I was mortar section leader in the USMC infantry. You should really think about making a round baseplate for that thing with a little socket joint in the middle to seat the end of pipe and then it won't fall over and you'll be able to control the round. That mortar could have fallen over right before the round fired. Even with a baseplate an incorrectly set mortar will fall over. I've seen it with my own eyes. Be safe please.
As a Tanker (Army version) way back in the early 1980s and assigned to the only "Combat Armored Cavalry Troop" assigned to and attached to the 194th Armored Brigade (Separate) then stationed at Ft. Knox, KY somebody (wisely I think) decided that regardless of MOS we had to cross train on other weapon systems. I was picked to CT with our "Mortar Maggot" section. Over time I discovered that everything you mentioned in your comment is/was on point. After a bit of training, I became very comfortable with the 4.2 mortar....Right up until we blew the hell out of a chicken house on a farm bordering Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Our Section Sergeant had been ordered, by the Butter Bar in charge, to use half a cheese charge too many which resulted in a bunch of dead chickens and a pissed off farmer.
definitely, in-between going outside the bounds of their job & secretly writing up the laws that they then later enforce, while claiming "hey buddy, we don't make the law(s) we just enforce it!" to the poor unlucky bastards that they end up raiding/molesting their privacy to look at their entire cache... or, if you're unlucky enough to have posted a beginners guide to prepping, you're more than certainly going to want to begin anticipating as-well as planning for a "surprise check up" from your local gestapo branch!
As long as you have the correct licenses, correct license category and comply with all bureaucratic record keeping, the ATF cannot do anything but smile that you have jumped through all of their hoops. As long as these guys demonstrate their intent to do business, the ATF can't really harass them because they don't want to lose their jobs. Of course, if the ATF, just like the FBI fabricated fake criminal crap on Flynn, wants to make a criminal conspiracy on some no-bodies (not related to Trump), they can at the risk of ending up as somebody's girlfriend in a Federal prison.
what a terrifyingly simply weapon.. That's crazy how far it chucked that shell for just a little bit of black powder in the bottom of a thick wall pipe well done on this build, very interesting seeing such a crude yet effective weapon
For future reference you can also use expended dry chemical fire extinguishers for your projoes. That will give you a thicker shell, You might also want to use some friction tape around the base of the "warhead" ti act as a gas seal, just be sure it still slides smoothly down the "cannon tube" and be sure to use some lubricant on the tape, like vaseline or axle grease. The round will go further and higher. Just a suggestion from an Old Ordnance Warrant Officer.
Pretty sure the idea here wasn't to replicate the ballistic characteristics of the improvised mortar rounds, instead the focus is more on the terminal effects of the warhead. If they were looking to simulate the ballistics it might be possible to do it much easier (and much more consistently than the real thing) with a pneumatic cannon.
yes and no, at this point they're so good at making them that they've got their machining processes and tolerances down to a T, and are finally capable of making accurate homemade weapon systems. though if you're gonna use sights, take some off of battlefield pickups of mortars from the army, but at that point you may as well just take the entire mortar/artillery piece and make the rounds for said cannons yourself, rather than the entire cannon plus the rounds. to each their own I suppose.
One of my friends was into buying antique nautical stuff. He had a few cannons. One of which he took out to Glamis. Coors beer cans fit perfectly in this cannon. So he melted a few other cans and poured them into the coors can and topped it with an eye bolt. He then tied about a 100' nylon rope to the eye bolt and achored it to a motorcycle trailer away from everything. He put about an ounce of black powder in the cannon and lit the fuze. The next thing we knew there was just a piece of rope tied to the trailer. The projectile was gone. There was some campers about 3 or 4 miles away in the direction he aimed it. A few minutes later some smoke started coming up from them. He was all worried he hit one. But it turned out they were just as stupid and set one of their own campers on fire. He never found the projectile.
"He was all worried he hit one. But it turned out they were just as stupid and set one of their own campers on fire. He never found the projectile." Is the absolute perfect ending to that story.
@@heirofaniu Wasnt it though? Lol I coulda told him that skinny little piece of rope wasnt gonna have any say in the matter. But I think he just wanted a big "Go Boom" so much, I couldnt spoil it for him.
You can get a pretty good estimate of the mortar range by extrapolating the Civil war data for the 12 pdr,20 pdr and 30 pdr Parrott rifles. Wind resistance from the higher angle of attack will reduce the range but not by much and test firing will allow adjusting the firing tables
hhh greeetings from Tunisia. This hell canon shows the human power of improvisation when all high tech breaks down. Do you folks realise that what happened in Syria and down here in Lybia was the closest we came to a Mad Max style world!
Yep, that’s what happens when you refuse to join the USA’s protection racket or don’t back your currency in USD, or buy/sell oil using anything other than USD. Every oil owning country that has tried this has been destroyed by US intervention, look it up.
@@thenoblepoptart yep . also iraq and syria have the best terrain for air superiority. many flat deserts where bombs can easily hit. unlike afghanistan which is build like a fortress. ( also one of the may reasons why US failed there)
Military and Science in U.S. uses Metric. We have metric and imperial for a lot of our measurements in rulers, canisters etc. It's just that imperial is still standard in our hardware stores and in construction. Considering they were doing a military style type of test, with his military background, explains why he used meters in measuring the explosion radius.
When we were kids, about 10 or 11 years of age, my brother and I made a mortar out of three tin coke cans placed one on top of the other and held together with electrical tape. The top and ends of the first two cans we cut out. The third can we only cut out the top leaving the bottom of the shaft with its rear intact. We then bored a small hole at the end of the mortar to insert propellant which in this case was simple alcohol! As simple as it was, the mortar held together for several discharges using alcohol. The force of the blast was enough to send a tennis ball about 200 feet at about 80 mph! Not long after that, we attended a fourth of July party at which our Uncle provided live M-80's (Quarter sticks of dynamite). We took the M-80's home and decided to try them out in our home made mortar! Our first attempt using an M-80 was successful and in fact the tennis ball was propelled so high that we could not see it. When it landed on our street the tennis ball bounced an incredible 20 or 30 feet into the air. Our neighbor was observing our "blasting" and at his insistence we mounted the mortar onto the truck bed of his old truck to reduce the chance of injury in the event of an "accident!" We then reloaded the mortar with a 2nd M-80 and lit the alcohol fuse. And then "whamo", the mortar flew into a thousand pieces and the tennis ball only went 20 feet into the air. When we checked further, we found that the explosion blew a hole five inches wide into our neighbor's truck bed! In fact, my brother and I were very lucky that we didn't seriously hurt ourselves. Our uncle would have been arrested today if anything serious occured!
