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re: The Exploding hammer’ festival leaves 43 injured in Mexico Awesome video!
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:18 pm to fatboydave
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:18 pm to fatboydave
Next year they're adding grenade juggling.
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Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:18 pm to fatboydave
We don' need no stinkin' Corona virus to kill us.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:19 pm to salty1
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Holy crap! It looks like there’s a massive dent in the hard hat that was knocked off his head.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:20 pm to Wiseguy
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Who is the genius that came up with this idea?
The same people who came up with the contest to catch a wheel of cheese going downhill.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:23 pm to fatboydave
We need a big monkey and some barrels and that shite would be lit... 
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:39 pm to WITCH DOCTOR
Here is the gif from many years ago. 
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:43 pm to saint tiger225
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But why?
I'm sorry, I thought this was Ameri..... Uhh... Mejico?!
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 5:56 pm to nola000
Dent in helmet from hammer when it came back up and hit his helmets
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:06 pm to saint tiger225
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But why?
Because working with tools is their national pastime.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:11 pm to LegendInMyMind
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There's a gif from several years ago that looks worse than any in the video. The guy was sent flying several feet.
Yeah, I've seen one where the guy swings it, the hammer is blown straight back on the same trajectory as if the video is being reversed, but it keeps going and the guy holds on for the ride and ends up about 10-15 feet from where he was standing.
Idk if he got hurt or not, but it's pretty funny. It really looks like the video is reversed as soon as the hammer hits. (Except there's a giant explosion) I really wish I could find it.
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:13 pm to fatboydave
Looks like he tried to smash a bangalore torpedo with a fricking sledgehammer. I don't see how that's smart and festive.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:18 pm to IAmNERD
About the anvil:
Norris TN at the Museum of Appalachia features what they call an Anvil Shoot on the fourth of July. Two equal sized anvils, gunpowder in between them. Ignite. Boom. Upper anvil goes almost straight up.
They've done it enough that they know how far back folks have to stand to be safe.
Norris TN at the Museum of Appalachia features what they call an Anvil Shoot on the fourth of July. Two equal sized anvils, gunpowder in between them. Ignite. Boom. Upper anvil goes almost straight up.
They've done it enough that they know how far back folks have to stand to be safe.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:18 pm to CFFreak
What do they call rednecks in Mexico?
Those are Mexican rednecks.
Those are Mexican rednecks.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:32 pm to LegendInMyMind
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I've seen people do the exploding anvils in person. It is crazy, but at least they weren't holding onto them when it happened.
When I was still stuck in Mississippi, there was a local foundry that did one every year. They'd hire a caterer to come in and fry a massive amount of catfish and all the customers would go there and gorge on catfish, then about fifteen minutes before dusk, they'd do the anvil toss.
They'd dig a big arse hole and put the largest anvil they produced in the hole. Then they'd put a shite load of black powder on top of the big anvil and they'd put their smallest anvil on top of the black powder and let it rip. That damned thing would fly a couple of hundred feet up into the air.
It's an old way of testing anvils. If they didn't break when you blew shite up on them, the blacksmith knew it was safe to beat on it with hammers and hot steel all day long. The foundry did it out of tradition and used it as marketing.
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:35 pm to saint tiger225
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involves people attaching a mix of sulpher and chlorate to the ends of sledge hammers. They they smash the hammers against rail beams, making the substance explode and send up massive clouds of smoke.quote:
But why?
This tradition was started in Bawdalajara
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:38 pm to salty1
quote:That's not a dent. That's where the helmet snaps into the hole in his head from participating, year, after year, after year.
Holy crap! It looks like there’s a massive dent in the hard hat that was knocked off his head. How the hell is he still breathing?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 6:43 pm to salty1
quote:Thats not a hardhat. It's a fedora.
Holy crap! It looks like there’s a massive dent in the hard hat that was knocked off his head. How the hell is he still breathing?
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