Will Worsham

Dang it!

While working out Monday night at Taekwondo class, I mis-executed a jump spin hook kick and broke my right ankle.  According to my friend and urgent care doc, Jamie Jones, M.D., I, "sheared off a piece of my fibula" when landing the kick.  This was my kicking leg as my base leg had gone out from underneath me during the spin.  I go to see orthopedist Dr. Robert Hufft tomorrow afternoon to see how bad this is and hopefully get casted so the healing can begin.

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Boom Bucket

I love mortar shells on the 4th of July.  I love mortar shells any day for that matter.  They're loud, they're pretty  - - they're loud.  All great stuff for a fireworks show.  But those flimsy launcher tubes that come with them just don't do the trick after 40 or 50.  So, I built the BOOM BUCKET.  Unfortunately the original BOOM BUCKET failed when a mortar shell was inadvertently loaded upside down last year.   

So its time to build the replacement.  

This year I decided to build two.  What you need to begin:

• Bucket
• 1 10' 2" PVC Pipe 
• Brick paver - preferably round but must fit in the bottom of the bucket. 
• Quickcrete or equivalent 
• Water 

 
Cut the PVC pipe to fit the bucket.  For my buckets that was 14".  Put the paver in the bottom of the bucket.  Mix up the concrete and pour it in the bucket so there is about 2" on top of the paver.

 

Then arrange the lengths of PVC pipe in the concrete seating them down on the paver in the bottom of the bucket.  Then let dry.

As you can see, this is an EIGHT barrel model.  I actually think that a SEVEN barrel would work best because it would allow a tighter grouping of the barrels.

Make sure your barrel length isn't too long or the fuses won't reach from the bottom with enough left over to light them all at once.  The idea here is to shoot off 7-8 mortar shells at once so you get that BIG SHOW effect of multiple bursts all close in time.

Whereas the provided tubes usually fail after 3-4 launches, the BOOM BUCKET is virtually indestructable (see caveat in first paragraph re: proper loading of shell) and  will provide big fun for many years.

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