NW Arkansas. Pretty sure it's a hickory of some kind. It's been laying on the ground for years but harder than the hubs of...........a wooden wagon wheel.

locust

Here Hickory rots fast if its on the ground, to make it last cut it green and dry it. the grain looks like yellow pine but not a good enough picture

Locust would be my guess also.

Not pine. Black Locust maybe. Def not honey locust

Maybe mulberry

Locust is my guess also

Ever have American Chestnut down there?

Zim

Firewood

The end grain has a very distinctive look to it. I'd guess black locust. Someone needs to cut down a black locust for comparison.

Go right in my wood boiler
Just the right size..

Ain't hickory, hickory has very little rot resistance and while tough isn't particularly known as hard. It has more spring to it and splits easily.

What you describe sounds more like black locust or possibly red mulberry. I can't tell from the photos though they look more locust than mulberry.

Black locust. Guys that have to use that instead of osage orange for fence posts like to cut it green, then lay it on the ground for a year or so, after which the bark will loosen up and can be knocked off. After that, it gets rock hard and will love you long time (as a fence post). My blackberry trellis posts are black locust.

BTW, went burnt as firewood, doesn't smell nice like hickory or oak but has same or more btu value.

Locust with a hole,
Mulberry

You'll like that locust as a fence post until you have to drive a staple into one.

Nope. I know mulberry and haven't seen it here. We'll go with black Locust. That only makes sense. It's in Nebraska and is my favorite of all time.

It is a nice footwarmer.

Argh