Lawmower Man: Why Exploding A Mower With Tannerite Is A Bad Idea
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
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In this video we recreate RUclips infamy of "Lawnmower Man" who shot 3lbs of @TanneriteSports's binary explosives in a riding lawn mover from about 25 meters away and lost his leg in the process.
You might have remember seeing the video a few years ago as it went viral. It's all fun and games with Tannerite until you drop the safety aspect from its use. That's how you get casualties, much like in the source video. Today's video, we compare a "non-fragmenting" charge of Tannerite to demonstrate how it looks without a fragmentation source. Then we clone the original lawnmower bomb to the best of our abilities. From there, we can do an analysis of the explosion and see if the characters in the video were lucky or not.
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Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
02:31 - Demonstration of ammonal explosive
04:05 - The lawnmower man origins
05:22 - The lawnmower bomb introduction
07:52 - Blowing up the lawnmower
09:34 - Blast analysis and final words 
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Slowly but surely, we are getting some videos made. We have the lab basically done as well as our workshop. Sean is still working on getting us a new range home so we aren't camping out Army style.
Remember kids! Do not recreate what we do here. We can not stress how dangerous blowing stuff up with tannerite is. Otherwise, you will end up in the next viral video about your injury.
Is it legal to let people come to your facility to make boom boom stuff as long as it's under your supervision 🤔 probably not🤦🤣
Glad you guys are back can't wait for more
I always did want to be in a viral video though.
How about a video on the sparklers. I don't want to say anymore for worry of 3 or 4 letter agencies following me around 🧐
@@spankthemonkey3437 I think the transportation is the dicey bit
I had a similar "Hey, Y'all, watch this" moment many years ago. 3# of Tannerite was placed inside a truck door. The door was propped up in a sandy wash area 20 Yards from us. Before we could say "Hell NO!", this guy shot the door. We were peppered with sand and dirt, while up out of that cloud came what looked like a giant bird with wings spread. (It was the steel door turned inside out, the wings were raggedly torn sheet metal strips) It was too high to hit us and flew over our heads.....To where we parked our trucks and cars....."OH,NO!" I shouted. It landed and stuck in the ground between my new truck and that guy's old beater. They were only 4' apart. That is how I met "Dangerous Bob" Bigando. (True story)
My guy has good stories 🤙🏻 stay safer than that 😂
That guy sounds cool, me and my cousin only blow up a metal trash can with 2lbs of exploding target and of course we were way closer then 50yards haha nothing bad happened, I plan on doing it with a microwave someday
u sure ur not talking about fpsrussia?
Drop the video or it didn’t happen…jk
@@215maloneboy9 Oddly enough I did have a video but when phones break usually things get lost.
No joke, trying to edit this video was tougher than the explosive project itself. Mainly because YT keeps partially monetizing the video and we can't figure out what is triggered algorithm. We made 10 different versions with an insane amount of censoring and no success. We had to censor some as that resulted in the dreaded red "$" and only 18 and up classification.
So, to help us defeat the algorithm, be sure to leave a ton of comments to get this video circulating. Drop your suggestions, your ideas, funny stories, and whatever you feel like. Just don't say anything that will get you flagged. Let's fight the Skynet!
Hello again friend youtube is mean about explosives and I wish they weren’t cause I think explosions are cool
@@Mrheeheefish normally, we don't have issues. For some reason this video just wasn't like by the algorithm.
Welcome to 1984... uh, 2024... they don't respect you boys, because they fear your knowledge. Regardless of their meaningless Judgements, y'all are some of the most polite explosives experts on the planet! Do not waste your energy pushing back againt your fascist overlords, just get more creative in your wording as you describe your "mostly safe chemical expansion experiments" the moronbots cannot pigeonhole... Molon labe...
Feeding the algorithm for engagement numbers.
This is why I hate censorship sometimes. So we have 2 videos. The original, where someone's just messing around with tannerite, and sustained life changing injuries. Then we have this one, explaining exactly *why* you should never mess around with explosives. So next time someone thinks of playing with Tannerite, they could be referred to both videos. Sometimes it's a lot easier to show, rather than just tell. How can it be dangerous when I (well, not I in the UK) can buy it from the store? Well, here's why.
I have owned a couple of those mowers and I absolutely understand the motivation to use them in this fashion .
Not the greatest, huh?
Lowe’s makes the worst mowers!
@@thomasblackwell9507
Lowes doesn't make them, MTD or AYP. It is a cutthroat market with the cheapest possible construction. Why? So many lawsuits because people do dumb stuff.
