that looks foolish i saw a whale that was blown up and up and up and came down destroying a car and allmost killing a bunch of people. again very foolish
Wow, I didn't know black powder was still used for anything like this. I figured professionally they would use "safer" slurry explosives instead of static sensitive propellants. Of course I suppose ANY amount of ANFO large enough to be detonated would have turned half this log into a million deadly toothpicks and sent the other half into town.
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Germany would already be the leading country had not the americans interfered during 2wars.Today Germany is infiltratin as many countries as possible with snitchers.They are using brainwashing techniques to subdue the local governments and eliminate any opposition
My brother Markus Bott had been tortured during 5.5years and was assassinated on 11.7.09 because of our homepage
I'd love to do this when prepearing firewood since there often is some logs that is very hard to split with axe. Too bad you need a special licence to buy black powder in my contry.
I'm always amused at the nervous giggles that seem to accompany the use of explosives, no matter how legitimate. (A friend of mine worked at the Nevada Test Site and confirmed that even seasoned engineers snickered a bit when they set off nukes powerful enough to make the ground shake in Vegas.)
Several old-timers here told me this was a common technique for splitting large logs back when hydraulic splitters weren't readily available. Thanks for posting this.
I have an old "Powder Wedge" that's like an artillery shell with about a 1" bore and a pointed muzzle end you drive into the log after loading like a cannon. The old timers say they used to blow 17 ft. logs all to hell using an ounce or less of black powder. Never tried it, but when I do I'll try to get a video of it and post it.
Didn't the Dukes of Hazard do that ?? Dynamite tree stumps ?
TNT & Dynamite make me very nervous. Thats likely the reasdn I still sleep with Paddington bear. Even so, its fun to say the word Toluene... say it with me, T-O-L-U-E-N-E yay
i did not say "this tree" is renewable, dipshit. i said "trees" are renewable.....
look around you!!!! dont know where you might be,,, unless you live in a protected area of national forest or or in the middle of a state park. you see the renewable resource every day!!!!! there is not alot of old growth around for the average city dewler to see!!! go look around and see the little saplings growing!!! guess the guys i the video should have danced around naked and then planted it again!!!!
Thanks for the proof of ignorance. The tree is being recycled into useful products after being felled by weather. There were no saws big enough to cut it. Why don't you be a little less know-it-all and little more willing to learn?
@sasktank And just how do you propose to transport this giant tree all the way to the West coast of Canada? Going to put it in the back of a pickup truck? These things matter.
@CMFKMOB Yeah, they could haul it to the closest massive log splitter... OR they could NOT spend money transporting it, then having someone else do their work for them, using the relatively inexpensive way that they did.
No... my flash powder doesnt even light with a flame on it it needs to have a ember to ignite it and black powder burns with a flame also black powder has KNO3 in it and the smoke from it will make your heart pump slower so .... i think flash powder is better
except that static electricity can set off flash, blackpowder would be much harder to set off with electricity, and BP is better for splitting because it has a slwer delfagration, whic means that when it explodes it doesn't shatter as much so there are less splinters and more usable timber. also flash powder can be set off br friction.
yeah but that's not a friction test, a friction test is where you drag a weight across the top of the test. anyways use what you like, but BP rocks lol
No No I believe that was detonation. If it was deflagration it would've set fire to the thing. Detonation is where the pressure waves surpass the speed of sound and surmount on top of each other creating the force.
Yeah and if it was a detonation it would be MUCH more intense!! There's clearly no shock compression. Its simply a high speed deflagration. Detonation will not magically occur because a deflragrating propellant is contained/put under far more pressure.
well thats gonna make black wood and it wasent a real fast mix it was conpressed really well but its still not slow look at the smoke it takes along time for it to clear
How many pounds of bp does it take to make those logs move like that? Are you using standard bp (75% KNO3, 15% carbon, 10% sulfur) or modern ,nitrocellulose based, smokeless powder?
@UndoneB4Broken They used Sodium Nitrate blasting powder which is a poor substitute for real BP: they also used a "blasting gun" which is like a cannon inserted into the wood , loaded with blasting powder and lit via a fuse. Works every time. Blasting powder is C grade gunpowder and about half a cm round and looks silver due to the graphite on the outside. You never use this low grade black powder in firearms as the muck it creates is not worth it. Cannons..perhaps.
