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now let's blow some stuff up with ordnance lab hey guys dustin here and we are in south texas now and
we're branching out the top shot tree service sean with ordnance lab has well ordinance yeah legit
ordinance we're going to go out here and do some uh destroying the trees i've seen you shoot it all
kind of with all kinds of different weapons and whatnot but now it's time to do things differently
we'll try it again with legit ordinance like a pipe bomb we'll also be using a hand grenade and
kind of showing that hey grenades and ordnance are really not that effective for taking out
trees compared to actual real explosives and so what we're doing is we'll be trying some deck cord
tnt some uh it's a dynamite equivalent and some other stuff that my business partner jake who's
the mad scientist and makes all this magical stuff happen i like this to see the booms and
how it happens some how the magic of how it occurs kind of makes me go to sleep sometimes uh i'm not
really in the technical part but we'll be showing y'all a couple of different types of explosives
and making some booms couldn't ask for more let's blow stuff up let's do it so what we have here is
det cord wrapped around a tree and i i tell you it looks pretty promising to me yeah and this
right here is this regular 50 grain deck cord that you use for a lot of different things we can get
into what you can use all the different things of decor can be used for both as an explosive um for
in for taking out things used for breaching and also for initiating other charges but right now
we've got about um i'd say about 30 40 bucks worth of debt cord wrapped around here this is where
um cutting down trees with deck cords a lot of folks seem to think that folks do that regularly
but it's really inefficient for doing that much easier to use a chainsaw but um you can use a
machine gun yeah well it's a field expedient way of doing it so what we'll do is we'll see if this
right here is able to take down the tree on its own i'm a little bit skeptical whether it's going
to do it i think we'll have better luck with the tnt charges of dynamite but we've got it rigged up
here for with a electric blasting cap so we'll get back a couple about a 200 meters and set it off
and see what happens it's gonna be a fun day oh it is so for our friends at the bureau of alcohol
tobacco firearms and explosives make sure that we're showing that we're properly segregating our
explosives we got our our whole big old bag of fun right here big box of fun with a bunch of uh ready
prime and tnt charges that we'll party with later on but so we'll grab our blasting cap and you
want to of course make sure that you keep your cap segregated from your explosives um again the odds
of an explosion occurring are extremely remote or an accidental explosion going off is extremely
remote but you still want to make sure that you um take all the precautions so we have right here
there are electric blasting cap and we'll go ahead and rig that up to the wire and get things ready
to go all right it's ready to go whenever you are oh sweet i am ready and ready fire in the hole
didn't fall though nope looks like what didn't work we'll go out there and check it out though
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it's more red flames than i thought i thought it was going to be kind of a cleaner you know not so
gratifying but i like the red flames that was cool well that was a lot of noise for what looks like
could have done with a machete yeah so it really damaged the tree quite a bit but you didn't get
the effect of it like taking it out and this is a good example of how like wood can actually survive
pretty well against explosives and i mean the tree obviously did not have a good time
but it didn't knock it down and i guess technically it could be dead with all that
bark stripped off i'm sure that in your audience there's probably uh arboriology it's all about
xylem and phloem yeah cut off that one i'm sure there's someone in the comments section that can
tell us like whether the tree is going to make it or not but this we satch is just a god forsaken uh
uh plant that grows everywhere and so i've seen it survive all kinds of crazy things typically
whenever we blast them out we'll get the whole root system out and that'll kill it off but we'll
see that with some of the other charges for our grenades we've got one here's an american style
m67 fragmentation grenade this is a standard us military issue we have a polish style uh grenade
right here that is a lot heavier and we could go into it we spent all day long talking about
grenades and all that stuff but for the purpose of this right here we're going to show basically
that explosive ordnance really doesn't do that good on trees now the original plan is we were
going to get this m67 we're going to use this m213 fuse this is the same fuse the military uses we're
going to be all cool we're going to fill it up with explosives run up there you know pull the pin
throw the grenade and then oh yeah of course and run away like on monty python away from the killer
rabbit but um we weren't going to be able to place it correctly and have all the safety protocols we
want to have so in lieu of us throwing the grenade what we're going to do is we're going to take this
russian grenade or sorry the polish grenade and we're going to fill it up with a liquid
binary explosive and put the blasting cap in there screw it down in there and then we'll do a command
detonation and we'll put it in the right spot but again whenever you get into throwing grenades
and whatnot you lose that safety that you get whenever you have a command detonation so we'll
fill this up with the equivalent of tnt um again we for us it's simpler to use a binary explosive
