On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:29:10 -0500, Gerald Miller
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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:51:12 -0600, Pete Keillor
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:33:36 -0800, "Steve B"
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"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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One of the best emails Ive had in a very long time...G


Around age 10 my dad got me one of those little badass compound bow
beginner kits.

Funny story snipped.

I had a similar experience with a 55 gallon barrel, two tbsp. of gas, and
pure O2.

When the cops got there, they asked us if we heard a blast.

"Huh?" was our response.

By then, we had picked up the pieces of the barrel we could find. My
hearing is still wacky.

I have set industrial explosives, but I have never heard one like that.
Maybe it was the range .........................

Steve

Me, too. It was Mom's 15 yr. old collection of Sears and Monkey Wards
catalogs she finally realized were useless. She said burn 'em in the
burn barrel. I dumped them in the empty barrel, which they just
barely fit. Knowing they'd be difficult to burn because of the
tightly packed pages, I decided to help them along with about 1 gal.
of av gas, then realized I'd forgotten the matches. To keep all that
good gas from getting away, I put a torn open fertilizer sack over the
barrel (you can see where this is going). When I got back with the
matches, a couple of neighbor kids and my brother had arrived.

I proceeded to strike the match, lift the sack, and flick the match
in. In the next instant, we were all knocked down around the barrel
by the concussion, and I had an impressive view of about a 150' tall
column of catalog pages with fire between them. Then the damned
burning pages drifted into the dry grass in the pasture next door.
After Dad pounded me, we got to spend the next 30 minutes putting out
the grass fire. The neighbors about 1/4 mile away said it shook all
their windows.

A rather unique tech I had working for me once spoke my favorite quote
of all time. " I believe the best value for your entertainment dollar
is gasoline."

Pete Keillor
Around 1969, SWMBO bought a pair of those couch beds that flatten out
into a 3/4 bed. they came flattened out in cardboard boxes. came time
to get rid of the boxes, I rolled them into a bundle about 18"
diameter with about a 6" hole up the middle and about eight feet
long. next evening I had a fire going in the burn barrel out back and
when it had burned down a bit, I stood one of these in the barrel.
within miutes I had a column of fire must have been at least fifty
feet in the night sky. Fortunately, no one put in a fire call. The
next bundle got cut in half before burning!
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

Yep, classic chimney fire with an all combustible chimney. I did that
once with a bunch of empty Sevin boxes (Dad was crop duster) stuffed
one inside the other to about 10' or so. I cut an air flap in the
bottom box. Gets rid of them quickly.