Maybe I can dip the saw into a little tonight if the weather holds off; I don't want to tear up their lawn driving the truck/trailer back but perhaps I could tip-toe back on foot and cut some up in the wet stuff? Hey Senatormofo, you are not too far away, I woudn't be surprised if we cross paths someday scrounging. Thanks again for the clarification, the wood ID sites on the web only give you so much info but the real experience here is awesome! I am still a newbie but a willing learner. 
Thanks for all the replies guys! Seems like we might have some (White) Ash here? I have read many good words about ash on this site so I am excited to finally get a chance to work with it. The bark looks very similar to red oak to me in the pictures and hopefully this ash cuts and splits just as easy.
Maybe I will try to split a few manually and see how it pops, I know what you mean on certain types of wood (chestnut oak for me) split as soon as the wedge touches it and sure speeds up the splits versus the hickory which wasn't too tuff but the stringy stuff required you to run the wedge all the way through the wood and our splitter has a slow cycle time (never realized it before).
