Potato Cannon Blast Through Wall

[Digixcam]

This self-made cannon with potatoes as its ammunition has enough firepower to blast through a concrete wall. War would have been so much better with such weapons.

Potato Cannon Video

 

[theGlove]

Originally posted by: Digixcam
This self-made cannon with potatoes as its ammunition has enough firepower to blast through a concrete wall. War would have been so much better with such weapons.

Potato Cannon Video

yawn

 

[FlakPanzer]

Awesome.

 

[mobobuff]

I'm fairly sure they were firing wooden planks, not potatoes.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

me and my friends have built a canon also, it has piezo electric ignition just one click makes a 50K volt spark jump between the 2 screws we have in the combustion chamber. works with deoderant (lynx is best) and u used butane gas....

from 60ft my friend got hit in the back...he went down lol he said it was like being thumped in the back.

its no joke, what started as a bit of fun has grown into something that can easily seriously injure someone.

haha ours is portable....you can hold it in one hand terminator style

out previous cannon was air powered...but after taking it up to 120PSI the pressure reader thing popped off

plus blowing it up with a big hand pump was a PITA

 

[crab]

It shoots 2x4s.

 

[Calin]

That's not a concrete wall - it's a brick wall, and a measly one I think (is used to fill the gaps between the wooden frame of the building).
A potato would be enough to do that.

 

[GasX]

That is a decrepid old brick wall not a concrete wall as advertised. BIG difference...