some locust

Looks like maple to me...

 

I'm seeing Norway maple myself. Dries fast and burns longer than red maple, but not quite as many BTU's as sugar maple.

 

okay. I've never seen maple this white.
But I see in some tables it's slightly below sugar maple indeed. (and sugar maple seems to be close to red oak)
That's good for a year when I'll have a boatload of locust; makes it likely easier to start the fire by adding some maple.

 

Norway maple. Comparable to ash in terms of btu's, splitablity (is that a word) and drying time. It is the lightest colored maple IME.

 

One more pic that better represents how it looks. One split on black locust.

 

Just looking at that split, it reminds me of silver maple

 

yeah, that is what I was thinking now too.The bark looks different though.

I have some silver maple here and that bark is more flaky. This is not at all flaky. The bark does (indeed) look like norway maple.

 

Do you have any Norway maple in your area Dave?

 

Yah

 

Agreed. Taking a break from cutting up my first batch of locust, just looking at the logs I noticed one of the butts was shaped just like a footprint. A big footprint, no defined toes. Sasquatch wearing socks. Cut a bunch up and gave them to my sister for her garden.
Couple years later I spied a butt that looked like the pad of a dog print. Gave them to a female friend who sold crafts. Opined if she went to the beach in RI and picked up a bunch of toes she could either use them or sell them as a kit to make big dog prints in a garden. Not sure if she ever saw/understood my vision