I was a commercial fisherman in Alaska in the 90's. All the ships had potato guns and we would use them to warn off other boats when they got too close (sometimes we would just get drunk and shoot at each other. Shhh... don't tell anyone).
Back in HighSchool we made one that fit golf balls perfectly with a rag wrapped around it. She would put a hole in a 55 gallon steel drum from 20 yards. So much fun
We used socks, used a barbecue starter for the ignition device, and a combination of hairspray and other aerosol flammables for fuel. We drove a 500 yard par five at the golf course behind my buddies house with roll included
Built one when I was 12 years old. Decades ago tennis balls were sold in metal cans. Three balls per can, so they were long cans. Punctured the bottom of three cans, taped them together and placed a hole on the bottom side of the fourth can. Poured about 3 oz of alcohol into the cans and spun them around to get alcohol all the way down to the bottom can. Dropped a tennis ball into the top can. Ball could not go further down because the bottom of the top three cans was only punctured. Took a match to the only hole on the side of the bottom can, and booooooom. The tennis ball went so far up in the air we could barely see it. My next adventure was more complicated. Home made gun powder. Followed by a homemade pipe bomb. Buried the bomb and blew it up leaving a three foot wide crater. But I was 13 by then and more responsible. Set up a perimeter and wore safety glasses 😅
@@Handle-q6x cool, I also made rockets, but I used the pre-made fuel cells. Then I got into building airplanes. Fortunately, there was a park behind our house, so all experimental craft was done there. Now kids are to attached to their phones.
I built one years ago that used a spark igniter. We shot hairspray into it as fuel. Didn’t have any potatoes, but I had a bunch of apples that were bigger than the bore. So I sharpened the outer edge of the bore where if you took the Apple and rotated it, it would cut and make a perfect fit. Then all of the peelings would fold in behind it, went outside in the backyard to test it. We had had an ice storm the night before so all the tree limbs had a quarter inch of ice on them. When I shot that thing off, it went up into the tree and it was like shrapnel cutting through the tree limbs. as the limbs are raining down around me all I could think of was “coooool!”
Man that sounds fun! Kids nowadays sit at computer desks, on their phones, playing video games...they haven't a clue what real fun is! Kinda sad really.
@@chikkenbonz If a kid in suburbia today made a potato cannon and fired it at trees in the backyard, the neighbor Kens and Karens would SWAT them, the local PD and ATF would swarm the house, and the kids would be charged with construction of an NFA destructive device, minor in possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm in city limits, terroristic activity, shooting within 1/4 mile of an occupied structure, etc. and the parents would be charged with constructive possession of a n NFA destructive device, unlawful transfer of an NFA item, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and child neglect. It's a different world man, it's just a different world. :(
@@mannys9130 Indeed. I also made a potato cannon with friends as a youngling, and had a BLAST doing it. (😉) Also, I have nieces/nephews, several of whom don't know s**t beyond the 1nt3rw3bz...... 😮💨 We. Are. DOOMED. 😔
We use them for launching frozen baited hooks for fishing in texas but with pressurized air with a valve to shoot. At 110 psi they launch 8-10oz baits over 200 yards.
@@bartbullock7817 first off, you don’t have the answer you think you do. Ammo is a part of the firearm therefore is already covered by 2A…. But let’s say you can get rid of ammo…. You can’t ban straw charcoal and urine…. We can make our own powder and cast our own rounds homie.
I was about 20 yrs old, hammered drunk and we went through a big bag of tators and then we decided to use onions. My girlfriend took my dog for a walk the next day and apparently there were onions rings everywhere for blocks. 😂 good Ole aqua net!!😂
@kinderdm Can confirm. My local ace even made sure that we used primer and cement with our joints. 😂 Metered propane is really the best way to get consistent results.
I used two wood screws wired to a cheap taser that was mounted to the side. Super reliable ignition and not worried about blowing a lighter clean out the back.
There is a story in my Family about my Great Grandfather. Apparently he always carried around a flask with calcium carbide in it. One summer, at a family gathering at a lake, they dug a hole in the beach and put one of those metal Milk jugs into it and filled the hole around it, leaving just the top exposed. They broke the glass off a light bulb, draped it into the jug, put some of the Calcium Carbide into the vessel along with a little water, and hammered the bung into the top. They then backed off and waited a few moments for the hydrogen gas to develop then touched the wires to a battery. The story claims there was a gout of flame 10 feet tall, and a horrendous boom. The bung what blown straight up, out of sight, whistling as it went. They heard the whistling die out, the start up again. They looked at each other and remembered the adage, what goes up, must come down, and they all scurried for cover. Under trees, under cars, in a house. When the bung landed, 30 feet from where it started, it did so in a small wooden row boat, which gracefully settled into the lake in a few feet of water. No indication if anyone got in trouble for the event.
Yeah, that's acetylene. In the early days, they used to have acetylene lamps where you put in a small piece of calcium carbide and some water, lit the flame, and used it like a candel.
Fresh-off-the-tree walnuts work pretty well. My brothers and I made one back in the 90's, and it would put a walnut through sheet metal for siding/roofing. Those were good times.
