chrisinhouston |
04-19-2013 08:31 AM |
Now with the news of the big fertilizer explosion in West, Texas I may as well confess to building a few fertilizer bombs with my friend Bert. This was during the period where Bert had gotten into some trouble at school over something irrelevant by today's standards but his parents were furious and they sent him to military school thinking that would straighten him up. That's where he scored about a dozen Dupont blasting caps. Funny things, they look like a rifle cartridge with a couple of wired coming off. Bert got to come home on holidays and summertime and I guess that was when we messed with these kind of munitions.
As I recall we drove to some kind of farm supply store as that was the only place you could get raw Ammonia Nitrate fertilizer and we bought a couple of hundred pounds in 50 lb bags, no questions asked. Bert found a formula and we mixed it with diesel fuel or kerosine. As I recall we packed it in an empty propane cylinder that he cut a hole in and inserted the blasting cap. Ran a hundred feet of bell wire from the bomb to the detonator, the small bike lamp generator mentioned earlier. We put the bomb into the engine block area of an old Chevy and shut the hood. We hid behind some fallen trees and Bert wound some string around the little wheel on the bike generator and let it rip. BANGGGG!!! Blew the hood right off of the car and mangled the engine pretty good.
Those were the days! :rolleyes:
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