pot de fer ?

[aapch1]

Does anyone make a pot de fer? Know where to get one? What size would the bore be on one of these babies?

 

[TheDoubleD]

Didn't the make one for a Mythbusters episode.

 

[Bob Riegl]

Pardon my intrusion I think the expression you are looking for is "pot du feux", hasty translation---"pot of fire". :hmm: "Doc"

 

[Jumpshot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-de-fer

 

[Bob Riegl]

Reckon'I might stand corrected according to Wikipedia and the use of "fer" for a canon barrel. However "Pot de feux" is a term I used to speak of a pot of fire a/k/a early fire grenade. The term "petard" , a form of pot de feux refers to another earlier form of thrown munitions, in which a fuse was added to provide an explosion on arrival. The unreliability of early fuses often caused an explosion whilst being heaved,, killing the "grenadier". This gave rise to the expression of "t'was hoist by his own petard." "Doc" :hmm:

 

[KABAR2]

That is more mis-information a Petard was a breeching devise that would be attached to a gate to gain entry to a castle or fortress..... usually done under fire.... it was a device that was bell shaped and had fastening points along the rim.... it would be manhandled up against the door or gate and held there with poles while large spikes fastened it to the structure to be breeched and yes once in a while it was either short fused or they had a bad fuse that fired too quick and that IS where the expression "hoisted by your own petard" came from these were used by engineer troops not Grenadiers