Back in the mid 90's my buddy brought a tater cannon like this one. He was using hair spray for propellant. He shot it for me and my dear Pop. My pop said bring that to the shop. He got the cutting torch and shot some ascetaline in the tater gun. It was SPICY! Buddy got excited. Next shot Pop gave it a whiff of oxygen.😆 Touched it off and it shot the barrel about 20 feet in the air.😂 Oh the good times you can have when you have no neighbors.
My son built one for science class in high school! He is Ed hair spray for propellant also. I had the bright idea to use oxy acetylene also! Blew a hole in garage door and blew back end off gun! My son yelled at me and said “you son of a bitch! You tried to kill me”! It’s funny now!
Some people trust the PSI rating, marked on the of the pipe, but that number isn't for sudden pressurization, like in a poor man's cannon. I won't even use PVC for compressor use, because when it fails it shatters.
We in Australia we have what we call Beach bazooka Coper pipe tire valve and 110 pound air and it can reach 310klms verbosity My bazooka runs golf ball size Made my own Reverse style hollow point round You guys are way behind the times .... We been doing it since I was 12 years old ,. I'm now 49 years old Ya want more info just let me know and I might help out .. My lead weight sinker that I've design Will go through 2 car doors in one blast Cheers jase 🎉 Australia cheers 🎉
I always used air with a pressure gauge so i could keep them more consistent and hopefully "safe". Valve stem and an air gauge on the back and a ball valve to release it.
@@brianburnside5949 Yeah, I'm not sure you guys are all with it. Because my 6 decades here, Spuds was the name of a Beer Dog, not the guns. Just read an Idaho License Plate 😂 ... it's potato out here
I remember in the early 90s when these became popular in Australia the government had them banned and classed as a dangerous weapon in about 2 months🤦🏼♂️ So in Australia you could go to jail for doing what you did in this video.. Australia used to be a free country but when they took away our guns they started taking away all our rights
@@machwind3266 That makes a lot of sense too. Though obviously it needed something to actually happen. And you don't spell it "Maxes". ... must be Airbus salesmen 😂
I remember making one of these as a kid. The middle-aged guys at the hardware store knew exactly what we were up to, as they probably got kids with the same list of components every time. Luckily, they weren't boy scouts about it and even gave us a few pointers. They could probably tell we were good kids- and we didn't end up causing more than our share of property destruction. It's harder to crack the screen on those old tube TVs than your neighbor's windshield.
My pops n me used to use walnuts in the fall right when they drop with the green husk on, with whatever diameter pvc it was. Ram em down n watch em fly 400 yards or more. They'd go right through the old pine boards on the old barn real slick too haha. Cheers
I call them "spud guns." I used to make them in various sizes and lengths. I had things that would go so high, I'd never see them again. I shot a rubber ball into a swimming pool, and it vanished. I had a lemon come down onto the street, and the splatter was instant, and it went at least 10 feet in every (flat) direction. Then came the grapefruit gun . . . I still have it put away after 20 years. P.S. Do NOT use hydrogen as a propellant in spud guns. I never did. It's highly explosive. I used to make hydrogen using chemicals and then electrolysis, but for lift in large balloons.
Built one of these in the late 90s that used acetylene, oil rig pipe and a piezo switch from a BBQ. I launched a half-frozen peach at an old Buick station wagon in what I thought was a junk yard. The pit went through both doors and lodged in the tree behind. Turns out, it wasn't a junk yard. Just a super white-trashy dude who liked to drag junk into the woods. We had to go find him and apologize. He traded us a case of beer for my launcher. We were 13-15 years old at the time. Good trade.
I used to work at a produce cooler on the central coast of California. It was corn season, and I made a launcher tube with a barrel that matched perfectly to an ear of corn. The corn has its own lube from the kernels. I have lost sight of an ear of corm more than once.
Built one from 10 foot long PVC pipe, the inner dimension allowed a perfect fit for a 2 liter soda bottle. I filled the bottle halfway with water and drilled a small hole in the cap to accommodate a compressed air hose nozzle. I propped the pipe up on some material at a 15 degree angle and secured it. Shoved the air hose nozzle into the hole and gripped the neck of the bottle, and filled it with compressed air through the hole till I could no longer hang on. That soda bottle shot out so fast and hard that it flew the distance in the shop, making a loud "Whooshing" sound, about 75 yards or so and hit the far wall! Who says you can't have fun at work?!
I did this once with my friends back in high school. When we were walking around the hardware store getting supplies, the old timer there knew exactly what we were doing & started telling us "oh no, you gotta get this kinda PVC & make sure you get the correct primer with the glue youre gonna use. You also wanna use a manual striker for a BBQ. Works great & you'll be able to seal it up really well on the chamber"😂 We then went & decided to put a golf ball in it with a paper sabot. Well in my back yard, there was about 300yds of wetlands between my house & an auction yard. I lost sight of the golf ball over the the auction yard & it looked like it kept climbing!
When I was maybe 8 years old. I sought after and found my sister’s exact product canister, the exact diameter of a golf ball. No shit, I gathered the funds to go downtown and buy the same canisters to make a six foot cylinder. I cut and ground down the lip to be smooth. I don’t know how I didn’t blow myself up, but I made a golf ball cannon. Small hole at the bottom, lighter fluid inside the tube, add the golf ball. Lot the hole and “boom” the ball went straight up in between my house and the neighbors house (15 -20 ft.) it was silent for about 5-10 seconds and then “thwap” the ball hit the concrete walkway “launchpad” about 6 feet in front of me and bounced into my neighbors backyard. “Shit!”. Learned not to launch straight up!
