What did I score?

Grabbed a couple of sticks of this stuff, cuttings from the power company. There's tons more of it, any ideas on species?

 

Black locust, excellent grab!

 

Grab all you can and provide pictures. You’re close to hero status, don’t mess this up

 

Looks like black locust, but the leaves don't. Are the leaves in the pics from the same logs CutSplitStack ? Buck a bigger round and split it. BL should split clean, elm will be stringy.

If it is indeed BL you done good. Id be camping out by it until it's home.

 

Im not 100% convinced its BL. Could it be red elm?

 

Good catch. It’s Siberian elm. Small leaves.

 

X2 this is what I came up with

 

From BL to elm, hero to zero?

 

It'll burn !!!

 

Haha, thanks everyone. I figured I'd get some excitement out of this! Yep, it is Siberian Elm, the crew cutting for the power company ID'd it when they were dropping it. But there is a bunch, and it does seem to split very easily. So decent BTUs and runs thru the SuperSplit no problem, I think I'll be grabbing a few trailer loads. No need for the hero label, but definitely not a zero score!

 

No Elm that I’ve ever seen splits very easy!!

I thought it looked like highly valuably black walnut!

 

The best way to process elm is to cut it into rounds and leave it sit for a few months. Then split with the growth rings. Not across the center of the round.

 

Siberian Elm 100% it splits way easier than any other elm. I used to get a bunch of it for how wet it usually is it dries pretty quick. The bark peels off bigger pieces rather easily too.

 

Without leaves present, is there an easy way to differentiate elm varieties? Not one of the species I'm good at IDing.

 

You can peel off a piece of the bark and look at the cross section. If the bark has alternating layers of creamy white and reddish-brown then it's American Elm.

 

That green lichen on the bark in the second pic is a dead give away for Siberian elm around here. Big patches on the trunk bark.