Remster 30 #1 April 4, 2002 I though Justin had a pretty good idea (for once)We were doing a demo to show some customers the danger and power of Pentex boosters. It goes like this: you put a det in a 8 once pentex booter and put that guy on a steel plate, 1/2 inch thick. The power is enough to shoot a hole staight through the metal. The only peice we could find had a ever so small flange to the one side (it was about 5 x 5 inches, and the flange was less then 1/4 inch).We clear the area, and drive the jeep to a safe distance (was about 1/2 a mile, we were also shooting some dets in a glove, and some Cortex wrapped around a 2 x 4 to show what kinda dammage it could do).Well, we detonnate, we hear the bangs, and then this whistling noise.... the damm flange on the peice of metal must have caught on the gases generated and propelled it... it came starigt at us, and it cought the top of out very long antenna on the jeep (used for visibility in the pit)... wayyyyyy to close for confort! lolRemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skreamer 1 #2 April 4, 2002 QuoteThe only peice we could find had a ever so small flange hehehehehehhehehehheheeee"Don't die until you're dead" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chickenhawk420 0 #3 April 4, 2002 Slap dat wrist Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SkydiveMonkey 0 #4 April 4, 2002 [beavis and butthead] huhuhuhuhuhuh, you said flange [/beavis and butthead] When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or loose, its how drunk you get. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kingbunky 3 #5 April 4, 2002 that should get you an honorable mention for the darwin awards! too funny! is there video? nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Remster 30 #6 April 4, 2002 Darwin award??? no one got even injured in the making of this demo... pffft !!!!RemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jfields 0 #7 April 4, 2002 QuoteI though Justin had a pretty good idea (for once)Wahoo! I guess I owe beer, as it is probably the first (and last) good idea I will ever have. Justin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Scratch 0 #8 April 4, 2002 "dammage""detonnate""Damm""wayyyyyy"All that working with explosives given you a nervous stutter there Remi??????Sometimes you're the windshield.Sometimes you're the bug ~~~~Dire Straits Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Remster 30 #9 April 4, 2002 Give me a break! my spelling is bad enough in french, even with spellcheck, never mind english without running it! lolRemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PalmettoTiger 1 #10 April 4, 2002 I think these guys take the cake for 'guy-thread' activities. PTigerI'm stepping through the doorAnd I'm floating in a most peculiar way Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites wingnut 0 #11 April 4, 2002 had a great experiance once with explosives,.....had a friend that lived behind a fireworks plant and he knew the owner, this friend also had his atf explosives lisc... well we where making some mailbox busters from som potasium somthing and powered aluminum and sulfer...a small acorn size is all that was needed to clean a mailbox off it's post....we found out target and went for it....blew it clean off the post...went back later for an inspection of the damage and the guy was sitting at the end of his drivway in his car...he chased us all over th back country roads where i lived....never did catch us.... and i never knew my geo storm could handle so well on dirt roads compared to this guys blazer.....scared the shhit outa s though...we though we were caught......"i may not go to heven, i hope you go to hell"-C.C. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SniperCJ 0 #12 April 4, 2002 We do explosive entry training for SWAT occasionally. We usually build a door frame mock-up and practice blowing the doors, followed by an entry. Re-build the door and do it all over again.Of course we stage in a line crouched behind a ballistic shield pretty close to the door so we can make a quick entry after the door blows. We also play with the amount of DEXS (an explosive caulk) we use so we can apply the right amount.We set up this one charge and lined up, silly us, in front of the big windows next to the door. About a second before the guy initiated the charge I looked left, saw the window, and whispered a quick "SHIT!" before he blew the charge and covered us all with glass when the windows blew out. We made entry and saw a 4 ft piece of 2 X 4 stuck in the far wall.I figure we used a TAD too much caulk on THAT job. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Remster 30 #13 April 4, 2002 lol@a tad too muchat my previous company, we used a high speed shot of a field test of a new bulk explosive for safety tarining....I had a good chukkle talking to the guy who set up the cameras. They figured from modeling what would be the safe distance for the camera. Then they doubled it and set up the camera there.They cleared up the pit, fired, and when they went back, they couldnt find the muckpile.... it was speard not more then 1 foot thick all over the pit floor.The set up had 2 or 3 cameras. The footage of the 1 that survived is priceless.... you see the shot go off, the rock movement starting, and going, and going and going up and up and up...and then you start seing things fall out of focus in from of the camera, at some distance.... then blobs falling a bit closer.... then it rains..... and rains.... pick-up size rocks falling in front of the camera, slowy twisting (man... slow mo is cool)... and then the image shakes.. shakes.. and shakes again as peices fall very close to it.....needless to say, that explosive was a commercial success... lolRemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skymedic 0 #14 April 4, 2002 we once were burning a house down for the FD....practicing in and out of it...starting fires...putting em out...well someone got the idea that we should fill some baloons with acettyeline and attach em to some long poles and javelin em into the fire....(I wont say whoooo thought of this)...Well we chuck two of these bad boys through a living room window(that was open)....the things go BOOOOOMMMM in a big way and end up blowing out all the windows that were left in the building.....AND...the worst part...blew out the windows in the engine, the truck, the tanker...and the even worse part....in both the deputy cheif and the Fire cheifs car.....lets just say I had a nice UN paid holiday.....But it was still KICK assCheers....vasbytmarc"I have no fear of falling, I just hate hitting the ground"-The Badlees... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Schroeder 0 #15 April 4, 2002 Back in highschool, I read someplace that if you mix a certain chemical with ordinary sugar, to some specific ratio I wont mention here, and melt them down, then pour then into a mold or some sort, you can make a smoke bomb. Soooo I'm sitting in chem class one day, look over, see a HUGE canister of the chemical I need, and get to thinking........ hmmmmm...... ok. Yoink! Grab it, and make my get away. A few days later, I'm in my mom's kitchen during my spare, she's at work, and I go to town making this stuff. Apparently you don't need much. Well anyways, the phone rang, I ran to get it, and when I got back to the stove where I was melting the sugar down, well, I could hardly find the stove. But I know that it's only gonna get worse if I don't get the pot outside, so I fumble around, grab the pot and run like hell for the door. That house was _completely_ white. And thank-god, I managed to cross vent it quick enough before my parents found out.... there were some cool success stories with that stuff though, like putting in in a Frisk mint container, and putting match heads in the mix before it set. That little container could fill a room pretty quickly! But then I started wondering about the smoke..... I figured it wasn't toooo healthy, so quit messing around."If I ventured in the slipstream; Between the via-ducts of your dreams.......could you find me?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites TheMarshMan1 0 #16 April 4, 2002 Anyone know what a Thundermug is? hehehe...those things are nuts. One time we set an old VCR on top of one, and let it rip. There was pieces of that thing (the VCR) raining down for quite some time...and a good bunch of it was stuck up in top of a big tree, lol. "If I could be like that, I would give anything, just to live one day, in those shoes..." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites billvon 3,107 #17 April 4, 2002 >I think these guys take the cake for 'guy-thread' activities . . .One of the ultimate guy things to do is to take a charcoal grill, put some charcoal in it, put a burning match on top, then pour about 2 gallons of liquid oxygen on top. The grill is ready to cook hamburgers in about 5 seconds, and the mushroom cloud is pretty cool too.-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites scottbre 0 #18 April 4, 2002 Yea, cause we all got extra liquid oxygen laying around. "Fixing the world through self-destruction." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites indyz 1 #19 April 4, 2002 Quote The grill is ready to cook hamburgers in about 5 seconds...That's a badass video. I'll have to see if I can find a link to it. Of course, the grill is slag by the end so cooking burgers on it isn't really an option...