@@keithjurena9319
Most of what we have sold to us today comes from a scarce few production lines, and is sold under numerous "old" brand names that once meant something. It's the age of mega-corporations who own everything and who essentially control the market. Power tools are the same- 4 corporations produce 80% of them with only Makita still holding out as a singular company with most of the remaining 20%. Appliances, electronics, you-name-it and it's all the same. It's as close to being a monopoly as the current laws allow with each different one in a race to the bottom to generate the highest short-term profits they can for their stockholders, and to squelch the possibility of competition. It wasn't product liability lawsuits causing the mowers to be the same; that's just the plausible excuse for a plan designed to maximize wealth for the wealthy.
MTD fucking sucks
A buddy of mine once decided to do the exact same thing with an old push-mower. I wasn't there for it but I saw the footage. Needless to say, they found nothing other than small pieces and bits scattered across the property. Great video! Keep them coming!
Of him or the mower?
@@tnmoe- probably both
Older push mowers are usually made from cast aluminium. Aluminium alloys for casting are usually formulated with about 10% silicon, which improves casting fluidity and strength but reduces ductility, so they are quite brittle. Under the shock of an explosion I'd expect them to shatter into lots of small pieces rather than being torn like the steel mower in the video.
@@nerd1000ify I've only seen push mowers from stamped steel. Newer ones are stamped steel with plastic between the front wheels.
Way cheaper to stamp them out of sheets of steel than to cast them from aluminum...
@immikeurnot Die casting is also cheap and fast. There are still many models (Husqvarna LC419A for example) sold with an aluminium deck.
If I had to guess, I'd say the likely reason these exist (vs probably cheaper per unit steel stampings) is that the company concerned already had equipment and expertise for die casting, so it was easier for them to just add another casting line to their existing foundry rather than set up a new factory for large-ish stampings.
It's great to see you guys back!!!!! Thank You brother. As a former EOD,. From the 70's..... I always have enjoyed your efforts to share and inform! Please keep up the great job!!!
As Edgar Montrose from the red green show would say… you reduce the parts per million so that it’s easier for nature to reclaim.
Nice too see ya'll getting back up.
A close friend of mine loaded a clothes washer with a bunch of this stuff and made a video.
No big deal, because he touched it off with a .50 cal. from 200yds!
He is normally not concerned with risk, but even he would not chance the risk that moron took at 20 yds!
Glad you guys are getting back to making videos for us, after your incredible loss! 👍👍
That is A-tier censorship right there. Hopefully RUclips shares your sense of humor.
We are pretty sure nobody at YT headquarters has a sense of humor.
@@OrdnanceLab there's a reason why comedy is one of the first things to suffer under communism
@@martinsonofwar395 isn't THAT the truth Brother!! 😁😆😆😅
@@martinsonofwar395 I don't think fascists think anything is funny either.
@@drrocketman7794 they are all of the same ilk. All of them are under the Authoritarianism umbrella.
Are you using the new definition of "fascism" from 2008 or 9? Or the original one that doesn't say anything about the "wing lean."
Missed my favorite audio clip of all time. I still go back to those old videos just to listen to it.
"I blew my leg off!"
We added 23 pounds of T-rite to the refrigerator of a 70's camper shell... should have been farther away than 200 yards, but no one got hurt! It left a crater, and wrapped 1/8" thick sheet metal around tree branches 20 yards away... like wet toilet paper... danger!
Sounds like it was a "fun" and good learning time
@@MFCSTUDIOS huge orange mushroom cloud... honestly expected a bigger boom, but upon closer inspection, sobering results!
love that wheel just rolling
Ahh the limb liberator 5000, nice work.
🧨🧨🧨
Solid name for it
Stump O Matic .
In the military, I had an eye-opening experience involving explosives too.
My friends and I would get together on the weekends to target practice and also shoot explosives. I had some training in high explosives, and understood the chemistry and physics involved, and thought it would be a fun thing to do on the weekends. Everything had been going great for several months, until one day we found a broken washing machine that someone had left at one of the ranges (it was an unsupervised area of trails with 12 or so ranges). We decided to blow it up using exactly 1 Lb of ammonal, and had posted at least 250 ft from it. My buddy who had just bought a new AR-15 with scope, was itching to shoot it, because he had just zeroed in the scope the previous day, so we agreed he would do it.
It was an older washer that was top load, so we pushed it over with the top opening facing us so he could shoot the charge placed inside it. Everyone including myself thought it was safe because we were almost a football field's distance away from it. STILL NOT SAFE!! He shot and hit the charge first attempt, and upon detonation the sides of the washer went flying everywhere, one piece even landing several hundred feet up on the mountain side that was behind it!
