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Anvil Launching Is A Sport?

Thursday, 4 March 2021, 12:30 Claudia Uncategorized 31

Men like to do this stuff. Actually, it’s kinda cool. Boom!

31 Comments on Anvil Launching Is A Sport?

  9. Ha ha ha … it’s good to see some guys having fun with two of my inventions!
    Yep. Not many people know it, but I designed the first anvil.
    And, of course, introduced the West to gunpowder.

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  12. Anvil shoots are terrific fun.

    Probably a little safer than the personal launches we did back when I was a kid in about the 6th grade. We would bury a piece of pipe in the ground for a few inches and put some homemade black power in it then stand on it while it went off. A really good launch by the one of us that made the best powder would send us a good 6 or 8 feet into the air. I miss those days and the actual freedoms we had as kids that we don’t even have as adults today.

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  15. Boys like to blow shit up. All real boys like to blow shit up. I can’t remember how many times our parents had to confiscate stocks of our explosive powder when I was a kid. Usually they were enlisted by the school or the Pierce County Sherriff’s Department to put the screws to us until we gave it up. There were a lot of unexploded munitions laying about on the Ft Lewis Training Areas when we were kids and it didn’t take long before we were resupplied with something that would go boom when we lit it off. It is probably only by the grace of God that we didn’t blow ourselves to shit. The 50 cal blank powder was our favorite, it didn’t need to be confined and was more explosive than propellent and you didn’t have to open many to get a pound of “go boom.”

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  20. It’s nice to see old guys and other men acting like boys. My brother would shoot C02 cartridges filled with matchheads out of a piece of steel pipe clear across the field of the local Junior High about 2 blocks from our house about 300 yards or so clear across the field back in the 60’s. He was damned lucky not to blow himself up. The local Rexall drugs used to sell sulfur and salt peter over the counter even to juveniles and we made a lot of homemade explosives, smoke bombs etc. from those ingredients. My brother, the same one and I went to a beer keg tossing contest once back in the late 70’s at Spokane Raceway Park using catapults and trebuchets to toss beer kegs as far as they could, it was a lot o fun. It beats punkin chunkin any day.

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  22. @JD

    I wonder who the first boy was that combined pig poop and saltpeter and put it near the fire just to see what would happen and became the first person to hear that glorious BOOM sound.

    Some time after that, another industrious boy put some of that mixture into one end of a tube, put a little round stone in the other end, packed it down into the explosive mixture, and applied a burning twig to it…BOOM…the little round stone flies swiftly out the other end…all the boys are laughing and jumping up and down with delight.

    Then some adult male figures out it might be a dandy way to shoot some not too swift animals and steals the boys idea, which was meant only for fun…ah well, progress.

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  24. 3 feet of iron pipe, 1 spark plug, 1 coil, 1 pushbutton switch, a little Oxy-Acetylene and a tennis ball. We could count a good 40 to 45 seconds before that ball re-appeared!

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  27. The Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee does this for the 4th of July each year and yes, it is a thing. The anvils are specially made for this purpose, with the shallow cavity on the bottom. A rural form of 4th celebration where fireworks were a scarce commodity.

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  28. Just a little side note for all the hater potaters here. When my Petey B lights up his anvil, he launches it right in my unbleached elastic starfish!

  30. TimBuktu
    The Mutha Fxckers one of us who is dysfunctional. Same person would laugh at animals dying and car wrecks. He’s oblivious and has very few friends for a reason. He’s a dick. This comment will just inspire him. Why? Again because he’s fucking clueless.

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