@@nitronitor1415probably is for how close the projectile lands to the person firing it. He eating I talking about 6ft high he was saying it landed 6ft in front of him
It might be a spellchecker that's dialed a bit to high that changed it like that ? Used to have mine on 24/7 but turned it off after it wouldn't quit changing my words to something totally different . Maybe ..maybe not
@@chuckfry1227Cubustion chamber, fuel & barrel. Same premise, different materials. What exactly about this do you not understand? Did I say they were equal in power, scope or scale? You must identify as simple.
Used to call mine a spud gun. Lol i still remember the sound the potato made going through the tube at mach snott! 😂❤ some unsuspecting person is going to be a hurting unit haha
It dose but makes everything sticky. Starter fluid doesn't, seems dangerous but if you use too much it won't ignite, i use like 1/8th of what this guy used and it would have been too much if he didnt vent it out a bit by blowing.
@@MrJustincrowdenaqua net and right guard are core memories for me. I might of been 8 and going to the ice rink and thought I'd Try deodorant for the first time cuz I use to sweat like a champ and not knowing put aqua net under my arms 😂😂.. Thankfully I hadn't hit puberty so hairless but still damn sticky
For some reason I'm visualizing that scene in Happy Gilmore where he's taking bets with the moving guys. He probably just broke somebody's window from a mile away 😂
@benfromalbuquerque6083 they have em but I thought it would be cheaper and funner if it was a potato gun mounted to a turret on the front but yea they have signal cannons! Also I have a barrel to a c130 I believe it's 40mm and I think that would work with modifications! If a breach was put on the back
I was a pyro in HS. In the course of my research, I came across people who made mindblowing potato canons out of thick stainless steel pipe. The fuel source? Stoichiometric oxypropane through a proportioning valve. 🤯 Ignition source was an Oudin coil from a stun gun. I believe they used saboted golf balls at Mach 1.5 or so. Unfortunately my budget was only schedule 80, BBQ ignitor, and Axe.
We got nabbed by the DEC up in the Adirondacks for using one of those things. Our fuel of choice was Aqua Net. My friend attached a grill starter for spark.
Once the propellant charge is consumed, any additional barrel length is just drag on the projectile. Make it 24" and you will get more distance. Also reduce the size of the expansion chamber. Overall length 30-36"
@@darrensmall4313 That is for shotguns. Rifles is 16", AND none of that applies to muzzle loaders. The golf ball/spud gun is a muzzle loader. Please cite any case where the ATF prosecuted anyone for a short barrel length on a muzzle loading spud gun. I'll wait.
@garyK.45ACP They have a bunch of overzealous, patriotic Americans in jail for essentially trespassing, but charged with trying to overthrow the government. If they want it, they'll make it up.
When I built my first one I took it to Kentucky to a family reunion to show my cousins we ran out of potatoes so one of my cousins grabbed a peach before I shot it into the air I told him I wanted to test it on his metal shed he was okay with that and on that day we found out that a peach pit Will penetrate a metal shed when launched from a potato launcher at 25 ft so try you some peaches buddy and you don't have to use paper towel paper towel
You know if you put fins that spiraled the round that could actually be quite effective… and leave it hollow inside to pour something in to add mass.. crayon wax even.. paint cavity..
@liquidrockaquatics3900 I have actually made a design with fins and it holds 10 of the large/adult "pop It's", I haven't tried them. but I do like the idea of printing an empty cavity for quick filling later and/or a monster paintball lol, Good ideas!
In the 90's in Australia, the news promoted how dangerous and illegal these were and they were showing up all around to the polices lament, I of course did not make one instantly. I know our rules are lame.
I was a commercial fisherman in Alaska in the 90's. All the ships had potato guns and we would use them to warn off other boats when they got too close (sometimes we would just get drunk and shoot at each other. Shhh... don't tell anyone).
Surely potato guns are legal in international waters for self defence, no? 😂😂😂
Too late. They know.😅
It turns out fishing in Alaska wasn't dangerous for the reasons they told us. It was you guys all along 😮
So it was you.. finally I found you.
As an Alaskan I can confirm we find very amusing ways to pass the time...such as this
ISS, "Uh, Houston, we were just struck by what appears to be a golf ball. I'm pretty sure it hit the fuel tanks."
Lol
Hairspray work better than ether back in the day
😂
And hairspray's a lot cheaper.... Or it used to be ,,the store brand aquanet would make a hell of a flamethrower
@@paulwoodman5131I would also add white rain to that list.
I'm glad to see that Badger from Breaking Bad wasn't killed and is happily living his best life firing objects out a potato gun into icy lakes.
My exact thought also xD
Dang its Keanu Reeves..Bill And Ted's adventure..
Bill and Ted’s awesome adventure
Toe sucking adventure😂😂😂😂
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
@@Workerbee-zy5nx * ahem *
_Bill and _*_Spud's_*_ Excellent Adventure_
Back in HighSchool we made one that fit golf balls perfectly with a rag wrapped around it. She would put a hole in a 55 gallon steel drum from 20 yards. So much fun
It’s a felony now, but we used to make them all the damn time. 😂
We built ours to shoot D cell batteries.. that was fun....
@@thagingerninjer5391what state is it a felony in?
