ID this wood...please

So I was thinking this stuff might be sycamore but it is very different from any sycamore I have seen. I was also thinking it might be some sort of ash by the way it was splitting but the bark has me stumped. There is a bunch of this stuff down the street by my house and is free. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is in southern New York on the P.A. Border.

Ok I wasn't going nuts then. Haha thanks guys.

Firefighter938 said:

It looks like sycamore, but any sycamore I have split has been a pain. Definitely not like ash. I suppose there is always an exception.

I would burn a lot more sycamore if it was easier to split. I turn a lot down though because I split by hand.

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Yeah I split all my wood by hand too. So far it wasn't too bad it hasn't been horrible. The 8 lbs. maul has been getting a lot of use.

My father has a sycamore in his front yard that has been shedding the bark since I could remember. It is about 3'-4' in diameter it is a beastly looking tree. The whole thing looks just like 1st picture I posted. Either way it will be a nice scrounge. Thanks guys.

MarylandGuy said:

No other tree out there looks like a sycamore. It's an easy one to id. Oh and around here, it stinks to high heaven when splitting.

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Yeah like moldy mushrooms!