Unfortunately, the top of the washer that was facing us blew off with ungodly speed rotating like a frisby and slicing through the air straight for us. It traveled that distance in less than half a second (I know this because I had a high-speed camera recording it) so we had no reaction time. It hit my friend's scope, upper forehead, and truck tailgate in that order... it hit the tailgate with so much force that it partially crumpled it like an accordion. For reference it would have taken probably 10 to 20 hard swings with a sledgehammer to do the same damage on the tailgate!
Such a sobering day... My friend was actually lucky that it was not a direct hit on his head, it was a glancing blow that required 17 stitches. If it had been a direct hit on his head, it certainly would have cut his head in half. So really, he was unlucky and lucky at the same time, but he is fortunate to be alive today. We all learned lessons that day, the main one being, don't put explosives inside anything metallic or anything that has hard rigid walls, unless you are fully prepared for potentially deadly shrapnel.
Seen this video of a journalist in a war zone he was way out on the out-skirt's filming and a jet dropped a bomb off in the distance a second later guys eye exploded from a small piece of shrapnel.
Given that frag grenades have a very small amount of charge with the intention of sending deadly shrapnel every which way it truly is nuts that more respect isn't given to stuffing a metal/plastic shell with POUNDS of explosives.
@@frenchonion4595shesh im gonna have to reddit that
@Checkered_gaming lol thats where I seen it
Glad you guys are back.
Because of how many useful parts are in a lawn mower. Today we show how to harvest those parts with peak entertainment value and safety. Ordinance Lab. There's no problem that can't be solved with the proper application of explosives.
Welcome back guys ! We missed you !
Y'all really do a great job on explosives education and safety - this is the best safety demo I've ever seen on DO NOT DO THE DUMBS WITH TANNERITE.
4:46 This scene is like something out of the Japanese movie industry 🙂
Lol!
Glad to see you guys getting back on your feet and putting out more awesome content as always 👌 keep up the top notch work.
I take a camp stove, pot and gallon of water when I use tannerite. Melt casting it gives you WAY more power.
When I got out of the service in 91. I showed my nephew's a couple simple things about being a combat engineer in the service. Showed them how to do it correctly and get behind a damn good barrier a really good distance away, around 200 or more yard's away. Only used around an 1/8 of a lb of tan, and compression on it to make it more than one lb of tan the regular way. Just to launching a basketball in the air. 1 lb first, went around 50 to 60 yard's in the air and landed about 100 yards away. Then I set up the1/8 lb and set it off. Needless to say it took them all the rest of the day to finely find the basketball. They lost sight of it up in the air, but they did finally find it around a thousand yards away in the swamps. Yeah that summer they all joined up as combat engineers. They loved that experience. It's definitely not for the faint of heart. It is a whole lot of work and training. I miss it myself.
I've help blow up a piano, a busted up old truck and an old boat with tannerite. Piano was by far the best of the 3 with the boat being a big let down, just cracked the fiberglass, nothing exciting. Just have to always be safe, we shot everything from a long ways away. Love the videos, keep em coming ya'll
Reminds us of the old Warner Brothers cartoons where Daffy duck rigs a piano to blow up.
@@OrdnanceLab looked pretty similar, we found pieces of piano for weeks
Another great video, nice to see yall trucking on even after what happened with the fire. Can't wait for the next video
Good to see y'all getting back on your feet, looking forward to see what the future holds.
That wasn't 3 Pounds! those "1 pound bricks" have 4 1-pound jars in them. You set off 12 pounds, not 3!
Not that I'm complaining... that was awesome :-) but I was disappointed not to see any footage from your chronos camera!
So we had more content we were going to add. We had to adjust the final charge when we realized that it was over. The problem is YT flagged the video for full demonetization when we left in that part. So, we had to roll with what worked.
@@jlambuth Ahhh... I got ya. I was looking to see if anyone else caught that. 👍
I cant believe nobody is talking about how that is soo much more than 3 pounds of Tannerite they are using! lol
Yeah way more than 3 pounds there. Just look at how many containers there are.
Awesome video!!! Thank you to all involved ordinance lab! These videos help with what not to do in real life. They are quite educational in a real world type of setting but controlled so we the viewers know what not to do. Thank you Ordinance Lab
Part 2 of the 3d printed rocket launcher please.
That's in the works!
Great video! Remember, the man with the peg leg always has wood👍💥
Always a fun but educational videos on safety and how not to be stupid..
