I've run into a few people that after listening to them babble I say yep "they've been everywhere and seen everything at least once"
Ridiculous Timberwolf couldn’t split through center of trunk piece, even without fourway on. Had to work around edge, and even then splitter struggled.
When I saw the picture at first I thought perhaps it was something crossed with sycamore. Maybe a cross between sycamore and elm and osage.
Other funny thing which I should have taken a picture of, was that is the entire trunk in the picture. Right above that it went into like 20 straight up limbs like 3-6 inch diameter. Like an upside down broom shape.
Aliens, There out there.... Beware of strange sounding tree's.... .... It's wood dammit! CSS and burn accordingly Nice haul! Although, if it's in the Elm family, Have fun with the splitting side of that!