My brother was getting ready to take a shower needed to clean the oil off his hands, holding a can of white Coleman gas between his knees while a small bit of gas was poured on his hands. The gas water heater kicked in... ignited his hands, arms, legs. Spent over a month in the burn unit. The worst thing he remembers was the skin scrubbers taking off the dead burnt skin.

Please be careful and I mean it.



Anyone want a peanut?

I persuaded my parents to make Steak Diane. Rather than measure the brandy with a tablespoon we poured some brandy in a coffee cup and thence into the skillet. The resulting flare up was more than spectacular! I was truely terrified that the house would catch afire!

Those work even better if you take the regulator off... give it a try.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
After getting one of these to light my wood-burning smoker, I've used it a couple times to start brush piles.

It's pretty awesome. Have to not just let anybody run it....

My 16 y.o. nephew (adopted from Russia as a baby and always a discipline problem) decided it was a good idea to start a fire with gasoline in the neighbors backyard with his 16 y.o. buddy. This was after being warned several times not to by his father. And also at 1:00 am when everyone was in bed.

The predictable happened and he suffered severe burn on his hands and face. But, not wanting to admit his mistake, he cleaned himself up and went to bed! When Mom saw him in the am, it was right to the ER. Doc said if he had come in the night before, he would have been admitted. Treated and released but will have scarring. Lesson learned? Don't know...

Going back to the fall of '68. I was working at a Mobil gas station. We were uber cool there, while everyone else's station uniforms were brown, gray or blue we had white shirts with a round Pegasus patch on the right shoulder. Also, as a sidebar one button the Coke machine had a out of order sign on it. Of course it worked, that contained the Hamm's Beer.

So anyhow, we are working on my friend Craig's 60 Impala one night. We swapped a 283 over from a 235 6 cylinder. Trying to get it to start unbeknownst to us the distributor was off, we thought it was timed right.

So as us being dumbass teenagers we are pulling and stabbing and cranking it over. And of course the usual pouring gas down the carburetor together with it splashing on the shirts. Well it almost started, now we are suspecting the fuel pump is bad. So while Craig is cranking it I'm pouring a trickle of gas down the carburetor. It backfires, nice tall flame. I jump back, gasoline soaked arm and guess who's shirt starts burning? Yep. One of the other guys throws a jacket on my arm,flames out. But that sleeve was nicely browned.........

The Army has immersion heaters to heat water. We’re talking garbage pail size. They are gas fed with a nipple that drops burning gas. The trick is to get a draft going so you have circulation. Soldiers, instead of following directions, would spill some gas into the bottom and drop a match in. Usually, they’d be looking down the pipe. The resulting flash would result with a face burned in a perfect circle.
Being the company safety officer I would get throughly ticked.

The proper technique is listed on that back of charcoal starter fluid cans, among other places. My father was a fireman at one point, I can't imagine not knowing fire safety practices. It was drilled into me, sometimes with a belt.

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Originally posted by Icabod:
The Army has immersion heaters to heat water. We’re talking garbage pail size. They are gas fed with a nipple that drops burning gas. The trick is to get a draft going so you have circulation. Soldiers, instead of following directions, would spill some gas into the bottom and drop a match in. Usually, they’d be looking down the pipe. The resulting flash would result with a face burned in a perfect circle.
Being the company safety officer I would get throughly ticked.

Those things and the M2 burner units we cooks used, used to scare the shit out of me. I had an M2 leak gas and catch fire on me while cooking in the field in Germany. Fun times.

Just an FYI, ranchers use diesel or a "pear burner" to light brush fires...