We used socks, used a barbecue starter for the ignition device, and a combination of hairspray and other aerosol flammables for fuel. We drove a 500 yard par five at the golf course behind my buddies house with roll included
@@thagingerninjer5391It's definitely not illegal to make your own firearm. You are incorrect.
Built one when I was 12 years old.
Decades ago tennis balls were sold in metal cans. Three balls per can, so they were long cans. Punctured the bottom of three cans, taped them together and placed a hole on the bottom side of the fourth can. Poured about 3 oz of alcohol into the cans and spun them around to get alcohol all the way down to the bottom can. Dropped a tennis ball into the top can. Ball could not go further down because the bottom of the top three cans was only punctured. Took a match to the only hole on the side of the bottom can, and booooooom. The tennis ball went so far up in the air we could barely see it.
My next adventure was more complicated. Home made gun powder. Followed by a homemade pipe bomb. Buried the bomb and blew it up leaving a three foot wide crater. But I was 13 by then and more responsible. Set up a perimeter and wore safety glasses 😅
FBI and ATF enter the chat..
@@randallsmerna384 come on! I was 12 years old and in another country
When I was a kid I made black powder and made rockets out of the paper shot gun shells. Almost started the house on fire.
@@Handle-q6x cool, I also made rockets, but I used the pre-made fuel cells. Then I got into building airplanes.
Fortunately, there was a park behind our house, so all experimental craft was done there.
Now kids are to attached to their phones.
Teach me 😂
I built one years ago that used a spark igniter. We shot hairspray into it as fuel. Didn’t have any potatoes, but I had a bunch of apples that were bigger than the bore. So I sharpened the outer edge of the bore where if you took the Apple and rotated it, it would cut and make a perfect fit. Then all of the peelings would fold in behind it, went outside in the backyard to test it. We had had an ice storm the night before so all the tree limbs had a quarter inch of ice on them. When I shot that thing off, it went up into the tree and it was like shrapnel cutting through the tree limbs. as the limbs are raining down around me all I could think of was “coooool!”
Florida man here. Green oranges for ammo.
Man that sounds fun! Kids nowadays sit at computer desks, on their phones, playing video games...they haven't a clue what real fun is! Kinda sad really.
@@chikkenbonz If a kid in suburbia today made a potato cannon and fired it at trees in the backyard, the neighbor Kens and Karens would SWAT them, the local PD and ATF would swarm the house, and the kids would be charged with construction of an NFA destructive device, minor in possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm in city limits, terroristic activity, shooting within 1/4 mile of an occupied structure, etc. and the parents would be charged with constructive possession of a n NFA destructive device, unlawful transfer of an NFA item, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and child neglect. It's a different world man, it's just a different world. :(
@@mannys9130 Indeed. I also made a potato cannon with friends as a youngling, and had a BLAST doing it. (😉) Also, I have nieces/nephews, several of whom don't know s**t beyond the 1nt3rw3bz...... 😮💨
We. Are. DOOMED. 😔
@@mannys9130 Yeah I get ya. You make a great point. It's gotten totally out of control in all fronts. Sad indeed.
We built these all the time with my Uncle back in the 90s. We had so much fun, always used Aqua Net Hair Spray 😂😂 brings back some good memories.
Same here. Except the Aquanet would gum up the threads of the plastic cap.
@@booger8020 Yeah definitely need to keep some rubbing alcohol nearby to alleviate that issue too
We use them for launching frozen baited hooks for fishing in texas but with pressurized air with a valve to shoot. At 110 psi they launch 8-10oz baits over 200 yards.
You're using an Air Cannon. Nothing flammable.
@gatormp03
That’s smart. That would make fishing a breeze when it comes to bottom fishing. Don’t know if it’s legal where I live though
Of course you do. It’s Texas. Lol
How does the line not tangle or snap
Made one of those and it was awesome! Also could be very lethal with the frozen bait bullets!
And then BIGFOOT comes charging out having been hit on the head with a golf ball.
NICE!😂
And slaps them with his jack links jerky
🤣
😂😂
@@justrob4586😂
It's just like watching a movie of me back in my teenage years!!! AWESOME DUDE 😎🇺🇲😎
Quality build, superb craftmanship, a delicate balance of form and function, practical, yet luxurious.
And they think taking away the 2nd Amendment would leave us helpless. Go with that.
Nobody Is Taking The Second Amendment You Clown !!!
... like he even knows what it says 🤤
AK will be replaced by PVC
@@yelyab1
What's funny.
Is these 2nd Amendment cry babies don't understand.
The government has Sched 80 Piping 😂 ,.. and a little imagination 😭
The second amendment does not cover ammunition, Such a simple fix, Yet nobody can wrap their brain around it.
@@bartbullock7817 first off, you don’t have the answer you think you do. Ammo is a part of the firearm therefore is already covered by 2A….
But let’s say you can get rid of ammo…. You can’t ban straw charcoal and urine…. We can make our own powder and cast our own rounds homie.
I was about 20 yrs old, hammered drunk and we went through a big bag of tators and then we decided to use onions. My girlfriend took my dog for a walk the next day and apparently there were onions rings everywhere for blocks. 😂 good Ole aqua net!!😂
White rain wrkd well .. propane n coleman twist igniter has the best results 👊
Onions are the best projectiles
Onions are toxic for dogs, hope it wasn't eating them
@@evanklink1The dog ate them all and died -
The adult ring toss
I love how a lot of the comments start with back in high school. Or way back in the 90s. It isn't worth the possible criminal charges these days.
