There is stump that I've been burning after drilling holes that someone else tried to burn. I am now on the 8th attempt on a museum property.
The key is to get it on the first try. Now I have to dig around it removing the ashes and stack firewood on top and soak it with diesel. They seem to dry up and are very hard to re-light if you let the flame go out. I used and ax to remove the outer chard edges.

Trying again this week end.

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Posted by NYCAuburn

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Posted on 9/8/17 at 7:24 am to OLDBEACHCOMBER

get some air moving on it(fan), make sure you can get a fire going in the center and use charcoal also.

Once it gets going in the inner area with some good coals it should burn for quite some time.

Sometimes stacking wood on top just creates an insulated ash barrier

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Posted by foj1981

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Posted on 9/8/17 at 8:57 am to Ponchy Tiger

Find you a good ol baw with a backhoe. Buy him a six pack and dig that sum bitch up

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Posted by Sidicous

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Posted on 9/8/17 at 10:42 am to zx24

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Following. I have the same question. We had some pine trees cut down two years ago and the the stumps were grinded and the roots and stump area are still raised and visible. I figured they would have rotted and died off by now.

I've still got a couple "stumps" from 100+ year old pines knocked down by a tornado in the 1990's, including 1 stump area that I have been burning brush and dropped limbs over ever since. It's mostly the raised dirt mounds now but there is still a fair amount of wood left. (both were briefly burned over but sometimes the brush piles get too big for the one nearest telephone/power line to the house so just burn over the far one now).

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