gregz <ze...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Bill Gill <billne...@cox.net> wrote:
>> On 11/11/2012 3:36 PM, Diamond wrote:
>>> I can't believe the prices for gas-cans on Ebay
>>> most of 5-gallon cans are up to$50.00 plus shipping
>>> a piece of plastic to cost that much
>> They may be reflecting the fact that a major gas
>> can maker in NE Oklahoma just went out of business.
>> They were supposedly making a large percentage of
>> the gas cans in the US.
>> Bill
> I was reading cans today. Kmart has Illinois made units. I bought one blue
> water container, haha. I'm going to fill with kerosene. Walmart does not
> have water or kerosene cans. I saw a yellow diesel can in kmart.
> Greg
My blue kerosene can, which my supermarket gas station gave me for free one
day, because I needed water for my car. Customer appreciation write off.
They let me fill it with water. After putting kerosene in it, I found the o
ring broke in the cap. Now when I pour, it comes out the cap and nozzle.
Stuff all over the place, and the nozzles screwed up too. The blue water
container, will serve me and my hand pump well. Why are water cans also
blue?
According to Constitutional Conservatives, we should not. According to America and business hating liberals, any chance to sue the rich white evil capitalists is a victory for the proletariat.
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:54:30 -0500, gfretwell wrote:
> They are bankrupt because they got sued into bankruptcy. Some moron was
> pouring gasoline on a fire out of a 5 gallon can, it went up and he sued
> Blitz.
Why should we then have to pay for that moron to become fabulously
wealthy, if a bit disfigured?
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:54:30 -0500, gfretwell wrote:
>> They are bankrupt because they got sued into bankruptcy. Some moron was
>> pouring gasoline on a fire out of a 5 gallon can, it went up and he sued
>> Blitz.
> Why should we then have to pay for that moron to become fabulously
> wealthy, if a bit disfigured?
My BIL wanted to set a BIG pile of limbs on fire. Not sure WTF he was thinking, but I would have used a half a newspaper, or half a roll of paper towels, and some small branches and leaves. But no, genius BIL uses gasoline. When he touched it off, he was standing in the middle of a vapor cloud. You know the rest. Lucky puke didn't lose much face tissue, sorry to say. But the rest of him sure got flash fried.
He at least had the pride and dignity not to sue. Believe he thought that the suit would go nowhere. But there are ambulance chasers out there who will file ANYTHING, knowing that they will be paid SOMETHING just to go away, of which they get 33%.
We NEED to return to an era of common sense with these tort actions, but we will not, now that we are a world of liberals, and producing new ones each day. It's easier to live when it's always someone else's fault.
> The best source for caps and old style nozzles are cans you see on the
> side of the road. Usually they have been run over and the can itself
> is trash but there is a good chance the cap survived.
Durn fine tip. Thanks.
We did a HOA inspection a couple of days ago. There was a NEW plastic oilpan that holds what you drain out of your engine. It was in the dumpster. I dove in, and recovered it. The cap was crunched, but the rest of it was new. Amazing what people toss.
Also, an old Cosco kitchen step stool with fold out step, probably from the 50's or 60's. I am going to strip it, and repaint, and it will sure look nice in my kitchen.
>My BIL wanted to set a BIG pile of limbs on fire. Not sure WTF he was
>thinking, but I would have used a half a newspaper, or half a roll of paper
>towels, and some small branches and leaves. But no, genius BIL uses
>gasoline.
A great fire starter is diesel fuel and dryer lint. A little dab of
diesel will do it, slow hot burning and no flash fire.
> A great fire starter is diesel fuel and dryer lint. A little dab of
> diesel will do it, slow hot burning and no flash fire.
Certainly better than a gallon of unleaded. I did that once on a hunting trip when I was about 16. Poured some Coleman fuel on some wood, and tossed a match. I got back about six or eight feet. It was amazing how far the fumes crawled along the ground. I still remember the inverted mushroom.
>> A great fire starter is diesel fuel and dryer lint. A little dab of
>> diesel will do it, slow hot burning and no flash fire.
>Certainly better than a gallon of unleaded. I did that once on a hunting >trip when I was about 16. Poured some Coleman fuel on some wood, and tossed >a match. I got back about six or eight feet. It was amazing how far the >fumes crawled along the ground. I still remember the inverted mushroom.
When we were clearing trees and brush for a ski slope in the 60's we
would take a tractor tire, lay it on its side and add 4-5 gallons of
fuel oil.
Pile brush on to a height of 4-5 feet, and 10-20 around. Then we'd
pour some gas over the tire and make a 'fuze' about 10 feet long with
gas. Done right, on a calm day, with a little extra gas on the
tire, you could lift the whole brush pile a foot or two in the air.
