[TheForge] Kaboom

[Jerry Frost]

Welding supplies regularly post Fatalgrams of folk killing themselves with
welding equipment. You can sign up for Fatalgrams, the heavy duty shop
posted them about guys killing themselves working on heavy equipment,
wrapping themselves around drivelines, removing the the screw from brake
cans and getting it shot through body parts, dropping lifts on themselves,
rolling trucks off lifts, etc. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=Fatalgram&client=firefox-a&hs=R3t&rls=org.mo
zilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ZE8MU5bfB
cKEogSzgYLoAQ&ved=0CD0QsAQ&biw=1536&bih=758

Jer

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richardson, Grover
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Kaboom

Welding supply shop nearby used to have pictures of the results, grin.

>From Mini-Grover-ville

> On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:11 PM, "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer"
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> 
> Most every of the old welding supply shops had stories of run-away 
> pressure tanks that flew 2 blocks and leveled a block wall.
> I knew some guys who swore that as kids they'd sneak into construction 
> sites and take a sledge to the valves to watch them fly or spin around
furiously.
> One guy said that if you sit on them before they can gain momentum, 
> they could be controlled...I didn't ask if he'd suffered frost bite of the
ass.
> 
> On Feb 24, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
> 
>> Wondered...thanks Jim.
>> Perhaps we can get them to try again , and do it right this time!
> 
> When I was in high school, late 50s, it was reported that several 
> unsecured oxy tanks fell off a truck in the edge of downtown, (at
> least) one of them snapping off the valve.  The resulting rocket(s) 
> demolished a store front and damaged parked cars. No report of people 
> hurt or killed.
> 
> I didn't see it so it's just a yarn now but I did later see the 
> boarded-up store front for what that's worth.
> 
> And a friend who used to work on the arctic oil rigs off Alaska circa
> 1970 had an oxy yarn, too.  Having sighted (what they were sure was) a 
> Russian submarine lurking nearby, they rigged up a piece of well pipe 
> as a barrel, inserted an oxy tank valve down, did some WAG 
> calculations of mass and thrust.  Then one guy tooled up in whatever 
> they could come up with in full body protective gear and whacked the 
> valve off the tank with a sledgehammer.  Claimed to have hit the sub, 
> resulting in a great and clearly audible BONGing noise, after which 
> the sub quietly slunk away, persaumably in embarassment.
> 
> I have no idea if this is true, a lie or a lie so well know in the oil 
> rig trade that it's part of The Lore.
> 
> FWIW,
> - Mike
> 
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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