Hello All,

It's been a while since I've been on these boards. I hope everyone is doing well.

A friend of mine has a tree close to his deck which has been lopped down to a very tall stump. The tall stump is still attached to the earth, and most people would create a carving out it.

He wants to turn it into a light fixture and in doing so he needs to bore a 3" hole 3 feet deep into this stump which is in the vertical position. The hole will accept a galvanized pole used to anchor the actual lighted portion to the rest of the stump. The actual lighted portion description is below

The lighted portion will be made using 4" cutoffs (disks) from the stump. The assembly of disks will be about 8-9 feet and will have an led flourescent style bulb in the center. This assembly will be mounted to the stump via the 3" pipe sunk into the hole he is gonna bore.

So.....if you had to drill 3 feet deep into a stump from the top heading to the bottom and the hole is 3" wide.......how would you do it??

Thanks in advance

George