Reminds me of the Adams Family movie ... "Damn you Adams !!!" 😂
brings back memories...We made tader guns with a grill igniter
as the trigger
We made tiny ones from a 2" tee and 1" pipe. We'd pop them at each other while working on new construction townhomes in the framing phase. Good times
Yep!!! I figured they were using that or something similar.
Yep, don't throw that old grill away just yet!
We used the flint light for the old gas lanterns. A quick spin of the know and boom! Lol good times
@stang1970 that's what I used on mine. I can't find the flint ignitors anywhere though. I still have my cannon.
Made a few of these growing up. Don’t ask Home Depot employees. They will just walk away lol
I made a couple as well. Asked home Depot employees and they were laughing and happy to help.
Local ace hardware employees 25-30 years ago did not give a damn. they were happy to help you out.
@kinderdm Can confirm. My local ace even made sure that we used primer and cement with our joints. 😂 Metered propane is really the best way to get consistent results.
What?!? Im just installing a sewer pipe inspection point 😂
I didn’t realize Home Depot had employees, 🤔 Never seen one.
I used to make these in the 80s and 90s, glad to see you kids finally catching up.
I used two wood screws wired to a cheap taser that was mounted to the side. Super reliable ignition and not worried about blowing a lighter clean out the back.
You're hired
I need a follow up video of it hitting the ice
It hasn't come down yet.
It definitely didn't hit the ice
@@chuckn.1367I just spit out my drink. 😂
The ice on Neptune maybe 😂
Nah mate, that sh!% went clear across into them woods(no ice was harmed in the making of this film)
There is a story in my Family about my Great Grandfather. Apparently he always carried around a flask with calcium carbide in it. One summer, at a family gathering at a lake, they dug a hole in the beach and put one of those metal Milk jugs into it and filled the hole around it, leaving just the top exposed. They broke the glass off a light bulb, draped it into the jug, put some of the Calcium Carbide into the vessel along with a little water, and hammered the bung into the top. They then backed off and waited a few moments for the hydrogen gas to develop then touched the wires to a battery.
The story claims there was a gout of flame 10 feet tall, and a horrendous boom. The bung what blown straight up, out of sight, whistling as it went.
They heard the whistling die out, the start up again. They looked at each other and remembered the adage, what goes up, must come down, and they all scurried for cover. Under trees, under cars, in a house.
When the bung landed, 30 feet from where it started, it did so in a small wooden row boat, which gracefully settled into the lake in a few feet of water.
No indication if anyone got in trouble for the event.
*acetylene gas
Hydrogen burns fast enough its technically a high explosive
Yeah, that's acetylene. In the early days, they used to have acetylene lamps where you put in a small piece of calcium carbide and some water, lit the flame, and used it like a candel.
@@nospam3409Correct, somewhere I have a carbide lantern. They were used on the helmets of miners.
THAT was my small boat !!!
Fresh-off-the-tree walnuts work pretty well. My brothers and I made one back in the 90's, and it would put a walnut through sheet metal for siding/roofing.
Those were good times.
Now the airlines got somebody to blame why they’re having technical difficulties in the skies
My satellite TV just went out.😂
This would help my drive immensely. Might even get a hole in one if they figure out the accuracy 😂
Yea on fucking mars!
They need to add some rifling… Figure out a way to spiral some liquid nails or something in there
Back in the mid 90's my buddy brought a tater cannon like this one. He was using hair spray for propellant. He shot it for me and my dear Pop. My pop said bring that to the shop. He got the cutting torch and shot some ascetaline in the tater gun. It was SPICY! Buddy got excited. Next shot Pop gave it a whiff of oxygen.😆 Touched it off and it shot the barrel about 20 feet in the air.😂 Oh the good times you can have when you have no neighbors.
My son built one for science class in high school! He is Ed hair spray for propellant also. I had the bright idea to use oxy acetylene also! Blew a hole in garage door and blew back end off gun! My son yelled at me and said “you son of a bitch! You tried to kill me”! It’s funny now!
Dumb idea made dumber. 🤦♂️
😂
If you use wet paper towels the seal is far better and thus it can shoot further, also nice cannon!
I have a little tiny peice of paint on my phone and my dumbass was like i see it. Why isnt it moving.
😂
I used to push start button for starting the grill
That’s what your supposed to use but I guess their lighter method also works it just looks bad
@@micr0d0t97*you'RE
Moon has a new satellite !
- " Golfball ?... "
Elons gonna proper pissed your taking pop shots at his stuff 😂
So cool! Back when I was growing up, it was a rubber ball, pop cans and lighter fluid. Brings back memories 😊
Wear safety glasses, guys. These things *can* shatter!
Lmao
Good Point.
Because I haven't seen ONE VIDEO, where these amateurs are using Sched 80 😂
... maybe they're saving the money for safety glasses
Some people trust the PSI rating, marked on the of the pipe, but that number isn't for sudden pressurization, like in a poor man's cannon.
I won't even use PVC for compressor use, because when it fails it shatters.
PVC definitely isn't designed for cannon use, or compressed air service.
It definitely fails in a bad way.
Designs predate safety...
“Anybody see it?” That’s when you start running!
