To “shoot,” an anvil, for the record, is to blast it several hundred feet into the air using a charge of black powder. This delightful man, Gay Wilkinson, is apparently the world’s champion anvil-shooter. The fireworks start at 1:30. [via Boing Boing]
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That is the most insanely dangerous thing I have seen!!!
Now that is voiding your warranty!
But the anvil still looks like new, and thats the best part… I’d say the two anvils have been used before. Now that is some quality engineering… nothing I’ve designed could be blown up 100ft, embed itself in the ground and be good-to-go the next time.
How am I going to explain the hole in my shop when I try this on the weekend?
I’d have moved my truck a little farther away.
Really, this is the proper way to teach high school students about h=1/2*g*t^2 and cos(theta)=a/h and such. The hairspray fueled tennis ball cannons that we used didn’t quite do it justice.
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Tears of laughter welling up. That’s one hazardous Sunday afternoon out!
What happens when the casting shatters? – and everyone gets a bit of anvil?
D’ya notice how the anvil don’t bounce at the end there?
Once I stopped laughing I started shaking my head, then I started laughing again.
if he was off level the anvil could easily of reached the people and cameraman.
and that landing on your head would hurt, and difficult to gauge when falling on you which way to dodge before splat!
oh and the risk of the casting failing like the other comment said..
It was at a rendezvous in Missouri near the Lake of the Ozarks. He did not fill it full like in this video but it was still maybe half of what was in the bottom one.
Shot more than 50ft.
Lets be honest a fuse, a bunch of gunpowder , and basically any thing you can combine with it and walk away from is a good time. (does tim the tool man taylor grunt)
I do feel this is a page waiting to be print in the book of “it seemed like a good idea at the time”. And should have some sort of a do not try at home sticker on it.
how does one come up with such ideas? and he’s a “champion”? does that mean there are more of them and even a sub-culture of enthusiasts? wow.
Real anvils aren’t cast – they’re forged. I can’t so for every cast anvil, but my Fisher 180 lb. anvil doesn’t have the kind of indentation in the bottom that the forged anvils do.
The embarasing part (by embarassing I mean potentially fatal) is when the forge weld between the top and bottom portions of the anvils breaks. As I understand it, the top half kind of falls to the ground on takeoff and the bottom half goes faster, farther and, uh, somewhere.
that looks fun. not going to try it. I had a friend who used to do the same thing with cast iron pots. One day he got one stuck in a tree. pretty hilarious/fairly unsafe.