Random pic thread.

awheelterd said:
I bet it made a noise or two. I caught a sump pump last year and I thought my bushhog was slam coming apart before I could get it to stop.
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Not too bad, just a “dink” or two and it went flying out the side.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Preparing the future inlaw suite there?
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orange150 said:
Yea that little building is intriguing
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Haha, no. It’s the junk car parts storage trailer at my neighbors shop a couple miles down the road. 2-3 years ago, there was nothing but some tall grass around this building. Now the bamboo is so thick you can’t see the building even with just a couple feet remaining.
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I was sweating some copper pipe tonight, and set the torch down on a low bench (20" tall). Torch tipped over and hit the floor. It was running when I set it down, but flamed out on impact. Then all the MAPP gas dumped out in short order. See the crack where the neck joins the bottle. Lucky no ka-boom.

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To add: you can see a rust/pitted spot where the crack starts. The threads are rusty because although this was an unused bottle, it has been sitting around since before we built here, six years ago. I did some copper about that time over at mom's house, so probably bought it then. What looks like bubbled paint to the right, though, is condensation. The threaded part is bent some (to the left from this perspective), I think when it landed it hit torch-first, that gave it the leverage to bend and crack.
 
kaiser715 said:
I was sweating some copper pipe tonight, and set the torch down on a low bench (20" tall). Torch tipped over and hit the floor. It was running when I set it down, but flamed out on impact. Then all the MAPP gas dumped out in short order. See the crack where the neck joins the bottle. Lucky no ka-boom.

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Glad you didn’t lose your eyebrows, and who knows what else!

Years ago when I had just graduated high school I worked the summer for a fence company. One day we were cutting off some old posts with a torch. The guys had loaded the torch bottles in the truck with no caps and the regulator and hoses connected. At that time I had no idea how wrong that was. As one guy was cutting a post I looked over and there was flames coming out around the gauge on the low pressure side of the acetylene bottle. It had rolled around in the truck and cracked the threads. That could have turned into a bad day really quick.
 
Blkvoodoo said:
As long as the paper tears away the top layer of skin on your lips, you will be fine, you must feel the pain of saving the turtles.
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On a serious note, Hemp straws are where it’s at if we want to be green. Funny how many times hemp can save us from so many of our self inflicted world problems.

Flipping the serious switch off again now.
 
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