Rick check it out
stop is it loaded I don't know it's a
flamethrower I think it is a
flamethrower
it's an m9a1 flamethrower from Vietnam
and its operational oh my god
the flamethrower is an m9a1 flamethrower
from Vietnam this is late 60s it's been
civilian eyes to make it safer so
customers can go out in the desert and
shooters the flamethrowers itself about
4,500 dollars did the soldiers hate
carrying this because it was like
walking around with like a bomb on your
back the early ones were but the later
models wasn't much of an issue you also
have to remember like places like he
would Jima in the Pacific campaign
Marines use flamethrowers a pretty good
success because the Japanese were
entrenched many times in caves
many times you couldn't get him out of
holes and things and so the flamethrower
operators would walk up find the
entrance and shoot the flamethrower
inside and it would clear it what were
these things built with napalm it was a
mixture of diesel gasoline and a
thickness damn flamethrowers are really
fun
they're certainly dangerous and they're
not to mess around with but a world war
2 flamethrowers are sort of where you
want to be as a collector but they're
expensive and they're hard to maintain
but a good Vietnam one it's still
worthwhile to a collector does this
thing work it does work ok now there's
legal issues here and I'll address them
most states in the u.s. allow these
especially heavy agriculture states like
the Midwest because the farmers still
use them to clear old crop but typically
they're filled with diesel fuel
something more stable than they pump and
they're considered farm equipment ok how
much is something like this this is
about $4,500 I'd love for him to shoot
it hell yeah I want to shoot that thing
a flamethrower now that's pretty cool I
just hope that after Chum shoots the
flamethrower I'll still be alive to make
the deal
this will shoot a wall of fire 30 yards
already that's it not just stop pretty
bad
I was over too soon
is that it that was the most terrifying
thing I've ever experienced in my life
let me tell you what was home over here
let's take this thing off cause we're
definitely gonna have to buy this bad
boy
Alex I love it what do you think I mean
if it works great
it works great no it's badass it is
badass and it's why they don't make them
anymore you know it's it was terrifying
it was fairly efficient it was pretty
useful in World War two by the time
Vietnam came along you know after that
the US military stopped making them and
decommissioned all the ones that were
there
so it's model n9 it's Vietnam era it is
more or less original parts the the
parts that need to be replaced because
of function and safety have been the
wand is reproduction which is common for
flamethrowers they're actually being
used because the Vietnam wands are very
rare and hard to find rot I know when
you told us about the value you said
4500 and I'm going to do something I
rarely do is actually say I think you're
wrong I think the value is quite a bit
higher almost double I've seen these
sell in this condition and this
functionality for I would say a minimum
8 grand and sometimes more so I think
you're being really generous all right
so you know what he said 4500 he said
it's worth like 8 grand
can we just sell a 5 grand you being a
Vegas guy for sure we can do it all
right sweet vibrant
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