>>> Hot enough to melt aluminium or glass - no problem.
>>
>> Heh. I had enough trouble trying to burn through a tree stump!
> 
> Most people in my street make fires daily in the winter that are hot 
> enough to burn tree stumps.  You just need to start off with some paper, 
> then thin bits of dry wood, then bigger bits of wood, until it gets hot 
> enough to put on whole pieces of tree.

I wouldn't mind, but this way in the middle of a hot summer drought. The 
wood was dry as hell, the sun is beating down on us, and yet the fire 
keeps going out...

We never did get it to turn in the end. Burned a whole heap of paper and 
cardboard, but the tree never got more than mildly scorched.

>> Now if I had *thermite*... >:-D
> 
> And how do you plan to ignite the thermite?

By remote control from a distance of more than 3 km?

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