What have we got here?

[MRD1985]

Not at this time, I might be able to get one tomorrow.

 

[MRD1985]

Could it be dogwood ? I feel like the bark texture would be a good match for a mature tree, but darker

 

[bigealta]

That would be the biggest dogwood tree in history.

 

[shortys7777]

It could be sassafras. I had something similar a couple years ago in RI and looked it up on my plant net app and posted it on reddit. Few responses were sassafras.

 

[bigealta]

Almost sure it's not sassafras. I'm burning some right now.

 

[stoveliker]

I think he may have been referring to the pic in post 42.

 

[bigealta]

The big one in post 42 is Cherry. They milled it.

 

[stoveliker]

The big one in post 42 is Cherry. They milled it.

Okay. Yet I could see how that bark could be thought of as sassafras (at least for what I've worked with).
Burning will be very different tho.

 

[MRD1985]

It doesn’t look like the sassafras I’ve seen, but I’ve never burned any. The wood smells very different than anything I’ve split before. Not sure what it is still. Cherry usually has a pleasant aroma. This wood really doesn’t

 

[bigealta]

sassafras smells like root beer.

 

[stoveliker]

...which can be bad or pleasant depending on your preference

 

[Dieselhead]

I prefer birch beer.

 

[MRD1985]

Black birch smells like root beer too. This doesn’t smell like root beer to me

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

Black birch smells like root beer too. This doesn’t smell like root beer to me

I grew up in SE Ohio, SW Indiana. There was lots of sassafras growing on my grandma's farm in Milan, Indiana. Agreed on the black birch smelling like root beer.

Sassafras (I had to look it up, cause I'm a guy who smells chili, beer and bourbon!) the bark smell something like cinnamon. Take a knife tip and scrape the bark and then the wood, see if you pick up any smell.