pic: What Happens When You Work In Rural New Hampshire [Archive]

Petey

12-02-2005, 18:32

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Rick TYler

12-02-2005, 18:35

Must get boring in a place without any real mountains.

By the way, is that a compressed-air potato cannon? Cool. The ones I've been involved with have always gone *bang!*.

tiffany34990

12-02-2005, 18:38

hee hee looks like you guys are just having tons of fun

at least right then it's not snowing

robot building is better than shoveling snow

(yes i live in Florida but i have seen snow and shoveled it)

JakeGallagher

12-02-2005, 19:08

That's one hot spud gun. I made one this summer, but it's nowhere near as powerful as that one.
One word of caution: Make sure no by-the-book police find you playing with it, you're not supposed to have them here in NH. I got warned for firing mine down in the sandpits near Concord. :(

russell

12-02-2005, 21:04

Shovel snow? Get a snowblower. Trust me. My neighbor got smart and he has a winter home in Florida, so he lets me use his snowblower in return for me shoveling his steps whenever it snows.

Back "on topic", I love potato guns. Never actually had one myself though.. :( My parents wont let me.

Joel Glidden

12-02-2005, 21:10

I built one when I was 16-ish. It was great fun for a couple of weeks. Then it blew up in my hands. I came way-too-close-for-comfort to losing my right hand. It was black (bruised and useless) for a few weeks after that. Have fun folks, but be smart.

SMRT, smart!

-Joel

MJ Hastie

13-02-2005, 00:08

I built one when I was 16-ish. It was great fun for a couple of weeks. Then it blew up in my hands. I came way-too-close-for-comfort to losing my right hand. It was black (bruised and useless) for a few weeks after that. Have fun folks, but be smart.

:ahh: ouch! luckily I have never had that problem. potatoe cannons are fun to play with... my mom cant figure out why we are always out of potatoes ;) lol just be careful with them around dogs. mine goes physco when ever it fires lol

Petey

13-02-2005, 00:54

Must get boring in a place without any real mountains.

By the way, is that a compressed-air potato cannon? Cool. The ones I've been involved with have always gone *bang!*.

Yes, yes it is.

I think--I'm not sure, mind you--that the guy who it belonged to shot a potato a clear mile once.

Might be wrong. Might have been only many hundred yards.

--Petey

Petey

13-02-2005, 00:55

That's one hot spud gun. I made one this summer, but it's nowhere near as powerful as that one.
One word of caution: Make sure no by-the-book police find you playing with it, you're not supposed to have them here in NH. I got warned for firing mine down in the sandpits near Concord. :(

Yeah, it's pretty cool. We're gonna build some more.

You do have to exercise caution with the police around here. I'm surprised that my magnum opus Toy Destruction (http://toydestruction.com) has managed to stay undetected for as long as it has.

--Petey

Stephen P

13-02-2005, 10:38

In addition to some combustion ones, Ive gotta jumbo pneumatic cannon. Its tank is a 9 foot length of 4" pvc, with a 1.5" barrel contained inside it. It empties that tank- fast- with a custom made piston diaphram valve. I did a muzzle velocity test with the pendulum method and at 60 psi, it shoots a potato at 450 mph. It can shoot em right through 1.5" plywood or split a 2 by 8.
Its pretty fun...but a certain tree in my yard that is missing alot of bark disagrees :yikes: