Thought you guys might enjoy this

[RedFeather]

Caught a show this morning called The Re-Inventors, courtesy of the Smithsonian Channel. Two guys trying to build a double-barreled canon for firing chain shot. If it weren't so scary it would have been funny. I think this could be a sticky for what not to do, on several levels.
http://www.clicker.com/tv/the-re-inventors/double-barreled-cannon-1152030/

PS - I plan to email Smithsonian about this particular show. Lots of very dangerous stuff you wouldn't want others to try.

 

[msuspartan]

Amazing what people put on the television for what ever reason. Cannot fathom the depths of idiocy that people go to when trying something out with so called 'experts'.
Amazing...... :surrender:

Cheers, DonK

 

[F.G. Ford]

How do you get through the BS to see the "double barrel" cannon?

 

[hawkeye2]

That has been tried before without much success. It gets real interesting when one barrel goes off a milisecond before the other one!

 

[pargent]

Where do these guys get these ideas from chain shot was always fired from a single barrel, to bring down the rigging of an oposing ship. :rotf:

 

[KABAR2]

they get their ideas from history..... the Civil War to be exact..... I could not view the video but will assume they had as much sucess as the original crew had with theirs......during the origial test they murdered a cow and damaged a cabin...... cannon can still be seen today down in Georgia....
http://ngeorgia.com/ang/Athen's_Double_Barrel_Cannon

 

[Rifleman1776]

It wouldn't open for me but kept leading me to other sites that wanted me to upload other stuff and/or pay $32.99 for the video.
That was plenty scary even without the cannon. :shocked2:

 

[bangfxr]

Couldnt get it to go at all.
I had read somewhere that there was an inventer who thought that the double barrel cannon using cannon balls with a length of chain was the idea for the confederacy to use against union infantry. I think there is one still serviving and is in Georgia. From what I'd read it was a deadly desaster as they could only get one barrel to fire at a time and what a mess for the crew.