On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:10:37 -0500, "John T. Jarrett"
wrote:

What DID work was building a small charcoal fire on top of them.

A variant of this is to use a metal container with the bottom removed
and air holes added to the bottom of the sides. I used a five-gallon
metal paint can for several stumps in the 8-10" diameter range and it
worked - just slowly. You can use a piece of sheet metal to partially
cover the top of the metal container to control the rate of burn.

Rusty Mase