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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 13, 2006 17:25:41 GMT -5
i was outside using my new leaf blower and trying to set little fires when the fellow putting in my heaters and water couldn't stand it and put some gas on my leaves - KABOOM! blew half of them back out of my piles lol. y'all just cannot stand a slow fire can you? my husband does the same thing and when the post man came he said it was what he'd have done too.
kim
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drupe
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Post by drupe on Nov 13, 2006 18:14:23 GMT -5
The older you get, the more the repressed kid comes out and I'm having a ball.
Keep um' rollin
Pete
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 14, 2006 10:33:19 GMT -5
yeh, i think all men are pyros at heart. they also get a large charge out of blowing stuff up.
KD
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 14, 2006 12:37:29 GMT -5
just so you know - hubby didn't get home until after dark but couldn't stand that i had "made fire" so he promptly set about one upping my fire. he won lol.
kim
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Post by joe on Nov 14, 2006 23:08:48 GMT -5
Well of course, that sounds reasonable to me. They should have let the gas soak in longer. It might have "poofed" less.
What's a "little" fire?
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KG1960
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Post by KG1960 on Nov 15, 2006 14:09:21 GMT -5
Try this: Put the gas on the leaf pile and then dribble a trail of gas a distance away. Light the end of the trail. You can watch the flame travel down the trail and then POOF when it gets to the pile. Cool!
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Post by sandsman1 on Nov 15, 2006 16:00:28 GMT -5
haha kim i thought you was gonna say bill set one of them big ole trees on fire hahaha remember just before i left he had a good one goin in that big clearing behind your house hahaha was a goody
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 16, 2006 2:27:36 GMT -5
you know he did do that once so he's not beyond it. his son called me and told on him. "daddy set your tree on fire and has called the fire department". they didn't get here fast enough and it killed my tree! and he set a pasture on fire once too!
kim
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 16, 2006 9:40:07 GMT -5
note to self: never let my husband meet yours......
KD
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Post by takilasunrise on Nov 16, 2006 10:34:29 GMT -5
Yes, husbands are definately closet pyros! Hey, Earthdog, remember our last camping trip and the charcoal lighter fluid wasn't strong enough for you to start the campfire? So what does he decide to use? The gas you use in the lanterns and camping stove! The poor tree above the campfire never felt so hot! We didn't have any mosquitos, though!
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 17, 2006 9:49:42 GMT -5
my father used to light the charcoal grill with an acetylene torch, 'nuff said.
KD
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Post by parfive on Nov 17, 2006 23:43:17 GMT -5
That's what I use to light the wood stove. Can't beat a self-igniting Bernz-O-Matic.
Click . . . . . Fire!
Rich
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spikeict
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Post by spikeict on Nov 20, 2006 15:50:06 GMT -5
I have decided that is why I smoke, I can have fire two inches from my face without someone yelling at me.
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Post by 181lizard on Nov 20, 2006 19:13:10 GMT -5
God! This stuff sounds soooo familiar!
About 17 years ago on 4th of July, husband had gone north to Reservation & bought the "good" fireworks. We were at my folks house where I grew up. Couple of acres, no trees.
He doesn't tell anyone what he's lighting...just makes us watch & tells everyone to stay clear. I swear to God! It was a cannonball lookin thing as big as his fist. He lites it & throws it like a softball. Loudest damn noise we'd ever heard & the crater it blew in the pasture, we coulda buried a horse in. Don't know how the windows stayed intact...
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Post by ladyt on Nov 21, 2006 16:02:15 GMT -5
Oh My! They start young too! I was just starting a fire in the fireplace and my son had to come over and investigate. Then he had to tell me how to do it ( as if I've never done it before). I got it going and it was just fine. I went outside for 5 minutes and when I got back in, he said," Here ya go Mom. I fixed it for you." I thought I was going to have to call the fire dept.! He had the biggest fire going. Took about 15 neverous minutes for it to dye down enough for me to move the screen and spread it out alittle. Thank gosh his father wasn't home. I definatley would have called!!! Tonja  |
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Post by BAZ on Nov 21, 2006 18:48:21 GMT -5
Bernz- O - Matic, yep that is how I start my campfires, that and a little white gas! I was on my parents ranch with a buddy one time and my stepfather had bulldozed some trees to make more pasture. He had the timber piles up to about the size of a 2-story house. When me and Joe pulled into the ranch he said in his Oklahoma drawl, "You boys wanna light these on fire?" With Diesel fuel and propane burners we went, the piles got so big and hot we had to stand about 50 feet away and they burned and smoldered for the entire 5 days we were there. Now that was an awesome vacation! Guns, fireworks, quads, beer, fishing and the largest campfires in the state of Oklahoma! (still got all my limbs too)  |
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