any spudgunners here?

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:13 pm

yahoo, what fun, im waitin for the local hardware shop to open on monday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZZYZlvXO_o

have any of ye tried to build a yolk like this?

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:21 pm

Haven't built one, but- one turned up a few years ago at pipe&drum school. One of the instructors accidentally shot a car driving by on the road below the school(it's up on the side of a hill)..... needless to say it was very late and no one was feeling any pain at that point- it really was not the time to be shooting a spud gun.....

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:56 pm

We used to play with this more innocent variety of potato gun.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:03 am

That is (a) demented and (b) ****ing dangerous.

This nutcase is using a tazer, for goodness sake!

And the potatoes he is using are massive. I am tempted to try it with a smaller bore of pipe (to suit our weedy European potatoes) and an electric gas-fire-lighter. Not that tempted, either.

Considering you have to ram the missile home with a broomstick or similar, and prime it with explosive before igniting it, I think it should properly be called a Spud-Cannon.

"Smoosh"? What is this "Smoosh"? Does he meen squeeze? Is he foreign?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:35 am

Smoosh means squish it in. Yes, squeeze.

We have also owned seisflute's plastic potato pellet shooters.

5 or so years ago my husband made a potato gun like the one on the video with our son who was 10 at the time. It was white pvc, and they tested it in a field. Worked very well, then it went in the kid's closet for a few years and fell into need of repair.
As that particular kid will not have enough common sense to engage in such a project solo until he's at least 35, and the dad's condition prevents him from re-engaging the project, we no longer have the cannon.

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:46 am

im just an eternal child!! 37 going on 14!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:43 am

Yea, and you can't spell "yoke".

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:08 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:Yea, and you can't spell "yoke".

Yea, verily.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:14 am

Walden wrote:
Innocent Bystander wrote:Yea, and you can't spell "yoke".
Yea, verily.

In sooth. I will aspirate when I choose.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:15 am

seisflutes wrote: We used to play with this more innocent variety of potato gun.

Yeah that's what I think of as a spud gun.

What they built was mental and a little bit scary.

Although it reminds me of something I built with friends one year. We welded one end of a copper pipe shut, clamped it in a vice, aimed it at a large block of wood and threw a lit black cat banger down the open end, closely followed by a marble. We never did find the marble again but there was a nice big hole in the block of wood.

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:56 am

chrisoff wrote:
What they built was mental and a little bit scary.

no this is scary, cool sound track though! :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHl6ILMUK3Y

holy sh#t!

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:42 am

flanum wrote:this is scary

This is why cousins shouldn't marry cousins.

djm

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:08 pm

I have a friend who claims he once killed a seagull with a spud cannon. Wasn't pretty.

That compressed air cannon is scary, but I'm rather intrigued by the concept...

Tom

KatieBell · Post by **KatieBell** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:42 pm

We made a large, shoulder-mounted potato gun in high school. We used a can of hairspray to propel it. We used a regular Idaho potato (one of the big baking kind) and shot it across the baseball fields.

My dad and uncle always had a fascination with any projectiles and frequently made fireworks bombs and the like, so I didn't think anything of a potato gun in high school. Looking back, I suppose it was a tad dangerous. Especially since we aimed off toward the elementary school's playground. Something tells me they wouldn't let a teacher do that today.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:12 pm

We made a large, shoulder-mounted potato gun in high school. We used a can of hairspray to propel it. We used a regular Idaho potato (one of the big baking kind) and shot it across the baseball fields.

That's what the instructor shot the passing car with ........
and the only kind of spud gun I've seen.