help identify this tree!

[svk]

after I spent the morning figuring out why my splitter wouldn't run, I went back to my firewood woods to cut on that tree ided as ash. Splitting is somewhat different. I guess I am questioning the species. It is kinda cross grained. Seems light. I usually cut oak or hickory and that is some heavy wood but it is all I have to compare it to. I may be wrong completely, I just don't want to cut some wood and it turns out to not being good, or something comparable to oak as it is plentiful. What do yall hink?

Thanks

I've never come across ash that's really stringy like that (I know others have) but the bark is hard to argue with. And the pieces near the roots are always more difficult to split.