burning the center out of a tree

[gwjd]

hi all well here is the story im a engineering student and the Missouri university of MO (UMR) and we have a large st pats celebration every year, and all the various organizations have various contest and games one of which is carving cedar trees with the roots attached with a design. the tree we are looking to get will be about 12-15 inch in diameter and we must burn the bottom/ center out I know how to pull it out been there done that bought the t shirt, however as far as the burning of the center out I’m looking for ideas about how to do it. I know it’s not directly tractor related but we are using one to pull it out.

I apologize for my spelling and grammatical errors and I was very wreak less in my post normally I would edit more.

 

[studor]

Is English your first language? Has your particular university dropped the requirement to be able to spell and write?

 

[NSBound]

Man that's tough reading, a 118-word sentence with 21 spelling mistakes! Sorry, no info here on burning centres out of trees, although I did set the centre of a tree stump on fire once with a flying ember from a bonfire and had trouble putting it out. I had to keep packing snow down the trunk and after about 2 hours it finally went out.

 

[glc24]

Is English your first language? Has your particular university dropped the requirement to be able to spell and write?

DITTO

 

[Trails2004]

You know english is a second language---where have you been

 

[beenthere]

Shouldn't poke fun, but that post from an engineering student doesn't speak highly of the UMR.
Use to be a joke about "I ***'d ta colleg and culdn't spell engunier, n now i R one?"


So, if I read your post right, how much of the center needs to be burned out? Thinking you want to burn out a short log so the outside is carved and the inside is burning (or at least hollow). If so, would have to first drill a hole through the center to get air to any fire. Might look for a cedar log rotten in the center and poke it out (or drill it).

And if you answer, please no typo's. That was a disappointing post from a college student, to say the least.

 

[kennyd]

The future of America

 

[Egon]

Get youself a tiger torch and a steel poker. Heat the poker red hot and apply to wood. Remove charred wood and repeat process.

 

[texasjohn]

GWJD, don't think I'm piling on.... one of the key functions of TBN is to provide sound advice to folks. I'm trying to do this.

I was a hiring manager for a large company. I only looked at resumes for professional college hires.

Once I walked into a room with several tables, each piled high with resumes.

Engineers on one table, computer science on another, etc. ...Probably 150 or so on each table.

Having been well schooled in fairness, equal opportunity, etc, I vowed to myself to look at each resume and find the most qualified. I was seeking about 8 hires at the time. (Different times from now). Each of these resumes had been screened so that only GPA's of 3.0 or better were available... prime candidates.

Faced with this vast number of candidates, I quickly developed my own screening criteria. A professional in my organization and reporting to me was required to write intelligent reports, make presentations, perform careful analysis, pay attention to detail. Thus, if I perceived that ANY of these characteristics were lacking in the resume, I immediately discarded it.

Thus, poor spelling, sentence structure, punctuation, organization, phrasing, grammar, or layout each became cause to discard a person's many years of educational effort and expense. Would you believe that from this elite pool of candidates I summarily dispatched approximately 30% of the resumes? There were plenty yet remaining to choose from.

I've read each of your 20 posts on TBN so far. Each fail my criteria.

I can only hope that you understand what I am saying (note that numerous other TBNers are also indicating this weakness based just on one post) and will seek to correct this before graduating. Else your job search and subsequent on job performance will be at an extreme disadvantage compared to those students who are careful and correct in their usage of the English language.

 

[dex3361]

A new TBN meber and he has been sumarily shredded. Only one response was a solution to the question. I have worked for engineers that are great at writing reports and not much else. So stay fucused on the task at hand and answer the question, he asked for help.