Cutting Our Way In

[matt9923]

great thread. You got my respect for getting out in that weather and working. Its one of them thing's that sucks but when you get in the routine it aint terrible id assume? things can be worse for sure.

Good to see ya making the best of the situation, homemade bombs and gourmet cooking!

 

[matt9923]

A partially full quart can of paint, with lid screwed tightly on will also provide a little bit of enjoyment. It takes a while, but will explode nicely.

I also learned the one plop method of heating up canned food on one of those night time lightning busts. :monkey:

every tried a can of tuna?

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Oh, that flame does burn hotter for sure.

Recipe for disaster:

1. 1 coke bottle (glass)

2. Slash fuel (diesel saw gas mix 60/40 should do er)

3. Tight green fir cone.


Take the bottle and fill it not quite half way with the slash fuel. Cork it with the green fir cone. You want one that you have to ram into it to make it a fit tight. We need maximum compression for maximum combustion here. Set it in the fire where you know it will be straight up and get to a safe distance and enjoy.

I remeber my cousin was telling me about when he was in Afghanistan. Him and a buddy of his a standing watching the gate. Their ranking officer pulss up in a 7 ton while my cousin is smoking next to these huge gas vats. He gets his butt chewed out, and my cousin put the cigarette out in the gas. So to prove a point my cousin toke three jerry cans, one with gas, one with diesel, and the last one with jet fuel (filled about half way). He puts the cigarette in the jerry can with diesel, it didn't do anything. Next the one with the gas, same thing but the jerry can puffed up a little. Last the can with jet fuel, he set it on the other side of the humvee, dropped the cigarette in and ran. He said it shot a 5 foot flame out of the can and it left a half dollar sized hole in the can.

 

[Jacob J.]

A partially full quart can of paint, with lid screwed tightly on will also provide a little bit of enjoyment. It takes a while, but will explode nicely.

I also learned the one plop method of heating up canned food on one of those night time lightning busts. :monkey:

We had a little trick we did with the aerosol cans. You take an old piece of exhaust pipe, put it in the fire and aim out on the unit, preferably at the rigging crew if they're in range. Then you put the aerosol cans in the exhaust pipe upside down.

The end result of launching a few of those out on the rigging rats is they try to plug up the landing with brush, large rocks, tops, etc.

 

[slowp]

every tried a can of tuna?

No. The object is to heat up your dinner quicker than when the can is topless. You must hear the first plop and remove it, because the second plop is more of a boom. This method is not recommended for the hearing impaired and now that crews carry MREs instead of those tasty gourmet C-rats, it is a lost art.

 

[bitzer]

Can of baked beans in the fire, good eatin. -2 degrees this morning at 6am.
-20 with the wind. 10in of snow yesterday on top of 5 from the other day. The shop feels like a sauna at 40 degrees. I'm welding "wear" beads on the buckets today. No chance I'm running a saw in this BS. Trees are hung with yesterdays wet snow that froze over night and the winds blowin 20-30 mph. The winter switch is in the "on" position.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

We had a little trick we did with the aerosol cans. You take an old piece of exhaust pipe, put it in the fire and aim out on the unit, preferably at the rigging crew if they're in range. Then you put the aerosol cans in the exhaust pipe upside down.

The end result of launching a few of those out on the rigging rats is they try to plug up the landing with brush, large rocks, tops, etc.

Now that's funny.

 

[slowp]

I took a new guy up to show him the blowdown yesterday. We got out and walked a little ways in. Many of the leaners had since fallen across the road.
I left the trees for the woodcutters as there was no urgency in driving up any further.

The wind is howling here this morning.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Yup here to things were/are going bump in the night. Trees are standing at weird angles this morning.