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Awesomeness via 1910!
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 20:57Came across this wonderful little book that honestly everyone should read. DuPont, I thank you for creating that wonderful book. It’s been forwarded to Joe, but this thing is just too awesome not to share.
Busy Day
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 19:24Got tied up at work and some other training. Enjoy this random picture of things going boom with heavy objects being lobbed into the air.
I think that established the BC of a snow flake. Details and video of this experiment can be seen here.
2011 Boomershoot Fireball Stills
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 12:54This fireball was epic, it has created a flurry of traffic. Rolf was kind enough to send me the pictures he took and I have uploaded them into my photo gallery. The fireball stills start here (look at the bottom). I’m posting the best images though in this post.
Moment of ignition.
Convection starting.
Mushroom forming.
Boomershoot 2011
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 03:00Today is Boomershoot 2011, the main event. If for some reason you couldn’t make it, here’s another pic of blasty goodness.
21 Days of Boomershoot–Day 15(2011)
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 03:00Joe says that he doesn’t get that close, but some time’s he does. He just he selectively forgets about it.
This was the fireball from my first Boomershoot in 2008. He winged the gas can and needed to detonate a little bit quicker.
21 Days of Boomershoot-Day 5(2011)
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 03:00Each one of those little white squares is a box of magic smoke just waiting to be released. This was the first magic box to go poof in 2010. Congrats to whoever shot it.
21 Days of Boomershoot-Day 4(2011)
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 03:00Here at Boomershoot, we believe in helping the environment as much as possible. That’s why do our best to make sure that every detonation provides a suitable amount of CO2 to help offset the losses created by hybrid cars everywhere.
21 Days of Boomershoot-Day 3(2011)
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 03:00The fireball last year was considerably better than the year before. Notice the flying plastic in the upper left from the jug of gasoline.
The year before one of the explosives didn’t detonate, the result and what it should have looked like can be seen here:
21 Days of Boomershoot–Day 1 (2011)
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 15:14Here’s an opening set of pictures in a countdown to Boomershoot. Boomershoot for me starts full bore in 19 days.
Helping Mother Gaia One Step at a Time
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 14:36Last October the wife, a friend, and I headed out to the Boomershoot site to help Joe with some work. Joe previously covered it here. As I was going through pictures today, I noticed I took about 1350 pictures while we were out there and I never did a post on it. That just seems kind of wrong. Though it does appear the wife just held down the shutter button while I was on the dozer.
As this was on 10/10/10 which evidently was some environmentalists wet dream of an idea for some such crap or another we felt like doing our part to help the environment.
Ford Earthfucker Jr. with a quite literally earth fucking dozer. The actual goals for the day was to get some pre-winter work done to aid the berm so it will be more comfortable for the end positions come the end of the month. Here’s a few of the pictures from the process.
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