Howdy,<\/p>\n
Post me some things that you have done that you will never do again.<\/p>\n
Things you only do once (or fun with gasoline)<\/p>\n
I was 30 newly married and had purchased a trailer and plot of ground.<\/p>\n
All was right with the world except there was so much brush by my driveway, that was on the Neighbor’s and\/or county property and I could not see to back out of my drive. And even though it was a narrow country road, people roared by a maximum speed.<\/p>\n
So I decided to clear myself A view. I cut down all the brush in the corner of the cornfield that never get plowed or combined and there were hundred of saplings and small trees in this corner. And the easement from the fence to the road I cut the trees and brush down alonside the road for, well a long way down the road. I piled all this brush in the drainage ditch by the road.<\/p>\n
Now this was no small ditch it was nearly 6 ft wide and 4 ft deep. My drive way crossed the ditch over a culvert of a 24″ diameter steel pipe.<\/p>\n
I piled this ditch full of Saplings, Small trees and brush. It was stacked nearly as tall as I was. Well I tried kerosene and paper and could not get it to light. Well I had a small amount of gasoline left in the can and I wanted to empty the can so as to get the Gas to Oil mixture right for the chain saw. So I decided to try to get it started with the gasoline. I piled up the driest kindling and leaves and paper in one spot and poured gasoline on it. I lit a long kitchen match and knelt down to reach as close to the bottom of the ditch as I could get and WHOOOOOMMOOOMOOMMM!!!!!!!.<\/p>\n
Dang. It sounded like a canon going off. A Flame leapt out of the other end of the Culvert. A HUGE Flame.
\nNeighbors came out of their houses.<\/p>\n
And there I knelt, by the wood pile, still holding the match. My eybrows were gone. A section in the front and center of my head the hair was crispy. All the hair on my arms were gone.<\/p>\n
Yep, THat is something you only do once…<\/p>\n
BUT…<\/p>\n
It was some 20 years later and as I was mowing my grass I run over a hole of a Ground Hornets’ nest and they came out by the hundreds and stung the heck out of me. So I got some bug bombs turned them on and stuck them down the hornet hole. ANd they had no affect. THey actually seemd to gain sustenance from the chemicals. So friends of mine told me to Pour Gasoline in the hole, that will kill them. Which I did to no affect. So I got the bright (read stupid) ideas of burning them out. So I got a long Kitchen match (and they ain’t long enough) and went to stick them in the hole. As I reached the hole a flame leapt up and a loud boom went off and paper confetti shot 10 to 15 feet in the air and fluttered down, while I stood by the hole looking like Wiley Coyote.<\/p>\n
Well..<\/p>\n
I hope you had a safe fourth \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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