versus filling it up with like tnt or something else that we have to get the transport issues
but about the same results yeah it's going to be the same level of energy but the goal with this
right here is to show that hey explosive ordnance is not really good for taking out trees but it's
still fun yes it is so we'll get out there we'll fill it up with explosives and put it in place
and set her off so we'll stick her in here so we got it going in a hole yeah so we're going to try
to uproot this puppy yeah so i've got it sitting in there now and so it's just going to sit there
whenever it detonates and again this right here be a will probably show that it really doesn't
do much it's going to damage it but it's not going to send like the tree flying or anything like that
but who knows we'll see what happens goals though symmetry flying grenade fire in the hole
a lot of black smoke on that one tree's still standing i still had fun
i had two jobs and i should just stick with one job i was supposed to push the charge
destroy button and then i was supposed to stop the high speed i didn't stop high speed having
too much fun we tore some mess up though yeah it still caused damage and you got some fragmentation
right here that hit it um so that got chipped out this is real hard packed south texas clay so it's
made it softer here we're able to get in here a little bit deeper uh broke up the ground but
it didn't cause catastrophic damage it did damage this root system right here
so it took that out and it got some more damage up in here it looks like stripped all the bark
off yeah so it caught it did cause damage to it but it wasn't something that went in there and
would have actually knocked it out so you can't go out there with a you know a bunch of hand grenades
just throw them at trees and hope that they'll uh get blasted out but we'll try right now is we'll
go ahead and try next with a pipe bomb and see how that works sweet so we have it's more of a bush
it's a small tree but another hole but on the other side of the berm so we're plenty safe yeah
because these right here we'll throw fragmentation out there's a recommended 300 meter standoff with
these from the military because it will actually throw chunks of metal flying out it's a really
unpredictable weapon it's really weird with pipe bombs like you could be standing next to it and be
totally unscathed except for whatever like injury from the explosion but you could be a hundred
meters away and you could get hit by a chunk of metal flying out of the sky so what we did right
here is we're going to be on the opposite side of the berm so that any fragmentation is going to
go out this way and we don't have to worry about that and hopefully it'll do some it's going to do
some damage because we actually got a pretty good amount of explosives in there we got about a pound
of a tannerite equivalent and so we'll see what happens with it we'll light it off
and run away and make a boom all right all right let's do it all right y'all ready
go for it hold on to your butts okay there we go ignition here we there he go
i'll stop the camera
i see lots of fresh dirt clods yeah oh is that shrapnel yep oh that's a cool souvenir
that's pretty cool so we can see some of the threads it tore the face of it off again but
boy it did some damage hard dirt i mean this was more of a you can see the fragmentation
coming off of this right here jake did a great job with the explosive it's still hot and it's one of
those things that uh i have learned my lesson multiple times about like well that's cool and
then do the hot potato hot potato hot potato thing oh it's all over yeah so and it did really well um
this explosive right here it's uh that tannerite has a more of a push and effect and so whenever it
work that works really well it's similar to anfo and it works really well for blasting out trees
it's what we using um normally if we were to pick out or pick out the perfect explosive to use for
it would be these types of explosives that have more that push and effect than a shattering effect
they say to remove trees but here's our tree so how would you change that up well
this right here that's where you'll be using the explosives instead of an explosive weapon
like this right here the explosives are great for it but it's contained in there and it's with the
pipe that right there um limits its effect compared to as an explosive versus a weapon
but you can also see how crappy of a weapon it would be you've got all this fragmentation that
didn't actually leave right and go flying out so that's what i was saying before that we're
a pipe bomb it's just a really crappy weapon and it's totally unpredictable for what it can do i
heard some it sounded like we had some pieces go flying off and um so i'm sure that there's
something that landed way far away but you still have all these fragments that would have been
great for a casualty producing weapon that had these gone flying out there um they could have
seriously injured folks if that's what you're looking to do and they're just sitting here
around it hmm interesting yep now this tree lives on yeah oh it gets a reprieve because we're gonna
uh do some more stuff with it but let's move on to testing out some actual explosives now okay thanks
for joining us for part one of our explosives versus tree video guys it ended up being well
over 30 minutes so we're like we better cut this up into two but come back when we use tnt we use
dynamite we use decor tnt and dynamite and their own mixture of gemini explosives to be able to
blow those trees to kingdom come and go check out ordinance lab and their collection of explosive
videos as well remember to hit notifications so you see part two okay i love you bye