New Years Eve tradition......Carbide (acetylene gas) cannons

Achterhoek  tradition......Carbide cannons made from milk cans and carbide rocks + water = acetylene gas and soccer balls.

It's -2°C and foggy, air is thick with fog, smog, smoke, acetylene gas...

From about 1000 on New Years eve till, 0200, on New Years day, the Cloggies in the Achterhoek around Heelweg shoot off Carbide cannons made from milk cans.....one hell of an explosion that rattles windows, shakes the ground and will blow out
Yer eardrums
Doesn't seem to bother the sheep, but all the dogs are hiding.



Check out the video, they serious !
Some blokes go overboard.



 Free Grolsch.....big beugle bottles....with the stopper top.
 Achterhoek  flag on wooden clogs
 This is how i dress to ride when it is -2°C, many layers for warmth.
The bits on the end get cold, fingers, toes, eyeballs, ears and the end of me dick.  Am solving the problems, one at a time.....the snowboard goggles are great.  Look as dorky as hell, but I don't care.
Plenty heat, plenty Grolsch



Fun

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