I've been watching the Backyard scientist since at LEAST 2016. I totally saw that coming.
We in Australia we have what we call Beach bazooka
Coper pipe tire valve and 110 pound air and it can reach 310klms verbosity
My bazooka runs golf ball size
Made my own
Reverse style hollow point round
You guys are way behind the times ....
We been doing it since I was 12 years old ,.
I'm now 49 years old
Ya want more info just let me know and I might help out ..
My lead weight sinker that I've design Will go through 2 car doors in one blast
Cheers jase 🎉
Australia cheers 🎉
Air? Pffftt. Wheres the fun in that? You gotta try a map gas cannon. Its no fun if it doesn't go bang.
Yeah, my ar I really behind the times . . .
Is
In the 60's we used Calcium Carbide with a cardboard carpet tube, tin can with a touch hole, and tennis balls.
I own actual firearms and am older than 13, but thanks for the offer.
Welcome to the “list” my friend.
absolutely
'They' gotta know where 'their' resistance is for when that time comes.
And it will be in our day!😢
'If you're not on a list, you're not doing your job!" FJB!
That’s “The List”
I'm hearing people talking
about some guy S .C that also has a list and supposedly he checks twice.
Dwight Shrute brought one into Dunder-Mifflin... can you imagine if he was deranged?
The super rare Scottish version of the Irish longbow.
"A satellite, number *HG-592-B* is missing sir"
Somewhere a.mile.away someone is getting knocked out by a golf ball. 😂
I'm a mortarman in the US Army. I'd have a blast with this, this is straight savage lol.
The infamous, "Did anyone see where it went"? When you get this old you should know how to build this by now. Now back in the day..... etc .. LOL
I always used air with a pressure gauge so i could keep them more consistent and hopefully "safe". Valve stem and an air gauge on the back and a ball valve to release it.
My high school physics class did that in the football field after the AP exam when nothing really mattered anymore lol.
Safe? Crrrriiiiinge. Be a real man, cap both ends, and let god decide who gets the shrapnel this time.
Thas no fun
OP if you want to REALLY be consistent, swap that ball valve out for a sprinkler valve. It opens up considerably faster than a ball valve.
Also the fun don't stop cause you've blown thru every flammable aerosol in the house compressed air is the way to go
In the South they go by the name of “Spud Gun”!! = hours of entertainment, LOL!!
In the south I've been born and raised in it's called a tater gun. The word spud isn't a southern word
That is a West term especially Idaho. I grew up in Montana and it was a spud gun there.
Montana here, in the 70's we made them out of steel cans and called them Canadian goose gun. Ahh the good old days
@@brianburnside5949
Yeah, I'm not sure you guys are all with it.
Because my 6 decades here, Spuds was the name of a Beer Dog, not the guns.
Just read an Idaho License Plate 😂
... it's potato out here
I use to use apples.
fun fact, if you didnt register this potato cannon with the ATF, youre a felon 😂😂
I remember in the early 90s when these became popular in Australia the government had them banned and classed as a dangerous weapon in about 2 months🤦🏼♂️
So in Australia you could go to jail for doing what you did in this video..
Australia used to be a free country but when they took away our guns they started taking away all our rights
Boeing airplane flying over, "BOOOM" Pilot: AHH TOWER WE LOST A BACK DOOR!"
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense 😳
That happens to 737 Maxes without any help!
@@machwind3266
That makes a lot of sense too.
Though obviously it needed something to actually happen. And you don't spell it "Maxes".
... must be Airbus salesmen 😂
Broke the sound barrier 😂😂 f-16 pilot - oh! Huston, we have a problem! A golf ball caught up to us!
I remember making one of these as a kid. The middle-aged guys at the hardware store knew exactly what we were up to, as they probably got kids with the same list of components every time. Luckily, they weren't boy scouts about it and even gave us a few pointers. They could probably tell we were good kids- and we didn't end up causing more than our share of property destruction. It's harder to crack the screen on those old tube TVs than your neighbor's windshield.
I used to prime mine with oxygen and acetylene… good times!!
😂😂😂😂😂 you forgot to yell FOOOOORRRREEE 😂😂😂😂😂 I'd also recommend using a bullhorn to say it
The proper term is '' fore '' , which is short for forecoming.
@@chuckcoats1515 I had a feeling honestly, I appreciate the correction
I had to correct my spelling
@joehands4763 , Your point was made, I understood it and it was funny ! Now I have to build one of those cannons !
Oh sooo much fun!! Aqua net from the 80’s/90’s works the
Best!! 🌙 Shine works like nitro and will blow the
PVC to shreds so be careful
Lmfao that anxious tension in the shoulders after the shot!!! XD I am VERY familiar with that feeling!! The “What…. The fuck….. Did we just do.”
😂
My pops n me used to use walnuts in the fall right when they drop with the green husk on, with whatever diameter pvc it was. Ram em down n watch em fly 400 yards or more. They'd go right through the old pine boards on the old barn real slick too haha.
Cheers
Propagated your area with more walnut trees 😂🎉❤
Use conkas, I think you guys call them buck eyes. Projectile complete with wadding.
"Potato Launcher" 😂
That there is a tater gun
these guys are north of the mason-dixon line
Barrel so long, that's a artillery piece.