--Brian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #20 April 4, 2002 Wow....that video was cool! I could be wrong but I think that's a Dragon. I didn't know those things worked that well. Hmmm....explosives......I got to spend a day playing with C-4 once in the military. Made a nice block that popped the turret off a T-55 tank like a bottle cap. Det cord is great for opening doors. Ummm.....the Army almost killed me once. We were doing this really cool "Firepower Demo" for the Secretary of the Army. The plan was......A few artillery shells hit the objective. Then my team runs out 300 meters into a clump of bushes. That left us in the open about 300 meters from the objective. No cover at all. Well.....we run out. Bring in some airplanes. The A-10's do a nice job of strafing some trucks and dropped a couple bombs. We had briefed them the day prior that they had 2 minutes total. Well...they seemed to think it was 2 minutes to screw around and then they might leave. They fly out deeper into the rangewith about 20 seconds left. I'm thinking....you guys really need to get going. My time keeper yells 10 seconds left. I'm beginning to get a little nervous since these guys are just now turning around to fly out. Next thing I know I hear someone yelling RUN!!!!! I look back to see the artillery observer about 20 steps behind me and running to beat hell. About then the airplanes are coming back over the target area at about 300 Ft on their way out. A 105 MM artillery round goes off right under his nose. The pilot asks "Is that artillery down there?" I just start yelling ABORT! ABORT! ABORT! in the mike. Meanwhile, many other rounds are landing. I can hear the shrapnel flying by. I don't even have a damn vest on!!! We all ran like hell back up the hill. With a 20 LB radio on my back. By the some miracle none of us actually got hit........."I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me!"-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kmcguffee 0 #21 April 4, 2002 Quoteput a burning match on top, then pour about 2 gallons of liquid oxygen on topLOL......now dats a fire! Just roll uncle Eddie around a little bit, he'll be awright. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kmcguffee 0 #22 April 4, 2002 QuoteI could be wrong but I think that's a Dragon. Nope, it's a Javelin. Says so in the top right hand corner of my Windows Media Player. Javelin is replacing the Dragon. Has a top down attack, yada, yada, yada, and is alot harder to shoot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kevin922 0 #23 April 4, 2002 I saw this truck full of mexicans pulling a trailer that had a big ass propane tank (like the ones you see by gas stations - you know, the BIG OLE ONES) all painted orange with some contraptions on it.. turned out to be a pumpkin cannon, same concept as a potatoe gun.. not sure if it was powered by propane or not :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #24 April 4, 2002 QuoteSays so in the top right hand corner of my Windows Media PlayerOhhhh.....I was just going by the launch tube. Looks just like a Dragon tube. I seem to remember hearing something about the Javelin. Certainly obliterated that T-64. Thats some impressive stuff! I wish I had a job in Maryland like that....."I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me!"-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kevin922 0 #25 April 4, 2002 Holy crap..http://detnews.com/2000/livingston/0010/29/c10-140857.htmThis one kinda beats the last post I put up :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 3 Next Page 1 of 3 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
SkydiveMonkey 0 #4 April 4, 2002 [beavis and butthead] huhuhuhuhuhuh, you said flange [/beavis and butthead] When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or loose, its how drunk you get. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #5 April 4, 2002 that should get you an honorable mention for the darwin awards! too funny! is there video? nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #6 April 4, 2002 Darwin award??? no one got even injured in the making of this demo... pffft !!!!RemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #7 April 4, 2002 QuoteI though Justin had a pretty good idea (for once)Wahoo! I guess I owe beer, as it is probably the first (and last) good idea I will ever have. Justin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scratch 0 #8 April 4, 2002 "dammage""detonnate""Damm""wayyyyyy"All that working with explosives given you a nervous stutter there Remi??????Sometimes you're the windshield.Sometimes you're the bug ~~~~Dire Straits Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #9 April 4, 2002 Give me a break! my spelling is bad enough in french, even with spellcheck, never mind english without running it! lolRemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PalmettoTiger 1 #10 April 4, 2002 I think these guys take the cake for 'guy-thread' activities. PTigerI'm stepping through the doorAnd I'm floating in a most peculiar way Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #11 April 4, 2002 had a great experiance once with explosives,.....had a friend that lived behind a fireworks plant and he knew the owner, this friend also had his atf explosives lisc... well we where making some mailbox busters from som potasium somthing and powered aluminum and sulfer...a small acorn size is all that was needed to clean a mailbox off it's post....we found out target and went for it....blew it clean off the post...went back later for an inspection of the damage and the guy was sitting at the end of his drivway in his car...he chased us all over th back country roads where i lived....never did catch us.... and i never knew my geo storm could handle so well on dirt roads compared to this guys blazer.....scared the shhit outa s though...we though we were caught......"i may not go to heven, i hope you go to hell"-C.C. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SniperCJ 0 #12 April 4, 2002 We do explosive entry training for SWAT occasionally. We usually build a door frame mock-up and practice blowing the doors, followed by an entry. Re-build the door and do it all over again.Of course we stage in a line crouched behind a ballistic shield pretty close to the door so we can make a quick entry after the door blows. We also play with the amount of DEXS (an explosive caulk) we use so we can apply the right amount.We set up this one charge and lined up, silly us, in front of the big windows next to the door. About a second before the guy initiated the charge I looked left, saw the window, and whispered a quick "SHIT!" before he blew the charge and covered us all with glass when the windows blew out. We made entry and saw a 4 ft piece of 2 X 4 stuck in the far wall.I figure we used a TAD too much caulk on THAT job. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #13 April 4, 2002 lol@a tad too muchat my previous company, we used a high speed shot of a field test of a new bulk explosive for safety tarining....I had a good chukkle talking to the guy who set up the cameras. They figured from modeling what would be the safe distance for the camera. Then they doubled it and set up the camera there.They cleared up the pit, fired, and when they went back, they couldnt find the muckpile.... it was speard not more then 1 foot thick all over the pit floor.The set up had 2 or 3 cameras. The footage of the 1 that survived is priceless.... you see the shot go off, the rock movement starting, and going, and going and going up and up and up...and then you start seing things fall out of focus in from of the camera, at some distance.... then blobs falling a bit closer.... then it rains..... and rains.... pick-up size rocks falling in front of the camera, slowy twisting (man... slow mo is cool)... and then the image shakes.. shakes.. and shakes again as peices fall very close to it.....needless to say, that explosive was a commercial success... lolRemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #14 April 4, 2002 we once were burning a house down for the FD....practicing in and out of it...starting fires...putting em out...well someone got the idea that we should fill some baloons with acettyeline and attach em to some long poles and javelin em into the fire....(I wont say whoooo thought of this)...Well we chuck two of these bad boys through a living room window(that was open)....the things go BOOOOOMMMM in a big way and end up blowing out all the windows that were left in the building.....AND...the worst part...blew out the windows in the engine, the truck, the tanker...and the even worse part....in both the deputy cheif and the Fire cheifs car.....lets just say I had a nice UN paid holiday.....But it was still KICK assCheers....vasbytmarc"I have no fear of falling, I just hate hitting the ground"-The Badlees... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Schroeder 0 #15 April 4, 2002 Back in highschool, I read someplace that if you mix a certain chemical with ordinary sugar, to some specific ratio I wont mention here, and melt them down, then pour then into a mold or some sort, you can make a smoke bomb. Soooo I'm sitting in chem class one day, look over, see a HUGE canister of the chemical I need, and get to thinking........ hmmmmm...... ok. Yoink! Grab it, and make my get away. A few days later, I'm in my mom's kitchen during my spare, she's at work, and I go to town making this stuff. Apparently you don't need much. Well anyways, the phone rang, I ran to get it, and when I got back to the stove where I was melting the sugar down, well, I could hardly find the stove. But I know that it's only gonna get worse if I don't get the pot outside, so I fumble around, grab the pot and run like hell for the door. That house was _completely_ white. And thank-god, I managed to cross vent it quick enough before my parents found out.... there were some cool success stories with that stuff though, like putting in in a Frisk mint container, and putting match heads in the mix before it set. That little container could fill a room pretty quickly! But then I started wondering about the smoke..... I figured it wasn't toooo healthy, so quit messing around."If I ventured in the slipstream; Between the via-ducts of your dreams.......could you find me?