@@ferrischemistry7879 We should have used a solid pipe, but somehow we decided to use coke cans which at that time were still made of tin. But the change of propellant, alcohol to M-80, was what doomed our home made mortar! Coke cans aren't strong enough to survive the blast of dynamite!
@@1MahaDas I was not aware that Coca-Cola cans were made from tin. TNT is Trinitrotoluene, by the way. You make it with Nitroglycerin and some other things.
"This video is nothing more than a bunch of eccentrics down in Texas (what, you think people in Iowa do stuff like this?), amusing themselves with an unusual hobby of building explosive ordnance for entertainment purposes." the good people of Iowa acknowledge and respect Texas but from a safe distance as we take notes. God bless Texas
@@Irish381 yes and no. you still see imperial units all over the place with navigation stuff in the air force and navy. you will even find the unit Rankine, which hurts my brain. they are all metric with extra steps anyway so its not much difference
The only time I've experienced mortar fire as I was a flyer, we were establishing a forward operating base later to become leather neck. I was a pilot in the C130-J adaptive super herc and on that flight were jato in forklifts and water purification systems. Mortars are terrifying. The birds were sitting ducks on landing, so we had to land empty and haul ass out of there as the insurgents put holes in the airframe within seconds of being in range. It was land, brake like hell, spin around dump the cargo seal up, spin up the props ignite the jatos and pray like hell as your guts get mangled while climbing to 20k within a minute and half.
If I remember correctly, using a PVC pipe to load black powder is extremely dangerous. The PVC will build up a static charge very easily and set off the black powder in your face. Being in a dry environment makes it even more likely.
Dad used to use ANFO and gelignite to get rid of boulders and stumps when doing farm fencing. Filled the base of a tree stump, because it was not hollow it took off like a rocket and demolished an old shed when it landed
That projectile to bore fit is absolutely atrocious. You could have at least gave the round a thick band of duct tape to act as a gas seal. Awesome channel though. I love this shit.
@@spazmonkey2131 A single use projectile like that would not really benefit from reduced friction. It might have 1 to 100 ft more range but it's not worth it really.
@@spazmonkey2131 Duct tape doesn't bind up at all. I use it as a gas seal on projectiles for an Oxy-Acetylene cannon. I have a strong feeling nylon tape would fail due to a lack of adhesion strength. Plus you could always wax the gas seal for extra lubrication.
no one on the internet has tried the improvised shotgun mortars that che guevara used it would be interesting to see, i think your channel would be the best one to do it.
Ordnance Lab have you done it yet? (I just came across this video because of auto play. It’s the first one of yours I’ve seen, but I just hit subscribe!)
"James?" "Yeah?" "That guy is making middle east cannons now." "What?" "Yes, you heard me. Should we send in the S.W.A.T?" "Nah, save it for when he makes a thermonuclear bomb."
Looks like y’all need to invest in some wildland firefighting gear. It would definitely save y’all some time out there. Maybe a couple Indian packs and Fire swaters.
We def did. We are actually thinking of making a video where we actually set the range on fire with incendiary weapons then test our firefighting gear.
@@jlambuth Old farmer method: If you can find actual burlap grain sacks, they work really well when soaked in a bucket of water to beat the fire out on the leading edge of the burn.
@@jlambuth What an incredibly stupid idea. You'd best be prepared to fork out a pile of cash for the fine for starting a wild fire AND the cost of the fire services response to your inexcusable lack of preparedness for the consequences of your own irresponsibility. You guys are the most rank amateurs I've seen in a good while. You're not ten anymore and that isn't the old field down the lane. Keep up your antics if you want but for god's sake start making a range safety plan and sticking to it.
When we were kids, we would take a piece of pipe, cap or crimped at one end, drop a firecracker down it, and put a well fitting stone on top to cover the hole. It was our firecracker mortar, and we’d try to hit things on the lake with it. Hours of fun that would be frowned upon nowadays.
ESSAYONS!!!! Guys I've got to tell you how much fun it was for me to watch you guys "home brew" some field expedient explosives and weapons. I was a 12B in the US Army and had multiple tours in Iraq. I was part of the invasion force of 2003, and participated in a lot of the locate and destroy efforts during '03 after the "war time mission" was over. My Battalion (54th EN BN) were all over the Al Anbar province during that time. Now this was my first video I've watched from this channel BUT I guarantee, it will not be the last until I"ve caught up with the whole collection. Thanks for the visit down memory lane. Yeah I know what you showcased was very different from what I saw but its not too far off. Anyways as long as your count is always 20 at the end of the day keep the videos coming. Didnt mean to sound like a fan boy, but I really loved my time working around explosives and miss it very much. Nothing like the smell of cooking time fuse and real C4 (sorta like juicy fruit).
Need a base plate for the mortar tube. Also prig launcher might a good thing to test, plus depending on how you build it it could be considered a blackpowder cannon.
@@MrMrBiggles what do you mean? Im talking about the launching tube, not the projectile. Whats so different between a prig launcher and a cannon? Both use blackpowder and neither use a fixed ammunition.
@@tinkeringclaws5559 my apologies for the delayed response. The reason a PRIG would not be classified as a black powder cannon is that the bore diameter is greater than 1/2 inch, and that the means of ignition being a battery would place it into the destructive device category. Notice the means of ignition on black powder cannons is a fuse, because a mechanical ignition would require registering them as destructive devices. Now, I'm not a laywer, and this is my very limited understanding of the rules about this. Your mileage my vary. There is an outstanding young gentleman that has done a Panzerfaust, with the appropriate t's crossed and i's dotted, and wrote a book about it.
