On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:51:20 -0500, Rusty Mase opined:

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

How do you get the fire started? This sounds like a good idea.