Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

no I live in a prime growing area too, but the rest of them have to pay lots of money for them

One of my dodgy mates had the 'great idea' of firing a billiards ball out of his spud gun... It was a real neat setup, tube steel with a push button BBQ lighter as an ignition, basically a lethal weapon no matter what you loaded it with.

I preferred to dabble in small arms, like the zippy gun, and no, not the one designed to fire real bullets. It was a short length of PVC tube with the cut off finger of a rubber glove taped to the end. Used to work great for shooting frozen peas, gravel etc, but Mum drew the line when she caught us firing mulberries at the neighbor's cat.

I thought the purple polka dots quite suited it...

Lighting fires......belting cats.......spud guns!!! This is not getting any better is it.

Reminds me of my best man who, as a 15 year old persuaded a South Australian university to loan him an industrial ruby which he used to make a rudimentary laser. When the police dropped by for a chat, Tony was using the laser to punch 25mm holes in the corrugated iron back fence......from about 20 metres away.

And then there was my Greek mate who, as a fourteen year old, built a pulse jet (a small crude jet engine) which he locked up in a bench vice for testing. At the precise instant that his father arrived home, the pulse jet was screaming like a banshee and the bench was doing some circle work in the middle of the shed........with six feet of fierce flame bursting from the red hot tailpipe of the pulse jet. Suffice to say, the flame burned everything with which it made contact......including all visible hair on old Evangelos.

The belting he got for that was only marginally worse than when the local gendarmerie called around to chat about his cross bow.........a vice-mounted job made from a car spring that put a 12'' bolt (with the head cut off) 2/3 of its length into the London Plane tree just outside his front gate.

You've given me a ripper laugh Gary!

GD, why wasn't i friends with your mates? it would have been like critical mass................each person alone emits dangerous ideas, but when brought together........................LOL

Ah The Potatoe Gun. What young mans childhood would not be complete with out trips to the store to buy spuds and hair spray.

We use to light ours off in the resivoir the deer use to come down and see what we were doing. Not so bright deer but then they had probably never heard a gun before.

At last, a use for chokoes and zucchinis !! Poor deprived kids just don't know how to have fun these days, do they ??