I saw a very large pumpkin cannon today; my son was very excited almost as
much as me. The barrel is about 30 to 35 feet long; it's connected to a 400
to 600 gallon air tank? Looks awesome built with one hell of a paint job.
The thing is on a triaxle trailer. I went in and asked when they use this
thing and next weekend is the one time a year they compete. It's not truly
open to the public but it's along a public road. I hope to get out and get a
few pictures this weekend. Now this is someone with some serious time to do
some BIG metal working projects. The owner is a welder.

"Waynemak" wrote in message
...
I saw a very large pumpkin cannon today; my son was very excited almost as
much as me. The barrel is about 30 to 35 feet long; it's connected to a 400
to 600 gallon air tank? Looks awesome built with one hell of a paint job.
The thing is on a triaxle trailer. I went in and asked when they use this
thing and next weekend is the one time a year they compete. It's not truly
open to the public but it's along a public road. I hope to get out and get
a few pictures this weekend. Now this is someone with some serious time to
do some BIG metal working projects. The owner is a welder.



Saw a program about Punkin Chunkin. They shoot them from air cannons, and
have a centrifugal sling class. They also have one of those medieval
flingers, can't recall the name.

Looked fun, and they got some incredible distances.

Steve

SteveB wrote:
"Waynemak" wrote in message
...

I saw a very large pumpkin cannon today; my son was very excited almost as
much as me. The barrel is about 30 to 35 feet long; it's connected to a 400
to 600 gallon air tank? Looks awesome built with one hell of a paint job.
The thing is on a triaxle trailer. I went in and asked when they use this
thing and next weekend is the one time a year they compete. It's not truly
open to the public but it's along a public road. I hope to get out and get
a few pictures this weekend. Now this is someone with some serious time to
do some BIG metal working projects. The owner is a welder.




Saw a program about Punkin Chunkin. They shoot them from air cannons, and
have a centrifugal sling class. They also have one of those medieval
flingers, can't recall the name.

Looked fun, and they got some incredible distances.

Steve


trebuchet?

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:33:26 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, t
quickly quoth:

SteveB wrote:
Saw a program about Punkin Chunkin. They shoot them from air cannons, and
have a centrifugal sling class. They also have one of those medieval
flingers, can't recall the name.

Looked fun, and they got some incredible distances.

trebuchet?

That's it. Links follow:

http://trebuchet.com/index.html
http://www.jarkman.co.uk/toys.htm
http://www.eskimo.com/%7Everne/treb.htm pianos, anyone?


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--I still wish I could interest a few folks in my area to help
me put one together, but nobody seems to want to spend the time! I've
got two great junkyards to snag hardware, too. Sigh...

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : A greasy donut, a cup of
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
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---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

steamer wrote:

--I still wish I could interest a few folks in my area to help
me put one together, but nobody seems to want to spend the time! I've
got two great junkyards to snag hardware, too. Sigh...

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : A greasy donut, a cup of
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.

Pete C.

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:47:12 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:

steamer wrote:

--I still wish I could interest a few folks in my area to help
me put one together, but nobody seems to want to spend the time! I've
got two great junkyards to snag hardware, too. Sigh...

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : A greasy donut, a cup of
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.

Pete C.

Pete, I'm south of DFW. I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and a gas
air compressor. What caliber is a pumpkin?

In article ,
Andy Asberry wrote:

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:47:12 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:

steamer wrote:

--I still wish I could interest a few folks in my area to help
me put one together, but nobody seems to want to spend the time! I've
got two great junkyards to snag hardware, too. Sigh...

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : A greasy donut, a cup of
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.

Pete C.

Pete, I'm south of DFW. I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and a gas
air compressor. What caliber is a pumpkin?

Hard question to answer - Which one did you designate "ammo" for this
particular shot?

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"Andy Asberry" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:47:12 GMT, "Pete C."
| wrote:
|
| steamer wrote:
|
| --I still wish I could interest a few folks in my area to help
| me put one together, but nobody seems to want to spend the time! I've
| got two great junkyards to snag hardware, too. Sigh...
|
| --
| "Steamboat Ed" Haas : A greasy donut, a cup of
| Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
| http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
| ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---
|
| Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
| like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.
|
| Pete C.
|
| Pete, I'm south of DFW. I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and a gas
| air compressor. What caliber is a pumpkin?