Its a combination of charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter (potassium nitrate), none of which is toxic. The sulfur is the worst of the mixture, but a little dust from the powder won't hurt you.
Yes, charcoal is a carcinogenic which means it will give you cancer. Potassium Nitrate can stop your heart and sulfur is a poison. Everything in the right doseage is poisonous even wood like Rose wood is toxic.
By The way, wanna see half filled and full filled pipe explosions?, you should watch "Real Homemade Cannon 2, and more" (in that video the explosion is of a half filled compressor, and the shots with the musket and the cannon were made with fullfilled pipe bombs)... and it´s always cool, but of course if you dont wanna waste powder, the "half" method should be used!
They Didn´t use a drill... how they did to put the B.Powder tihgt enough to blow it?... i mean i did something similar...but i had to use a drill, and then close the hole hermetically(after putting the BP inside) to take advantage of all the explosion power.
Right... hehe i just tought they would have showed it in the video, but they showed a man cutting the lumber with a power saw... not making a hole witha drill... i don´t know if they used one indeed, but i would like to learn other ways of putting the Bp charqe inside the lumber.
My thought was that the guy with the chainsaw was scoring it so it would break into chunks. I'm sure they planted the carge in there somehow, but better not to share it with the world. Wouldn't want to encourage wandering tree-trunk-exploding gangs! I like the laugh, btw; "hyuk hyuk hyuk!"
yeah you´re right about that of "not sharing it", by the way have you seen my Lumber splitting video ??..there´s where i used a drill (should watch it)
Nice explosion you had there. I was watching to see if a piece would hit the window in the background, though! Very well done video. I must soon post my videos of exploding pumpkins!
hahha.. yeah it was nice, but any piece hit the window... i´ll be waitng that videos, i´m also planning to upload some more videos... see you (or you videos)!
Rich??..hahahaha... it´s easy to split a lumber with some BP (I have a kind of small homemade version of lumber splitting, watch my vid and you´ll see you don´t need too much B.powder, the problem is that everyone underestimates it´s power...)
If the powder is tight enough in te hole... it should be the same... the lumber itself would be the "pipe"... But anyway as selby said : "rich? naaah...only took about 1/2 pound of well-placed black powder to split it the first time. maybe $30 buck "... and in my case, i think it was much more cheaper... with my pipe bomb i´m sure i didn´t spent more than $2...
You know its a waste of powder to "pack" it. The explosion is caused by the rapid expansion of gases as the powder burns. The explosion is caused by the pressure buildup inside the pipe. A pipe one-third full of powder and tightly sealed will create a stronger explosion than one packed full of powder. I've tested this.
I have tought the same a lot of times, and yes you are right, i don´t know if the explosion will be that stronger, but surely you won´t waste powder (that can be seen in the amount of fire and sparks the explosion does, because all that fire and sparks are produced when the "wasted" black powder burns in the air after the pipe explodes).
Yes it is a Waste of powder as you said, but i don´t know if the explosion would be so much stronger... because the pressure that bulids up inside the pipe does not change, it´s always the same, so if you have more or less powder inside the only thing that will noticeabely change is the amount of fire that will be produced after the pipe explosion, because that fire is produced by the "wasted" powder, that couldn´t burn inside the pipe.
The other thing I've done is throw small camp stove propane cylinders into bonfires, and the cylinders we thought were empty made HUGE explosions, where the ones that were full just spit open and blew fire everywhere. Both were cool, but the extra space allows for the gases to expand more rapidly and "detonate" the container rather than simply burst it. But you r explosions worked just fine, so I'm not complaining!
yes you´re perfectly right about that of the propane, and it happens the same if you wanna blow a car.. it explodes better if te tank is half empty...
With the powder is not so easy i think, because the powder does not makes gases before burning, while the gasoline and the propane do (and their gases are more flamable than the gasoline or the liquid propane itself).
Have you ever blew a stump? We had a Oak stump about 4 foot across, drilled & charged the hole with 25 sticks and 5 gallons of Nitro. Repacked with wet mud and used Dozer to pack tight, then touched off. Bye Bye Oak stump. Could have dug it out with the backhoe, but sticks and nitro sure saves on the diesel. A real time saver
I didn't do this. I got the video from the website for Popular Woodworking magazine. You can find info about the article by searching popularwoodworkingdotcom for article id 14449.
