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Had a rail car full of propane catch on fire here locally. Some billy baddasses came up from Texas to drill a hole in the side to drain the propane into a ditch to be burned off. Really hard to find pictures of the incident though, I guess everyone was busy.

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the meme thread is now a propane tank explosion thread, deal with it. :flipoff2:
 
Motorcharge said:
Propane tanks don't explode when they're shot. Only way to blow them up is to get them hot enough outside for the liquid inside to boil and compromise the tank.
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We did the road flare thing too. It was awesome. The next trick I want to do is an 02 tank infront of a propane tank with a flare. See what happens. :dustin:

skyhiranger said:
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That video was actually our inspiration. :grinpimp:
 
Motorcharge said:
I'm pretty sure anyone with a gun can stop a hot air balloon. :laughing:
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Oh really? Heres a snippet from a balloon incident a few years ago

The balloon, which if deflated would cover an area equal to five football fields, was measuring ozone levels when it broke out of control after its launch last Monday from a site near Saskatoon, in western Canada.

"On the basis of prevailing wind conditions and estimates of the balloon's course, some time later this afternoon it should arch back towards the south and enter Norway's air space," said Lieut Carla McCarthy, of the US air base at Keflavik. "Our search went over 300 miles beyond the area that the military is responsible for and at this point there is nothing more we can do," she said. "The radar they were using was for surface searching and they weren't able to detect the balloon in the air." She added that, given prevailing winds, it might soon be in Norwegian air space.

Two Canadian CF-18 fighters fired more than 1,000 cannon rounds at it off the coast of Newfoundland on Thursday. Earlier in the day two RAF Nimrod aircraft had shadowed the balloon before a US Orion plane took up the chase.
 
subybaja said:
HTF does that even work? You gonna stand there with your finger on the trigger finishing the hole as liquid propane starts hosing out of it? :confused:
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If you like that, apparently they weld a bung on there after they are done driling :eek:

sacramento.cbslocal.com

Experts "Hot Tap" Lincoln Tanker Car Fire To Drain Propane

Firefighters in Placer plan to remove propane from a burning tanker car and put it in a manmade pond to prevent a catastrophic explosion in the town of Lincoln.
sacramento.cbslocal.com sacramento.cbslocal.com

Don't quote me on that the story was from 2011.

Also If I remember the tank ran out of propane before the Hot Tap was done.
 
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MigGunslinger said:
Had a rail car full of propane catch on fire here locally. Some billy baddasses came up from Texas to drill a hole in the side to drain the propane into a ditch to be burned off. Really hard to find pictures of the incident though, I guess everyone was busy.

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the meme thread is now a propane tank explosion thread, deal with it. :flipoff2:
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My dad went to school to do that. After the
weyauwega wi incident he was chosen to get trained on rail car derailments for the firedepartment. He learned how to hot tap the pressurized cars, and the old armored d8 tactic for the unpressurized cars. Pretty cool stuff. They offered him a job once the training was over but didn’t want the travel.
 
MigGunslinger said:
If you like that, apparently they weld a bung on there after they are done driling :eek:

sacramento.cbslocal.com

Experts "Hot Tap" Lincoln Tanker Car Fire To Drain Propane

Firefighters in Placer plan to remove propane from a burning tanker car and put it in a manmade pond to prevent a catastrophic explosion in the town of Lincoln.
sacramento.cbslocal.com sacramento.cbslocal.com

Don't quote me on that the story was from 2011.
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Jesus Christ. :eek:

The 29,000-gallon tanker loaded with liquid propane caught fire midday on Tuesday at a Northern Propane Energy yard in Lincoln. It is attached to two more cars loaded with 60,000 gallons of propane. The storage yard contains up to 500,000 gallons of propane.
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I was going to ask who would volunteer for that gig...I guess it doesn't surprise me that PF's family would. :laughing:

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woods said:
We did the road flare thing too. It was awesome. The next trick I want to do is an 02 tank infront of a propane tank with a flare. See what happens. :dustin:


That video was actually our inspiration. :grinpimp:
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Cool! And hang the bottles in a sodium basket suspended over a pond!
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
I just clicked the button....like knowing the answer on Jepordy clicked it

the guy stopped the test to ask me WTF
and I informed him that act like a joke it gets the joke treatment
and I clicked like a mutherfucker lol

I know cool story

because repost thread
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You wanna really play them?

Sit there and look like you're really concentrating, then no matter what you hear, do NOT press that button.

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