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Tannerite
« on: December 30, 2016, 08:10:55 PM »
So what's the deal with this stuff anyway? Say I want to remove a big tree, can I legally purchase the stuff and blow the tree up?

Does it come in det-cord like configuration where I could cut trees with it?
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2016, 08:18:58 PM »
It's legally sold in shooting stores.
It's completely harmless until mixed.
No det cord. Shoot it. Center fire rifle.

Now, det cord may be able set it off. Not sure.

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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2016, 08:25:49 PM »
It's a binary compound legal to transport and store in its component parts. Once mixed it is illegal to transport or store. It can only be ignited by a shockwave produced by a round traveling greater than 2000 fps. Pistol rounds , a hammer, fire, nothing else will set it off. It can be sympathetic detonation with set cord or plastic explosives but then you'd be in trouble anyway.

A gallon jug mixed produces quite the bang. A small(pint?) container is equivalent to a 1/4 stick of dynamite.

You can also make your own with cool packs and aluminum powder.


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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2016, 08:29:48 PM »
Say I want to remove a big tree,

You already own a bulldozer and a chainsaw... not like you haven't cleared out trees with that combo before.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2016, 08:41:47 PM »
Say I want to remove a big tree,

You already own a bulldozer and a chainsaw... not like you haven't cleared out trees with that combo before.
And Bobby brings a good point.
There are a bunch of failed attempts on YouTube also.
I think to remove trees, you would need an appropriately placed hole to contain the Tannerite.
Something center of mass not on edge.
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2016, 10:25:17 PM »
If you can contain you can do some damage.  There are plenty of videos out there showing idiots out there using it unsafely and causing serious personal injury.

But for some good fun.  Shoot a pint propped up under a cheap plastic wheelbarrow and see how high you can get it to fly.  When it returns to the ground the wheelbarrow is unharmed and you can do it again.  Of course do this from a safe distance.

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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2016, 10:33:44 PM »
Trees are tricky, forget the tannerite use it for saplings. Use sarge and dig one side out (chainsaw roots with old blade if necessary). Cut tree so stump is around 8'-10' tall so top is off of base. Use bucket on sarge with leverage of stump to remove it.

For what it's worth I've watched plenty of guys use dynamite and fail on tree stumps. Boulders are a whole other animal.....
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2016, 10:35:54 PM »
Not just trees, but possibly pond work, removing some rocks, stuff like that.

The county attorney wanted to issue me a blasting license, perhaps that is the rout I should take if I get interested in all that. For the pond, I was thinking of doing the nitrogen and diesel mix that I've seen used in the marshes around the Chesapeake Bay.

I want to say a half dozen bags of fertilizer mixed right made a 50 foot in diameter hole something like fifteen feet deep. Concept was to create duck/geese habitat.

On my farm, I have this mud hole of a pond. Not the one I accidentally created, but a very old one. It is about 50 feet in diameter and probably only 2-3 feet deep and is choking and filling with cattails, and willows. I thought about pouring the mix in some container in the dead center and lighting it up! Might save several days of excavator work...and be fun to watch!!!!
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2016, 12:44:37 AM »
Just get a license and do it right. Just buy as you need, don't store and that should remove many problems.
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« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2016, 11:55:08 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2016, 12:22:45 PM »
A very expensive way to down a tree


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« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2016, 03:21:42 PM »
Right up my alley. Get the permit and give me a pm when you are ready to go shopping
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« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2016, 04:10:43 PM »
Right up my alley. Get the permit and give me a pm when you are ready to go shopping
Thanks Matt, but I better think this through. I'm sure you draw mucho attention applying for explosive licenses
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2017, 06:05:29 PM »
you own a farm, sure you can get the nitrogen. or is that what they make you apply for license on?
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2017, 07:33:14 PM »
Just don't do the prep like that guy.  :rolleyes: Glad it worked for them but sheesh.....rotted tree.....large branch right behind him to trip him if he hits more rot than anticipated.

But that does make a bang doesn't it?!

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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2017, 09:10:44 PM »
I would much rather use a saw and a monster fire


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« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2017, 12:25:18 AM »
I would much rather use a saw and a monster fire


We've all done that many times. making things go boom is more fun.
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2017, 03:42:53 PM »
You guys just reminded me I have 20 lbs setting waiting for something.
May have to find something to detonate... :popcorn:
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2017, 03:50:46 PM »
tannerite go boom!

blew up a washing machine with 8 pounds of it years ago.

you could see the shockwave in the video....
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2017, 07:01:25 PM »
You guys just reminded me I have 20 lbs setting waiting for something.
May have to find something to detonate... :popcorn:

How 'bout Bertha? You wouldn't have to pull the head to change the thermostat anymore!!
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« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2017, 07:46:53 PM »
You guys just reminded me I have 20 lbs setting waiting for something.
May have to find something to detonate... :popcorn:

How 'bout Bertha? You wouldn't have to pull the head to change the thermostat anymore!!
Nah, this isn't even strike one.
Two springs ago I said "I really ought to freshen up the top end on this thing..."
So it's totally on me...
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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Re: Tannerite
« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2017, 09:10:26 PM »
I was about to say where is our combat engineer...............then all of a sudden he appears out of no where with the gleam in his eye and the cheshire grin............matt and don, we MUST have video proof that this happened............... :beercheers: :popcorn: :likebutton:
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