Hillbilly ****

[Lee]

Potato guns, the grocery store and the Fred's in the town we went to school in was constantly out of stock on Aquanet hairspray.

Buddy's dad had a hardware store and kept us in supply of PVC pipe and BBQ ignitiors.

Used our potato cannon knowledge and entered a high school physics contest for launching pingpong balls, rules said no incendiary or flammable means of pingpong ball launching so we turned to pneumatic. Made it to state and came in 3rd, 1st & 2nd teams didn't follow the rules, but our protests fell on deaf ears.

The pneumatic pingpong cannon lived on well into college. Launching any number of things that fit in the barrel at an number of targets.

The following is just theory, I can neither confirm nor deny:

A frozen little lime (key lime?) about the size of a ping pong launched at 125 psi from ~20' away will go through a cinder block wall.

A ping pong filled by syringe with water and launched at 45° angle at 150 psi will go over 200 yds. Orange ball appeared to still be climbing when it got too far away to see. Allegedly.

If you cram a potato down the barrel, basically just coring the potato with the barrel and launch said core straight up in the air at 125 psi, it takes long enough to return to earth to make you think it designated exiting the barrel. Then when you hear the whoosh and very loud splat on metal sound from the parking lot nextdoor you hide all evidence and find something else to do. Allegedly. The thoughts and confusion of whoever's car that potato landed on still make me chuckle, "What kind of bird **** on my car?" Allegedly.

Our chemistry teacher taught us that aluminum and HCL have an exothermic reaction. Fred's was also always out of aluminum foil and Works toilet bowl cleaner (cheapest they had). That's all you need to know about that.

 

[Blacksheep10]

Awesome on the pneumatic cannon, I made one a couple weekends ago out of an air bubble and a butterfly valve and 2 inch ERW for golf balls. I bought a bimba cylinder and burned an arm for the valve to get the fastest opening I could and triggered it off of the supply air. I just use a paintball bottle with a air nailer adapter so it’s portable.

 

[Yotota]

My life is pretty mellow these days, but I had some crazy and fun friends in my younger days.

One summer we stole every road cone we could find in the county and made a rally-x track in a friend's field. Hundreds and hundreds of cones, barrels, etc.

We would snag every free/dirt cheap POS car we could find and thrash it to death. It's surprising how many full throttle reverse-drive burnouts an 80s New Yorker can handle. I honestly don't know where half of them got dumped or scrapped...

Our town had an annual trash day where anything on the curb got picked up in the morning. Anything. We would prowl the town the night before and grab every couch/recliner/etc we could find and bring them all in the woods to a logging landing where we had a giant bonfire (of stolen pallets) surrounded by couches. After lots of booze and relaxing on the couches they would all end up in the fire and none ever came home.

The usual spud guns, homemade explosives, fires, etc. Other things that cannot be mentioned in public.

Good times. No cell phones, no cameras, no evidence. No way I'd want to raise a kid the way I was raised in today's climate but it was good while it lasted.

 

[skyhiranger]

This was all from back in the 80s, when my juvenile delinquency (aka stupidity) was strong...

1) Jumping rail road tracks that crossed a gravel road in a 390CI 2 door 68 Ford Galaxie 500 with marginal brakes and 7 of my friends in it. When I hit the tracks at 70MPH I got what seemed like about 8 seconds of airtime and silence before the car splashed down on the gravel. Then I stood on the brakes as hard as I could with both feet so I could get slowed down enough to make the 90* corner. Luckily, there was a driveway that went straight off that corner...yep, ended up in the driveway a few times.
Worst parts were...high school, alcohol, no seatbelts. Yep, young and dumb...but it was fun.

That car was a lot of fun in the year I drove it. I treated the gas pedal like an on/off switch. Went through like 3 sets of tires in that year.

2) Spinning the tires in front of the school after a rain, to see how high I could get the speedometer to go while moving as slow as I could. It would easily show over 100MPH while moving at about 5MPH.

3) A couple of times we chased each other around in our cars on the streets and would throw firecrackers at each other (small town rural america). That was fun until I got pulled over by the cops because they thought I was throwing firecrackers out of my window (now that I think about it, not sure I was breaking any laws, but no ticket, so no big deal). The firecracker he saw came from the car behind me and bounced off my roof and landed beside my door on the ground. So yes, it did appear I threw it out, but I really didn't.

4) Seeing how many times I could go around the town square sideways (I guess I was doing drifting before drifting was a thing). Sometimes in snow. Sometimes on dry pavement. Sometimes on wet pavement. I think I did 10+ times a few times...it's been 35 years, so...