@@MrMrBiggles the prig launcher can use literally any ignition system. Use cannon fuse or hell you could even put the lock from a flintlock or cap and ball on it. Also most cannons have a bore over 1/2. I know the guy that wrote that book, he also has a youtube channel and is making a fliegerfaust.
On a more serious note it's amazing and scary how easy it is to make a mortar and if you're not right in the head could cause alot of damage to innocent people and their belongings i.e home car and so on great work guys love the contents of your videos
"Sugar rocket filled with explosives starts spinning randomly in our direction... Got lucky, I only lost one eye! XD" Could be the title of their next video.
So does every single special forces or anybody out there not a wannabe special forces everytime they say "insha allah". Massive cringe. These wannas need to stop playing.
Pretty sure everything the u.s. uses originally came from England.... In... Europe.... So excuse us for not following your latest fad. That being said. The metric system is way better.
This video is incredibly education in the fact of what a crude simple explosive can do when a group is dedicated to doing something. It may not have had an incredible blast yield but that spell and shrapnel will cause a bad day for someone on the receiving end.
Alot of explosives are static resistant, they are stable. You need a blast cap to set many off. Plus they are an actual company with professionals, I think they know this already...
@@kevinrini3402 black powder isn't resistant to static ignition. It'll also burn like SoB and safety glasses DEFINITELY aren't sufficient to protect from BP flash. As for them being a business and that meaning they know what they're doing... sure... this is why workplaces are the highest rank for accidental injuries 😜👍
@@hesperhurt ...notice how your claim required the use of an unstable explosive that...isn't used in stable, combat zone explosives? They, and the terrorists, know how to make cheapo stable explosive powder and since they're the smart not dead ones I'm _SURE_ they weren't using your Black Power example >_>
Gday lads. The most reliable and safe ignition is a Diesel engine glow plug mounted in the bottom. Using a standard car battery to heat it up. By placing a piece of painters tape over the bottom of the round and dropping the round down the tube the glow plug burns through the tape instantly and ignites the loose black powder. You can hang rounds all day Also if you want to get really fancy you can mount and outer sheath and weld it up water tight with a nut welded on the top. Fill her up full of water as a water jacket to prevent over heating and will handle any pre mature detonations. So I’ve heard
When I saw your hand tip away while you were holding the live, impact fuse equipped round, my heart jumped. It was most likely a larger weight than could've slipped easily from your hand in hindsight. As a word of love and concern for you and your work: I'm far from any professional, but I've seen a lot of complacent people get hurt in a split second.
0:47 means hell cannon, but it's written from left to right opposing to right to left which should be the correct way to write in arabic. Idk if ya'll even care but here ya go PS : correct way is مدفع الجحيم
I really like the way he moves his hands at minute 1:36 when he says: "there were munitions everywhere" :) its like he thinks of that era in Iraq as a chocolate factory :)))
Kind of late to the party but here’s an idea for sourcing tanks: talk to a place that supplies medical gases like oxygen, those tanks expire after a few years and usually get scraped, an added bonus is the necks have a removable valve that uses a UNC thread pattern
@「 Deadpoppin 」 tatp is one of the most unstable explosives ever there’s no safe way to launch it potentially and I’m no expert but maybe if it were compressed and protected by some kind of shock resistant coatinf
Sand Bags. or bury the front "bipods" or tack weld perforated strapping on the bipods and use some tent stakes to keep the mortar from moving so much. Drill pilot holes on the upper end of the "Bipod" stand/rods and use cotter pins to secure it to the tube. I'm only an 11b, so I think an 11C Mortarman could offer some better advise. All in all, This looked awesome. I made a 5 foot catapult for my kid 18 years ago and had some mixed results before I got it to work : ) This is true Dad stuff right here. Nice work.
I just stumbled on this and I'm subscribing. Your hell cannon seems pretty tight. If Cody is your employee you really should up his wages. The poor kid can't even afford a proper pair of pants, he's walking around in his underwear !
Provisional IRA used a similar job. They launched an attack on No.10 Downing St. with it. The shells landed in the garden, fortunately (depending on your particular allegency) no one was injured. Thanks.
They also had a I believe it was 320 mm but it was a big mortar that operated on the same principle as the one shown in the video and it fired a charge that was based off of the big 60 pound propane tanks that you commonly use for RVs or homes. It was called the Barrick Buster and it was mounted in a truck or on a utility trailer
I am privileged to be served this video by the algorithm. I pray for the people of Syria that peace may come soon. The capability of these tools is impressive. Are there open source plans for defending against these sorts of munitions?
Peace will come with ASSad dead He has killed 1 million of his own people And leveled the whole country with every weapon in his arsenal He has killed many of my family & the whole world continues to let him do whatever he wants
I love the automatic camo-effect of the launcher.. folds down right after launch to make it invisible... great concept!!
Hadn't even concidered that, I thought it was crappy construction but as an ambush weapon that does have its merits.
Reminds me of the disappearing guns of the late 19th century.
good save!
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography
reminds me of cast trunion i.o's
gonna be dissapearing and takin ye hands with it!
lSIS: We will watch his career with great interest!
wish i knew what i clicked on before i had. Hello ATF, FBI, Homeland Watchlist! Nice to meet you! i was just curious i promise!!!! lmao
If you’re a white Christian, veteran or just patriot then you are already on the watchlist. Welcome.
Blame the “autoplay”
@@ajhubbell3754 Truth
@@ajhubbell3754 This. Has never been more relevant as it is rn.
You weren't already?
I was mortar section leader in the USMC infantry. You should really think about making a round baseplate for that thing with a little socket joint in the middle to seat the end of pipe and then it won't fall over and you'll be able to control the round. That mortar could have fallen over right before the round fired. Even with a baseplate an incorrectly set mortar will fall over. I've seen it with my own eyes. Be safe please.
Great comment.