Nice. I almost got killed doing this once. Cut a hole in a big log (3' x 3')with a chain saw. Poured in some black powder and used a long length of canon fuse. Thing was I only had a little canon fuse coming out of the hole. I did not realize as soon as the fuse got over the edge of the hole sparks would set off the BP. Big hunk nearly missed my head.
I think the point of using a low-explosive like black powder was to split the log while keeping as much as possible intact for building stuff out of... A more powerful explosive would have turned valuble wood into worthless splinters.
that looks foolish i saw a whale that was blown up and up and up and came down destroying a car and allmost killing a bunch of people. again very foolish
1weside 3 hours ago
1:08 fast click button to explosion :)
pyrotechnics100 4 days ago
dude tbh that looks like a shit load of fun
what ever works lol
tecknorapid 2 months ago
Wow, I didn't know black powder was still used for anything like this. I figured professionally they would use "safer" slurry explosives instead of static sensitive propellants. Of course I suppose ANY amount of ANFO large enough to be detonated would have turned half this log into a million deadly toothpicks and sent the other half into town.
BigBananaMan 3 months ago
i got a splinter
JackSamuelMusic 3 months ago
Yee haw
hangover71 3 months ago
If you just want to see the explosion 1:33
emima03 4 months ago
People are getting lazy....if a computer was able to crack or hack that tree they would have used it.
Za7a7aZ 4 months ago
hard hat area!!!!!
williamanthony25 5 months ago
lol
tinyed33 6 months ago
Did you guys use a det to blow that log, or just powder.I have a big gum to split.
Mudwiggler 7 months ago
thats one big ass trunck
TheBassfishinboy 8 months ago
NICCCE.
askaboutRudyV 8 months ago
bet these guys never get bored at work, btw got a space for an apprentice?!!!
lenthesniper 8 months ago
I think you used a right bit to much PAPPY....! = )
yourneck2 9 months ago
German WW2 grenade, but a little bigger! ;-)
periesicsd 10 months ago
Id give a bunch to get in on that
koolruss1 11 months ago
INCOMING!!!
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My brother Markus Bott had been tortured during 5.5years and was assassinated on 11.7.09 because of our homepage
wwwtotalitaerde 1 year ago
Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?
specter2205 1 year ago
how many blck powder do they use to blow up that log 10kg??
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I'd love to do this when prepearing firewood since there often is some logs that is very hard to split with axe. Too bad you need a special licence to buy black powder in my contry.
SkyyCaptainn 1 year ago
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SkyyCaptainn 1 year ago
Awesome
Jman999000 1 year ago
I'm always amused at the nervous giggles that seem to accompany the use of explosives, no matter how legitimate. (A friend of mine worked at the Nevada Test Site and confirmed that even seasoned engineers snickered a bit when they set off nukes powerful enough to make the ground shake in Vegas.)
Several old-timers here told me this was a common technique for splitting large logs back when hydraulic splitters weren't readily available. Thanks for posting this.
8enbloc 1 year ago
Now that was cool...
Sreewtyui 1 year ago
thats one big piece of wood... remonds me of mine XD! omg! wat is he doing! AHHHH! HES CUTTING IT!
weirdone17 1 year ago
Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly sheep shit!!!
dggfhdfghdf 1 year ago
Coolest job ever ^^ Blowing wood apart with blackpowder.
NickDevXT 1 year ago
thats a fat C tree
EaglemanX3Gorilla 1 year ago
That's what I call a great day at the office!
logalognet 1 year ago
black powder works for everything
MrHairymanback 1 year ago
You could use black powder to remove a dent from a car door.
seapeddler 1 year ago
I have an old "Powder Wedge" that's like an artillery shell with about a 1" bore and a pointed muzzle end you drive into the log after loading like a cannon. The old timers say they used to blow 17 ft. logs all to hell using an ounce or less of black powder. Never tried it, but when I do I'll try to get a video of it and post it.
I wonder how Pyrodex would work?
UncleJaque 2 years ago
its pre cut.....that suck
xlechasseurx 2 years ago
"..think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
jacktheripped 2 years ago
BOOM! YAY!
