The World's biggest bonfire! Slinningsbålet 2016
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Residents of the Norwegian town of Alesund built a world record-breaking 155.5 feet tall bonfire for their traditional midsummer festival on June 25.
Midsummer’s Eve is commonly known in Norway as St. Hans aften (St. John’s eve) or Jonsok (from norse Jonsvaka, “John’s Wake”). Like many other Christian celebrations, St. Hans was originally a pagan festival. The central element of the celebration is the lighting of a large bonfire. Traditionally, the bonfire was lit around farms to “wake up” the ground. When the light from the fire shone on the fields they were believed to become extra fertile that year.
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nice to see a bonfire thats not for hate reasons, i come from N.Ireland and every summer bonfires are used to show hate and the irish flag is put on top of them to burn. But this is wonderful to watch. Well done.
Place reminds me working at Ormen Lange and Karsto. Damn good time. Norway is a sweet place with super nice locals. That sweetnes may be cold and windy:) yet it gives you that feeling of conquering each and every day. You can feel you are alive and you don't need war for it:) Folks won't make you tired. They're friendly but they know how to keep the distance in the same time. Rare feature:) Brave lads who took Norway out of nature's fangs and made it their own...and again, need to admit they care for the nature. Norway is beautiful and clean. Best TNT users in the whole world I guess. Most impressive tunnels I've ever seen. Almost every road you see brings the idea how much of a rock had to be defeated to make it possible to go from one place to another. Unapproachable cliffs with massive rocks hanging on smart security cables and nets...and trees growing right from almost vertical rock walls. Everything reminds of Alaska or Canada. Yellow lines along the axis of the road, small houses with it's walls warmed with wood and painted red or white...grass on the roofs. Perfect idea! Moose warning signs and magic mushrooms growing everywhere:) Damn good time. Anyways, greetings from Poland. Thanks for the great experience! I was glad to help. Hade, hade bra! Gud velsigne
Your comment made me see and feel what you described. Cheers
Anybody notice the flames look like a lion at 2:33?
Really ? I bet that the folks who are on here complaining about a town's traditions and go to their town's fireworks show and think nothing about it. Or that a single lightning strike caused forest fire burns far more wood and has been happening long before mankind ever even knew what CO2 was. I learned about this on The Amazing Race and wanted to know more. I would be there helping build it if I could make it part of my travel plans. Awesome engineering and people working together accomplishment. Higher next year!
in Denmark, we put a witch on too
Lol
That's not a joke, we made witch dolls that we put on top of the bonfires.
In Austria too.
Hell! that collapse was quite a thing and caused a fireball of a 33rd level!
Where I live they build these next to housing estates, businesses, and petrol stations, this is more like it, out in the middle of no where.
Wow, Don!!! Such great videos you got here i feel like wanting to visit the place and witness everything with my own eyes!!! Really awesome !!!
It's like a giant Falla from Valencia! Awesome!
Theres one being built in northern Ireland for the 12th of july that may be bigger when Finished
Love the bonfire, and have the upmost respect for the builders but..... The real Bonfire Kings live in Scheveningen Holland 😀. Two towers (Scheveningen and Duindorp) all massive, stacked up all the pallets on the width not length and reaches 41,5 meters high in 4,5 days almost 1,5 week ago, we reached the 35 meters in only 3 days. If we stack it like the video we're be able to reach the 60 meters easely. The big problem is our mayor, he allowed us to only build 15x15x 35 meters max. Last year we reach almost 34 meters with over 60.000 pallets in Scheveningen. Keep up the good work Scandinavian Friends!!!
What I find really interesting is the construction using wooden pallets. As far as I can tell they are not nailed together (and yet the builders climb up the sides) and the ones on the bottom must be able to hold a great deal of weight. If one corner, for example were to give way on the bottom it would seem the whole structure would be in danger of collapsing.
Eric C. Welch They are nailed together
it would be interesting if you left a hollow spot in th middle and see if it acts like a rocket stove since there is so much empty space there
Nice Fire
How long does this burn for?
kindled to 9+ ? cool
Den musikken er faens irriterende.
Nice to see people honoring their pagan ancestral ways
Tol, siya paren ba?
