wood ID Please

[Mad Max]

I hit this with the lawn mower next to a Antique store , they do have some odd pieces of wood laying around.
It's 9" long x 1-1/4 Round and weights 10 oz, it's very heavy for the size.
My fathers business was making Pull down folding attic ladders, we always had fat pine to start our fires but this is not pine.
It's very sappy not sticky and is very  fragrant and has close rings.
I don't think it is Sassafras ?

[Pat B]

Mark, that looks like a fat lighter faggot, basically where a limb connects to the trunk with all the sapwood rotted off. See if you can light the piece that was chopped off. It should light easily and smoke pretty heavily. Faggots were used for torches.

[Mad Max]

Yeah that was the first thing I did, lit right up and started spitting and black smoke

[Pat B]

It from either a long leaf yellow pine or Loblolly pine, them big old pines we used to have around the south.