For those of you who might be interested in the air cannon I fired, I worked many years to build a gun/cannon that I could shoot out of my 1944 WC63 Dodge 3-axle open cab weapons carrier as I cruised the ranch. I did not want to scatter garbage around as I did so. After years of trial and error, I found a reasonable solution. Bird seed in melted wax (both very heavy) in a mold. If I leave a projectile on the workbench the mice will make it disappear. If I use one of the projectile molds with a deeper hollow center, I can pack a little flour in it and pour a thin wax cap over it (still leaving a little hollow at the rear end) to catch the air charge'. That is what you see coming out of the 2 in. bore air cannon I fired in the u-tube video. I've got it to where I can fire it every 5 seconds. When it hits it shatters into thousands of little pieces.The other day II counted 17 piles of bear cr_ p in the road between my gate and my cabin. I am hoping to keep them a little further off without really hurting them.

I had a friend question me about the large cal. air gun/cannon in the picture. It took me many years to of playing around until I got it to a easily usable point (much better than in the VIDEO). Question was, what can I use for projectiles without lobbing junk all over the ranch. I finally figured it out. Make mold of projectile, pour in hot wax, pour in as much bird seed as you can get in, Bird seed and wax are both heavy enough to carry well over distances. If I leave one of these projectiles on the work bench, the mice will eat them up. The bird seed also makes great shrapnel as the wax shatters on impact. If you make for a hollow mold you can fill the center with flour and drill a little hole in the back and it leaves the trail you see in the video. This is legal, mounted in the rear of my 1943 WC63 1.5 ton DODGE open cab three axle weapons carrier. I'm not looking to kill anything, just have some fun on those trips through the ranch. Anyway, back to the 2U. I think I have decided to at least try to fire it up. Even if I can succeed in only "fireing" up the pony, I could sell it or even put that nice elect start pony set up on my hand crank 8R. At 72 yrs. I am "likeing" elect start more and more. Anyway, back to the DEAD 2U. If the 2U started I still cringe at the thought of working my way up that road. There is simply no space to abandon the machine if it died in the "road". It is about ten miles of bad road to get around to the opposite side of the 2U to start pulling it back down and no wide space down there either. It makes me cringe and I ask myself if it is worth it.

Sorry about that, I thought the first one didn't go so I just did it over.

Our friend 7upuller aka Glen Ghilotti would have been impressed. He had propane “machine guns” in his army tanks. Very realistic sound; he came up one year to a local benefit truck show once; fueled by some Coors Silver Bullets, his crew raced the tanks with the propane guns blaring; someone called the local fuzz on them, it was hysterical, as the local PoPo raced back and forth trying to find the source of gunfire.(Never even noticed the tanks;kinda out of place, no?). Good times. JM

Floyd,
Did you ever get back to the dead 2U to see if it would come to life?