Wood ID (Red Maple?)

[jpl1nh]

I'd say red maple. We have tons of that around here and the bark is variable from tree to tree, quite rough down below tending to smoother up above. Sugar maple as shown in this pic, tends to start to have a "peely" characteristic to the bark as it gets older

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

I was going to say, try stabbing with a MC meter or something. The pins will go in pretty easily with moderate force in red maple, hard maple you will have apply a lot more force.

For me it was just as easy to stab red maple as cottonwood.

It's essentially a ghetto hardness test.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

Your big rounds look like sugar maple. The split looks like red maple to me. I'm not much good at photos. While I like oak much better than maple, red is pretty good. To me, significantly better than silver maple. I always take red maple, never take silver.