Wood gloat and some help

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My neighbor came over yesterday with a front end loaded filled with some logs.. he had 8 logs in the loader and wanted to know if I wanted them... he didn't know what the wood was as it was some that came from an electric company clearing... it's been cut about 2 years and most of the bark is gone... it looks like it may be old growth as the grain is very tight and on the one piece we cut to see the inside there is the beginning of some spalting.

Any help on the wood?? The neighbor said it was what they make cabinets from, which opens a lot of possibilities...

The last picture is the saw dust from the log we split... it looks like cherry, but unless because of it's age it no longer has any smell, it didn't smell like cherry... actually didn't have much of any smell.
 

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Get us a nice clean profile of the grain pattern... :)

End grain as well as cross grain ... that will help a ton in identifying any species.
 
After some research and also a suggestion from another forum, thinking this may be sugar maple or another name is hard maple...

Might have a winner, there ...

How hard is the wood?

I can see that it's a closed grain wood, which maple is one of ... the color is a bit more orange than I'm used to for maple, but this has been sitting around for 2 years.
 
I have some old growth Cherry limb drops that I got from my father over 5 years ago and they still smell like Cherry when I cut them.
Could be Ash since you are around Tennessee.
 
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