Yesterday, killed two birds with one stone. Had a small brush pile to burn and have been wanting to dispose of about 5 pounds of 50 year old powder that was stored in metal coffee cans. Old enough the red dots, green dots and yellow dots in 700X had faded to black. Not entirely sure I'd trust which was really which. If living in some post apocalyptic world where all powders were gone and that was going to be it..........I might have kept and used them. But that isn't the case..........so they went in the fire.
So plan was to burn the brush pile, then roast hot dogs. Spousal unit had two young grand kids over.......so before torching the brush. told them some Cornish Pixies (nasty little buggers in a Harry Potter movie) had been seen hanging about and was concerned they had put some pixie dust in the fire....and made them stand back. So about a pound each of these powders. Then went into paper sack, then folded and taped shut. Bags dispersed into brush well away from my starting point. To cut to the chase, they did not blow up. They went "whoosh"......created about a 10 foot diameter fireball that was gone in a fraction of a second........no big bang. The most impressive was put into one of those smaller gift bags. Taped it shut more than the rest. Did not go bang......but fireball was very bright.
If doing that again, would use the small bags and put a few more wraps of masking tape around the bag to require a bit more effort to fight it's way out.
As it was......oldest was skeptical.......younger one's eyes nearly popped out. He does not trust pixies.
So plan was to burn the brush pile, then roast hot dogs. Spousal unit had two young grand kids over.......so before torching the brush. told them some Cornish Pixies (nasty little buggers in a Harry Potter movie) had been seen hanging about and was concerned they had put some pixie dust in the fire....and made them stand back. So about a pound each of these powders. Then went into paper sack, then folded and taped shut. Bags dispersed into brush well away from my starting point. To cut to the chase, they did not blow up. They went "whoosh"......created about a 10 foot diameter fireball that was gone in a fraction of a second........no big bang. The most impressive was put into one of those smaller gift bags. Taped it shut more than the rest. Did not go bang......but fireball was very bright.
If doing that again, would use the small bags and put a few more wraps of masking tape around the bag to require a bit more effort to fight it's way out.
As it was......oldest was skeptical.......younger one's eyes nearly popped out. He does not trust pixies.