Tree ID help please

[farmer steve]

The bark doesn't look like mulberry we have here but the wood in the cut does. My butcher friend loves it for smoking. Rates right up there with oak in BTU'S. I'll see if I can get a pic of some I have out back.

 

[farmer steve]

First pic is from an older tree and second is a younger tree

 

[old CB]

Actually, the bark doesn't look like how I remember mulberry. (I used to live in Oklahoma.) But the leaf and the yellow wood do. Farmer Steve's pic is mulberry as I remember it.

Just looked and found there is fruitless mulberry (which would rule out the berry drop) and several varieties which could explain the different bark.

What you cut reminds me of something I used to find in Okla., but can't recall what. I lean toward mulberry on the leaf and yellow wood.