DanversState 2 years ago
this just proves that there is nothing that can't be solved by the use of high explosives
pythongunner 2 years ago
But you see black powder is a low explosive yes still powerfull but it just burns realy fast =)
gott3145 2 years ago
@pythongunner black powder is far from a high explosive
elliotmotoX 2 years ago 5
bloody hell how much did they use lol
still bloody good , makes me wanna go make some :P
jimly976 2 years ago
An explosion always lifts everyones spirits : )
Geminimissions 2 years ago 4
would love to do a sculpture out of that log
cekinxxx 2 years ago
LOL almost like fishing with TNT hehehe hill billie way yeehaaaa
pipe086 2 years ago
and long live crocodile dundee loool :D (or not cuz the guy's dead already :( )
rmourita 2 years ago
great success, jaegkshemaksh
Mr000Hyde 2 years ago
get a 'lucas mill' fellas..that log is just starting to be the perfect size!
oneskypuppy 2 years ago
anyone remember blowing stumps out of the ground with dynamite in the old days?
kinghowie8 2 years ago
Didn't the Dukes of Hazard do that ?? Dynamite tree stumps ?
TNT & Dynamite make me very nervous. Thats likely the reasdn I still sleep with Paddington bear. Even so, its fun to say the word Toluene... say it with me, T-O-L-U-E-N-E yay
djarum41 2 years ago
i did not say "this tree" is renewable, dipshit. i said "trees" are renewable.....
look around you!!!! dont know where you might be,,, unless you live in a protected area of national forest or or in the middle of a state park. you see the renewable resource every day!!!!! there is not alot of old growth around for the average city dewler to see!!! go look around and see the little saplings growing!!! guess the guys i the video should have danced around naked and then planted it again!!!!
tbroofer 2 years ago
Super Dumb...rofl
adamalden 2 years ago
tree huggers really dont have a clue!!!
trees are a RENEWABLE resource.
i dont think they waisted it!!!
tbroofer 2 years ago
Thanks for the proof of ignorance. The tree is being recycled into useful products after being felled by weather. There were no saws big enough to cut it. Why don't you be a little less know-it-all and little more willing to learn?
AbnerStinqort 2 years ago 24
@AbnerStinqort ---there IS saws big enough to cut this--on the west coast of Canada this tree isnt big--------loggers fall way bigger ones every day
sasktank 1 year ago 2
@sasktank And just how do you propose to transport this giant tree all the way to the West coast of Canada? Going to put it in the back of a pickup truck? These things matter.
AbnerStinqort 1 year ago
@AbnerStinqort you actuall coud get a truck large enough to carry this and you could fly it there on a plane
CMFKMOB 1 year ago
@CMFKMOB Yeah, they could haul it to the closest massive log splitter... OR they could NOT spend money transporting it, then having someone else do their work for them, using the relatively inexpensive way that they did.
ImWatchinTheTube 8 months ago
@sasktank Maybe there are saws big enough but is it as fun as blowing stuff up with black powder? I think not.
cnoyes72 1 year ago 2
I didn't realize how big the log was until the guy entered the frame.
SeanBuehler 2 years ago 3
did they stand enought the job saw these wood all day ?
kk1kane 2 years ago
W{}W very Impressive Bp is the BEST Awsome I love it! rawrr
Vernichtungslager666 2 years ago
Not only is the title of this great, but it was an impressive explosion.
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Next time use a H-bomb
kaziklu79 2 years ago
sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
markis8441 2 years ago
LOL, thats' not work, that's you guys having a great day at work!
nwmissy88 2 years ago 27
COOL! lots of firewood for eveyone
RJM1011 2 years ago
to bad sucah big trees are getting rare :s althou i love lumberjackin but i can't agree with that :s
cool explosion thou :)
destroyer4416 3 years ago
except black powder is far more stable and makes more gaseous products. flash powder has almost no real use
nirvanafan833 3 years ago
No... my flash powder doesnt even light with a flame on it it needs to have a ember to ignite it and black powder burns with a flame also black powder has KNO3 in it and the smoke from it will make your heart pump slower so .... i think flash powder is better
flashsn1pe 2 years ago
except that static electricity can set off flash, blackpowder would be much harder to set off with electricity, and BP is better for splitting because it has a slwer delfagration, whic means that when it explodes it doesn't shatter as much so there are less splinters and more usable timber. also flash powder can be set off br friction.
nirvanafan833 2 years ago 4
it all depends on the type If you hit a hammer on kclo3/al flash it will detonate but with kclo4/al it wont
flashsn1pe 2 years ago
yeah but that's not a friction test, a friction test is where you drag a weight across the top of the test. anyways use what you like, but BP rocks lol
nirvanafan833 2 years ago 3
i suggest flash powder cuz you can whip it up in two minutes but with black powder you have to wait like a day to ball mill it
flashsn1pe 2 years ago
yeah true but you can just CIA it and get decent BP pretty quickly, and it's safe to store. anyways.
nirvanafan833 2 years ago 3
God bless America!!!