I call them "spud guns." I used to make them in various sizes and lengths. I had things that would go so high, I'd never see them again. I shot a rubber ball into a swimming pool, and it vanished. I had a lemon come down onto the street, and the splatter was instant, and it went at least 10 feet in every (flat) direction. Then came the grapefruit gun . . . I still have it put away after 20 years.
P.S. Do NOT use hydrogen as a propellant in spud guns. I never did. It's highly explosive. I used to make hydrogen using chemicals and then electrolysis, but for lift in large balloons.
Built one of these in the late 90s that used acetylene, oil rig pipe and a piezo switch from a BBQ. I launched a half-frozen peach at an old Buick station wagon in what I thought was a junk yard. The pit went through both doors and lodged in the tree behind. Turns out, it wasn't a junk yard. Just a super white-trashy dude who liked to drag junk into the woods. We had to go find him and apologize. He traded us a case of beer for my launcher. We were 13-15 years old at the time. Good trade.
Surely I’m not the only one who appreciated the hauwk-tua references.
I used to work at a produce cooler on the central coast of California. It was corn season, and I made a launcher tube with a barrel that matched perfectly to an ear of corn. The corn has its own lube from the kernels. I have lost sight of an ear of corm more than once.
See Through your Eyes And Not Your Ears ! Lame Joke of the Day !
Perfect home defense weapon.
My hometown in Massachusetts has had an ordinance that these are banned for 20 years now, exclusively because of me and my best friend haha.
Built one from 10 foot long PVC pipe, the inner dimension allowed a perfect fit for a 2 liter soda bottle. I filled the bottle halfway with water and drilled a small hole in the cap to accommodate a compressed air hose nozzle. I propped the pipe up on some material at a 15 degree angle and secured it. Shoved the air hose nozzle into the hole and gripped the neck of the bottle, and filled it with compressed air through the hole till I could no longer hang on. That soda bottle shot out so fast and hard that it flew the distance in the shop, making a loud "Whooshing" sound, about 75 yards or so and hit the far wall! Who says you can't have fun at work?!
I did this once with my friends back in high school. When we were walking around the hardware store getting supplies, the old timer there knew exactly what we were doing & started telling us "oh no, you gotta get this kinda PVC & make sure you get the correct primer with the glue youre gonna use. You also wanna use a manual striker for a BBQ. Works great & you'll be able to seal it up really well on the chamber"😂
We then went & decided to put a golf ball in it with a paper sabot. Well in my back yard, there was about 300yds of wetlands between my house & an auction yard. I lost sight of the golf ball over the the auction yard & it looked like it kept climbing!
yup... Sparkers from BBQ's are the best things to use for those.
@@Gwydion_Wolf lol,yep! I built mine with dual sparkers,because,why not?
I wrapped golf balls in bright orange duct tape and turned em into slug rounds 😂
Someone out there has just reported Happy Gilmore to the police 😂😂
When I was maybe 8 years old. I sought after and found my sister’s exact product canister, the exact diameter of a golf ball. No shit, I gathered the funds to go downtown and buy the same canisters to make a six foot cylinder. I cut and ground down the lip to be smooth. I don’t know how I didn’t blow myself up, but I made a golf ball cannon. Small hole at the bottom, lighter fluid inside the tube, add the golf ball. Lot the hole and “boom” the ball went straight up in between my house and the neighbors house (15 -20 ft.) it was silent for about 5-10 seconds and then “thwap” the ball hit the concrete walkway “launchpad” about 6 feet in front of me and bounced into my neighbors backyard. “Shit!”. Learned not to launch straight up!
woah crazy dude 6 ft omg new record
@@nitronitor1415probably is for how close the projectile lands to the person firing it. He eating I talking about 6ft high he was saying it landed 6ft in front of him
Why this seem like a Denise the Menace moment 😂
Denise is a females name. It was Dennis the menace.
It might be a spellchecker that's dialed a bit to high that changed it like that ?
Used to have mine on 24/7
but turned it off after it wouldn't quit changing my words to something totally different . Maybe ..maybe not
@jamessouza7065 oh well I do have spell check on English. Im from Italy. Part is my fault
@James36 Ya I figured
Denise the menace just doesn't work ha ha
best of luck my friend!
@@Eyghtball08oh I dunno most of the denise' I've ever met were pretty much menaces
Someone I knew when I was a teen built one. We found that just a small squirt of hairspray was all we needed.
Casually making canons at home and calling them potato launchers😂
We used to make them with soup cans and tennis balls. Mom always got pissed. 😂
You made a polish cannon, not to be confused with a potato cannon.
@@chuckfry1227They are built on the same premise, different materials.
@@CG-px9qd Got it! Like a mountain howitzer and a Roman candle. And you identify as what?
Sounds about right..
@@chuckfry1227Cubustion chamber, fuel & barrel. Same premise, different materials. What exactly about this do you not understand? Did I say they were equal in power, scope or scale? You must identify as simple.
As a kid growing up these were fun toys don't see these to often now
New genz don't use their brains n the same ways as did/do
Used to call mine a spud gun. Lol i still remember the sound the potato made going through the tube at mach snott! 😂❤ some unsuspecting person is going to be a hurting unit haha
Nice I shot corn cob at my Silo it made corn flower lol
Carter pin through the pvc at the base helps keep it in the barrel and not falling in the chamber
It's cotter just so you know for next time
I was gonna say the same thing, good idea though! Cotter pins have come in many a pinch! @spencernun-ya8462
Back before technology we use to launch pumpkins. A mile is my record.
