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I wasa showing my mate how to use his fire stick from woodlore today with some char cloth. A lump of burning char cloth must have blown towards me as I now have a finger sized hole in the shirt
My eyebrows off.
Didn't prime a liquid fuel stove properly; made mistake of bending over it to see if the jet was clear. Won't do that again.
eyebrows is my favourite trick ... along with some of my fringe ..... but that was a 4 foot flame propelled out of my forge :yikes:
set fire to a shirt using the angle grinder
and a class room when I was 14 ...... :naughty:
TheViking
08-09-2004, 20:12
Hi...
A week ago I was showing a mate a peice of charcloth and a firesteel. He was amazed and so was his dog, cause it nearly ate the cloth! :shock: :nono: It was very hot and burning when it came over and put the nose in the cloth... We got it away pretty quick! :D :wink:
Tantalus
08-09-2004, 20:25
eyebrows eyelashes and beard :yikes:
all while blowing into campfires to get them to go better
when i stop blowing the flames sometimes lash back at me
but hey it was a nice campfire by the time i finished
Tant
mr dazzler
08-09-2004, 20:41
I once had a pair of them "lumberjack" boots and they had moulded foam inner soles that eventually fell apart. I throow em on't farr an nearly s**t misselfe when they instantly flared up and ar thorte arre'd set't chimney alarte. :roll:
Oh and has anyone else set their trousers alight doing angle grinding; I did once, jeans were frayed a bit. Funny thing was I wer't last ter noe ubbart it- everyone else saw what was happening and stood watching grinning and waiting until things heated up a little..... :roll:
MR D :wave:
Squidders
08-09-2004, 21:08
I once tried to blow flames using a mouth full of Zippo liter fluid and a lit match. My friend - the eternal spectator - made me laugh and I managed to set fire to my whole face. At first I didn't believe him so I walked in to the house, cool as a cucumber... After looking in the mirror panic REALLY set in!
Other than that, the standard fires in dug outs, the occasional flaming sambuka gone wrong, typical stuff. :chill:
Did a test using wire wool and firesteel. Held the wool, set some sparks on it and it started cooking, that stuff get so hot. i dropped it onto my carpet :doh: :roll: .
Did exactly the same thing as tant, except my fire went out when the rain set it.
My jumper with a cigar. :roll:
Oh dear.
Jake
Great Pebble
09-09-2004, 00:09
My sleepingbags are always notable by their holes.
I do a good line in nasal hair removal.
Once did a whole shirt on a day trip, was tring to dry it. Had to walk home sans top, wasn't the weather for it either.
My hands, when impatiently setting alight the burner in my Mamod steam-roller when I was a littl'un
My grandad burnt down the pig sty; he also ran away to join the army - these facts may be related!
I blew up my workshop - nasty affair starting with a bit of metal and a cutting disk, sparks from that found their way to 2kg of iron wool I'd forgotten to put away which in turn found a small bag of black powder which then found my fibre glass catalyst. What I don't understand was given the total devastation in the place, I didn't have a single mark on me or my clothes.
I don't store flammables in the workshop any more, not when I'm cutting metal anyhow.
Realgar
MartiniDave
09-09-2004, 08:42
Just a couple of fleeces. One was a then very new present from my wife! It now has a stategically placed "Land Rover" badge on it!
Dave
Real live stories are the best... :clap: :rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao:
Ripley
next time you see me remember to ask me about the physics lab explosion :wink:
its to long to explain here properly, good for round a camp fire though
Paganwolf
09-09-2004, 12:52
I was doing some over head welding once and a nice big spark went down the back of my collar traveled down my spine and the back of my keks and lodged its self in between my cheeks :yikes:
Have you ever seen river dance? :rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao:
When I was learning to bow drill I decided to practice in the kitchen on a rainy day - sawing away - plumes of smoke arose accompanied by the smell of burning plastic.
I'd drilled through both the hearth and the kitchen lino! :shock:
next time you see me remember to ask me about the physics lab explosion :wink:
its to long to explain here properly, good for round a camp fire though
... and about when I poisoned the chem lab ... :rolmao:
I've set fire to a few labs in my time. I even set fire to the carpet in primary school
Great Pebble
09-09-2004, 13:53
Forgot my "classic" actually. Fleetwood beach, Lancashire, on the way home from Beltring. Big pile of meat from Tesco, half a crate of Guinness, and a folding BBQ.
Eating away merrily while grilling the next round of cow anus, I raked the coals a bit to keep the heat up.
And one of them fell out.....You know the way some things induce a reflex action? Well, when I see something falling I try to catch it......
Mek!
Chem labs? I'll remeber stuart! I think i once spilt a whole load of hydrochloric acid onto my work book. But thats not as extreme!
