Exploding Lawn Mower or?

[displayfireworks1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWz1AXyk4Vg&ab_channel=JasonTirk


I suspect this was a fireworks artillery shell. I did a video year back about how long an artillery shell can survive if left to the elements. A canister artillery seems to last a long time. I suspect that is what happened in this video. I may have to search out that video I did.

[BMoore]

I've seen this video. There is a second video from a different angle as well which makes me wonder if wasn't staged. If it was a shell, I don't think it was consumer because I see no signs of any stars. Salute maybe. If I had to take a guess, I'm thinking it was staged and maybe something like an old railroad torpedo designed to explode when impacted.

[KDirk]

Man, if that was staged, it was risky (and stupid) as hell. Blowing apart a running lawnmower not only presents the risk of shrapnel, but of spraying and igniting gas, and possibly launching the still spinning blade. Guy in the video seems pretty non-plussed about it. I think I'd have unintentionally taught the neighbor kids a few new words if that had been me.

I blew up the engine on an old Ariens snow blower a couple of years back, broke the piston connecting rod while running the unit under heavy load. Made one heck of a boom, but everything remained contained inside the block.

[Blaster]

I used to shoot a lot of Golf Courses, and the "Exploding Mower" was a legendary myth I heard from many of them ;)

They'd come up and tell me about the time, Many Years Ago, when one of their guys got blown-off the mower and almost killed ~ hehe

I donno, I guess it has happened that an, unfound shell, shell detonated somewhere,,,, but that's become for all of them a 4" Salute on their course!

[displayfireworks1]

I believe this one was just posted.
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https://youtu.be/9mp9XLme5Us