Good thing I live in the sticks, set off a monster boom at midnight.

[Grumpy]

Touched off a 5 lb can of Tannerite at midnight, dang it was loud.  Lit the woods up behind the house. Cannot buy that stuff at the fireworks stand.  

[alph]

a condom filled of acetylene is REALLY loud also!  you can get that at any welding supply store!!  (well, not the condoms……)

[Jess from VA]

I have a neighbor a couple houses down who is a fireworks nut (3-time Iraq/Afghanistan vet). He gets the real McCoy rockets like in regular commercial fireworks displays. Bunches of them.  Also, he's got like 27 kids (they may not all be his).  LOL

With all the leaves down, I have discovered that if I sit in front of one open window in my upstairs study with a big glass of scotch and cigar, I get a great view of his show.   

[Skinhead]

a condom filled of acetylene is REALLY loud also!  you can get that at any welding supply store!!  (well, not the condoms……)

Depends on which welding supply store you shop at.  I believe the full service shops carry them.  You know, one stop shopping and all.

[Jeff K]

a condom filled of acetylene is REALLY loud also!  you can get that at any welding supply store!!  (well, not the condoms……)

When I was younger I taught a guy at work how to make acetylene bombs with a small milk carton. He used to sleep on a top shelf behind the paint cans, I thought it was a novel way to wake him. 

He decided to try his hand at it and make bigger and bigger ones. He found a roll of tubular plastic film, about 8" in diameter and as long as you wanted it. His latest creation was about 8 feet long. He tied the ends in knots and  soaked a rag in WD40 for a fuse. When I saw his creation I decided it was a good time to head out up the road for lunch. 
He took it into an old warehouse that we had, it used to be a car dealership.
When I got back back from lunch I got to witness the aftermath. When it went off it blew all the windows out of the building and scorched the ceiling. Lucky for him the front store windows had been boarded up or the glass would have flown out into Main Street. And he obviously had the mixture wrong, because the building was still standing.

The panic in his eyes was priceless. He begged for me to help replace windows, I opted to continue my innocence in the matter.
He didn't get fired, he was "family", in fact nothing was said for years.

[R J]

Many years ago when I was younger and stupid, I loaded an old tree stump with dy-min-ite.     Had one of those raise the handle and push it down it set it off.

All I will say is I had enough dy-min-ite in there to take down a huge building.

It left a hole big enough and deep enough to park a Jeep in.   They found pieces that they think belong to that stump about a 1/4 of a mile away.

Stump was gone as Grandpa wished, but this poor young lad didn't set down to eat for about a month.   Had to sleep on my tummy with nuttin covering my rump.   Dat sum beech was raw from Grandpa razor strap.    Guess what, never attempted that sheet again.   Grandpa did give me some lessons on how much dy-min-ite to use and a few other safety items.

Ya know, now I see why my parents and Grand parents always said that kid will never live to see 21..........   Wow, I guess I must have learned fast, or got tired of the Southern Ass-Whompins I used to get on a regular basis for some of my stupid antics..

[R J]

Have ya ever saw an oxygen tank take off at about 5G's when ya open the nozzle and light it.   It has to be a straight nozzle directly in line with the tank.

PS:  It will go clean through a wall at take off, taking anything in it with the tank.  Done that once and never got an ass whompin for it, but my Uncle Kenny (RIP Buddy) sure got his worked over for telling me to do it and I trusted him then.

Grandpa had a lot of these tanks setting around in the Blacksmith shop.

[T.P.]

a condom filled of acetylene is REALLY loud also!  you can get that at any welding supply store!!  (well, not the condoms……)

Depends on which welding supply store you shop at.  I believe the full service shops carry them.  You know, one stop shopping and all.

What if the guy who owns the shop's name is "DICK"

[Grumpy]

Many years ago when I was younger and stupid, I loaded an old tree stump with dy-min-ite.     Had one of those raise the handle and push it down it set it off.

All I will say is I had enough dy-min-ite in there to take down a huge building.

It left a hole big enough and deep enough to park a Jeep in.   They found pieces that they think belong to that stump about a 1/4 of a mile away.

Stump was gone as Grandpa wished, but this poor young lad didn't set down to eat for about a month.   Had to sleep on my tummy with nuttin covering my rump.   Dat sum beech was raw from Grandpa razor strap.    Guess what, never attempted that sheet again.   Grandpa did give me some lessons on how much dy-min-ite to use and a few other safety items.

