Apr 09 2009
Fear the Hawk from Iowa
A site that I visit from time to time is Iowahawk, a satirical writer and car enthusiast. Recently, he has also become a force to be reckoned with in his satire of the new race for nuclear arsenals.
Of course, it’s merely coincidental that I tracked back to his site. In no way do I fear him or his trailer park cohorts. Plus his firepower doesn’t equal the vintage cherrybombs that our neighbor Mr. Wilson gave my brothers and I. And we still have a secret weapon – our Dad, who in his misspent youth discovered that quartered sticks of dynamite made AWESOME firecrackers.
Iowahawk versus Michigan’s Thumb.
It’d be brilliant if I weren’t dead in the middle…
This made me laugh.
We did some crazy stuff with firecrackers etc too.
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Amongst my grandfather’s things was encountered a half-gross of M-80s. I still have a decent selection of them many years later. One HELL of a loud noise.
I’ve found the pickup armature of a dumpster to be quite effective. Not only does it contain shrapnel as well as blast harmlessly, and is located at a suitable height for “light and promptly get away”, you will find that a mostly empty dumpster does a very good job with the resonance effects.
P.S., I have found, if you want to extend the fuse notably, that paper twist-ties (even plastic ones, often) are quite effective for this. Tie the end around the fuse a twist or two, and extend it out. The paper burns readily but slowly, the wire keeps it elevated and able to continue burning, and it will eventually reach the fuse and ignite it.
That won’t work in windy conditions, but you need to be extra careful about that sort of thing, anyway.
My father found that a culvert near a lake was the prime location, as the boom carries for several miles and can’t be pinpointed accurately by police.
I admit I’d be leery of dumpsters, having seen too many of them aflame (although I suppose that could be the allure – the chance that someone had disposed of flammables in the very dumpster in which you ignited firecrackers!)
> I admit I’d be leery of dumpsters
Ah, you’re not thinking right. I didn’t say IN the dumpster, I said in the pickup armature — that steel bracket on the outside of them that the dumptrucks pick them up by.
It’s a small space, about mid-torso height, and generally has nothing flammable inside it. It’s obviously heavy duty quarter-inch steel, and isn’t going to be even vaguely harmed by anything as small as a single M-80. But it’s right up against the dumpster so it uses the dumpster’s sides as a sounding board.
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I’m not thinking right? What, do I need to listen to Mark Levin and RushLimbaugh every day? Or if you mean I don’t think like you and therefore I’m not thinking correctly, well, that’s a bit presumptious on your part.
Seriously, I presumed you meant inside the dumpster because “armature” is the part of an electronic machine where the electromotive force is induced, such as the pivoted part that forms a relay. So what you meant was “aperture”, an opening or slit, in this case on theoutside of the dumpster?
Still, sorry it took so long to respond. Been afk for a while.