Drum Firing

What about this idea. You cut away a 55 gallon drum and mount an engine in it. The engine drives a propeller which sticks outside the front of the drum. You angle the drum on a launching device in the middle of a large muddy field. At laaunch time you rev the engine to achieve max thrust and you release the drum. It is propelled forward and upward and eventually downward till it hits the field. The field is marked in yards like a football field. The drum that travels the farthest from the launch point wins.

This could be the greatest thing since tobacco spitting and cow chip chucking.

Sounds a lot like punkin chunkin'.. You know firing pumpkins out of air cannons.. I seem to remember the record was near 4000 ft..... I may have the distance wrong, it was on Discovery channel a few years back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtKyC...eature=related

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Originally Posted by WA4TM

Sounds a lot like punkin chunkin'.. You know firing pumpkins out of air cannons.. I seem to remember the record was near 4000 ft..... I may have the distance wrong, it was on Discovery channel a few years back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtKyCrfmInA&feature=related

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Just checked out some videos on it. Seems they use both cannons and catapults. Looks like fun time.

One one show they were using the catapults to fling cars, and I was surprised in how far they went....

Of course it was hell on paint jobs!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyCJ69GU974&feature=related

Build it, do it, video it, post it on Youtube.

Here's a much classier concept... Gawd I loved this show! Yeah!

http://youtu.be/rJgt-HO0_kY

http://youtu.be/rJgt-HO0_kY

This was done for realsies at Burning Man...

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs


So, how about flinging Heathkit Sixers and Twoers? :lol:

Lotsa people with way too much time.....?

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Originally Posted by WØTKX

This was done for realsies at Burning Man...

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs


So, how about flinging Heathkit Sixers and Twoers? :lol:

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That's small potatoes......Valients, Apaches, DX-100's, GPT-750's, KW-1's, T-368's.

Town Cars, anyone?

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This was done for realsies at Burning Man...

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs
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There's nekkid wimmins there, too, from what I hear.

Yeah, but you wouldn't want to chuck, I SAY CHUCK, a nekkid wimmins.....would you? I wonder what the launch device would look like?

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Yeah, but you wouldn't want to chuck, I SAY CHUCK, a nekkid wimmins.....would you? I wonder what the launch device would look like?

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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bfb_1181177723

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Originally Posted by WØTKX

This was done for realsies at Burning Man...

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs


So, how about flinging Heathkit Sixers and Twoers? :lol:

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What a sad waste of a piano. Wouldn't it have been better to donate it to the Salvation Army or to a school or community center so maybe some poor kids could learn to play ? I may be old fashioned or naive or both but I could never understand the whole "burning man" thing. It is touted as some sort of celebration of art and expression that is supposedly "ahead of its time" but all I have ever seen of it is talentless pseudo-art. and assorted garbage. Why not call it what it is. An excuse to spend time getting drugged up and immersing ones self in a sea of decadence.

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An excuse to spend time getting drugged up and immersing ones self in a sea of decadence.

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You got a problem with that? :rofl:

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You got a problem with that?
:rofl:

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Actually nothing against it in and of itself.

I hear that in the early days of t Burning Man is was a cool event with a lot of cool people who were the real deal (i.e. artists, writers, musicians, thinkers, and other talented people). But I have heard it has more recently morphed into a watered down and more "commercialized" version that draws a lot of phonies and freeloaders. Since I have never been there I can't really judge. Plus, even if I were to go nowadays I would have nothing toi compare it to in as far as past events.

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Originally Posted by n2ize

Actually nothing against it in and of itself.

I hear that in the early days of t Burning Man is was a cool event with a lot of cool people who were the real deal (i.e. artists, writers, musicians, thinkers, and other talented people). But I have heard it has more recently morphed into a watered down and more "commercialized" version that draws a lot of phonies and freeloaders. Since I have never been there I can't really judge. Plus, even if I were to go nowadays I would have nothing toi compare it to in as far as past events.

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I've heard the same thing -- kind of a "ruined by success" story. I think there's still some major art there, but the scale is larger (I could see that as "commercialized" because it starts to leave the little guy out). More rules to keep the crowds down. I used to think it might be fun -- not so sure these days.

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I've heard the same thing -- kind of a "ruined by success" story. I think there's still some major art there, but the scale is larger (I could see that as "commercialized" because it starts to leave the little guy out). More rules to keep the crowds down. I used to think it might be fun -- not so sure these days.

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Kind of like when they tried to commercialize Woodstock in the 90s. $5 bottled water and $10 hotdogs and no coolers or snacks from outside the venue allowed.

Yuppystock, Point Pleasant Beach in summer, just add music. My thoughts summed up by a conversation in the real Woodstock movie.

What are you doing?
Filming a documentary.
Oh? What do you call it?
Port-O-San.

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Originally Posted by n2ize

Actually nothing against it in and of itself.

I hear that in the early days of t Burning Man is was a cool event with a lot of cool people who were the real deal (i.e. artists, writers, musicians, thinkers, and other talented people). But I have heard it has more recently morphed into a watered down and more "commercialized" version that draws a lot of phonies and freeloaders. Since I have never been there I can't really judge. Plus, even if I were to go nowadays I would have nothing toi compare it to in as far as past events.

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A type of gentrification occurred with Burning Man, as it did to the arts scenes in various locales throughout America. In Buffalo, Allentown has been taken over by hipsters, Elmwood Village is not full of yuppies, Hertel Ave. is no longer the center for the Italian population, and is now becoming the "New Allentown" as the center of arts.

It comes and goes in waves. Burning Man will get replaced with something like "Desert Journey" or something like that (Desert Journey was just made up by me, so if I find out any of you hipsters start a new Burning Man and call it Desert Journey, I want a cut of the profits, or at least a piece of art annually from it, or free tickets, or something).