Deltar15m4a3 3 years ago
hee hee hee hee
SlickVega 3 years ago
This Video is awsomew no matter how many times i watch it.
rootsxrocks 3 years ago
Why didnt they blow up that mother of a log in the beginning that the tractor was lifting
Finklestein13b 3 years ago
Thats one way to split a log - beware of log shrapnel.
Chickenhawk9932 3 years ago
deflagration at its best
Juicetech 3 years ago
No No I believe that was detonation. If it was deflagration it would've set fire to the thing. Detonation is where the pressure waves surpass the speed of sound and surmount on top of each other creating the force.
JetJockey87 3 years ago
Yeah and if it was a detonation it would be MUCH more intense!! There's clearly no shock compression. Its simply a high speed deflagration. Detonation will not magically occur because a deflragrating propellant is contained/put under far more pressure.
Juicetech 3 years ago
Sure are some BIG pieces of firewood there, huh?!! Good look getting into your HOUSE! Much LESS the fireplace, LOL!
HogRebel 3 years ago
well thats gonna make black wood and it wasent a real fast mix it was conpressed really well but its still not slow look at the smoke it takes along time for it to clear
ILOVEKATIE96 3 years ago
Come on, does anyone really read
'Popular Woodworking'?
4darin5 3 years ago 2
Yes...those of us that are not fascinated by pin hole photography, art, fasion and wearing our mommy's clothes read "Popular Woodworking".
cabritorsss 3 years ago 6
that was awesome
Gaia287 3 years ago
Kids........ Do not try this at home. lol
Brian567899 3 years ago 6
Which inclines me even more to
TRY THIS AT HOME! :D
guitar23man23 3 years ago 3
lol it's the "don't look" theory, it never works :)
nirvanafan833 3 years ago
neighbor thinking...Dang kids and their no good friends!
XxZenrag102Xx 3 years ago
SPLINTER IN MY EYE!!!!
alwinovich 3 years ago
Thats alot of toothpicks
shastabasket 3 years ago 3
yayayayaayayayayayayayayaayy thats my style:D i like lazy work the easy way out is always to use explosives
strpoop 4 years ago 4
How many pounds of bp does it take to make those logs move like that? Are you using standard bp (75% KNO3, 15% carbon, 10% sulfur) or modern ,nitrocellulose based, smokeless powder?
PixelPi 4 years ago
Please read my description of the video. I did not do this.
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
@AbnerStinqort question still remains...... HOW MUCH BP WAS USED?????
UndoneB4Broken 7 months ago
@UndoneB4Broken They used Sodium Nitrate blasting powder which is a poor substitute for real BP: they also used a "blasting gun" which is like a cannon inserted into the wood , loaded with blasting powder and lit via a fuse. Works every time. Blasting powder is C grade gunpowder and about half a cm round and looks silver due to the graphite on the outside. You never use this low grade black powder in firearms as the muck it creates is not worth it. Cannons..perhaps.
nicksynnz 3 months ago
Is there smoke?
Malaachi 3 years ago
@PixelPi
I need to know as well, but for the other splitting vids, it looks like their using reg. BP.
Let me know if you find out. :)
dggfhdfghdf 1 year ago
@PixelPi
Due to all the smoke, i don't think it was the smokeless powder.
GiggleGuyz 1 year ago
@PixelPi hmm there most likely using store bought blackpowder (most likely blasting grade) you can buy it at alot of gun shopes or order it online
camerl2009 8 months ago
i sell firewood...and to think all this time i been splitting by hand!!!! LMAO! great video
porkchp1 4 years ago 6
coooooool
gandb21 4 years ago
Can black powder be harmful if u breath it in when your handling it or do u have to wear a mask
thepyroman88 4 years ago
Its a combination of charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter (potassium nitrate), none of which is toxic. The sulfur is the worst of the mixture, but a little dust from the powder won't hurt you.
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
Yes, charcoal is a carcinogenic which means it will give you cancer. Potassium Nitrate can stop your heart and sulfur is a poison. Everything in the right doseage is poisonous even wood like Rose wood is toxic.
