Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Jamestown1630

When I was about 14, I discovered if you pour enough gasoline down an ant hole, when you light it, the ground will shake and explode under your feet. After that, I learned the best way to light an ant hole on fire after pouring five gallons of gas down and around it, is to plug an Estes Rocket Motor Igniter in the hole, wire that baby up, run about 35’ of wire to a battery and then let ‘er rip, tater chip. It was glorious!!!


6 posted on 04/10/2025 10:20:51 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: Mathews

I also wonder how many terrible accidents have taken place because someone just ‘wanted to see what would happen’...


7 posted on 04/10/2025 10:23:34 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews
> light an ant hole on fire after pouring five gallons of gas down and around it...light an ant hole on fire after pouring five gallons of gas down and around it...

I'd venture to say you've got yourself some serious ants if their nest can hold 5 gallons of gas.

I'll bet it was "glorious" indeed!

10 posted on 04/10/2025 10:26:54 AM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

one day ... one day ... the ants will take revenge ...


12 posted on 04/10/2025 10:27:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

You and I made exactly the same kind of charred footprints, I see.


14 posted on 04/10/2025 10:30:09 AM PDT by GingisK
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

Boys, toys and dynamite. My father told me when he was a teenager in Minnesota in the 30’s, they would take a farm tractor and dig a hole. Put a couple bags of fertilizer in the hole, and saturate it with kerosene. Cover it with about a foot of dirt, but leave a hole around the center and pour in some gasoline. Then throw in a flare and run. Presto! a new farm pond was created.


17 posted on 04/10/2025 10:32:06 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

lol... I like the way you think!!

I always liked putting a shotgun shell in the nose of a rocket and lighting it off in the middle of the night... You hear and see it go up, but then after about a minute or so you hear that WOOOMMMM in the distance when it landed!!!


20 posted on 04/10/2025 10:34:34 AM PDT by sit-rep
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

Fire ants?


27 posted on 04/10/2025 10:37:22 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

Ha ha. Did your eyebrows grow back?


33 posted on 04/10/2025 10:39:13 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

You invented fire ants.


36 posted on 04/10/2025 10:40:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews
Is that you Carl?


41 posted on 04/10/2025 10:43:03 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

When I was that age my favorite toys were firecrackers, BB guns and matches.


63 posted on 04/10/2025 11:20:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Mathews

Can we in the audience try that at home?


76 posted on 04/10/2025 12:54:03 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson