Tree ID (leaf pic included)

[SawDawg]

I'm guessing this is elm. If so, any idea what type of elm?

There use to be a house next to the tree, so it could have been specially planted.
I've never noticed any nuts, fruit, pods, etc on it.

A land developer is going to take it down and leave it on my property for me to harvest firewood from.

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[johneh]

Looks to me like an American Elm.
Is the back of the leaf sort of fuzzy ?

 

[SawDawg]

Looks to me like an American Elm.
Is the back of the leaf sort of fuzzy ?

The branches start too high up for me to reach. I was impressed my point-n-shoot camera got that good of a leaf pic from the distance I took from.

 

[barmstrong2]

Elm. Have fun.

 

[SawDawg]

Ugh. I was afraid of that. I may just leave it in rounds and burn when camping.

 

[Wood Duck]

Elm, I'd say American Elm. With that nice, branchless trunk I think it will split pretty easily. Elm is good firewood so I'd do the work and split it.

 

[SawDawg]

Elm, I'd say American Elm. With that nice, branchless trunk I think it will split pretty easily. Elm is good firewood so I'd do the work and split it.

Even by hand? I've never dealt with Elm, but I know it can be a challenge.
Maybe I will rent a hydraulic splitter if I get enough wood this year to justify it.

 

[ElmBurner]

If you cut the rounds short, you can split anything by hand.

I split up a barely dead elm last winter by cutting it into 12" rounds and peeling chunks off the outside with my Fiskars.

You can just run the wood N/S (meaning front to back) in your fireplace or stove, so it all works out.

 

[SawDawg]

^^Appropriate username for this thread, lol.

Thanks for the tips, guys. I shall tackle this mighty beast after all. At least I know it can be killed with fire.

 

[barmstrong2]

I have a picture of a piece of elm I split this summer. I don't know how took post it with my phone, but, when I get home, I'll share it here.

 

[claydogg84]

Bark is wrong for American Elm.

 

[SawDawg]

Bark is wrong for American Elm.

Are you thinking it's a different species of Elm? or something different altogether?

 

[claydogg84]

Are you thinking it's a different species of Elm? or something different altogether?

Just a different variety. I dealt with a ton of American Elm my first 2 years burning but none of the other varieties.

 

[porkchopexpress]

Siberian elm perhaps

 

[barmstrong2]

I have a picture of a piece of elm I split this summer. I don't know how took post it with my phone, but, when I get home, I'll share it here.

Elm... "Split" with a 27 Ton splitter.

 

[jotul?]

I had one log of that stuff in the log truck of wood I purchased last winter and I couldn't believe how it fought the splitter. How does it burn?

 

[barmstrong2]

It burns OK after its dry. I got into a bunch of it this spring roadside. I split it in August and its in the 2017-18 pile. It'll be good firewood and I never complain about free wood. It all went in the hydro pile, though. Didn't even try to split it by hand. A maul just bounces off it.

 

[mark cline]

Looks to me like an American Elm.
Is the back of the leaf sort of fuzzy ?

With a side order of poison ivy, it looks like.

 

[SawDawg]

I have a lot of trees to clear on my land this year. I don't believe there is a single one without poison of some sort. Not going to be fun. Stupid vines.

 

[CincyBurner]

Leaves, buds and particularly bark look right for Siberian elm.

 

[Applesister]

The leaf buds have that rounded, dark, fat, fuzzy look of Red Elm. Which splits way nicer than its cousins.

 

[Applesister]

Um...why are they cutting it?

 

[SawDawg]

Applesister, I hope you are correct about it being an easier splitting Elm.

The land developer is placing an office building on this lot. This tree sits directly in the middle of the lot. It also looks like it's diseased....a few branches are dead and the trunk is split on one side.