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Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
Hello all over the world,
31 Dec 2005 is it time for us great Carbide cannon fom 180 Liters. The pipe is 155 cm and 40 cm round. On our site there is two little films. One from 10 min and the same one alone longer and is 20 min. Our site is changed to WWW.CARBIDKANON.COM The other site is still working but not for long. Have you a carbide cannon and yoy have a little Film from your cannon or Photo's ? Please send me your photo's and i place them on our site. If you have a film, place this film on your own url (webspace) and send me the link from your url and i make a link. Send me your name and the location where you shooting your cannon. Crew S.C.K. Jan... |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
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Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
"Abrasha" wrote in message
... This reminds me of my youth in Holland, where I grew up. Boer Lozeman who had his farm near Putten, would do the following each December 31 around midnight. He and his sons would take a regular old Dutch steel "milk can" (the kind in which they would put the milk after milking their cows). These cans were about 2 1/2 feet tall and about 14" in diameter, with a heavy steel, very tight fitting, lid. They would place the can in the middle of a field without any cows in the vicinity. Then they would fill the bottom of the can with a few handfuls of carbide, then pour in water. They'd push the lid on. Then they ran for cover. After about half a minute they would hear a very loud bang accompanied with a bright flash, as the lid was blasted off the can. The following day, they would all go into the field to look for the lid. Ah, a romantic life of simple pleasures. g Did they ever find the lid? -- Ed Huntress |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
Ed Huntress wrote:
The following day, they would all go into the field to look for the lid. Ah, a romantic life of simple pleasures. g Did they ever find the lid? -- Ed Huntress Yes they did. In fact, as the can in question was no longer suitable for milk collection, they used the same can and lid every year for many years. I have very fond memories of "Boer Lozeman". During WWII he hid my mother, then a young girl, from the Germans. My mother told me a number of stories about that experience. My brother and I spent several summers on his farm as young boys. My wife and I visited him and his wife on one trip back home, some 15 years ago. Since none of his children were interested in farming, his oldest son had become an international trucker, as he was just getting much to old for the hard life of farming, he had sold the farm, lock, stock and barrel, to some doctor from Amsterdam. The land, the buildings, the furniture, all the fabulous old Dutch antiques, everything. He bought himself a small modern brick house, rather ugly if you ask me. The sad part was, that the new house was about a stone's throw from the old farm. You could see the old house from his new property. It was probably just sad for me, with my romantic notions of farming. He was probably just very happy to get rid of it all, and enjoy the last years of his life with his wife, in peace and quiet, without having to get up every morning at 3 AM to go out and milk those damned cows, and/or bring in the harvest, etc. Happy Holidays to all on the ng, and the best for 2006. You too Gunner! :) Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
Abrasha wrote:
... After about half a minute they would hear a very loud bang accompanied with a bright flash, as the lid was blasted off the can.... An example of how unstable acetylene is over a certain pressure? You don't mention an igniter, so I'm assuming it was spontaneous. This is giving me ideas. 8-) Bob |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Abrasha wrote: ... After about half a minute they would hear a very loud bang accompanied with a bright flash, as the lid was blasted off the can.... An example of how unstable acetylene is over a certain pressure? You don't mention an igniter, so I'm assuming it was spontaneous. That's how I remember it. In the online movies they seem to be using what is a spark plug igniter. I remember the one from my childhood to be just carbide and water. I looked around a bit online, using Dutch search terms "karbiet" and "melkbus". This seems to be a Dutch tradition to this day. I even found photos of a couple of guys doing this with several milk cans (melkbus in Dutch) simultaneously. The cans look exactly like the milk can of my youth. http://tinyurl.com/ayln6 Go halfway down the page. In the top picture, you can actually see one of the lids of the milk can fly off. This is giving me ideas. 8-) Bob -- Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
"Abrasha" wrote in message