Punkin chunkin!
The Punkin Chunkin event is still 1 of the greatest watches that's out there!
“No weed was abused in the making of this video”😂😂😂😂
Yes.
Reminds me of when I used to shoot off
Rockets as a kid
Bro said "ww3? Nah I got my new sniper"
It's that new one called the tubber😂
Hair spray works also
We always use Final Net hairspry
It dose but makes everything sticky. Starter fluid doesn't, seems dangerous but if you use too much it won't ignite, i use like 1/8th of what this guy used and it would have been too much if he didnt vent it out a bit by blowing.
Aque net pink and lantern flint striker 😂
Auqunet what we used but I was 13 new not to get Dad's stuff but it was the 80s hair spray was abundant 😎
@@MrJustincrowdenaqua net and right guard are core memories for me. I might of been 8 and going to the ice rink and thought I'd Try deodorant for the first time cuz I use to sweat like a champ and not knowing put aqua net under my arms 😂😂.. Thankfully I hadn't hit puberty so hairless but still damn sticky
When I was a kid in the 70s, my brother and I made tennis ball launchers from beer and soda cans. Good times!
For some reason I'm visualizing that scene in Happy Gilmore where he's taking bets with the moving guys. He probably just broke somebody's window from a mile away 😂
More like a potato Howitzer.😊
Ive been wanting to build one and paint it black and mount it on my sailboat on a turret
Fk yeah go for it I say
Cool idea till the coasties mistake you for Blackbeard
Don’t you people already have those “signal cannons”?
@benfromalbuquerque6083 they have em but I thought it would be cheaper and funner if it was a potato gun mounted to a turret on the front but yea they have signal cannons! Also I have a barrel to a c130 I believe it's 40mm and I think that would work with modifications! If a breach was put on the back
the memories you brought to keep is crazy lol ❤❤
I was a pyro in HS. In the course of my research, I came across people who made mindblowing potato canons out of thick stainless steel pipe. The fuel source? Stoichiometric oxypropane through a proportioning valve. 🤯 Ignition source was an Oudin coil from a stun gun. I believe they used saboted golf balls at Mach 1.5 or so. Unfortunately my budget was only schedule 80, BBQ ignitor, and Axe.
We got nabbed by the DEC up in the Adirondacks for using one of those things. Our fuel of choice was Aqua Net. My friend attached a grill starter for spark.
Oh buddy, you’re playing with fire😳
Just a thought in the future, if you get an excess of fish like that, you could donate them to chandlers wildlife for his crocs and gators
Senior year physics class build. Was powerful enough to send a raw egg through OSB.
Once the propellant charge is consumed, any additional barrel length is just drag on the projectile. Make it 24" and you will get more distance. Also reduce the size of the expansion chamber. Overall length 30-36"
Yep, shorter barrel with shorter and larger diameter combustion chamber
ATF doesn't allow anything shorter than 18" so be careful.
@@darrensmall4313 That is for shotguns. Rifles is 16", AND none of that applies to muzzle loaders. The golf ball/spud gun is a muzzle loader.
Please cite any case where the ATF prosecuted anyone for a short barrel length on a muzzle loading spud gun.
I'll wait.
@garyK.45ACP They have a bunch of overzealous, patriotic Americans in jail for essentially trespassing, but charged with trying to overthrow the government.
If they want it, they'll make it up.
@@garyK.45ACPI was just joking. It's a tater "gun" so take it easy. OBTW, 9mm is just as powerful as a 45.
When I built my first one I took it to Kentucky to a family reunion to show my cousins we ran out of potatoes so one of my cousins grabbed a peach before I shot it into the air I told him I wanted to test it on his metal shed he was okay with that and on that day we found out that a peach pit Will penetrate a metal shed when launched from a potato launcher at 25 ft so try you some peaches buddy and you don't have to use paper towel paper towel
Lol thats awesome!
Ive used fozen corn on the cob before hahahah talk about a missile..
It's guy's like this that end up in the emergency room. Those homemade launchers are dangerous.
You forgot the "do not try this at home" BS .
Just as well!
That looks like alotta fun and I can't wait to try it myself
At list Cheddar Bob ( 8 miles) won't shoot his snoot whith that one 😂
Pretty sweet! I made a 2" pellet on a 3d printer for mine :)
Holy shitt..I definitely Wana see that vedio
@@keatonmoreau2656 I am a terrible video creator but I did post it
You know if you put fins that spiraled the round that could actually be quite effective… and leave it hollow inside to pour something in to add mass.. crayon wax even.. paint cavity..
@liquidrockaquatics3900 I have actually made a design with fins and it holds 10 of the large/adult "pop It's", I haven't tried them.
but I do like the idea of printing an empty cavity for quick filling later and/or a monster paintball lol, Good ideas!
@keatonmoreau2656 I'm far from a quality video creator but I did post a video of it here
In the 90's in Australia, the news promoted how dangerous and illegal these were and they were showing up all around to the polices lament, I of course did not make one instantly. I know our rules are lame.
Seeing this makes me want to go get a bunch of pvc piping and make a Saturn V rocket model with launch capability.
Home defense cannon 😂
Iran who the hells launching golf balls at us