Ya know, now I see why my parents and Grand parents always said that kid will never live to see 21..........   Wow, I guess I must have learned fast, or got tired of the Southern Ass-Whompins I used to get on a regular basis for some of my stupid antics..

Boy I can relate to that, was raised on a farm and dad had taught my brother and I how to blow stumps. Usually about 1/4 stick in a hole drilled under the stump, set it off and pull it out with the tractor. One spring we were clearing an old oak stump, we got the wise idea to use 5 sticks. Never found the stump. Worst ass whooping we ever got, then had to fill to hole by hand, wheel barrowing the dirt from 1/4 mile away. Could not use the tractor or any thing to make it easy, we never forgot that lesson. Shows my age, I can remember dad buying dynamite at the hardware store, those days are gone forever.

[eric in md]

Many years ago when I was younger and stupid, I loaded an old tree stump with dy-min-ite.     Had one of those raise the handle and push it down it set it off.

All I will say is I had enough dy-min-ite in there to take down a huge building.

It left a hole big enough and deep enough to park a Jeep in.   They found pieces that they think belong to that stump about a 1/4 of a mile away.

Stump was gone as Grandpa wished, but this poor young lad didn't set down to eat for about a month.   Had to sleep on my tummy with nuttin covering my rump.   Dat sum beech was raw from Grandpa razor strap.    Guess what, never attempted that sheet again.   Grandpa did give me some lessons on how much dy-min-ite to use and a few other safety items.

Ya know, now I see why my parents and Grand parents always said that kid will never live to see 21..........   Wow, I guess I must have learned fast, or got tired of the Southern Ass-Whompins I used to get on a regular basis for some of my stupid antics..

Boy I can relate to that, was raised on a farm and dad had taught my brother and I how to blow stumps. Usually about 1/4 stick in a hole drilled under the stump, set it off and pull it out with the tractor. One spring we were clearing an old oak stump, we got the wise idea to use 5 sticks. Never found the stump. Worst ass whooping we ever got, then had to fill to hole by hand, wheel barrowing the dirt from 1/4 mile away. Could not use the tractor or any thing to make it easy, we never forgot that lesson. Shows my age, I can remember dad buying dynamite at the hardware store, those days are gone forever.

  thats a great story grumpy

[YoungPUP]

Being of a younger generation I must ask.....Did you have to push the wheelbarrow uphill both ways while bare foot????

[Kidd]

Okay , I got one .
I was removing gun powder   from shot gun shells  and  wrapped  a bunch up in aluminum foil  , trying to pack it tight , making a bomb  .
I was banging on the floor  and it exploded in my face .
Shocked the hell out me  , black  spots all over my face , it could of been worse.



Kiddd

[musclehead]

a condom filled of acetylene is REALLY loud also!  you can get that at any welding supply store!!  (well, not the condoms……)

Depends on which welding supply store you shop at.  I believe the full service shops carry them.  You know, one stop shopping and all.

I have never gotten lucky while welding! 

[musclehead]

Many years ago when I was younger and stupid, I loaded an old tree stump with dy-min-ite.     Had one of those raise the handle and push it down it set it off.

All I will say is I had enough dy-min-ite in there to take down a huge building.

It left a hole big enough and deep enough to park a Jeep in.   They found pieces that they think belong to that stump about a 1/4 of a mile away.

Stump was gone as Grandpa wished, but this poor young lad didn't set down to eat for about a month.   Had to sleep on my tummy with nuttin covering my rump.   Dat sum beech was raw from Grandpa razor strap.    Guess what, never attempted that sheet again.   Grandpa did give me some lessons on how much dy-min-ite to use and a few other safety items.

Ya know, now I see why my parents and Grand parents always said that kid will never live to see 21..........   Wow, I guess I must have learned fast, or got tired of the Southern Ass-Whompins I used to get on a regular basis for some of my stupid antics..

cool I'm not the only guy around here who got to play with dynomite 

for a 16" stump 1 stick will suffice   

I would also like to say if the ATF is reading this THERE ARE NO EXPLOSIVES AT MY HOUSE!

[The Anvil]

you can get that at any welding supply store!!  (well, not the condoms……)

You're going to the wrong welding supply store.

[RP#62]

you can get that at any welding supply store!!  (well, not the condoms……)

You're going to the wrong welding supply store.

When we lived in Winston-Salem, there was a store we used to pass called Bob's Welding and Grocery.   Never did figure that one out.
-RP