 

[DMG]

This count?

Texas 3some?

 

[FC4X4]

4some

 

[Floridaman]

I guess every state has its own version of hillbilly, NJ is no exception. For people who know NJ this isn't far from where the Six Flags park is.

There's this thing we used to go to, about ten years ago, called DangerFest. This guy's family had a twig farm and after the harvest they'd invite a bunch of mud trucks to just come and rip around.

The guy who owned the property poured a concrete slab one year to have truck tug-o-wars on. My buddy who owned a junkyard recently acquired a 1960's airport tug (Mopar flathead with a pushbutton 727 trans), so we thought that'd be fun to cruise around on and maybe do some tugging.

A lot of **** went down that day.

edit: he'd go through mud bogs with the bus full of kids

Ultimately the airport tug ended up being a fail, because it was so low to the ground that anything we hooked it to just lifted the ass end off the ground, but we certainly tried.

That twig farm grew into a pretty big business and between that and environmental/neighbor complaints DangerFest kind of faded away, still a good time though. There are a lot of mud truck guys in the south part of NJ and still some mud bog competitions every year at a few different venues.

been to sarco, colliers mill, and Lacey, but where’s that at?

 

[pvkj454]

I was in the passenger seat of a 68 Barracuda that a friend had just bought that day from an old man. No tags or insurance and it had studded snow tires on the rear. He decided to open it up on a curvy road and we went airborne and crashed totalling the car and causing property damage. We walked to a guy's house that owned a wrecker and woke him up for a tow. I had a bloody cartoon knot on my forehead and looked like a unicorn for a few days.

 

[Xicor]

An old toilet and some black powder is a lot more fun than an old toilet and driving to the dump

 

[vetteboy79]

been to sarco, colliers mill, and Lacey, but where’s that at?

Actually not far from Colliers. Bit further south on 537 in Wrightstown.

 

[HillbillyDeluxe]

Potato guns, the grocery store and the Fred's in the town we went to school in was constantly out of stock on Aquanet hairspray.

Buddy's dad had a hardware store and kept us in supply of PVC pipe and BBQ ignitiors.

Used our potato cannon knowledge and entered a high school physics contest for launching pingpong balls, rules said no incendiary or flammable means of pingpong ball launching so we turned to pneumatic. Made it to state and came in 3rd, 1st & 2nd teams didn't follow the rules, but our protests fell on deaf ears.

The pneumatic pingpong cannon lived on well into college. Launching any number of things that fit in the barrel at an number of targets.

The following is just theory, I can neither confirm nor deny:

A frozen little lime (key lime?) about the size of a ping pong launched at 125 psi from ~20' away will go through a cinder block wall.

A ping pong filled by syringe with water and launched at 45° angle at 150 psi will go over 200 yds. Orange ball appeared to still be climbing when it got too far away to see. Allegedly.

If you cram a potato down the barrel, basically just coring the potato with the barrel and launch said core straight up in the air at 125 psi, it takes long enough to return to earth to make you think it designated exiting the barrel. Then when you hear the whoosh and very loud splat on metal sound from the parking lot nextdoor you hide all evidence and find something else to do. Allegedly. The thoughts and confusion of whoever's car that potato landed on still make me chuckle, "What kind of bird **** on my car?" Allegedly.

Our chemistry teacher taught us that aluminum and HCL have an exothermic reaction. Fred's was also always out of aluminum foil and Works toilet bowl cleaner (cheapest they had). That's all you need to know about that.

Pneumatic. **** yea.

I want to build a water sprayer into each side of my truck so when people are being ****bags like passing a semi on the right shoulder because they're too stupid to know how to merge properly or doing something stupid to my left, I can give them a nice spray down. Was thinking electric, but need something to produce enough pressure to spray out at speed. 120psi from my air tanls will be perfect.

 

[Blacksheep10]

Pictures of the refined version? Obviously for "research purposes" only

Aarin Z

Pretty messy as they are just stuck in the corner but I did a walbro on a M 18 Milwaukee battery. That is a pre-filter before the pump and on the outlet the piece of steel I drilled out and put a spring and ball in so when it is not under pressure it doesn’t constantly run out the end. Still all prototype **** so nothing is finished welded and it keeps working so I keep using it ha ha. There is also the pressurized Power washer wand style that I did. Both of them use a .045 welding tip. I just strap one of my several map gas torches to the end for ignition. I also use a paintball bottle and air adapter to power the pressure style. 75 psi seems to be optimal

 

[vetteboy79]

Potato guns, the grocery store and the Fred's in the town we went to school in was constantly out of stock on Aquanet hairspray.