No one ever lost an eyebrow-- and amazingly enough we never started
any forest fires.
> >> A great fire starter is diesel fuel and dryer lint. A little dab of
> >> diesel will do it, slow hot burning and no flash fire.
> >Certainly better than a gallon of unleaded. I did that once on a hunting
> >trip when I was about 16. Poured some Coleman fuel on some wood, and tossed
> >a match. I got back about six or eight feet. It was amazing how far the
> >fumes crawled along the ground. I still remember the inverted mushroom.
> When we were clearing trees and brush for a ski slope in the 60's we
> would take a tractor tire, lay it on its side and add 4-5 gallons of
> fuel oil.
> Pile brush on to a height of 4-5 feet, and 10-20 around. Then we'd
> pour some gas over the tire and make a 'fuze' about 10 feet long with
> gas. Done right, on a calm day, with a little extra gas on the
> tire, you could lift the whole brush pile a foot or two in the air.
> No one ever lost an eyebrow-- and amazingly enough we never started
> any forest fires.
> Jim
Several years ago I went on my annual 'burn the brush piles'
expedition. Several
piles as big as you describe but as high as I could pile brush. I
was clear cutting a Willow patch so all hte brush was from the current
year and hard to start.
Method was to try to tunnel in as far as I could, some newsprint, some
good dry kindling then deisel poured on the pile above it and keep
adding diesel as the fire died down until the brush was going well..
I was working on 4 piles that day going from one to another in
rotation adding the diesel.
Pour from 5 gallon can, Whoosh! and on to the next. Never gave it a
thought that that "Whoosh!" is not what diesel does. About the 3rd go
around I looked down and saw a flame flickering from the can spout,
slapped my glove over it and took a break until the shakes quit. I
had grabbed the gas can instead of the dieel.
On Nov 13, 1:24 am, AZ <a...@notmyrealname.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:54:30 -0500, gfretwell wrote:
> > They are bankrupt because they got sued into bankruptcy. Some moron was
> > pouring gasoline on a fire out of a 5 gallon can, it went up and he sued
> > Blitz.
> Why should we then have to pay for that moron to become fabulously
> wealthy, if a bit disfigured?
It is sue every/anyone America where no-one takes responsibility for
their own actions.
Lawyers encourage this.
Unfortunately spreading over here.
> >> A great fire starter is diesel fuel and dryer lint. A little dab of
> >> diesel will do it, slow hot burning and no flash fire.
> >Certainly better than a gallon of unleaded. I did that once on a hunting
> >trip when I was about 16. Poured some Coleman fuel on some wood, and tossed
> >a match. I got back about six or eight feet. It was amazing how far the
> >fumes crawled along the ground. I still remember the inverted mushroom.
> When we were clearing trees and brush for a ski slope in the 60's we
> would take a tractor tire, lay it on its side and add 4-5 gallons of
> fuel oil.
> Pile brush on to a height of 4-5 feet, and 10-20 around. Then we'd
> pour some gas over the tire and make a 'fuze' about 10 feet long with
> gas. Done right, on a calm day, with a little extra gas on the
> tire, you could lift the whole brush pile a foot or two in the air.
> No one ever lost an eyebrow-- and amazingly enough we never started
> any forest fires.
Several years ago I went on my annual 'burn the brush piles'
expedition. Several
piles as big as you describe but as high as I could pile brush. I
was clear cutting a Willow patch so all hte brush was from the current
year and hard to start.
Method was to try to tunnel in as far as I could, some newsprint, some
good dry kindling then deisel poured on the pile above it and keep
adding diesel as the fire died down until the brush was going well..
I was working on 4 piles that day going from one to another in
rotation adding the diesel.
Pour from 5 gallon can, Whoosh! and on to the next. Never gave it a
thought that that "Whoosh!" is not what diesel does. About the 3rd go
around I looked down and saw a flame flickering from the can spout,
slapped my glove over it and took a break until the shakes quit. I
had grabbed the gas can instead of the dieel.
>I have been finding some very good metal cans, including Safety Cans, and US >Military Jerry cans at yard sales. I have just about replaced every crappy >plastic one. I got a nice 2 gallon red one the other day that has the cap >and rubber pour spout with insert, and nice paint for $1. Got two military >ones for $5 WITH flexible spouts. No rust.
I fell out of love with steel cans after a 1-gallon can of lawn
mower gas rusted out around the bottom seam - allowing gasoline
to leak out over the floor.
It also validated my practice of always having a separate
building for combustibles and toxics.
-- Pete Cresswell
