Sorry for the pic. But this all I've got to go with. A friend of mine just texted this. Wants to know if I'd be interested in it. Have you ever seen Oak with a split base like this? When I blow up the pic it has some resemblance to a oak leave and branches. But the base bark doesn't look right to me .
I have tons of oaks with double and triple split bases but I can't tell what that is from the picture.
Based on the bark and growth characteristics of the tree, and how dark the wood is at the break, I'm gonna guess Siberian elm. I can't make out any leafs in the pic.
That was my first thought too. Just from the break and the damage to the lower of that left trunk. But on the left side of picture the leaves seem bigger than a elm leave and it appears there's some shine/reflection from the limb there. I'll find out on Sunday when I go help them cut it down. If it's elm they can have it. It'll be fun to let the saws work a bit. It's suppose to be nice weather anyways...
Siberian elm isn't too bad if you need wood. It is really wet and heavy as heck, but straight-grained and easy to split. I wouldn't go too far out of my way for it. If I was there already, though, I would at least grab the nice rounds out of the trunk(s).
Plus it dries fairly quick,almost as fast as Silver Maple.In June 2010 I grabbed a load of half dead Siberian off CL.Split it in a few days,by mid November it was down to 17-18% when tested.
Going to burn some Siberian this year. Ours was not straight at all and was the second worst thing I've split. The worst was that cherry tree a couple weeks ago-- that thing spun like a barber pole as it grew!
The stuff I split last fall isn't anywhere near that dry. I will say that it isn't bad considering the water that was in it. Actually, I haven't checked any since I put new batteries in my meter. Hmmm.
Never burnt Siberian Elm, but I've done American Elm and Red Elm. Both of them are decent burners (would do them again), but I've got access to more Siberian Elm is I want. Plus Im probably a good 4 years ahead at this point. I'll just have to wait to Tomorrow to figure out exactly what I've got at my hands. But today its going to be getting the saws ready for tomorrow. Plus, tomorrow, I'm going over to a buddies to cut a few limbs off another tree for him. I'll have to figure what kinda of tree it is, not sure, pics will to come on both.
Well it was Chinese elm/pizz elm/ or Siberian elm what you call it. It was quite a bit bigger than what I figured. I'm just glad I brought my big saw (362) with the 25" bar. I ended up running 3 tanks of gas through it. It was about 2 1/4hrs of play time, and I ended up split my pants out.... It was a good day.
Yessss, a good ID from a chitty pic Siberian elm is proper. Chinese elm is waaayyyyy different, but for some reason people use them interchangeably. A couple of Chinese elm bark pics from google
