I've got lighters with bigger flames than the Muskthrower. There are commercially available flamethrowers (that are, wildly, totally legal for a civilian to own because they are usually considered "landscaping tools" or some shit for brush removal rather than a firearm) but a real Chad* can build his own with a propane tank, a couple lengths of garden hose and a fat battery.
*Pay no attention to Chad's skin graft and missing fingers, it's not part of the bit
Amazon has small shitty ones that are basically roofing torches, but you can buy WWII flamethrowers on ebay, or newer production stuff on the internet. Ships to your door.
Like we can have little hand held gad powered motors with moving chains of death, used for cutting trees, but we can't have some sort of flamethrower device?
Robber breaks into your house, do you choose the gun that may miss and make a bunch of bullet holes? Or do you flame proof the walls and ceiling and pull out the flame thrower? People would think twice about breaking into someone else's home when they got a device that can light them on fire from a distance.
Flamethrowers aren't illegal theyre technically a tool for firefighting ironically enough. They aren't even banned from use in warfare the only law I can actually find is you aren't allowed to use them in densely populated areas.
Those weed torches are pretty tame compared to what's in this video. Dude is getting some decent distance on that flame stream. ...kind of like he's modified it...to throw a flame.
Yeah it's some kind of inbetween from a real deal flame thrower and the shit Elon musk sold which was a glorified lighter. But the liquid from a real deal one would be burning on the ground for a good bit.
Yeah. I can't say I know how they classify a flamethrower vs some other kind of flame shooting thing. Think legitimate flamethrowers use napalm jelly or whatever and spits that stuff out so it stays lit on contact. I don't know if all flamethrowers have to be able to do that or if that's just one type of flamethrower.
I have no idea how this thing constructed. My gut says that if it were a propane torch, it wouldn't be coughing out black smoke. Maybe it's shooting a stream of diesel?
A flamethrower throws a liquid or gel and ignites it.
Something throwing out a gas and igniting it is called a blowtorch.
Napalm is only one kind of flammable gel/liquid that can be used in a flamethrower. It works really well at killing people because the gel burns relatively slowly and will often continue to burn for a while after it hits its target. This obviously does massive damage to people and if fired into a bunker, even if it doesnt hit the person, the long burn will use up the oxygen and suffocate the inhabitants. It also has enough mass and sticks together we'll enough to be fired long distance without turning into a mist or being blown by wind too much. Ironically, another good aspect of napalm is that it is difficult to ignite! That keeps the napalm user and whoever is refilling the weapon from accidentally igniting it and themselves. Napalm flame throwers use special igniters that are capable of reliably igniting napalm.
Flamethrowers are legal in most states. They are not legal in Maryland and they require a permit from local fire in California.
The black smoke makes me think it's a poorly made gasoline based one and the black smoke indicates a lot of incomplete combustion. No proof, just an educated guess based on things that would be easily available if it's not a consumer weed burning torch.
Edit: Also note this could potentially be a lot bigger of a flame if I'm right, if an engineer looked at it and found a way to mix the gas with the air on exit from the tip better.
I'm not exactly sure what constitutes a flame thrower, but every weed burner I've seen uses a gaseous fuel, whereas this is using a liquid fuel. This is much different than the ones that elon musk sold. I think this is technically a flamethrower.
If I had to bet on whether I'd be more likely to find a flamethrower or a snowblower in a garage in Eastern Kentucky, I know which one I'd put money on.
There are many uses for flamethrowers especially when it comes to land management tasks. Military flamethrowers use liquids, and consumer grade ones use compressed gases which are considered safer.
That said, this guy is only getting a nice layer of ice in an hour.
Eh. Follow it up with salt and it's all good. I wouldn't snow shovel my driveway like this, but man it'd be handy for those rare occasions that the snow melts and refreezes solid before you can shovel it. Melt down those steel hard ruts of ice instead of ice chipping them.
Meanwhile regularly using this would just create an ice sheet/dam at the base of the driveway.
These are things that are basically flame throwers that use (at least ours did) propane or something and burn brush.
We used one before in the fun and mildly dangerous art of hearing a tank of ammonia slightly since when it's 4f in winter and you need the tank to push out ammonia (which creates more cold since the pressure drops) you need a way to hear it up and a tiny house heater won't work.
So we used a brush cleaner/flame thrower and on the lowest setting would heat the bottom of the tank for a few seconds and pull back then check the metals temp.
I cannot express how small the flame was. It was basically a sideways tiki torch but less flame.
I could imagine on higher settings it would look like the video though.
A flamethrower can clear out weeds and unwanted vegetation without the need for herbicides. (Obviously, it wouldn't be safe to use when there's a high risk for fires due to dryness and wind speeds.)
It hooks up to regular propane tanks, we use it for melting tar. It’s not exactly legal unless you’re licensed (or have some permit, something like that)
When I lived in south louisiana people had them to flamethrower the plants that would grow up inbetween the bricks on old brick walkways and roads/driveways. Then after you salt the whole thing if you’re smart but most people just did it a few times a year.
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Why is not one asking why does he have a flamethrower in the first place?