Bonnie, we are forbidden to burn anything at all whatsoever in an open fire except charcoal for dinner. When we needed to remove about 5 stumps, we called in a man who used a machine to grind them out. Our local law says that when one contracts to have a tree cut down and removed, that only means down to a 2 ft stump. Penny, NY . ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.