New to me wood ID

This guy was dropping limbs and looking rather unhealthy while standing 10' from the shed, so down it came.

What is it? That leaf does not belong to the same tree. I want to call it walnut but have never seen walnuts. I do see these little berry deals on the barren branches. The rings are spaced far apart, I counted 17 or so in the larger rounds.

 

Looks real close to black walnut.

 

+1. Didn't see the branches but those rounds look like the black walnut I split this past summer.

 

The rounds sure look like black walnut but not the branches.

 

Red elm - kind of a funky smell?

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/forestry/iowa_trees/trees/slippery_elm.html

 

Terrible smell, cat pee like

 

I reckon you nailed it Shawn. Good call, very different than the previous Elm I have cut.

 

Sweep's chart has red elm lower than walnut but the other couple charts I look at has it higher than walnut. Personal experience, I'll take red elm hands down over walnut.....good stuff in my opinion

 

Red elm was gonna be my guess too. I had some and the smell was pretty bad as well

Good wood though

 

Elm is very good burning wood. I like the smell of it. That mixed with cherry is great.

Just don't try to use a maul or an Axe to hand split it. Hydraulics are required to split it.

 

Red elm is pretty easy to split. The stuff I had anyways wasn't stringy at all

 

I must have american elm then. Whichever one I have is hell to hand split.

 

Yeah this isn't stringy at all. I use the Fiskars for exercise and hydraulics for the more nasty stuff.

 

I bet that's what you have. Very stringy. I like red/slippery better

 

Our red elm around me is all wind twisted. Only hydros split. Love to burn thou. Getting hard to come buy around me everyone hunts it down to cut and sell in cities.