Malaachi 3 years ago
everything gives you cancer.
The best thing to do if you are a pyro is to drink a lot of green tea...
MDHmodder 3 years ago 2
yeah every day on the news they find something else that gives you cancer...
THIS JUST IN!!!! EATING BROCCOLI GIVES YOU CANCER!
trezza181 3 years ago 2
lol and working :P scratch that this just in life gives you cancer
just1ofgod 3 years ago 2
a lazy man's job :P
curahack 4 years ago 2
that was fat
420xwaytoomanyx420 4 years ago
Should try that on a telephone pole.
underablackflag 4 years ago
thats one way to get fire wood
southernwalnutt6283 4 years ago
amen brother
poopshooter720 4 years ago
By The way, wanna see half filled and full filled pipe explosions?, you should watch "Real Homemade Cannon 2, and more" (in that video the explosion is of a half filled compressor, and the shots with the musket and the cannon were made with fullfilled pipe bombs)... and it´s always cool, but of course if you dont wanna waste powder, the "half" method should be used!
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
They Didn´t use a drill... how they did to put the B.Powder tihgt enough to blow it?... i mean i did something similar...but i had to use a drill, and then close the hole hermetically(after putting the BP inside) to take advantage of all the explosion power.
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
Why do you think they didn't use a drill?
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
Right... hehe i just tought they would have showed it in the video, but they showed a man cutting the lumber with a power saw... not making a hole witha drill... i don´t know if they used one indeed, but i would like to learn other ways of putting the Bp charqe inside the lumber.
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
My thought was that the guy with the chainsaw was scoring it so it would break into chunks. I'm sure they planted the carge in there somehow, but better not to share it with the world. Wouldn't want to encourage wandering tree-trunk-exploding gangs! I like the laugh, btw; "hyuk hyuk hyuk!"
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
hahha nice laugh indeed!!...
yeah you´re right about that of "not sharing it", by the way have you seen my Lumber splitting video ??..there´s where i used a drill (should watch it)
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
Nice explosion you had there. I was watching to see if a piece would hit the window in the background, though! Very well done video. I must soon post my videos of exploding pumpkins!
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
hahha.. yeah it was nice, but any piece hit the window... i´ll be waitng that videos, i´m also planning to upload some more videos... see you (or you videos)!
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
hahahah i love these guys.
0212c 4 years ago
also you could just make your own black powder
HOCKEYNUT105 4 years ago
rich? naaah...only took about 1/2 pound of well-placed black powder to split it the first time. maybe $30 buck
selby06 4 years ago
do you have any idea how many POUNDS of blackpowder that would take? these guys must be rich
AirsoftLife 4 years ago
ya no kidding!
Later, Josh
MeHeartRosaku 4 years ago
Rich??..hahahaha... it´s easy to split a lumber with some BP (I have a kind of small homemade version of lumber splitting, watch my vid and you´ll see you don´t need too much B.powder, the problem is that everyone underestimates it´s power...)
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
alright...your's is a pipe bomb. this is pouring loose powder into a hole. plus this log is about 8 1/2 feet in diameter.
AirsoftLife 4 years ago
If the powder is tight enough in te hole... it should be the same... the lumber itself would be the "pipe"... But anyway as selby said : "rich? naaah...only took about 1/2 pound of well-placed black powder to split it the first time. maybe $30 buck "... and in my case, i think it was much more cheaper... with my pipe bomb i´m sure i didn´t spent more than $2...
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
i've tried it with a much smaller tree. simply blew out the plug. i've only had luck with high explosives.
AirsoftLife 4 years ago
You know its a waste of powder to "pack" it. The explosion is caused by the rapid expansion of gases as the powder burns. The explosion is caused by the pressure buildup inside the pipe. A pipe one-third full of powder and tightly sealed will create a stronger explosion than one packed full of powder. I've tested this.
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
I have tought the same a lot of times, and yes you are right, i don´t know if the explosion will be that stronger, but surely you won´t waste powder (that can be seen in the amount of fire and sparks the explosion does, because all that fire and sparks are produced when the "wasted" black powder burns in the air after the pipe explodes).
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
Yes it is a Waste of powder as you said, but i don´t know if the explosion would be so much stronger... because the pressure that bulids up inside the pipe does not change, it´s always the same, so if you have more or less powder inside the only thing that will noticeabely change is the amount of fire that will be produced after the pipe explosion, because that fire is produced by the "wasted" powder, that couldn´t burn inside the pipe.
