Yall are going to love this...... I lit myself on fire tonight

[drizzt]

by accident of course.....

I had poured some gas on a brush pile to light it, stepped back about twenty feet, lit a torch and chunked it. I guess it was the humidity that caused it, there was a heavy fume presence along the ground(heavier than anyhting ive ever encountered....i use gas ALOT to light fires. for many years, this is accident number 1 doing what i was supposed to be with it) and it blew up into my face. I have no eyebrows, it burned off my goatee, my right arm is hairless, and ive got some whoppers of burns on my left and right fingers/knuckles. I might add, I was NOT close to it, had not spilled any, and shouldnt have even been able to feel the heat from it, much less get burned..


Why is it when im not eing a tard with it, i get burned, but all the times when i was a kid acting like an idiot with it im good?

[Mukdo_Centered]

It's okay man. As the neighborhood pyro I've had some similar experiences in my 17 years of life ^__^. Most of which occured in my room (A 7 foot fireball in your room is quite a site ^__^) But hey, at least it makes for a good story and you now have the ability to draw in ANGRY EYEBROWS!! That's always fun, after a while you forget and people start avoiding you and ask why your screaming at them when your not (The eyebrows have power man, I'm telling you)

[splice]

I had poured some gas on a brush pile to light it

What the hell? Never been in the boy scouts? Gas is for vehicles man, brush lights itself up. If you can't make a fire with brush without using gas, well... Bound to happen sometime, right? :)

[Awooga Guy]

I have no eyebrows, it burned off my goatee, my right arm is hairless, and ive got some whoppers of burns on my left and right fingers/knuckles.

POST PIX PLS



That is all.

[xvikingx]

POST PIX

I second that

[Andoru]

I don't think drizzt had the time to take photos when he's busy salvaging his eyebrows!

[Hank]

(The eyebrows have power man, I'm telling you)
Eyebrows!


Stuff to increase message length.

[Awooga Guy]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00005UPNE/ref=dp_image_text_0/202-4495178-4687006?ie=UTF8



That is all.

[joekc6nlx]

Drizzt,

Couldn't you have used kerosene or charcoal lighter fluid instead of gasoline? Hell, even tiki torch fuel would have been safer than the gasoline.

You're right, the fumes did travel along the ground due to the high humidity. Even though you were 20 feet away, the fumes could have reached that far just by the turbulence you set up walking away from the brush pile.

I remember putting a bit of gasoline in our burn barrel, then my dad came out and put more in it, lit a match and lost his eyebrows. He didn't know I'd pre-charged the barrel, but boy the trash sure burned.

[tango]

this thread is worthless without a video link. ... or pictures.

:D :D :D :D

glad you're still alive!

[Omnis]

Why would you add gasoline to something you were trying to make a fire with when you already have an open flame? Sorry about your hair, man.

[Keegs]

It was god's way of telling you you're too hairy? :P

[drizzt]

keegs- i think so....

Omnis- pile was not lit, gas was poored on prelighting

tango-if i had em illd post em

splice and joe- we tried lighter fluid first. By brush im talking about the 4 trees i hacked up with a chainsaw first. There was no way this stuff was going to light happily, we had tried it with no accelerant first.


I knew gas traveled out SOME, but ive never, even in this humidity, have seen it do what it did yesterday, and thats in about ten years of(well for the first few) acting stupid with it, then learning to be more careful.

[joekc6nlx]

Two words:

Molotov Cocktail

:laugh:

[Omnis]

Omnis- pile was not lit, gas was poored on prelighting

No, I mean, you had matches, right? Something that emits an open flame should be enough to light yourself a fire pretty easily, especially given you've tinder and stuff.

[joekc6nlx]

Not if it's freshly cut wood, especially if it was green before cutting and has not had time to season.

[ScottUK]

Drizzt,

First of all, I'm glad you're ok... we all screw up now and again. Being one of the great hairy beasts of this earth, I will join you in mourning the loss of your goatee...

Secondly, post us a picture of you with your eyebrows drawn in with a pencil like on Police Academy... :D

[ScottUK]

Here's... Drizzt! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJGRUt9_HHQ)

[Omnis]

Not if it's freshly cut wood, especially if it was green before cutting and has not had time to season.

True. Still...you have to start small. It's not called building a fire for nothing. Hahaha. I'm going to arkansas for a week, so I'll keep in mind to be extra-careful when we build fires outside. :)

That video with the melon is so stupid, hahaha.

[drizzt]

it didnt light until the main pile was burning....the fire spread back out from there.


well....no mine wasnt quite as boneheaded as melon boy, but thats what i was yelling(in english spanish and german......i curse well in several languages). God even ive never done something that dumb....

[Kitsune]

You should try another ways to depilate yourself... Waxing is less painful:grin:

Ok, I did this bad joke cos I know you're ok and hair grows back, so I'm glad nothing else happened but... Please don't do that again for the love of God.

[Washington]

by accident of course.....

of course :) I once splashed my bass player's arm and part of his side with gas and he went up like a torch.. the gas can nozzle was broken.. so when i went to gas up the camp fire the gas out of the crack on the bottom lit the can on fire... jerk back reflex splashed him.. lolol.. good thing we were by the river.. i didn't know he could dance.. you shoulda seen him move.. wasn't hurt... not even a burn.. but one arm was hairy and the other wasn't for a while :wink:

[Alison2805]

Hey Omnis, you need more practise being a pyro. Fires are surprisingly hard to light unless it's pine needles, eucalyptus, or the agricultural college across the road. At one of the sites Ive been working at recently we had a bottle of diesel next to the wood stove that we would light every night - it heated the water for showers and we had to cook on it. And of course the diesel was in a clear fruit juice bottle. What else woud you put it in?
One morning the guys were making bacon and ggs and went to pour some oil on the pan and just happened to pour on diesel instead. Ive never seen eggs flambe'ed before, but wow...

[Omnis]

Hey Omnis, you need more practise being a pyro. Fires are surprisingly hard to light unless it's pine needles, eucalyptus, or the agricultural college across the road. At one of the sites Ive been working at recently we had a bottle of diesel next to the wood stove that we would light every night - it heated the water for showers and we had to cook on it. And of course the diesel was in a clear fruit juice bottle. What else woud you put it in?
One morning the guys were making bacon and ggs and went to pour some oil on the pan and just happened to pour on diesel instead. Ive never seen eggs flambe'ed before, but wow...

Yeah, I'm sorry for speaking without knowing the situation entirely. It's been somewhat easy (after lots of practice) to get a fire started when I've tried to over in arkansas and stuff. Boyscouts was good for something. It takes FOREVER to get a good one going, though.

[joekc6nlx]

Alison, You would think that the place you're working at would have a proper container for diesel. Here in the U.S., diesel is supposed to be stored in yellow containers, blue for kerosene, and red for gasoline.

Plus, diesel has that very recognizable aroma (one that reminds me of being out on the ocean and getting quite seasick), so whoever was cooking the eggs was an idiot for not recognizing that fact. (I hope it wasn't YOU cooking the eggs!)