As a Tanker (Army version) way back in the early 1980s and assigned to the only "Combat Armored Cavalry Troop" assigned to and attached to the 194th Armored Brigade (Separate) then stationed at Ft. Knox, KY somebody (wisely I think) decided that regardless of MOS we had to cross train on other weapon systems. I was picked to CT with our "Mortar Maggot" section. Over time I discovered that everything you mentioned in your comment is/was on point. After a bit of training, I became very comfortable with the 4.2 mortar....Right up until we blew the hell out of a chicken house on a farm bordering Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Our Section Sergeant had been ordered, by the Butter Bar in charge, to use half a cheese charge too many which resulted in a bunch of dead chickens and a pissed off farmer.
Our 120s were like that. Also had wheels lol what a shit weapon system
@@furmanmackey5479 😂I wish I could have seen that! LOL!
@@furmanmackey5479 now THAT'S a great comment xD
Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m on a watchlist.
And so are you.
based
Nice
Make them busy.
Let them come
Repeal the nsa
Well.
If you weren't on the CIA watchlist before.
Welcome.
I'm lucky not american
@ZoG Rot You think they care? #Snowden
@@Seapears You think they care? #Snowden
@ZoG Rot Do you mean assassinated?
@@Seapears why? Yall get to have no fun
I'm Syrian, and I appreciate you covering a little bit of my country's modern history ^w^
what a wonderful history :)
u in turkey?
@@sepitbeats No
@@sepitbeatsgarip. Türkiyede yaşamayan bir Suriyeli 🤔
@@ulubatlhasan3532 bayram için gitmiştir ondan şu an yok
“This is legally a black powder cannon by itself” *me with a shit eating grin on my face*
For legal reasons I’m not doing anything illegal
Shit eating grin on my face lmao
😄
I loved the part where you said “were not here to talk about politics...” it made me smile because i think i know why you did
*fbi, Cia and atf kick on your door* 🤣🤣
Your ATF agent probably catches a lot of crap from the other agents.
Also probably one of the busier ones.
definitely, in-between going outside the bounds of their job & secretly writing up the laws that they then later enforce, while claiming "hey buddy, we don't make the law(s) we just enforce it!" to the poor unlucky bastards that they end up raiding/molesting their privacy to look at their entire cache...
or, if you're unlucky enough to have posted a beginners guide to prepping, you're more than certainly going to want to begin anticipating as-well as planning for a "surprise check up" from your local gestapo branch!
ATF can suck it!
As long as you have the correct licenses, correct license category and comply with all bureaucratic record keeping, the ATF cannot do anything but smile that you have jumped through all of their hoops. As long as these guys demonstrate their intent to do business, the ATF can't really harass them because they don't want to lose their jobs. Of course, if the ATF, just like the FBI fabricated fake criminal crap on Flynn, wants to make a criminal conspiracy on some no-bodies (not related to Trump), they can at the risk of ending up as somebody's girlfriend in a Federal prison.
@@No1Son-7 lol
what a terrifyingly simply weapon.. That's crazy how far it chucked that shell for just a little bit of black powder in the bottom of a thick wall pipe
well done on this build, very interesting seeing such a crude yet effective weapon
Ur almost filling the void that was left in my heart by fps russia. keep it up.
He got arrested
Sebby 324 framed by liquid richard
@Azazel he had a podcast and has been doing it for a few years
@@worlore1651 no, that's FPS Kyle, FPS Russia was a character for videos. Its not even close to being the same sort of content/vibe
@@skrimper who?
For future reference you can also use expended dry chemical fire extinguishers for your projoes. That will give you a thicker shell, You might also want to use some friction tape around the base of the "warhead" ti act as a gas seal, just be sure it still slides smoothly down the "cannon tube" and be sure to use some lubricant on the tape, like vaseline or axle grease. The round will go further and higher. Just a suggestion from an Old Ordnance Warrant Officer.
Pretty sure the idea here wasn't to replicate the ballistic characteristics of the improvised mortar rounds, instead the focus is more on the terminal effects of the warhead.
If they were looking to simulate the ballistics it might be possible to do it much easier (and much more consistently than the real thing) with a pneumatic cannon.
Sir do you come from a certain syrian province?
Name checks out
For anyone curious, that gas seal he refers to is called an "obturator" or "obturation". Word of the day.
@@humbleguardsman5578 this guy has a favorite brand of grease to spread on mortars, just let that sink
So I was planning on leading a revolution in a middle eastern country but this looks too hard to make so I'll just concentrate on my grades
The sight on the front of the original shows a LOT of optimism.
Way too much optimism. I like to think it was some auto mechanic with zero experience built it lmao
yes and no, at this point they're so good at making them that they've got their machining processes and tolerances down to a T, and are finally capable of making accurate homemade weapon systems.
though if you're gonna use sights, take some off of battlefield pickups of mortars from the army, but at that point you may as well just take the entire mortar/artillery piece and make the rounds for said cannons yourself, rather than the entire cannon plus the rounds. to each their own I suppose.
Probably put iiton there for fun as a joke
@@kwhp1507 000
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 You realize that the sight points up to the sky? What up there are you aiming at?
One of my friends was into buying antique nautical stuff. He had a few cannons. One of which he took out to Glamis. Coors beer cans fit perfectly in this cannon. So he melted a few other cans and poured them into the coors can and topped it with an eye bolt. He then tied about a 100' nylon rope to the eye bolt and achored it to a motorcycle trailer away from everything. He put about an ounce of black powder in the cannon and lit the fuze.
The next thing we knew there was just a piece of rope tied to the trailer. The projectile was gone. There was some campers about 3 or 4 miles away in the direction he aimed it. A few minutes later some smoke started coming up from them.
He was all worried he hit one. But it turned out they were just as stupid and set one of their own campers on fire. He never found the projectile.
"He was all worried he hit one. But it turned out they were just as stupid and set one of their own campers on fire. He never found the projectile."
Is the absolute perfect ending to that story.
@@heirofaniu
Wasnt it though? Lol
I coulda told him that skinny little piece of rope wasnt gonna have any say in the matter. But I think he just wanted a big "Go Boom" so much, I couldnt spoil it for him.
@@siggyretburns7523 That right there is the difference between just being a friend and being a good friend, just let the man have his fun.
