I was out exploring a little bit ago and found this in an old country house, initially my sister freaked out and thought it was Bomb so we stayed away and left quickly. Does anyone now what this could be? The wire coming from it was attached to the front door (luckily we didn’t go in that way) and it seemed the last person that lived there was a military personnel.

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Jeeeeesze... the only thing that's a bomb is this thread

...That's a five gallon bucket.

Was it hanging from the ceiling or something? If so, it could be a booby trap. If not, it could be used to alert the person living there by you knocking it over. Or maybe there's something inside the bucket.

Either way I don't think it is a bomb. It could just be someone fucking with you (and other people exploring).

Posted by adorb Either way I don't think it is a bomb. It could just be someone fucking with you (and other people exploring).

A crude 5 gal bucket Thermal Detonator!
Very dangerous...

Janky homemade paint mixer thing

its a deer / wildlife feeder

you put corn in it and it has a timer that spins a wheel and broadcasts the grain

a bomb, you guys don't know Jack...

Posted by 2Xplorations its a deer / wildlife feeder you put corn in it and it has a timer that spins a wheel and broadcasts the grain a bomb, you guys don't know Jack...

In Texas that's too small for anything 'cept chickadees

Hey guys I didn’t say that I thought it was a bomb :’) I knew it wasn’t, I just want to know what it is lol

Posted by Thats_abandoned I was out exploring a little bit ago and found this in an old country house, initially my sister freaked out and thought it was Bomb so we stayed away and left quickly. Does anyone now what this could be? The wire coming from it was attached to the front door (luckily we didn’t go in that way) and it seemed the last person that lived there was a military personnel. click to view

No you didn't think it was a bomb your sister did so you left quickly.

Some moderator should pin this thread in the Rookie Forum along with "should I bring a weapon", "where do I park my car" and other threads how to so everyone can benefit from the UER Internet learning process..


ITs DA BOMB!!!
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as someone who spent the majority of my teenage years building improvised explosive devices, I chuckled warmly when it was suggested that item was a 'bomb'.

I am still chuckling warmly.

Posted by 2Xplorations No you didn't think it was a bomb your sister did so you left quickly. Some moderator should pin this thread in the Rookie Forum along with "should I bring a weapon", "where do I park my car" and other threads how to so everyone can benefit from the UER Internet learning process.. ITs DA BOMB!!! 1. click to view

What is it? That picture is the closest thing I got to an answer from multiple sites, thanks man

Posted by Thats_abandoned What is it?

He mentioned it before in this thread, it's a wildlife feeder.
I reverse searched the image and found this product: https://www.walmar...r-6-5-Gal/34954729

Feeding wildlife and trolls disturbs the natural order!

Posted by Thats_abandoned What is it? That picture is the closest thing I got to an answer from multiple sites, thanks man

Nope, this is the closest thing you got to an answer:

Posted by 2Xplorations its a deer / wildlife feeder you put corn in it and it has a timer that spins a wheel and broadcasts the grain

Posted by Fleeting Feeding wildlife and trolls disturbs the natural order!

I don't think he is a troll, maybe he just has a reading disability or ? I don't know. I do know this is going to be hard to understand but wildlife "feeders" aren't really intended to feed the wildlife as the name implies, they are designed to drop a little bit of food so lazy slob hunters can attract wildlife to an area and can kill it.

Posted by Samurai as someone who spent the majority of my teenage years building improvised explosive devices, I chuckled warmly when it was suggested that item was a 'bomb'. I am still chuckling warmly.

I think most every geek in their teenage years experimented with this in some way.

About age 14, I found the Bomber's Bible* at a garage sale and it was all downhill from there.

The Bomber's Bible was a book from the early 1900s that had complete instructions for making everything from flash powder to TNP.

It was published under several names like: "Fortunes in Formulas" or "Henley's Formulas" to name a couple.

At a point after a near-miss with organic peroxides, I found phone phreaking and girls to be more interesting than bombs.

Jerry-rigged white tail corn slinger if you ask me. You'll see these all over the rural south east. Like Blackhawk implied though, everything is bigger in Texas

Maybe it's just cause I'm a dumb hick that's been around these all my life, but I'm really not seeing a bomb on this one.

And whoever asked if it was hanging to imply it might be a boobie trap or whatever, these things are supposed to be hung from trees. I get that it could be a counterbalance or that it'll hurt if it falls on your head, but there are a lot of other things that fit those criterion. So don't freak out if you see one outside a house or anything

IQ level in this thread has bottomed out

Just go back and get better pictures of the timer mechanism so we can determine what sort of bomb you found is it a command detonated device, an IED, a booby trap, a king size anti-personnel mine ?


also somebody should publish some links to those bomb making sites and docs, I have some 5 gallon buckets that would make perfect urbex explosive devices!

somebody should start a thread in the Rookie Forum:

"should I bring a bomb to a bando?"

or where should I park my bomb <>

or: can I hook my 9v battery up directly to the charge without using a shunt ?


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Posted by Radio2600 I think most every geek in their teenage years experimented with this in some way. About age 14, I found the Bomber's Bible* at a garage sale and it was all downhill from there. The Bomber's Bible was a book from the early 1900s that had complete instructions for making everything from flash powder to TNP. It was published under several names like: "Fortunes in Formulas" or "Henley's Formulas" to name a couple. At a point after a near-miss with organic peroxides, I found phone phreaking and girls to be more interesting than bombs.

none of this was because of any book or movie we watched... my friend Will's dad had a fucking arsenal at their house. As a result, he did his own reloading and had tons of gunpowder laying around. So after school or on the weekends, Will would get hold of some of it and the big kabooms would commence. All was going swimmingly until he got caught in one of his own blasts, a blast I felt almost a mile away. Will still bears the scars from that encounter, the shrapnel that he had in the bowl. So, since a good kaboom is too hard to walk away from, we moved to detonating wd40 devices... and experience that left me without facial hair for almost a month. In fact, in my 1988 school yearbook picture, I look really really surprised because I have no eyebrows- they had gotten burned off four days previously by a wd40 fireball.

Posted by Samurai none of this was because of any book or movie we watched... my friend Will's dad had a fucking arsenal at their house. As a result, he did his own reloading and had tons of gunpowder laying around. So after school or on the weekends, Will would get hold of some of it and the big kabooms would commence. All was going swimmingly until he got caught in one of his own blasts, a blast I felt almost a mile away. Will still bears the scars from that encounter, the shrapnel that he had in the bowl. So, since a good kaboom is too hard to walk away from, we moved to detonating wd40 devices... and experience that left me without facial hair for almost a month. In fact, in my 1988 school yearbook picture, I look really really surprised because I have no eyebrows- they had gotten burned off four days previously by a wd40 fireball.

Finding the Henley's book was a lucky find. We were blowing stuff up for years before that. That just moved us up the expertise chain. When the other kids were still packing powder into pipes, we had TNP (aka picric acid).

I started on my own too, but in NYC gun powder is hard to come by. Emptying out fireworks to get powder was the usual route. Fireworks are totally illegal in NYC, bur are easy to get because every low-level thug is selling them starting right after Easter.

Some of the chemicals were easier to get than others. Cannon fuse was impossible to get, so we made our own which worked most of the time. Potassium nitrate was not available, but nitric acid and sulfuric acid were a little easier to find.

We'd shoot stuff off under the el so it would echo for miles, but be difficult to pinpoint the origin of the blast. That also put us in contact with the graffiti people. Our definition of "bombing" didn't quite mesh with their definition of "bombing".

Many years later at a wedding, the groom was well-known graffiti artist and he introduced me to his new wife as: "this is the firebomb guy I told you about."

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