You could trump your neighbors show on the 4th of July with this set up.
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This won't use a whole lot, but if you camp, you could try this. Get a cardboard/fiber egg carton and fill the compartments tightly with sawdust. Melt some parafin (carefully) and pour it over the sawdust. When the whole thing cools, you have a dozen fire starters that will get your campfire going in the nastiest weather.
Yeah, but is there a fireball shooting into the sky?
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i have a neighbor that has some real m80's. every 4th he sets off one at 10 pm.rattles windows for a block.
if i knew i wouldn't get thrown in jail,i'd start saving my sawdust just to one up him. i would want my shut off valve a little farther away though...........
if a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
Years back a local guy use to make his own fireworks in his basement. We were able to tap into the chain thru friend knows a friend kind of thing and buy some. Guy eventually ended up blowing himself up but that's another story.
Anyways, these M80s/100s were freaking unbelievable. Something like a quarter stick of dynamite. We had great fun with those things over the years.
One time visiting a friend's apartment complex I had one in that it was around the 4th.
A three-floor deal that had buildings surrounding a large central grassed area where people from the complex were gathering and picnicking, setting off little boomers, volleyball, that sort of thing.
Twilight to night so we had the big idea to show up the little boomers that were being exploded
so we took a lit cigarette and placed it on the fuse which was placed near a bush then went upstairs on the deck and stood around acting unknowing.
Well, eventually that sucker exploded and as it did the force of light from it caused all the streetlights of the place to go off at the same time
and as everything faded to black there was a sudden complete silence all over the complex as we slunk inside the apartment and hid.
Couple minutes later I peeked out the curtain and the whole lawn lobby was vacated. Nada. Not a person left to be seen.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. [Theodore Roosevelt]
You were so lucky.
This July 4th a brainiac made a homemade firework in a pipe (duh). When he set it off in the street he was mildly damaged, but the kid riding his bike 20 feet away was nearly cut in half.
I once had a 10,000 sqft wood shop. The I beam rafters were all sloped with a dry sawdust covering from 3" at the deep end to nothing. Scared the local FD so much they could never figure out what to do about it.
Figured if there was ever a fire the roof would be the next counties problem.... :-)
They still sell 2" mortars in SW Fla. This is some pretty big stuff. The lift charge is probably as big as an M-80 and they shoot from one to 4 stars 150 feet in the air. The "good" single shells throw a burst 60-70 feet wide. Plan on $5-6 a shot.
Still can't buy a real M-80 or cherry bomb tho (federal law since a politically connected girl got killed with one in Northern Va in the 60s)
I used to get a yuck by throwing a bucket full of sawdust into the woodstove. The stove would belch flame straight out 3-4', and all the windows in the shop would rattle.Good clean fun, though!AitchKayPS Don't forget to stand off to the side -- one of the interesting side-effects is Velcro eyelashes. It take a little extra effort to re-open your eyes after you blink!
I had a friend in HS that signed up for the army. For what ever reason he decided it best if his car got stole and burnt. So one evening he's standing next to his gas covered stolen car in a field.
earlier that evening he had his girlfriend cut his long hair and give him an army ready crew cut. After he lit the match, his car was a ball of flames, his crew cut was singed and he was missing most of his eyebrows.
Little later that same night his girlfriend shaved the singed hair off. A guy can look pretty funny with no hair and no eyebrows. Alien like. The cops and fire chief asked alot of questions and everything thought it best just to send him to the army. Vic
Wow.
This one was even more amazing though:
http://technology.todaysbigthing.com/2008/11/03