Tree identification help(new pic)

[Pat B]

Not locust. Very likely mulberry.

[TroutGuide]

I'm guessing locust but the thornless kind honey or black whitchever does not have thorns never can remenber.

[Pat B]

The buds don't look like honey locust and definately not black locust. They look very much like the mulberry in my tree book.

[Don Stokes]

Both honey locust and black locust have thorns. Honey locust has long, branched thorns and black locust has pairs of thorns at the leaf bases. The thornless locust is a greenhouse cultivar that doesn't grow wild.

Ash has opposite branches and these are alternate, so it's not ash.

[okie64]

Anybody who said mulberry was right. I took a piece of this wood to my uncle who works for a timber company and he said it was white mulberry. Actually he called it by its genus name first and when I looked at him like he was an idiot he said the common name for it is white mulberry. My grandpa called it paper mulberry. Its always amusing listening to the two of them argue over tree names, my uncle calls them by their proper names and my grandpa calls them by whatever he was taught to call them 60 years ago.