So glad you’re back 👍
Nice to have you back👍👍
Just learned that tannerite has almost the same detonation velocity as that of a normal conventional explosive.
Give tannerite a bad dentation of TNT equivalent.. 5000m/s vs 8000m/s. And that is still SO insane he shot that from 40 feet away.
Great work Sir thank you
I need one of those hand crank sirens for reasons...golf
That incident actually happened in the town I grew up in and some friends of mine ran the call when they took him to the hospital and that guy was known around town to be a little on the reckless side
did the guy live hopefully I am not familiar
Thinkn he lost a leg?
Awesome work guys. You always do energetic chemistry the best.
Ca fait plaisir de voir que vous continuez à produire vos vidéos malgré les problèmes que vous avez pu rencontrer. La chaine est assez unique car beaucoup de vidéos incluent des explications sur ce qui est en train de se passer et j'espère que grâce à ça vous pourrez vous démarquer .
Je laisse un commentaire pour aider à la monétisation et vous souhaite depuis la France de pouvoir continuer .
Outstanding safety video, thanks.
Thank you!
Woo hoo! I'm glad one is my favorite RUclips channels is back to making videos after that one major setback
It was too much for me the other day when I had to re-seat the bead on my lawnmower tire, so I used starting fluid...was a bit surprised when it made the whole front end bounce up off the ground!
I wasn't actually expecting the lawnmower to be torn into shreds using an explosive that wasn't contained inside the engine or something. I think you taught a lot of people to think twice before doing stupid stuff👍
You do know that starving kids somewhere in the world could have eaten that tractor, or whatever people used to say.
Loved the video. Of course I love explosions of all types anyhow so there's that. Glad you're getting some content out, and I appreciate the work you did to provide it.
Be safe out there, and take it easy guys.
I read that first part in officer Greg's voice
Dude, you can't eat a tractor. But I bet that they could have grown something to eat with the unmixed explosives as fertilizer.
@@johnladuke6475 Of course you can eat a tractor this is common sense
@johnladuke6475 you'd have to decant, filter, and recrystalize the ammonium nitrate from the aluminum etc. You CAN eat the "tractor" but you'd have to shave down the iron/steel or acidify to make it sort of bioavailable as a supplement for plants or humans. Overall, the fertilizers and or nutritional value exceeds 30 children for 2 days in phytonutrients, fiber, and minerals.
So on a somber note, this video is indeed responsible for the malnutrition of African children.
Now time to go to a party to show everyone how fun I am!!🎉
@@baloog8 Good one!🤣🤣
Thanks for going the full effort guys
This is a great educational channel. Good academic value in a rarely explored subject. This is the sort of content that RUclips needs.
This was one of your best!!
Its always great when there is science and safety in one video!!
We try to be both entertaining and informative.
I love your guys videos all the things you do are amazing I'm glad you guys are still making videos even after the incident you guys rock and deserve the best things out there the booms are always amazing as well
Great to see you guys making videos again. Remember adversity builds character and you guys are definitely characters
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@@dinkelheit88 joo
Awesome! I've been waiting for this
The intro was such an e.o.d's way of thinking. Used to be in the marine corps, my friends use to make the new guy eat the plastic explosive from under his nails and chase em' with a taser. Good times...
Amazing!!!
That explosive charge was primarily open and did that much damage. Could you imagine if the same charge was put under the battery compartment? WOW, WOW, WOW😮👍
Great, now i need a portable air raid siren....
I learned never mess with things I know nothing about and the possible dangers they pose. Of course I have never been one to do needlessly stupid things. I am impressed by how powerful this stuff is and how easily it deconstructs objects.
Your friend lost his leg I remember that video floating around on the early days of tannerite explosions! I remembered it looked like you could see blood splatfer on the camera
That was one crazy video love your content. Keep up the great videos take care 😂😂👍👍✌️
Love the lawnmower pretending to be a russian tank! The hood toss was glorious!
Great Lecture and great articulation! Love it anytime you blow something up (under controled environment with licensed professionals!)
Ahh. 2 ingredients basically from a 50s era chemistry set... "We're gonna need another Timmy".
Thanks for sharing! You make my life safer, because I can see you do things like this, so I don't have to...
Great information keep it up!!!!
I love that regardless of the censors and the other bs and of course your personal world, you still do your thing so we can enjoy the booms
I don't want to use tannerite so I use something called "blast caps" which are basically just a soda bottle caps with a needle valve like a basketball. It lets you pump them up to a decent pressure using a bike pump with a needle and they'll pop when you shoot them.
