Fanning The Flames
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Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “Call me old-fashioned but there’s nothing more romantic than snuggling up with that special someone in front of a real wheelbarrow fire. The adjustable-speed warm breeze blowing across your face… the intoxicating aroma of Kingsford lighter fluid drifting through the air… the hypnotic wail of distant fire engine sirens…
Trust me, sparks will fly.”
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Those tiny lights are the guys from the other country giving a negative response to: we need more duct tape.
obviously you cannot read well… they’re definitely saying: need more duct tape. duct tape is never enough.
To never get campfire smoke in your eyes again.
Cool flames?
Crank up the fan, grab that bottle of accelerant on the steps, wait for some unsuspecting slob to walk by downwind, and the fun begins. Stop, drop, and roll.
My bad, you said it first. Apologies to you!
not to be outdone, the next door neighbor of the fan-rotisserie owner folks kicks it up a notch.
Call me old-fashioned but there’s nothing more romantic than snuggling up with that special someone in front of a real wheelbarrow fire. The adjustable-speed warm breeze blowing across your face… the intoxicating aroma of Kingsford lighter fluid drifting through the air… the hypnotic wail of distant fire engine sirens…
Trust me, sparks will fly.
your hair’s on fire snugglepuss
The only thing missing is Snuggies and hot dogs. I’ll go get the buns…
oss, keep your hands to yourself.
“Baby, I love running my fingers through your all-burn… uh, *auburn* hair…”
Ash me why I love you dono
An impromptu, outdoor space heater….
I have that same fan, and it has two fans which can bet set to spin in either direction as well as in opposite directions, to create a little recirculation.
Wait a second… build a really big surround & turn that wheelbarrow bonfire into a giant smoker! Now I know what to do with all the roadkill!
Great! I’m in the mood for groundhog!
♫♫♫ Groundhogs roasting on an open fire ♫♫♫
Since it has a wheel, you can use the wheelbarrow to, er, turn the roadkill into roadkill in the first place. Just need good aim, or willing creatures.
I think the fan is there to blow the smoke away from people sitting on the bench seen in the back ground. Nothing ruins a fire side cookout like getting smoke in your eyes. Gives me a idea for my next tube steak cookout.
Any way I can think of keeping people away from the BBQ, the more for me, that’s my motto. Pesky kids just keep wanting us to feed ‘em. Like, EVERY DAY, even.
Damn kids. They should just learn to be hunter\gatherers. “Go fend for yourselves rugrats!”
Um. You guys missed something in PosterGrampa’s post. If you feed tube steak to children, I think Chris Hansen would like to talk to you. Just have a seat over there.
What you don’t see is the real “beauty” of this kludge. This is actually a homemade flamethrower, and there are 3 guys with cans of hairspray on the left.
Hmmm…can of lighter fluid behind fan. Teenage boy takes can and sprays into fan from behind…how fast will middle aged woman get up from her chair?
As long as the wood in the wheelbarrow is heavier than the fan attached to the handles, this might be stable (though I wouldn’t extend that stability to the fire builder, this is a cock-eyed setup). But by the time the wood weighs less, there is a real chance that the weight of the fan could tip this thing over backwards. Then, as they say, the shit will hit the fan.
Pause to visualize the slow tilt of embers into the plastic housing of an electrical device, and the rapid distribution of said embers and ash. . .
so whats wrong with that….
I’ve used a leaf-blower to get a fire going… it works great!
I bet that fire went.
You should try small bits of wood and paper next time. Easier to light than a leaf blower and much less expensive.
Next time, try a gas-powered leaf blower. They go up even faster than the electric ones.
This makes me wish I had a pic of our old ghetto fire pit aka barbecue with the legs cut off.
The flames roared higher with the fan strapped to the wheelbarrow…giving the participants all the help they needed to see the world’s largest litebrite display to it’s completion.
Ghetto mobile flamethrower.. Well mobile until the ext cord runs out or the lighter fluid does.
So I was running down the street with my good old fashion wheelbarrow campfire and I realized, I could just use that fan over there to fan the flames and I wouldn’t get sparks in my hair. Only problem now is my wheelbarrow tire is melting.
Props to these guys. I hate it when I am walking my fire around in a wheelbarrow and smoke gets in my eyes. Next time I am using a fan to blow the smoke away from me.
This reminds me of when we duct-taped a coper pipe to the output of a vacuum cleaner and shoved the other end in the coals of the fire. MAN those flames went high!!!
a n d… I see how you earned your name!
This brings new meaning to the term “hobo fire.”
When the cops tell you ‘move along’, at least you can take your fire with you!
Now introducing our new product Rusted old fire lighted with the fan. Or ROFL WTF. Using such slogans as “This item’s so hot it needs to be cooled down.” and “Now you can look like a hobo and feel like one too with the authentic need for tetanus shots!”
Again, if Billy Mays was alive, he’d sell it!
If he could yell it, he could sell it.
Twin Peaks recut: Fire Walk With Me – or I’ll walk with you in the wheelbarrow.
This looks like a post-Apocalypse zombie squasher and toaster!
My horse needs new shoes and i’m not paying those uppity blacksmith prices. I’m making my own.
Notice the christmas lights and the plastic tarp covering something (porch maybe?)
“It’s christmas day in alabama, last year we burnt down the porch frying the turkey. This year we’re going to roast it in a pile of rust and charcoal.”
Ok I’m crazy now. (like I wasn’t before?) But I’m finding the whole fire-in-a-wheel barrow thing rather appealing. Come on, its a mobile fire pit! You could easily move and park it any where you want in the yard and when the fire is done and the wood is all ashes, it’ll be easy to roll it over to where ever you need to dump the ashes. Although I would definitely do with out the fan rig. :p
Park Ranger: Sorry, you cannot have a fire here.
Squeak-squeak.
-How about here?
Keep moving, sir.
Wind chills in the single digits across the South, and the stores are sold out of space heaters. So what’s wrong with it?
Upon seeing this, my thought was to turn the fan around, put it on high, add another wheel or two, and have a rocket-powered wheelbarrow.
It saddens me that you require BBQ lighter fluid to start a fire. FOR SHAME!
wtf