[AT] 100 year old stumps are nasty (burning)

[Larry & Barb Dotson]

George,
Funny you should mention the vacuum sweeper as an assist to starting 
/burning a fire. At our "end of the year show" at Xenia
this year I found 2 little torpedo type car vacuum sweepers. One was 12 
volt and one 120 volt. Gary, Gene and I  rigged them with steel pipe on 
the exhaust end and ran the pipe through the side of my stainless steel 
shop vac that serves as my fire place. With the vacuum, turned blower, 
we were able to bring a bed of coals to life and a flaming inferno in a 
matter of seconds. We could actually use it as a forge if we needed to. 
Both units are now stowed away in the motor home and we can use either 
12 or
120 volt blower depending on the available power supply at the site to 
build a proper Dotson fire.

Larry Dotson