A split or two could maybe help too. Looking like white oak is a good possibility.
If that tree isn't maple, i'd eat it -
Come to my house, I'll show you a forest full. Look at the gray bark in the top picture bottom right corner. The logs that he's standing against might be Maple, but not beechI've never seen beech, blighted or not with a bark as rough as those pics.
I didn't think about the smell of white oak but you are definitely right. I had some logged on my property and you really can smell it from way off.With no leaves to go by, i'm going to say sugar maple - Any of the oaks, especially white have a pungent smell from 1/4 mile away, can't miss it. The close up shot of where you're sitting, the bark, the cut off limb, sugar maple.
sugar maple in that album
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