Guilty.

The end of the barrel is chamfered to a knife edge for 'coring' with a little bit of an inward taper for a compressed sort of fit. And the barrel is rifled

 

[LittleMan]

Guilty.

And the barrel is rifled

Now you’re just showin off. Nice. 🍺

 

[DMG]

4some

The one in the back runs the camera

 

[DMG]

Pneumatic. **** yea.

I want to build a water sprayer into each side of my truck so when people are being ****bags like passing a semi on the right shoulder because they're too stupid to know how to merge properly or doing something stupid to my left, I can give them a nice spray down. Was thinking electric, but need something to produce enough pressure to spray out at speed. 120psi from my air tanls will be perfect.

If you were in the right lane no one could pass you on the right…

 

[bigun]

If you were in the right lane no one could pass you on the right…

Read it again he said people who pass him on the right shoulder

 

[arse_sidewards]

Anyone with the balls to pass on the shoulder is ok in my book.

 

[stjames151]

used to have a tradition with some old friends....we'd put a pound of tannerite into our Halloween gourd, and a gallon of diesel on top. We timed down new year's and had a 1/2 second difference between shots. IT WAS EPIC......EVERY TIME!!!!!!!11111!!!!!~!11!

 

[gozuki]

I was a lab assistant in Chemistry in high school and college, and someone I know put together a fuel air bomb and detonated it on the beach near the college. It left a 8' crater over 2 feet deep, and broke windows a 1/4 mile away. The ATF and FBI came knocking on doors a few days later, but no one knew anything about it. It didn't happen again.

 

[stjames151]

This count?

you loooooook like a ****!!!

 

[SLOWPOKE693]

you loooooook like a ****!!!

Thanks!

Do I remind you or your wife's or mothers....

 

[45acp]

4th of July

One of those little galvanized buckets maybe 2.5 gallon? They'll hold 8 grosses of bottle rockets. Fill pail about 1-2" deep with gas, pack with 1000+ bottle rockets. Pour little gas trail away from bucket. Throw match, run for your life. Observe as bottle rockets go ****ing everywhere for the next 10 minutes.

 

[stjames151]

Thanks!

Do I remind you or your wife's or mothers....

my wife's mothers was way creamy-er. that bitch wouldn't shut up. it was kinda annoying, but **** it. a nut's a nut. she took it in the ass like a champ.

 

[TrikeKid]

Was reminded today of some hillbilly **** I watched my dad do when I was a kid. No drinking involved but some hillbilly/redneck engineering.

Dad was an owner/operator truck driver and mostly his own mechanic, did everything but body work and engine/trans work himself. Truck shop that did his engine work had a Kenworth K100 cabover with rear axles he wanted to swap into his work truck for sale cheap. K100 had no engine/trans and was an all or nothing deal and a wrecker to drag it home would've made it no longer a smoking deal.

Old man whipped up a tow bar out of some **** he had laying around, threw a small air compressor and generator in the back of his pickup and drove down there with my uncle to pick this thing up. They plumbed the compressor into the K100 air system to run the brakes and enough battery to run the lights and they drug it 30 miles trouble free. Made it through 4 small towns without getting pulled over with a dead semi truck 8 feet off the back of a '70 F100 without a single ticket or any other issues.

 

[Trashman]

Old man whipped up a tow bar out of some **** he had laying around,

I did that when my POS winter beater broke down one time, Worked well

Also, one time bought a spa for a smoking deal down the street in their garage.

Went home, made a frame out of 2x4s I had laying around. Drug it to the house, set spa ontop and pulled it back home and into the backyard with my Jeep and a rope.

Good times in that spa for quite a few years.

 

[1Sinner]

I have 3 I'm willing to share, but only by the vote:

1. Big Bertha with a badge and the down syndrome cat

2. 2 quarts of oil and a pumpkin

3. The night of the xj, the bike path and the 4 runner rescue.

 

[Gdogg]

Meet the Whittakers, some of you are ready for this,

 

[arse_sidewards]

I have 3 I'm willing to share, but only by the vote:

1. Big Bertha with a badge and the down syndrome cat

2. 2 quarts of oil and a pumpkin

3. The night of the xj, the bike path and the 4 runner rescue.

1, obvously. We can get the gist of 2 and 3 from just the ***le.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

I am gonna vote #1 also. down syndrome cat.. I gotta hear this. lol