I would've been shitting solid gold bricks 😬😂
hahaha mooi werk
You can get a pretty good estimate of the mortar range by extrapolating the Civil war data for the 12 pdr,20 pdr and 30 pdr Parrott rifles. Wind resistance from the higher angle of attack will reduce the range but not by much and test firing will allow adjusting the firing tables
"You have just been Assaded."
LOL That's pretty good
Now I want some street tacos
Straight banging music tho
Or :You got Bashar-rolled: "Never going to give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you..."
except it was mostly the rebels using these...
hhh greeetings from Tunisia. This hell canon shows the human power of improvisation when all high tech breaks down. Do you folks realise that what happened in Syria and down here in Lybia was the closest we came to a Mad Max style world!
it originates from ireland
Yep, that’s what happens when you refuse to join the USA’s protection racket or don’t back your currency in USD, or buy/sell oil using anything other than USD. Every oil owning country that has tried this has been destroyed by US intervention, look it up.
@@thenoblepoptart yep . also iraq and syria have the best terrain for air superiority. many flat deserts where bombs can easily hit. unlike afghanistan which is build like a fortress. ( also one of the may reasons why US failed there)
@@JitBlick it’s not an issue for me cuz I live in Texas, but if I was Libyan or Iraqi I would be on some suicide bomber shit lol
@@thenoblepoptart I think it has less to do with oil and more to do with Israel
I love how in the US you'll get in trouble for having too many rounds in your pistol mag, but can own a cannon or a mortar with no regulation...
I mean realistically who is doing a mass shooting with a mortar
I cant believe the crazy Texans also use meters, I'm so proud.
Military and Science in U.S. uses Metric. We have metric and imperial for a lot of our measurements in rulers, canisters etc. It's just that imperial is still standard in our hardware stores and in construction. Considering they were doing a military style type of test, with his military background, explains why he used meters in measuring the explosion radius.
as well as using Kilograms in measuring the weight of the explosive
It's a military thing. He's probably a veteran.
@@yankeespanky6570 we use Imperial and metric here in the Philippines.
@Unsesquipedalian For us sure. For foreigners it isn't.
I've got a lotta hype for the potential to see some improvised rocket artillery
We are working on that as well
Fuck yes.
You mean katyusha
Hobby rocket, tanner warhead with bullet as impact fuze
@@RoarDaemon a bullet wont set off an anfo bomb. It's very stable.
Dear fbi: I looked this up out of curiosity. I am not going to build this. Have a nice day.
When we were kids, about 10 or 11 years of age, my brother and I made a mortar out of three tin coke cans placed one on top of the other and held together with electrical tape. The top and ends of the first two cans we cut out. The third can we only cut out the top leaving the bottom of the shaft with its rear intact. We then bored a small hole at the end of the mortar to insert propellant which in this case was simple alcohol! As simple as it was, the mortar held together for several discharges using alcohol. The force of the blast was enough to send a tennis ball about 200 feet at about 80 mph!
Not long after that, we attended a fourth of July party at which our Uncle provided live M-80's (Quarter sticks of dynamite). We took the M-80's home and decided to try them out in our home made mortar! Our first attempt using an M-80 was successful and in fact the tennis ball was propelled so high that we could not see it. When it landed on our street the tennis ball bounced an incredible 20 or 30 feet into the air. Our neighbor was observing our "blasting" and at his insistence we mounted the mortar onto the truck bed of his old truck to reduce the chance of injury in the event of an "accident!" We then reloaded the mortar with a 2nd M-80 and lit the alcohol fuse. And then "whamo", the mortar flew into a thousand pieces and the tennis ball only went 20 feet into the air. When we checked further, we found that the explosion blew a hole five inches wide into our neighbor's truck bed! In fact, my brother and I were very lucky that we didn't seriously hurt ourselves. Our uncle would have been arrested today if anything serious occured!
Because 3 coke cans can hold that big of a combustion.
@@ferrischemistry7879 We should have used a solid pipe, but somehow we decided to use coke cans which at that time were still made of tin. But the change of propellant, alcohol to M-80, was what doomed our home made mortar! Coke cans aren't strong enough to survive the blast of dynamite!
M-80s are not made from dynamite (you mean TNT, yes?)
@@ferrischemistry7879 No I was not aware of that!
@@1MahaDas I was not aware that Coca-Cola cans were made from tin. TNT is Trinitrotoluene, by the way. You make it with Nitroglycerin and some other things.
I grew up watching MacGyver, I know how to make a weapon out of a paperclip, some gum and an ak47..
and an AK47 lmfao good one
Paperclip makes a good makeshift replacement for your trigger retainer pin
@@IGD-974 Ahh, I see you must have caught a few episodes of MacGyver too!
Forgot the bakers twine and a penny..
MacGyver/ hollywood was Anti Gun, he always thru the guns away after destroying them :(
"This video is nothing more than a bunch of eccentrics down in Texas (what, you think people in Iowa do stuff like this?), amusing themselves with an unusual hobby of building explosive ordnance for entertainment purposes." the good people of Iowa acknowledge and respect Texas but from a safe distance as we take notes. God bless Texas
bought a tear to my eye hearing an amurican use metric. good channel ive just discovered you.
Most of these dudes are former military, and the US military has been using metric for decades.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography the United States Military went metric in 1957, by an act of Congress and the Department of Defense.
Irish Luvr7745 interesting, I was under the assumption that they went metric in the 70’s or 80’s.
@@Irish381 the whole country should go metric as-well
@@Irish381 yes and no. you still see imperial units all over the place with navigation stuff in the air force and navy. you will even find the unit Rankine, which hurts my brain. they are all metric with extra steps anyway so its not much difference
The only time I've experienced mortar fire as I was a flyer, we were establishing a forward operating base later to become leather neck. I was a pilot in the C130-J adaptive super herc and on that flight were jato in forklifts and water purification systems.
Mortars are terrifying. The birds were sitting ducks on landing, so we had to land empty and haul ass out of there as the insurgents put holes in the airframe within seconds of being in range.
