We were dumb enough to put glass pop bottles unopened into fire pits at lake. One time ,we put a huge bottle of Dads root beer. Talk about dangerous explosions.
We were dumb enough to put glass pop bottles unopened into fire pits at lake. One time ,we put a huge bottle of Dads root beer. Talk about dangerous explosions.
About 40 years ago (damn I feel old) I was working construction. During winter we would build a fire in a 5 gal bucket for a little warmth at break times. We had one young guy that loved to make the fire, would even buy his own charcoal lighter fluid and get there early to do it. One day at break about a dozen of us in an unfinished apartment, sitting around the fire and drinking coffee. The guy squirts the last of the lighter fluid in the bucket, screws the metal lid on the metal can and tosses it into the fire. You have never seen so many guys move so fast in your life! Made a very nice little boom and it is a really good thing the sheetrock was not up yet because of all the flying crap.
For you young folks, yes they did make buckets and lighter fluid cans out of metal, not this cheap plastic they do nowadays.
Dont ever toss a full BIC lighter in a fire...dont' ask how I know.
Yep I used a 22 for a fuse "many" years ago in a '49 Chevy PU. Me & my brother were out in the boonies hunting and didn't have a spare fuse. Made it home and bought a BIG pack of fuses. Never did it again. And when we lived in Little Rock when I was a kid we went stink bait fishing a lot on the Arkansas and the Fouche LaFey rivers, only in the winter because the bait stunk so bad. Dad would start a fire in a 5 gallon bucket and put in the boat for us kids to keep warm
Actually I didnt toss the lighter in, it ended up there mysteriously and scared the bejeezus out of all 3 of us standing around the fire.
I think that was the year we were building a new motel in Guthrie just off I-35. I had a house on the road headed out to the Lazy E and one curve could have been used as a ice skating rink.
A buddy years ago in HS used a .2 as a fuse in his VW bug.
He was smart enough to at least use a spent round lol
He was smart enough to at least use a spent round lol
When those first came out, there were some horror stories about welders carrying 'em in a pants pocket...
When I was a kid, we burned our household trash. We'd separate cans & bottles, and put them in an old washtub beside the burn barrel. When the tub was full, they'd get hauled off to a hillside gully in the pasture.
We were setting out on the back porch watching the burn barrel one summer evening (Dad always had hay in the barn and was a stickler about fire), when there was a loud bang. White stuff shot up in the air and scattered over the lawn like snow.
He'd accidentally put an empty shaving cream can in the burnable trash.