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
The other thing I've done is throw small camp stove propane cylinders into bonfires, and the cylinders we thought were empty made HUGE explosions, where the ones that were full just spit open and blew fire everywhere. Both were cool, but the extra space allows for the gases to expand more rapidly and "detonate" the container rather than simply burst it. But you r explosions worked just fine, so I'm not complaining!
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
yes you´re perfectly right about that of the propane, and it happens the same if you wanna blow a car.. it explodes better if te tank is half empty...
With the powder is not so easy i think, because the powder does not makes gases before burning, while the gasoline and the propane do (and their gases are more flamable than the gasoline or the liquid propane itself).
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
lol, i wouldnt want shards flying in my face,llol nice vid
BakerSkateTeam 4 years ago
I think it's a very effecient way of splitting wood!
airgunsniper 4 years ago
When you're young, you play around, when you get older, you watch young boys play.....
generalgruesbeck 4 years ago
Have you ever blew a stump? We had a Oak stump about 4 foot across, drilled & charged the hole with 25 sticks and 5 gallons of Nitro. Repacked with wet mud and used Dozer to pack tight, then touched off. Bye Bye Oak stump. Could have dug it out with the backhoe, but sticks and nitro sure saves on the diesel. A real time saver
generalgruesbeck 4 years ago
i wish people would READ THE DESCRIPTION before flaming everyone
jtmitch222 4 years ago
WHAT A WASTE OF LUMBER
tselegala 4 years ago
Did you miss the entire point of blowing it apart - so that the pieces could be made into lumber? It was too big to saw up, as one piece.
Sheesh.
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
lol!! nice vid
shitpickle1128 4 years ago
that's pretty cool.
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YoSoySweetass 4 years ago
wow impressively controlled
OrganicDrew 4 years ago
Get errrrrr done!
yomidr19 4 years ago
hillbillies!
d4yogurt 4 years ago
Classic!
Salival101 4 years ago
nice vid,,,, how much of a load did you put into it? Did you drill holes or slot it with a chainsaw?
cheers!
noshi69 4 years ago
I didn't do this. I got the video from the website for Popular Woodworking magazine. You can find info about the article by searching popularwoodworkingdotcom for article id 14449.
AbnerStinqort 4 years ago
JA..COOL...i have similar small homemade version of this video...and other explosive stuff, watch em...you won´t regret...
ssaannttiiaaggoo99 4 years ago
tree fell in forest and nobody heard so why not blow it up...lol
Aloud11 4 years ago
I bet that tree was beautiful when it was alive...
small256 4 years ago
Yeah, but who saw it?
johnnyduxford 4 years ago
doesn't have to be seen to be beautiful of course. but fair point!
small256 4 years ago
nobody lives forever.i love that blast. norway
chevroletg30 4 years ago
No, it wasn't. I used to hang out at this tree all the time. It wasn't that great.
guapowesley 4 years ago
agreed. a detonation would have rendered the whole thing useless. BP does a clean job when it deflagrates.
Necr0manzer 5 years ago
HOW MUCH black powder and how is it ignited?
loki1066 5 years ago
yeah dat was aiight. i enjoy a bit of flame tho ya know?
OptimusNotSoPrime 5 years ago
Nice. I almost got killed doing this once. Cut a hole in a big log (3' x 3')with a chain saw. Poured in some black powder and used a long length of canon fuse. Thing was I only had a little canon fuse coming out of the hole. I did not realize as soon as the fuse got over the edge of the hole sparks would set off the BP. Big hunk nearly missed my head.
dfcurran 5 years ago
I would say: Treebeard myth busted
toynbee01 5 years ago
I think the point of using a low-explosive like black powder was to split the log while keeping as much as possible intact for building stuff out of... A more powerful explosive would have turned valuble wood into worthless splinters.
CoWolArc 5 years ago
use somthing more powerful
ouint 5 years ago
That 1st explosion looked like when I threw a pipe bomb in an old speedboat(Have it on camera)
RampinUp46 5 years ago
Real men play with HEs.
ExplodingTeeth 5 years ago
I now know what grown ups do at work all day lol nice video guys
johnweb7 5 years ago
That's freakin' sweet man!
shellshot 5 years ago