As Summer tends to dry things out in SWOK, the Wichita Mountains tend to retain quite a bit of green in those hills. It has been a pretty wet season so far. May and June offered some biblical storms that dropped massive hail and tons of rain across the region, it's almost unbelievable that we&a…
While I'm sure alcohol was involved, after all no sober, sane person thinks it's a good ideal to light an artillery shell in your garage with all the doors shut and locked. Well that's not entirely true, I think it's a GREAT IDEA!
There is no room for sloppiness when messing with fireworks... When you start doing stupid stuff with explosives, awesome happens. Try to catch it on video. Growing up, there was a story told to all of the kids about fireworks that had us all making cautious decisions about handling them from an earl…
One of the most useful old tools in the shop is getting some new tech. It'll make it cheaper to run, which means you can run it again. The Petrogen Multi-Fuel Adapter is the newest technology in the shop torch game. Instead of paying $400+ to refill my oxy-acetylene, I can save nearly half by sw…
First, let me state the obvious... this might just be the ultimate 'First World Problem.' I was working in the shop last night and needed to sharpen my pencil. A few years ago, I bought the most expensive sharpener that Walmart had on their shelves thinking "What's in a sharpe…
The best thing about summer has historically been hitting the open road with either A: your buddies, or B: your family. Though, it's not usually the journey you remember with your family, more or less it's the destination. I digress, road trips are a Summer tradition...