... Ed Huntress wrote: The following day, they would all go into the field to look for the lid. Ah, a romantic life of simple pleasures. g Did they ever find the lid? -- Ed Huntress Yes they did. In fact, as the can in question was no longer suitable for milk collection, they used the same can and lid every year for many years. Not to diminish the interesting story you related after that paragraph, but I'm struck by the idea of the traditional Dutch "Blowing Up of the Milkcans," in which you blow the lid off of one of those suckers with a big charge of carbide. I imagine the milk cans being passed down from generation to generation...everyone gets out their ancestral wooden shoes to prevent sparks...the charge is laid while cherub-faced, cherry-cheeked Dutch boys run laughing, clop, clop, clop...the charge goes off; the light from the explosion reveals plowed fields, distant, contented cows in their barns, a "mooo-oo" is heard from the distance...and the lid comes down somewhere with a "clang." The boys prick up their ears, trying to determine where the lid has landed, so that, tomorrow morning, before the adults are out of bed, the boys are out combing the fields, playfully tossing cow pies at each other while trying to be the first to find the milk can lid...a challenge for the prize, unspecified, unknown to outsiders, mysterious...but motivation for generations of cherubic Dutch boys who aspire to nothing so much as being the First to Find the Lid... Carry on. And Merry Christmas. -- Ed Huntress |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Abrasha wrote: ... After about half a minute they would hear a very loud bang accompanied with a bright flash, as the lid was blasted off the can.... An example of how unstable acetylene is over a certain pressure? You don't mention an igniter, so I'm assuming it was spontaneous. This is giving me ideas. 8-) Bob I don't see how a milk can lid could hold to even a couple of PSI. But, the carbide reaction is exothermic, IIRC. So, the stuff just keeps getting hotter until it reaches the temperature to ignite the Acetylene. Jon |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
--I'm thinking this would work as well with a hunk of dry ice
and water. If you do this with, say, a capped 2-liter soda bottle the results can be interesting. More fun with liquid nitrogen tho, bwahaha. -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : Nihil curo de ista tua Hacking the Trailing Edge! : stulta superstitione... http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
On 27 Dec 2005 17:43:01 GMT, steamer wrote:
--I'm thinking this would work as well with a hunk of dry ice and water. If you do this with, say, a capped 2-liter soda bottle the results can be interesting. More fun with liquid nitrogen tho, bwahaha. My former brother-in-law (divorce, not death) did the carbide thing with a cheap champagne bottle with the plastic cork, lit candle in front. He said it was impressive. With what I know now, I'm surprised it didn't go off before it blew the cork. On the other hand, he may not have been able to tell. This was in the part of Bellaire, Texas on the east side of 610 near the tracks. Pete Keillor |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
Near the nursery ? :-) Google Earth tells all!
Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder Pete Keillor wrote: On 27 Dec 2005 17:43:01 GMT, steamer wrote: --I'm thinking this would work as well with a hunk of dry ice and water. If you do this with, say, a capped 2-liter soda bottle the results can be interesting. More fun with liquid nitrogen tho, bwahaha. My former brother-in-law (divorce, not death) did the carbide thing with a cheap champagne bottle with the plastic cork, lit candle in front. He said it was impressive. With what I know now, I'm surprised it didn't go off before it blew the cork. On the other hand, he may not have been able to tell. This was in the part of Bellaire, Texas on the east side of 610 near the tracks. Pete Keillor ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Carbide Cannons in the Netherlands
Darsey St.
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:07:39 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn" wrote: Near the nursery ? :-) Google Earth tells all! Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder Pete Keillor wrote: On 27 Dec 2005 17:43:01 GMT, steamer wrote: --I'm thinking this would work as well with a hunk of dry ice and water. If you do this with, say, a capped 2-liter soda bottle the results can be interesting. More fun with liquid nitrogen tho, bwahaha. My former brother-in-law (divorce, not death) did the carbide thing with a cheap champagne bottle with the plastic cork, lit candle in front. He said it was impressive. With what I know now, I'm surprised it didn't go off before it blew the cork. On the other hand, he may not have been able to tell. This was in the part of Bellaire, Texas on the east side of 610 near the tracks. Pete Keillor ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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