Chem labs? I'll remeber stuart! I think i once spilt a whole load of hydrochloric acid onto my work book. But thats not as extreme!
not if you have a bit of Mg on your book at the time
Well I set my hair on fire at the BCUK meetup when I lit the fire under the parachute on the first night! :o):
(Moral for the girls: always tie your hair back when blowing up an ember! :burnup:)
Ooh i remember the GCSE days! Mg + Hydrochloric acid (dont know the chem symbol!) = Hydrogen! I think!
You'd put them in the test tubes and save up some hydrogen then put a burning candle to it! (didnt mange to burn anything though).
Spilling that acid did result in copying-up on about 20 pages though.
Hydrochloric acid is HCl ... now let's see if I can write a balanced equation ...
2Mg + 2HCl = 2MgCl2 + H2
RovingArcher
09-09-2004, 19:19
Hmm, I'm a real pyromaniac, no doubt about it. When I was 2, I escaped the homestead :nana: and made my way through enemy territory to the neighbors house and promptly set fire to it :shock: by finding their strike anywhere matches on the fireplace hearth and proceeded to start striking them and throwing them into a basket full of newspaper. Fortunately for the neighbor, a police officer, he spotted me going into his home and got there in the nick of time to snuff it out and send me back to prison. :lol:
Havn't done any burning of body parts lately, but when I was an ironworker, I was cutting through some angle iron and set my boot on fire. :shock: Talk about a hot foot. :lol:
mr dazzler
09-09-2004, 21:23
So pagan wolf, how did you "cool off" ?? :?: Someone oblige with water bucket, Or did't ember burn its way out of yer kecks??!! :o): :wink: :wink:
now let's see if I can write a balanced equation ...
ADI!! I dont ever want to be reminded of balanced equations in my life. I left the examination room and immediatly forgot all about them! :shock: :biggthump
(wow, i'm getting close to 1000) :roll:
Cheers,
Jake
jake don't you have a levels to come
11H2O + 12CO2=2C6H11O6 + 6O2 which of corse can go the other way round
maths is where things get silly
the hair on the top of my head.. i wont go in to how, but i was being VERY VERY stupid :rolmao:
Great Pebble
10-09-2004, 03:47
Actually...
After the "hot coal" incident I managed to get myself to the hospital in Fleetwood, where they refused to treat me. It's a "day hospital" or something.
SWMBO flagged down the cops..... who rather insisted that the hospital make sure my (badly) burnt mitt was okay... Bless 'em.
jamesdevine
10-09-2004, 16:57
When I was but a toddler many moons ago my Mom in here haste to run around after me and my little brother but sitting on the kitchen counter. She told me to stay put as even then I have habit of wandering off but I decided to go for a wander and moved over to the cooker top were I sat down again.
As I sat down I turn on one of the knobs with my foot and yes you guest it the one I was sitting on. I had bulls type ring on my backside for couple years after that and it thought me to valuable lessons listen to our mother and always check were you sit before you rest bum.
James
Can you remember the paraffin lamps you used to get on the side of skips? I’ve not seen them for years now. Clearly on the side it had stamped DO NOT USE PETROL.
When I was about twelve I lit one using meths . It burned fine not a problem. When I went to blow the lamp out. BANG. I burnt my face quite bad took all my hair off eyebrows went the lot. I can remember running around in a meth’s fire ball. I had to go to the hospital everyday for a week. Lucky no scars
As students we once stuck 2oz TPA into a text book and set it off by remote, nice crater and confetti but not as impressive as the same charge in a bag of flour.
This is a really really stupid thing to try - DONT DO IT - it's almost certainly illegal and in todays political climate 'just messing around' ain't gonna stop you being detained in Cuba until the press forget about you.
Tri-peroxyacetone, one of the easiest made and most unstable explosives.
Realgar
jake don't you have a levels to come
I've already entered my last year and doing my a-levels now, a C grade in all the sciences + maths was plenty good enough for me :o): . I looked at an old GCSE paper the other day and couldnt answer a thing :shock: show how useful my secondary education has been!
You could say i'm useless with numbers, more of a literature kind of person!
I burnt my tounge showing off that i could put a match out in my mouth, duh. (that was fairly recent as well).
SquirrelBoy
10-09-2004, 21:52
I think this thread should be renamed: How did you burn your eyebrows off :o):
I was at school, chemistry lesson. We had to set the old bunson burners up,tripod etc.. I struck a match and told my mate to turn on the gas tap, he fiddled about then finally opened it.
Well at school we had taps that had two nozzles and guess what one he opened...
Thanks to him taking so long about it, I had dropped the match straight onto the one NOT connected to the burner - Got a face full of flame and said goodbye to my eyebrows :rolmao:
Teacher missed it all :naughty:
next time you see me remember to ask me about the physics lab explosion :wink:
its to long to explain here properly, good for round a camp fire though
Are you my old chemistry teacher?