounds. Heck, I've even driven past stacked rounds and one time I remember there being a stack of about 1/2 a cord of split firewood just 3 feet off the edge of the roadway!
While I'm certain somebody had done a fair amount of work for the split stack, all the others have always left me wondering a bit. It seems to me that the wood must belong to somebody, but is it left there until they can return to retrieve it, or is it for the taking? Not knowing for sure, I've never taken any that I didn't know was there for me to take, but I've often felt I was missing out on a quick free load by doing so.
To me, it seems that if I don't know, I won't take it and if I don't know the landowner, I'm not desperate enough to ask. If I needed the wood, I might ask, but fortunately, I haven't had to yet.
What's the general protocol on this?
