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Flash wrote:
"Brian Whatcott" wrote in message ... Maxwell wrote: ... I saw a 6' joint of 4" heavy wall pipe launch a dead rat over 1000'. Now I've heard plenty of gas torch brags, but doesn't this one just beat the band? :-) Brian W Not so, Brian. The shop I worked in in 1967, the Postal truck ran over "Freddie", the three-legged cat shop mascot. Killed the poor fellow, and the welder gave him a big send-off. At the time, he was fabricating a sign-pole with a 20' piece of 6" pipe, and had already welded the cap on the end, and had punched the hole for the electrical wires, four feet from the cap. He stuffed a handful of paint-rags down the tube to the hole for wadding and rammed Freddie's carcass down the tube, propped the pipe out the window and sort of aimed it for the tree-line a hundred yards west of the cornfield. He filled the charge through the electrical hole, and touched it off. Freddie went well into the woods, while the pipe recoiled through the wall into the executive washroom where a young (and somewhat nervous) shop owner was, at the moment, taking his morning constitutional. When the plaster dust settled, he came into the shop, with his pants still unbuckled and mentioned in a very quiet voice, that he was taking the rest of the day off, and sincerely hoped that such disturbances would be confined to hours when he was at the golf course or the synagogue. Then, there was also the 2-1/2 inch pipe that they fashioned distinctly for use as a mortar, to launch Freddie's empty cat-food cans directly 150 feet up. The crew used to do that just about the end of lunch hour, when the sheet-metal guy and I were coming around the building returning from lunch. After Freddie's unfortunate demise, there were no empty cans, so one hot, humid July lunchtime, they used a full can of Freddie's favorite tuna catfood. You would just know that the can exploded just as it cleared the muzzle and we all spent the last of the afternoon smelling of - - -bad tuna. My wife wouldn't believe anything I told her about it until the sheet-metal guy and his wife stopped over and explained it all. She thought I had been somewhere else for a *different* kind of lunch. Oh, it works, alright. Great story, Flash! Thanks BrianW |
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