IKE
Single-Sixer
A 8 yr. old child killed and few near misses playing around with Tannerite.....be careful around this stuff fellas.
Tannerite.....child killed and man loses leg.
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Simple truth I have posted in a different thread... people / humans are stupid. In relation to explosives... the only reason I'm alive today is because besides being really really stupid several times I was also really really lucky.
The Norseman
Blackhawk
Don't you know, everyone survives close
bomb explosions, just watch TV. NCIS shows,
Chicago Fire, PD, just watch!
bomb explosions, just watch TV. NCIS shows,
Chicago Fire, PD, just watch!
Ditto. My life may be a great example of what Otto von Bismarck had in mind, when he observed that "God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America."
There's a boarded up partially burnt house I drive by occasionally. Apparently the guy was making stuff for 4th of July out of C4 and it didn't go as planned. Injured but not killed, as I recall.
Accidents happen - kind of a cliche, but also the unavoidable truth. I used to do professional fireworks shows, helping out a friend who had a pyrotechnician's license. Did that for years, and then during one show it struck me that if anything went wrong, they might find parts of me in the next county over. That was my last show!
Did a pretty big show last year... about 5 grand of very large consumer grade fireworks on a barge we anchor out in the lake..... towed the barge back tot dock while some of the spent casings of the fireworks were still on fire and I an another guy get on the barge to put the fire out and there mixed in with it are a couple of big ones (I'm talking $300 range) that did not go off. I'm suppose to do it again this year and there is going to be a whole new protocol.
I plead the FIFTH. That said, I don't trust tannerite much. I use it as a 'tool' but still don't trust it.
When we moved to New Mexico years ago, we thought for awhile about helping out with the local fireworks shows - the city fire department put them on, we had enough experience to be useful, and my wife is from a family of firefighters. But we read a newspaper article about the upcoming show, that included photos; apparently they set up their mortar tubes on trailers, and loaded the tubes with the trailers inside a building. That didn't look too safe to us - if a lift charge ignited accidentally, the shell would come up out of the tube, hit the ceiling, and come right back down on top of a trailer full of other tubes and shells. And the photos showed wall heaters (with pilot lights?) just a couple of feet away from the shells, which being Chinese-made often leak black powder. We figured we didn't need to be "those new out-of-town folks who think they know everything", and decided not to volunteer.
The newpaper had a followup article right after the Fourth of July - there had been an accident at the show. The fire department had been in the habit of filling a big ol' weather balloon with hydrogen, letting it rise a couple hundred feet on a teather, and detonating it electrically to start the show. That year, the balloon reportedly ignited right after it was filled, blew one of the fire guys right over the hood of his truck, and damaged a bunch of vehicles/equipment. Fortunately the fireman survived, but there was all sorts of trouble, because "weather-balloons-full-of-hydrogen" were apparently not approved/legal for that kind of show. We were glad we weren't involved!
As always IIRC, FWIW, YMMV, IMHO, etc.
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I've used a lot of tannerite over the years. It's about as safe as you can get with explosive material but I've never had to stand as close as some of these idiots. I also don't blow up washing machines.
BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
Seems like bad things involving tannerite always happen whenever someone packs it into something that'll produce shrapnel...Then stand too close to the explosion.
Huh, wonder why
Huh, wonder why
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Having a bit of military experience with explosives,, I understand why such injuries, deaths, or near misses occur.
I have had a few folks bring Tannerite to my range. I allowed it to be ignited under my supervision. NEVER packed inside anything. And also in smaller quantities.
I have had a few folks bring Tannerite to my range. I allowed it to be ignited under my supervision. NEVER packed inside anything. And also in smaller quantities.
Fortunately I took the advice in the improvised munitions handbook to use wax or soap in the threads when I was 14.
Oxygen and Acetylene would be way better in the balloon!!!
Darwin Denied!!!
What BS. He didn't have any kind of near miss. FPS Russia and the truck door was a close one.
Couple years ago, on July 4 some 'boys' set off 20-25 pounds of tannerite. This took place about 15-16 miles from our place but we heard it plainly. Caused quite a ruckus and upset a LOT of local residents who complained loudly. County Sheriff 'had a talk' with these guys and the incident hasn't been repeated.
I'm not making any judgements about the prudence of the explosion or the response from the Sheriff.
I'm not making any judgements about the prudence of the explosion or the response from the Sheriff.
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How is tannerite still legal? I've set a few off.
A lot of things that can go "BOOM" are (fortunately) still legal!
ammo dave
Bearcat
Am I the only one who sees a problem with blowing up appliances and leaving all the debris (trash) in the woods? I lived in Vegas in the 70s and it was quite common to find old furniture and appliances dumped out in the desert. Not a pretty sight.
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