You can fill the bottles with water or some kind of dusty material like flour or dry dirt and they'll make a cloud when they burst. Not as loud as tannerite but a whole lot cheaper and safer.
You totally flinched...lol!
Great learning video.
We were going to release a more heavily censored version buy YT still didn't like it. So, we decided to release the full length video.
Love the classic vehicle explosion with the tire casually rolling away
I had a husqvarna I did this with. The tannerite blew both mower deck blades off and shot one about 30 yards away and it stuck in the ground. I was happy to be shooting it from 100 yards away
Y'all need to blow all these up. Good job.
My guy, lead with the disclaimer. No level of youtube moderation is catching your plea for mercy 10 minutes into the vid. Glad youre back :)
I wanna see you take it to a dealership as a "warranty" return xD
I am a small engine repair guy and you have no idea how many times I wanted to do that with some of the mowers I have worked on. Part of me was sad to see all the usable parts that got destroyed but the kid in me took over and found great joy. Blowing up anything metal is a dumb move anyways and the guy that lost a leg was asking for and got what he deserved. Good video. I intend to save and watch it on days I get upset at working on another crap riding mower.
I admit cutting grass here in Texas can be difficult but I have never been that rough on my mower.
Always great content keep it up
That was gnarly!
I've seen another video of an older SUV (think it was a Bronco) that was packed with something like 30 lbs. of Tannerite, got obliterated. Would love to see y'all analysis of that one too!!
Thank you so much for consistently saying 'fragmentation' in this video. I get so tired of youtubers calling everything 'shrapnel' .... from wood chips to dirt clods to... whatever. I guess they think it sounds cooler... This, to me, is an indicator that you guys are, indeed, professionals.
I mean those are all technically shrapnel depending on which definition you use, militarily shrapnel is any fragments of the bomb or other objects/debris thrown by an explosion
@@noodlelynoodle. Technically, no. Debris etc thrown by military projectiles is called splinter, fragmentation or, in the case of metal breaking off the inside of armour, spall. Shrapnel is named for its inventor who inserted metal balls into artillery projectiles for better anti-personnel effect. Calling everything 'shrapnel' is like referring to everything with a bit of armour or a tracked propulsion as a 'tank'.
Glad to see some new videos from y'all! The only thing I've put tannerite in was a pumpkin that I wasn't particularly worried about the fragmentation! Also, was 100 yards away since it was the first time we had messed with the stuff.
"pumpkin spice" fragmentation
Police walk up to the door
Ma’am we regret to inform you
That your Son has passed
What, How!?
Pumpkin Spiced
This youtube channel is my civil war recipe book. Defend this country and our constitution at all costs.
Super cool I like the video!!!!! I learned about fragmentation the hard way I had my testicle split in half shooting explosive targets 🎯
I'm gonna make an early guess to entertain myself and guess this was a bad idea because of the variety of sheet metal the mower is made of and their ability to turn into flying weapons.
Cracking up at your "YEEEHAAW TANNERITE"
We should make a shirt with that
God, I love that I can go buy this at my hunting store
Cool Video as always!
The tire coming toward the camera reminds me of a time we blew up an old 55 gallon barrel. The riveted top came loose and came straight for us like a wheel of death! It came straight for the old farm truck we were hiding in, but luckily at the last minute it veered off missing us completely. Still, lessons were learned. The other end of the barrel sliced through a barbed wire fence, then sped off through the woods slicing through branches as it went until finally coming to rest. It was pretty exciting.
That tire berm is an aesthetic.
I like the fishing sponsorship
Sweet video!
In the Walton County video, the Tannerite was placed in the battery box of the mower, which I believe is under the seat on the mower in question.
Sitting back imagining a lawnmower blade flying through the air at the speed of sound..
Good video guys! Maybe it'll save at least one person from explosively removing one of their limbs.
Absolutely nuts. Couldn't imagine being as close as they were.
Cool! I learned a lot of important data watching this. I Need more tanneriye
Sweet video
I love the tire and Earth wall. Are there any embedded fragments in that wall and how deep did they go in?
This must be one of those GTA tractors that blow up when you shoot the right spot
Best Channel on youtube !
Wow! I wasn't expecting it to be blown in half!
Excellent controlled experiment showing us how dangerous it is
Yeehaw Texas! That was awesome it was a shame that young Feller lost his leg as it was devastating to him I hope that no one else tries this in this manner. I was thinking of maybe using some Tannerite to get rid of a stump it might work and it might not so thanks for the video always enjoy seeing y'all blow things up I love it as I used to be a powder monkey in a marble mine. Y'all stay vigilant now you hear.