Exploding Firewood

[WWalker]

Austria Firewood Explodes in Wood Stove - ABC News

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

That would scare the out of me. Pretty amazing that yhe grenade never went off in the first place.

 

[femurphy77]

Cool!

 

[Bigtanker]

Tough stove.

 

[CathyInBlue]

But how many BTUs did the stove extract from the grenade?

 

[451_Detonics]

that's better than the cop who tried to hide his gun in the oven... Oven safe to 350 degrees - or the case of the cooked gun

 

[eldirector]

But how many BTUs did the stove extract from the grenade?

about 1300-2400 BTU/lb
Citations:
Gas/gunpowder ratio?
http://www.gomiem.org/pdfs/08facilitiesconf/18.pdf

So, not much.

 

[calcot7]

I accidently threw a two pack of Surefire 123A batteries in my stove in the shop. The first one went off after about 30 minutes.........the second a couple of minutes later. It was pretty darned loud. About as loud as a .22LR from a rifle. Scared the s_ _ t out of me but did get the fire going pretty good. I can only imagine what a grenade would sound like and I am not sure my stove would survive the blast.

 

[TaunTaun]

Dropped my mini-maglite in the firepit earlier this summer...I had it all of a week before it happened. Scared the crap out of the wife when the batteries started going off and the flashlight itself went popping through the air...

 

[remauto1187]

Nothing like a nade going off inside "your" house! Lotsa fun there!

 

[printcraft]

I accidently threw a two pack of Surefire 123A batteries in my stove in the shop. The first one went off after about 30 minutes.........the second a couple of minutes later. It was pretty darned loud. About as loud as a .22LR from a rifle. Scared the s_ _ t out of me but did get the fire going pretty good. I can only imagine what a grenade would sound like and I am not sure my stove would survive the blast.

Is it wrong that I laughed when I read this?

 

[tmschuller]

No, I am sure I laughed... funny stuff.

 

[Dentoro]

Nothing like a nade going off inside "your" house! Lotsa fun there!

I'm sure a sphincter or two went off too! :-)

 

[shibumiseeker]

I just tried to find a post I read on the USENET (yes, I am that old) newsgroup misc.rural from some time in the early 90s: a guy was trying to fire temper some flint nodules (for tool making) he'd picked up out of a streambed. Middle of the night they started exploding in his stove and he said it sounded like a small war was going on inside it all night. Much funnier than I wrote here, but I couldn't locate it.

 

[2A_Tom]

Never use river rocks for your fire pit.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Even if they're slowly baked for several hours?

 

[hoosierdoc]

The most striking thing about this to me is that apparently in Austria you can purchase wood at a store large enough to hide a grenade in! Here you get slivers left over from log mills.

the remnants of battle fascinate me. I would love to have Xray vision and be able to see all the stuff laying around Europe and New England (except the bones).