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

[H. L. Staples]

 Just think only 10.5 months till Portland 2005

H. L. 
 

 
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