nomak
ArboristSite Operative
Im in southern IN and it looks just like silver maple that I cut earlier in the year..and the main trunk was the hardest wood I had ever split in my life.. I even bogged down a 30 ton splitter with the main trunk wood from it.. now the green smaller diameter branches towards the top split easy as pie but that old growth big rounds seemed to be hard as a rock.. now that its seasoned though it is light as can be sounds like the crack of two wooden baseball bats hitting when you bang them together.. It burns fairly good for maple not alot of coals left behind and the ash isnt that bad either but that bigger old stuff mainly the trunk part of the tree will fight u all the way for some reason.. good luck and dont kill yourself trying to split it by hand.. just a word of advice..been there and rented a splitter to do the job in the end..