Any idea on ID of this wood ?

Got a deliver of wood yesterday had this in it, not much. Seems dense. I asked guy what kind it was he paused for a while then after scratching his butt said he thought "Maybe Locust ?" I am in New England, SE Mass.

That is NOT locust. Could be beech or blue beech (bark looks like it- not sure about wood color).
Maybe red maple too.

Young Hackberry? Was it tough to split? Or did it kind of snap once it let go when split.

The inside pic looks a bit like the beechnut we have here, but the bark is smooth not pebbly like that.

Struggle- I'd think that at the size it seems to be (splitting size) it would have hackberry warts already. I thought the same for a few. Hackberry that size is pretty uncommon in MA I think.

Looks like a young white ash tree.

what I was thinkin' too.......

chicken

Oh...The mysterious "ChickenWood" has finally reared it's feathery head!! ;-)

It looks like fire wood to me.

Matt

Definitely not Hackberry. I highly doubt that it's Ash either. Ash of that size would have the diamond shaped furrows.
The wood kind of looks like Boxelder to me. Prolly isn't though.

You guys grow different trees on the east coast. We here in the middle of Gods country keep it a little more simple with less varieties I guess ;-)

Hackberry is the same size everywhere from what I've read. They are medium sized trees. I've never seen one more than 40 ft. tall. You could get a log that size from the trunk of one I think.

Right- but doesn't it have those warts on the bark?

Beech

I'd say beech. The grain looks like ash, but not the bark.

just cut a cord of that. beech

My vote is Hackberry. Although the picture is kind of fuzzy and I've never cut Beech.....

Maybe it's related......some type of son of a beech