Di na eh
I expected a really big one, instead they've been watering it. Yeah it's tall, acknowledged, but that's mostly it.
14 year boys in Northern Ireland build these almost as big every year, ffs. Hundreds of them.
Lol
For Balder!
* sad Northern Irish noises *
Lasted longer than WTC7
Scheveningen in the netherlands build a higher one laat year 49 m
I thought northern Ireland only did this
northern ireland does it for hate, norway does it for joy
"Biggest in the world" - ummm forgetting about Northern Ireland??
I laugh at how they say it is symbolic for John the Baptist's birthday yet there are company names all over it....lol...humans, destruction and greed, what else do you live for?
As if we are not polluting the atmosphere enough. Thanks for making more for the sake of some "record"
Oh come on, making a big bonfire once a year form old pallets can hardly get anywhere close to the level of pollution other things like factories, cars and coal mines do every year?
During their life trees assume more CO2 then amount which is released when it burns down. From their life span of around 30 years trees throw away a lot of lieves and branches, that is the reason. Don't be so dramatic :)
Bruh, that's literally NOTHING compared to one day of a crowded city.
this isn't that much pollution as you may think..
Controlled demolition
light it from the bottom
where is this?
Ålesund, Norway
notsonathan im coming lol
Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund? :P
9/11?
Midsummer's Eve? It sounds like a product for ladies to wash their taint.
Came here from 9Gag. Peace!
Link please :D
Holy fuck look at you coming from 9gag and shit, truly remarkable!
9gag is a shit place with the worst repost bots I've seen.
and now 1 year later, 9gag brought me here
global warming
me likei
were you trying to ruin this video with that music? There is probably not one single human on this planet who would say this video is better with shitty cancer music. Am i missing something? whats the deal?
Pollution ?!
O kurwa, ale tam musi być gorąco.
what about global warming?
What about global warming? A tree, over the course of its lifetime, absorbs as much carbon dioxide as it releases when burnt, so the CO2 output is 0. It's a different story when burning fossil fuels.
I don't think you understand global warming
That... That's not...
the president of the United States said that there is no such thing as global warming.... stop talking non-sense...
A for effort, F for actual scientific knowledge
Jesus christ, isn't drilling for oil enough. Now they have found another way to make more CO2! Not to speak of all the trees as well that had to be cut down. If these pallets could hold all that weight, they could definitely still be used.
Fucking moron. Read up on how CO2 works first.
What do you mean? Greenhouse gasses are released when you burn wood, like CO2 and NO2 which is a lot worse than CO2. Forrest store a lot of CO2 in the wood and organic material, cutting down forests and jungles is already bad enough, burning said wood is environmental suicide, and wasting it like in this video is beyond idiotic.
You're just turning your guilt into anger towards me, which is just psych 101, and I expect that you're probably around 12-16 anyways so you don't actually care about calling other people idiots online.
I would actually be happy if you were able to prove me wrong that this isn't a waste, but we both know that you can't. If people actually started to accept their shortcomings and actually started to improve themselves, then this world would be so much better to live in. I know this phenomenon way too well, and it often makes me sad.
Learn to have some fun, pencil dick.
There are many ways to celebrate without polluting this fucking much. This is just a mad waste. Learn more about the consequences of your actions, meat face.
Let them burn their pallets. It's good, clean, wholesome fun. Don't need you complaining about it.
and that kids is were global warming started
Thanks Norway for wasting half the worlds oxygen on this
I hope you're joking
You are kidding right? xD
+ollierkul i think he is a special little snowflake
+ollierkul yeh lol! U from Norway?
Lucas Jonsson Yeah, you/du?
Pollution, waste of resources, stupidity. Please don't do such things.
Haha. is this a joke? when the tree rots it pollutes almost the exact amount. And it is an tradition that doesn't seem wasteful for me. And what stupidity is in this video?
Those pellets cost ~10eur each - it is waste. Also *a tradition.
They're sponsored so what
they don't cost that much. We have over a thousand on a farm I work at and they only cost about $1-$2 each.
A display of power like that can be very inspirational which is very valuable thing. It is especially now that communication is so efficient