It was land, brake like hell, spin around dump the cargo seal up, spin up the props ignite the jatos and pray like hell as your guts get mangled while climbing to 20k within a minute and half.
sounds like a right nightmare
Daaamn dude. I didnt know JATOs were still used operationally.
@@MattH-wg7ou this was about 9 years ago maybe even 10ish if that makes any difference. I'm out now but haven't heard about them being disused.
Now THAT is terrifying...
Tyfys
The last explosion was so powerful it pulled debis towards it before pushing everything away!!!! Loved it you guys are so awesome
If I remember correctly, using a PVC pipe to load black powder is extremely dangerous. The PVC will build up a static charge very easily and set off the black powder in your face. Being in a dry environment makes it even more likely.
Yeah static and black powder are no good together.
Whats a good alternative ?
@@st2udent_650 a jar made of glass?
@@aguslucero6699
Time to put granny's collection of mason jars to use.
@@st2udent_650 a metal tube.
Dad used to use ANFO and gelignite to get rid of boulders and stumps when doing farm fencing. Filled the base of a tree stump, because it was not hollow it took off like a rocket and demolished an old shed when it landed
So happy I found this channel!
To the ATF and whom ever else it may concern,
I was looking up civil war mortars and this popped up.
Thanks.
That projectile to bore fit is absolutely atrocious. You could have at least gave the round a thick band of duct tape to act as a gas seal. Awesome channel though. I love this shit.
I'd use nylon tape to reduce friction
@@spazmonkey2131 A single use projectile like that would not really benefit from reduced friction. It might have 1 to 100 ft more range but it's not worth it really.
@@joekeil954 I just feel the duct tape would bind up too much, and nylon tape isn't too expensive
@@spazmonkey2131 Duct tape doesn't bind up at all. I use it as a gas seal on projectiles for an Oxy-Acetylene cannon. I have a strong feeling nylon tape would fail due to a lack of adhesion strength. Plus you could always wax the gas seal for extra lubrication.
@@joekeil954 I guess I didn't give it enough credit, how many windings do you use per round?
1st rule of combat... Never think like a Syrian.
Fantastic channel!
I love how the cat is watching you funnel an ungodly amount of black powder into a tank
If I ever had him as an NCO, I'd be cracking Dumb and Dumber jokes at every formation.
If there were ever a zombie apocalypse these guys are covered 😂
I can respect that he did a little bit of research about what is going on in my country
Thx man keep it up
Respect ✊🏻
And I'm here thinking that I'm the only Syrian here. Hope we can return eventually and have our lifes back 💙
Let's make it a Gathering...brothers 👍🏻
@@tarek1195 can't mossad the assad
Great content without political bs and solid information. Loved how you guys went as far as registering bottles for the Molotov video. Cheers
You register them by getting them off the side of the road
Well I guess now that I clicked on one of these I might as well watch more... Since I'm on the damn watchlist now.
no one on the internet has tried the improvised shotgun mortars that che guevara used it would be interesting to see, i think your channel would be the best one to do it.
That’s a great idea. We found some info on it and will test it out. Thanks for the lead.
@@OrdnanceLab I've always had an interest in this, and it has non-military applications as naval line-throwing equipment, too.
oh dear
i had the same idea apparently they seem way better dunno about the range tho
Ordnance Lab have you done it yet? (I just came across this video because of auto play. It’s the first one of yours I’ve seen, but I just hit subscribe!)
When are we gonna get 80% mortar rounds?
Lmao!
Go to your local hardware store and find a small propane canister and there you go.
I'll take 15
"James?"
"Yeah?"
"That guy is making middle east cannons now."
"What?"
"Yes, you heard me. Should we send in the S.W.A.T?"
"Nah, save it for when he makes a thermonuclear bomb."
Hey Ordnance Lab, I love what you guys do. I'm a mortarman and I really enjoy blowing things up. Keep doing what you do.
Looks like y’all need to invest in some wildland firefighting gear. It would definitely save y’all some time out there. Maybe a couple Indian packs and Fire swaters.
Definitely need some flappers and rakes.
We def did. We are actually thinking of making a video where we actually set the range on fire with incendiary weapons then test our firefighting gear.
@@jlambuth Old farmer method: If you can find actual burlap grain sacks, they work really well when soaked in a bucket of water to beat the fire out on the leading edge of the burn.
@@jlambuth What an incredibly stupid idea. You'd best be prepared to fork out a pile of cash for the fine for starting a wild fire AND the cost of the fire services response to your inexcusable lack of preparedness for the consequences of your own irresponsibility. You guys are the most rank amateurs I've seen in a good while. You're not ten anymore and that isn't the old field down the lane. Keep up your antics if you want but for god's sake start making a range safety plan and sticking to it.
Polaskis and piss cans
When we were kids, we would take a piece of pipe, cap or crimped at one end, drop a firecracker down it, and put a well fitting stone on top to cover the hole. It was our firecracker mortar, and we’d try to hit things on the lake with it. Hours of fun that would be frowned upon nowadays.
ESSAYONS!!!! Guys I've got to tell you how much fun it was for me to watch you guys "home brew" some field expedient explosives and weapons. I was a 12B in the US Army and had multiple tours in Iraq. I was part of the invasion force of 2003, and participated in a lot of the locate and destroy efforts during '03 after the "war time mission" was over. My Battalion (54th EN BN) were all over the Al Anbar province during that time. Now this was my first video I've watched from this channel BUT I guarantee, it will not be the last until I"ve caught up with the whole collection. Thanks for the visit down memory lane. Yeah I know what you showcased was very different from what I saw but its not too far off. Anyways as long as your count is always 20 at the end of the day keep the videos coming. Didnt mean to sound like a fan boy, but I really loved my time working around explosives and miss it very much. Nothing like the smell of cooking time fuse and real C4 (sorta like juicy fruit).
LOL
Need a base plate for the mortar tube. Also prig launcher might a good thing to test, plus depending on how you build it it could be considered a blackpowder cannon.
Clearly a baseplate is not needed for this
In no way would a PRIG be considered a blackpowder cannon by the BATFE.
@@MrMrBiggles what do you mean? Im talking about the launching tube, not the projectile. Whats so different between a prig launcher and a cannon? Both use blackpowder and neither use a fixed ammunition.
