Burning Ring of Fire!

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I just googled that. Wow, I'd risk a burning ring of fire for that pizza!

Man, it's to die for.. I could mail you a pie but, don't know how good it would be once it gets there!

[Bill Douglas]

Haha, thanks. But those big hungry UPS guys... The odds are not good.

[unclebilly]

Next time use an old tire or 2. Pour in some diesel and light that. The tire will get the wood going… and smoke like a house fire.

[Bugsinrugs]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

Next time use an old tire or 2. Pour in some diesel and light that. The tire will get the wood going… and smoke like a house fire.

Once that tire ignites there is no putting it out!!

[fastfredracing]

Yep, its amazing how much energy is stored in a tire . I have used old tires to help burn off stumps .

[fastfredracing]

Oh, and when I start fires with gas, I pour a long line of fuel about 20 feet away from the fire, and light that . It will go ,even on wet grass .
Make sure the gas can is far away, and that you have not dripped any fuel anywhere .
Whoooosh!

[Jolly Amaranto]

We had an old utility shed at the Armadillo Ranch in Central Texas that was infested with wasp hives and mice. It was one of those barn shaped deals that was on skids. We towed it out into the middle of a field to burn it. My son and nephews decided to make it into a spectacular bon fire. The plan was to hang a gallon glass jug full of gasoline with a rag in the top, Molotov Cocktail style, in the middle and break it with a rifle shot from a distance away. On a cold November evening they lit the rag and retreated. My nephew used his M1 Garland to shoot through the window but the shock wave blew the flame on the rag out and there was no ignition. What to do now. The back up was a roman candle. My son lit off the roman candle and started launching fire balls at the window from about 20 feet away. All of a sudden one wall of the shed was coming right at him while the roof went straight up while the other three walls blew out in the other quadrants. They had created an air fuel bomb. After things settled down they dragged all the walls back and piled them onto the pyre.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

We had an old utility shed at the Armadillo Ranch in Central Texas that was infested with wasp hives and mice. It was one of those barn shaped deals that was on skids. We towed it out into the middle of a field to burn it. My son and nephews decided to make it into a spectacular bon fire. The plan was to hang a gallon glass jug full of gasoline with a rag in the top, Molotov Cocktail style, in the middle and break it with a rifle shot from a distance away. On a cold November evening they lit the rag and retreated. My nephew used his M1 Garland to shoot through the window but the shock wave blew the flame on the rag out and there was no ignition. What to do now. The back up was a roman candle. My son lit off the roman candle and started launching fire balls at the window from about 20 feet away. All of a sudden one wall of the shed was coming right at him while the roof went straight up while the other three walls blew out in the other quadrants. They had created an air fuel bomb. After things settled down they dragged all the walls back and piled them onto the pyre.

I did something similar but on a much, much, MUCH smaller scale once with an empty soda cup from a fast food place and a little quick start spray (ether). I sprayed some in the cup (just a little), put the lid and straw back on and lit a match near the end of the straw. The top and straw blew off with a lovely little fireball. No damage to anything or anyone, even with me being at ground central.

[stevej37]

^^^
Ha!....I like the Roman candle method of starting the fire!
Just stand back and fire away.

[KFC911]

I keep clicking waiting for some JR Cash to be posted

[stevej37]

[KFC911]

Thank you !

[oldE]

I confess I thught this thread was going to be about three alarm chilli I'm relieved it is not.
.As a kid in my late teens, I was working for my BIL in the woods yarding logs. One of my jobs was to drive one of the tractors five miles back into where we were cutting and get the fire started in the stove in the "dinner camp" This was a board and tarpaper shed with a small stove inside There was a bench running down each side and it was a welcome place to get out of the cold on -25 degree F days.
We kept a jug of diesel hanging on a spike outside the door to facilitate the fire starting . Nothing special, just an old gallon jug. One morning, as I walked up to the camp, I saw a jug on the ground beside the door, so picked it up, went inside, lay the fire and tossed some of the contents of the jug into the stove. It wasn't diesel, but mixed gas for one of the chain saws. To confirm I stuck my head outside and checked the spike. Yep. There was my diesel jug, hanging where it was supposed to be. One of the sawyers had dropped his gas jug just outside the camp the afternoon before.
After some thought, I opened the damper in the flue, opened the camp door and the door of the stove, put a couple of pieces of wood on the plates on top of the stove and stood to one side.
When I flipped the match in, I was rewarded by a jet of flame out the door which sounded rather like a blow torch. It didn't take long before everything was up to temp.

Best
Les

[chrismorse]

as a kid, stuffed co2 cartridges with safety match heads.

progressed to co2 cartridges with fast burning pistol powder, (burried it half way into a eucalyptus tree.

made a pipe bomb out of i nch galvanized pipe, greased threads and threaded caps - launched the cap across the canyon.

Popped a half full can of starter fluid into a burn barrell - kind of tuff on the barrel.

Demolition asistant to company chemical/biological/radiological specialist, then the fun began - taught basic demolition skills and got to play with plastic explosive to cut steel, flipped an armored personal carrier, (previously trashed and relagated to the demo range), stuffed a 40 pound cratering charge under one side and flipped it over on its back. Once on its back, we stood a shapped charge on a wood box and blew a 8 inch hole through the APC tread, the engine block under it and the tread on the other side, WHOAAA

Then sat a 45 pound shapped charge on top of a 6 foot 6x6 railroad tie. Blew it into toothpicks and still punched a 8 inch hole in the ground.

But, to the OP's point, one of the most impressive demonstrations i ever saw was a gallon of gas in a milk carton touched off by a pencil sized military cap.

Impresivo... Gas deserves a bit of respect.
chris