What's the thing called that's holds shot in a shell? I'm drawing a
blank here. They use that to keep the pressure from destroying the pumpkin
before it can get very far up the barrel. In fact, that's part of the range
problem, because that usually falls short while the pumpkin continues on. I
guess they started tying the thing with a cable or something to the gun so
it wouldn't classify as part of the projectile, thus getting around a
technicality. If that's what they have to do, and technicalities mean that
much, then those guys don't just put some serious money into it, they put
some serious emotion into it as well!

In article et,
"carl mciver" wrote:

"Andy Asberry" wrote in message
...
| On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:47:12 GMT, "Pete C."
| wrote:
|
| steamer wrote:
|
| --I still wish I could interest a few folks in my area to help
| me put one together, but nobody seems to want to spend the time! I've
| got two great junkyards to snag hardware, too. Sigh...
|
| --
| "Steamboat Ed" Haas : A greasy donut, a cup of
| Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
| http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
| ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---
|
| Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
| like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.
|
| Pete C.
|
| Pete, I'm south of DFW. I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and a gas
| air compressor. What caliber is a pumpkin?

What's the thing called that's holds shot in a shell? I'm drawing a
blank here. They use that to keep the pressure from destroying the pumpkin
before it can get very far up the barrel.

You're looking for the word "wadding".

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"carl mciver" wrote
What's the thing called that's holds shot in a shell? I'm drawing a
blank here.
If it's holding shot in a shell it's a shot cup. If it's surrounding a
single bullet in a bore it's a sabot. If it's supporting ammo in a gourd gun
it's a chunkinpunkinpushincusion.

They use that to keep the pressure from destroying the pumpkin
before it can get very far up the barrel. In fact, that's part of the
range
problem, because that usually falls short while the pumpkin continues on.
I
guess they started tying the thing with a cable or something to the gun so
it wouldn't classify as part of the projectile, thus getting around a
technicality. If that's what they have to do, and technicalities mean
that
much, then those guys don't just put some serious money into it, they put
some serious emotion into it as well!

Andy Asberry wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:47:12 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:


steamer wrote:

--I still wish I could interest a few folks in my area to help
me put one together, but nobody seems to want to spend the time! I've
got two great junkyards to snag hardware, too. Sigh...

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : A greasy donut, a cup of
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.

Pete C.


Pete, I'm south of DFW. I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and a gas
air compressor. What caliber is a pumpkin?


The holder of the world record (5 years running IIRC) submitted a 1446
pounder this year, missing his best by 3 pounds. Again, IIRC. It's been
10-12 hours since I read the article. I'll let someone else guess what
caliber it might be.

mj

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:04:23 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Andy
Asberry quickly quoth:

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:47:12 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:
Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.

Pete, I'm south of DFW. I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and a gas
air compressor. What caliber is a pumpkin?

As a Texican, you'll recognize "big ol' honkin'" caliber, right?


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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:41:33 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:04:23 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Andy
Asberry quickly quoth:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:47:12 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:

Exactly what part of the planet is your area? A pumpkin cannon sounds
like a fun project. I'm a bit north of the DFW area.

Pete, I'm south of DFW. I've got a 500 gallon propane tank and a gas
air compressor. What caliber is a pumpkin?

As a Texican, you'll recognize "big ol' honkin'" caliber, right?

The caliber is whatever the ID of the big chunk of steel pipe you
can find for a barrel is. Which can vary a great deal according to
the "Stuff Acquisition" skills and/or the financial condition of the
buyer's bank account.

I suppose there is a natural upper limit somewhere on practical
barrel sizes, but until you find it "Bigger Is Better" holds true.

First you build the gun, then you design the sabots (so you don't
spend all day making pumpkin paste out of your ammunition), then you
find ammunition pumpkins that fit the results of the first two steps.

Of course, I'd love to see someone build a self-contained mobile
armored chunker, something on the lines of a re-barreled Sherman.
I'd pay a quarter to see that... ;-0

-- Bruce --

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Hacking the Trailing Edge! : coffee and thou...
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

Waynemak wrote:
I saw a very large pumpkin cannon today; my son was very excited almost as
much as me. The barrel is about 30 to 35 feet long; it's connected to a 400
to 600 gallon air tank? Looks awesome built with one hell of a paint job.
The thing is on a triaxle trailer. I went in and asked when they use this
thing and next weekend is the one time a year they compete. It's not truly
open to the public but it's along a public road. I hope to get out and get a
few pictures this weekend. Now this is someone with some serious time to do
some BIG metal working projects. The owner is a welder.

You guys have seen the Punkin Chunkin website I guess?

http://www.punkinchunkin.com/main.htm

Chris