another wood id question

[kjahnz]

So, I have been splitting wood that didn't get split last year. Some of this stuff has been bucked for three years, and I can't remember where it came from. Ash elm and red maple are what make up the majority of what I burn. This one looks a bit different, any ideas?
The weight and tighter than normal ash, growth rings, are throwing me off. Maybe it is ash, I'm just not sure. Thanks.

 

[nrford]

Ash.

 

[kjahnz]

Thanks again, nrford.

 

[Razo]

Because it slightly weathered from being bucked for so long it is kind of throwing me off but I think it looks like sassafras. Chop a fresh split and shove it right up to you nose, see if you get a fragrant, almost medicinal smell. The end grain is what really registered as sass in my mind. And you can kind of see a faint orange under the outermost bark that has faded. It would be brighter orange on a fresh tree that hadn't been sitting in rounds.

 

[Woody Stover]

Because it slightly weathered from being bucked for so long it is kind of throwing me off but I think it looks like sassafras.

Sass would be very orange wherever the bark is chipped. But yeah, the bark has bigger, deeper furrows than what I'm used to seeing.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Ash for sure....good stuff.

 

[kjahnz]

The smell test says ash, last fall I tried to discribe what ash smelled like to me. This has a smell, that I will categorize from now on, as ash. I quess the only other wood close to me is boxelder and buckthorn, if that can really be called wood.