Just a word of Caution for Bobo.. ;)

[bgsengine]

http://solomonswords.blogspot.com/2015/ ... emade.html

I'm sure you know of the dangers.. but thought it appropriate for our resident cannoneer

(Austin, PA is a little town a bit south of us.. if you ever come up this way, be sure and visit the damn dam.. hehehe.. beyond me why a town would be so proud of a busted dam... I prefer the working one over in Kinzua. )

[okie]

Austin, PA Man Killed When Homemade Cannon Explodes At Lamoka Lake
According to a posting by WETM, an Austin, PA man was killed about 10 PM on Saturday night on Taylor Road in the Town of Tyrone, NY.

The incident occurred at Lamoka Lake and officials report Jaames Whitney, 81, of Austin, PA, died when he was hit with shrapnel from the explosion of a homemade cannon

The Schuyler County Sheriff's office said the incident is still under investigation.

Posted by Solomon's words for the wise at 9/07/2015 02:28:00 AM

There is a video also if you want to wade thru all the ads.


Of course Bob is smarter than I and he would have found it in a nano sec. I'm old but I'm slow or is it the other way round.

Travis

[bgsengine]

Not to mention I posted it to the wrong discussion forum somehow - I could have *sworn* I clicked on the general discussion one.. just noticed it come up in tech forum.. my bad.

But yeah - solomon's is our area's idea of local newspaper - only dailies we get would be from the "big city" which doesnt carry much local news, and the local print news is all weeklies... so it is a popular blog full of local advertising which can take a long freakin time to load if you have a slow connection.

[RoyM]

Bobo seems fond of living on the edge.

[bobodu]

What scares me is the guy I gave one to ...who's friend told him they are way overbuilt and proceeded to load it to the muzzle.....they both lived.

[RoyM]

Good thing, a liability suit might have been horrendous. We kids tried building one using sewer pipe, calcium carbide and rocks. Fortunately for all concerned it failed to fire.