Cutting a small propane bottle

A little off topic here, other than fires and cans of burnable stuff:

I bought an old farm a few years back and as normal on old farms, there is lots of old shzt. We had about 8 old gallon cans of paint--most were so old that they didn't even have labels. But oil paint.

My boys and I were burning some construction waste from remodelling the house and had a brainstorm to place the cans of paint, one at a time, into the fire, carefully set upright, so they had time to heat before blowing the lid off in the hottest part of the fire.

It was great fun! We didn't know what we would get. Some were duds, kinda poof, cloud of smoke, and a burning can of old crap. But a couple blew open and created perfect fireballs about 10 feet around. One was some kind of aluminum paint and just made a nice circle of aluminum spray on the grass around the fire.

Jon. Off to try shooting propane bottles or something.