@@tinkeringclaws5559 my apologies for the delayed response. The reason a PRIG would not be classified as a black powder cannon is that the bore diameter is greater than 1/2 inch, and that the means of ignition being a battery would place it into the destructive device category. Notice the means of ignition on black powder cannons is a fuse, because a mechanical ignition would require registering them as destructive devices. Now, I'm not a laywer, and this is my very limited understanding of the rules about this. Your mileage my vary. There is an outstanding young gentleman that has done a Panzerfaust, with the appropriate t's crossed and i's dotted, and wrote a book about it.
@@MrMrBiggles the prig launcher can use literally any ignition system. Use cannon fuse or hell you could even put the lock from a flintlock or cap and ball on it. Also most cannons have a bore over 1/2. I know the guy that wrote that book, he also has a youtube channel and is making a fliegerfaust.
man if I wasn’t on a watch list I sure am now. Damnit I couldn’t resist watching this I’m so fascinated haha 😂
So I am on watch least for year 😅😅
On a more serious note it's amazing and scary how easy it is to make a mortar and if you're not right in the head could cause alot of damage to innocent people and their belongings i.e home car and so on great work guys love the contents of your videos
The IRA used fire extinguishers and a multi tube setup in a truck bed but I’d use paintball gas cylinders for sarcophagus strength
They did the same to both small and large propane/nitrogen style tanks, "Barrack Busters" they used to call them.
Come out ya black n tans come out and fight me like a man!
With a lot of success
Tell em how the Ira made you run like hell away from the green and lovely lanes of killishandra
John Hinkley Ireland is a very funny place, a strange and troubled land
9:13 I like the look on the cat's face. He's thinking "this is Not going to end well".
I always had my suspicions that TXMGO was just /k/ turbo-austists.
Now I know.
REEEEEEEEEEE!
sorry for necropost but i have to ask... is that a FAMAS?
@@tiocybot does that famas take Glock mags?
autists*
what in the sam hell is a austists??
Where mom serves kangaroo tendies
Oh, so this is where Wile E. Coyote got his training, good to know.:-)
THIS VIDEO NEVER GETS OLD ,,HELL YAH
Could yall try making some improvised shaped charges strapped to a sugar rocket?
So an rpg?
@@isaac-vb1ng schhh, dont let the ATF hear
@@ClayThunder *FBI wants to know your location*
*FBI OPEN UP!*
"Sugar rocket filled with explosives starts spinning randomly in our direction... Got lucky, I only lost one eye! XD"
Could be the title of their next video.
15:22 i imagine every frenchman in history hearing "coop dee grah" and visibly cringing.
So does every single special forces or anybody out there not a wannabe special forces everytime they say "insha allah". Massive cringe. These wannas need to stop playing.
@@PatTheRiot what? How is "InshaAllah" a special forces thing?
@@tehonionpotato6364 he belongs to the latter it seems
Lmao bruh this title moved you up on that watchlist
Yo if my FBI agent is seeing this, I was bored on a rainy day. Have no interest in joining this hahahahah
Would you recommend this for deer hunting 😉
Yeah! It will be pre-cooked too!
That would Depend on how many you are hunting with a single shot lol
Absolutely, will kill, skin, and turn into ground venison all in one shot.
just found your site. how many visits have you had from ATF agents?
Obligatory "Last time I was this early, my gf was really disappointed" comment.
This has been one of the least terrible iterations of this meme I've seen.
Not to get political or anything, but Cody has the best shirt.
As a european, I am still very delighted to hear you using the metric system instead of bananas for weight and elephants for distance :)
Its called freedom units
Wait...we stopped doing that? 🤣
If your pirates hadn't attacked Jefferson on the Atlantic we might use Kilos and Meters.
Oh well
Pretty sure everything the u.s. uses originally came from England.... In... Europe.... So excuse us for not following your latest fad. That being said. The metric system is way better.
This video is incredibly education in the fact of what a crude simple explosive can do when a group is dedicated to doing something. It may not have had an incredible blast yield but that spell and shrapnel will cause a bad day for someone on the receiving end.
i think the IRA hit a helicopter with one in the 90's
Them: 'So for this video we made a homemade mortar which is actually not regulated here'
Me: heck yeah brother. Gob bless America! Ha ha
Gob XD
You forgot to say "Don't try this at home kids"
i'm so glad you do this stuff so the rest of us wont get arrested trying it.
@Pavel Manzhetov yep i want to figure out 90% of this shit
I feel a big war brewing with the direction we're going so videos like these might be super helpful in the future.
Never ever load your cannon with a plastic PVC pipe as it can build up static electricity as the powder slides along the plastic, you were very lucky!
Alot of explosives are static resistant, they are stable. You need a blast cap to set many off. Plus they are an actual company with professionals, I think they know this already...
...and if it ignited it wouldn't actually explode, it would just burn. So with safety glasses this shouldnt be a problem.....
@@kevinrini3402 black powder isn't resistant to static ignition. It'll also burn like SoB and safety glasses DEFINITELY aren't sufficient to protect from BP flash.
As for them being a business and that meaning they know what they're doing... sure... this is why workplaces are the highest rank for accidental injuries 😜👍
@@hesperhurt ...notice how your claim required the use of an unstable explosive that...isn't used in stable, combat zone explosives?
They, and the terrorists, know how to make cheapo stable explosive powder and since they're the smart not dead ones I'm _SURE_ they weren't using your Black Power example >_>
Maybe it was a very humid day ?
Thanks bro, super useful video. Love from Syria.
9:14 That Cat is very worried about being blown to bits.
The cat is a major conspirator to this whole operation honestly. Buddy is wanted in several nations for war crimes.
Nah man 10:35 is the good stuff
9:13 Cat: What your doing human.
I have a confession: the cat is orchestrating everything. His blood lust knows no end.
@@jlambuth The people are just useful idiots.
*cat calls the ATF*
I bet the cat knows that it is spelled *you´re* , and not *your* . Yes, i´m a grammar nazi.
@@Biden_is_demented It's "You're", you substitute human.
