Red is right. Cut some skids that just smell straigh poopiepuke. Cutting into it now I know I sympathize your nose.
Looks like a mulberry to me. Both leaves and fruit in the closeup view of the leaves are shouting mulberry.
I always hated the smell of cut Ash. Now the insane part was, I once floored my house with Ash. I have no idea why. I can relate to lifting piles of boards on the wrong end of a sawmill. We have always had sawmills kicking around (yes that was plural) and growing up I spent my time stacking lumber too. Now that I have kids, I have no idea WHY my parents allowed me to work around such dangerous stuff. One of the reasons I knock all the nubs off my saw logs is, when I was a kid a stub branch was hit by the saw and flew into my head and it hurt. A stack of piled lumber toppled over on my 9 year old sister and nearly killed her, and my 5th grade teacher said I was "a good kid, but lied." When my Mom said I was honest to a fault, the teacher said I talked about driving bulldozers! My Mom was like, "He does!". I got my first moving violation at age 9...driving a bulldozer across paved way. What kind of Deputy pulls a kid over for that? Only in rural Maine where crime is low I guess.
Hating the smell of ash? I find that amazing. Driving the dozer at that age does not seem all that unusual except if you were born and raised in the city.
Mulberry. There's one growing at my sister's house - the fruits are delicious. If you cut into it, the chips will come out sort of a burnt orange color. I cut down a wind damaged one at Backwood Savage's GTG last weekend in order to clear a trail back to some larger logs we planned to skid out. I thought it was an ash until I saw the orange chips. I've never burned any myself but I'm told it's excellent firewood, and good for the smoker as well.
The second set of pics he posted shows the fruits. That's an unripened mulberry. 100% final answer, you can take it to the bank. [EDIT] The leaves do show some lobes, they just look at little "lazy" on this tree.
Imagine all the orange chips I got when this one came down along my back fence. It was literally pushing the top rail out of line until I got a bit stern with it.
Yep, I even hate cutting it in the woods on account of the smell, but unfortunately I have a lot of it, and with the Emerald Ash Borer coming, they got to come down.