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheMarshMan1 0 #16 April 4, 2002 Anyone know what a Thundermug is? hehehe...those things are nuts. One time we set an old VCR on top of one, and let it rip. There was pieces of that thing (the VCR) raining down for quite some time...and a good bunch of it was stuck up in top of a big tree, lol. "If I could be like that, I would give anything, just to live one day, in those shoes..." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,107 #17 April 4, 2002 >I think these guys take the cake for 'guy-thread' activities . . .One of the ultimate guy things to do is to take a charcoal grill, put some charcoal in it, put a burning match on top, then pour about 2 gallons of liquid oxygen on top. The grill is ready to cook hamburgers in about 5 seconds, and the mushroom cloud is pretty cool too.-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scottbre 0 #18 April 4, 2002 Yea, cause we all got extra liquid oxygen laying around. "Fixing the world through self-destruction." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #19 April 4, 2002 Quote The grill is ready to cook hamburgers in about 5 seconds...That's a badass video. I'll have to see if I can find a link to it. Of course, the grill is slag by the end so cooking burgers on it isn't really an option...--Brian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #20 April 4, 2002 Wow....that video was cool! I could be wrong but I think that's a Dragon. I didn't know those things worked that well. Hmmm....explosives......I got to spend a day playing with C-4 once in the military. Made a nice block that popped the turret off a T-55 tank like a bottle cap. Det cord is great for opening doors. Ummm.....the Army almost killed me once. We were doing this really cool "Firepower Demo" for the Secretary of the Army. The plan was......A few artillery shells hit the objective. Then my team runs out 300 meters into a clump of bushes. That left us in the open about 300 meters from the objective. No cover at all. Well.....we run out. Bring in some airplanes. The A-10's do a nice job of strafing some trucks and dropped a couple bombs. We had briefed them the day prior that they had 2 minutes total. Well...they seemed to think it was 2 minutes to screw around and then they might leave. They fly out deeper into the rangewith about 20 seconds left. I'm thinking....you guys really need to get going. My time keeper yells 10 seconds left. I'm beginning to get a little nervous since these guys are just now turning around to fly out. Next thing I know I hear someone yelling RUN!!!!! I look back to see the artillery observer about 20 steps behind me and running to beat hell. About then the airplanes are coming back over the target area at about 300 Ft on their way out. A 105 MM artillery round goes off right under his nose. The pilot asks "Is that artillery down there?" I just start yelling ABORT! ABORT! ABORT! in the mike. Meanwhile, many other rounds are landing. I can hear the shrapnel flying by. I don't even have a damn vest on!!! We all ran like hell back up the hill. With a 20 LB radio on my back. By the some miracle none of us actually got hit........."I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me!"-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kmcguffee 0 #21 April 4, 2002 Quoteput a burning match on top, then pour about 2 gallons of liquid oxygen on topLOL......now dats a fire! Just roll uncle Eddie around a little bit, he'll be awright. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kmcguffee 0 #22 April 4, 2002 QuoteI could be wrong but I think that's a Dragon. Nope, it's a Javelin. Says so in the top right hand corner of my Windows Media Player. Javelin is replacing the Dragon. Has a top down attack, yada, yada, yada, and is alot harder to shoot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #23 April 4, 2002 I saw this truck full of mexicans pulling a trailer that had a big ass propane tank (like the ones you see by gas stations - you know, the BIG OLE ONES) all painted orange with some contraptions on it.. turned out to be a pumpkin cannon, same concept as a potatoe gun.. not sure if it was powered by propane or not :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #24 April 4, 2002 QuoteSays so in the top right hand corner of my Windows Media PlayerOhhhh.....I was just going by the launch tube. Looks just like a Dragon tube. I seem to remember hearing something about the Javelin. Certainly obliterated that T-64. Thats some impressive stuff! I wish I had a job in Maryland like that....."I'm a danger to myself and everyone around me!"-Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #25 April 4, 2002 Holy crap..http://detnews.com/2000/livingston/0010/29/c10-140857.htmThis one kinda beats the last post I put up :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