Gday lads.
The most reliable and safe ignition is a Diesel engine glow plug mounted in the bottom. Using a standard car battery to heat it up. By placing a piece of painters tape over the bottom of the round and dropping the round down the tube the glow plug burns through the tape instantly and ignites the loose black powder. You can hang rounds all day
Also if you want to get really fancy you can mount and outer sheath and weld it up water tight with a nut welded on the top. Fill her up full of water as a water jacket to prevent over heating and will handle any pre mature detonations.
So I’ve heard
When I saw your hand tip away while you were holding the live, impact fuse equipped round, my heart jumped. It was most likely a larger weight than could've slipped easily from your hand in hindsight. As a word of love and concern for you and your work: I'm far from any professional, but I've seen a lot of complacent people get hurt in a split second.
No religion here. Proceeds to "Insh'Allah" several times... ;)
@Idk tbh ngl that was my point, it would be the same comment of they had said Deus Vult instead.
@Fascista Mexikaner piss off
@Fascista Mexikaner stay losing
@First Last it just means hope
@@maxace1078 looking at Afghanistan it seems that America is the one losing.
Thanks for reposting this Sean (probably buddy actually). The new boomer comments still have not let me down.
“We’re gonna try to find it inshallah”👀
@Politically Correct well it explains why he loves explosives so much
0:47 means hell cannon, but it's written from left to right opposing to right to left which should be the correct way to write in arabic. Idk if ya'll even care but here ya go
PS : correct way is مدفع الجحيم
"midfa' al jaheem"
You really think Americans give a fuck?
@@GoodVibes-xq4yi I mean I do. Why would I want to look like a retard?
@@GoodVibes-xq4yi Maybe you don't, but I do.
Thanks
Bro this guy reminds me of Jim Carey so much 😂😂😂😂
I’m definitely on some kind of watch list now
Can you put a gopro in a hell cannon shell so one can see the flight in first Person view?
I really like the way he moves his hands at minute 1:36 when he says: "there were munitions everywhere" :)
its like he thinks of that era in Iraq as a chocolate factory :)))
"we're gonna try to find it, inshallah!" LMAO 🤣🤣
what is inshallah mean in Arabic? lol
@@justinsloan2752 god willingly basically 'please god' let me win the raffle
"If God wills it"
Can I laugh now?
Im australian and even though I dont know about what you're saying in half of you're videos but I still love it keep it up
Kind of late to the party but here’s an idea for sourcing tanks: talk to a place that supplies medical gases like oxygen, those tanks expire after a few years and usually get scraped, an added bonus is the necks have a removable valve that uses a UNC thread pattern
The hell canons in Syria were 20 times the size of this lol imagine a 80KG of flash powder cylinder landing in a populated building,
@Deadpoppin 「Nyx」 tatp is so unstable that the intense G force from the launch itself would cause it to blow up 1/2 way leaving the barrel heheheh
@「 Deadpoppin 」 you got problems with israel , you can be sure that the israelis love solving problems .
@「 Deadpoppin 」 it might just explode on the person trying to fire it since it’s so unstable
@「 Deadpoppin 」 tatp is one of the most unstable explosives ever there’s no safe way to launch it potentially and I’m no expert but maybe if it were compressed and protected by some kind of shock resistant coatinf
Or under a Humvee
This is actually a video of how many times Shawn can slap his thigh because he is excited
Sand Bags. or bury the front "bipods" or tack weld perforated strapping on the bipods and use some tent stakes to keep the mortar from moving so much. Drill pilot holes on the upper end of the "Bipod" stand/rods and use cotter pins to secure it to the tube. I'm only an 11b, so I think an 11C Mortarman could offer some better advise. All in all, This looked awesome. I made a 5 foot catapult for my kid 18 years ago and had some mixed results before I got it to work : ) This is true Dad stuff right here. Nice work.
My name is Ahmed and I was legit confused when he called my name
the mitochondria is the power house of the cell.
I just stumbled on this and I'm subscribing.
Your hell cannon seems pretty tight.
If Cody is your employee you really should up his wages. The poor kid can't even afford a proper pair of pants, he's walking around in his underwear !
The cat is absolutely terrified at the amount of explosives you're stuffing in that round.
My god. I can’t believe that guy left home in those shorts and t shirt.
And then the helmet.
And then the vest.
You guys have way too much time on your hands . I want more. Holy cow that's fun to watch! 👍
Have you used a wad above the powder? Because without it sub-caliber round loss most of powder gases and energy...
Provisional IRA used a similar job. They launched an attack on No.10 Downing St. with it. The shells landed in the garden, fortunately (depending on your particular allegency) no one was injured.
Thanks.
They also had a I believe it was 320 mm but it was a big mortar that operated on the same principle as the one shown in the video and it fired a charge that was based off of the big 60 pound propane tanks that you commonly use for RVs or homes. It was called the Barrick Buster and it was mounted in a truck or on a utility trailer
Whatever you did in life to be able to play this way legally is what I wish I did growing up
I am privileged to be served this video by the algorithm. I pray for the people of Syria that peace may come soon. The capability of these tools is impressive. Are there open source plans for defending against these sorts of munitions?
Peace will come with ASSad dead
He has killed 1 million of his own people
And leveled the whole country with every weapon in his arsenal
He has killed many of my family & the whole world continues to let him do whatever he wants
6:19 this is part that we actually care about.
Thanks.
Also 10:30
cringed every time they said inshallah, other than that breddy gud
same here
why
@@dylandailey7337 it means something along the lines of "if Allah wills it" , it's something Muslims say a lot.
Here in Pakistan people say Inshallah when it might seem rude to say No.
Coming for football tomorrow? Inshallah 😂
Yeah it's cringey. It means god willing but mostly used (in Turkey) as "hopefully" or maybe.
"We decided to make a weapon from Syria."
**ATF and FBI has joined the chatroom.**
Cracks me up at end he saying “ we gotta out of here “ because we’re setting off bombs and the range is on fire😂🤪🇺🇸
They should add a chemical fire extinguisher to a motorbike or something
Range fire are not funny.