Garden shed explosion--stored gasoline

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Garden shed explosion video shows why it’s important to store gas cans safely during summer - National | Globalnews.ca

"A British fire service has released dramatic footage of a garden shed explosion, which is acting as a reminder to homeowners to ensure gas containers are stored safely.

The video was captured by a home security camera in West Yorkshire and shows the roof and walls of the shed being blown off before flames quickly ignite."


Bruce

 

[Wagtail]

Oooooh... that's a shame.

They love their garden sheds in the UK. There's a yearly competition for the best one too, although mostly they've converted it into a wee pub. :drink:

Shed of the Year 217: the finalists revealed - Gardening

 

[daugen]

wow, quite the video, and didn't take long to get fully involved.
Member here had his gasoline lawn mower just catch on fire in his shed/garage, burned the whole thing down, 70 grand worth of damage.

This is why i have gone to diesel where I can, tractors and big mower. But we all have gasoline around, you have to unless
you have gone full electric. That probably isn't too far off either.

 

[Spanner]

Boom! wow, a tragic loss of Garden Machinery.

I loved the concept of British Garden Sheds. Their gardens are usually very small. The shed is equally small and located at the far end of the garden. Similar to a Man Cave. Somewhere with a workbench and some shelves & drawers where you can go and 'potter about' with your hobby or project and leave everything knowing when you came back it would all be just as you left it ready to continue work... Nobody is going to 'tidy up' while you're away for the day.

Then you can decorate/personalise/customise following a theme... A bar of some sort is ideal!! :drink:

 

[jimmyj]

Wow that's really something. Quite a blow up! Makes me realize I sometimes have gas cans in the wrong places, thanks for posting this.

 

[3930dave]

Many people get really lax with gas cans. Sometimes it is just ignorance, in the true sense of the word.

When a friend of mine bought a rural property, he negotiated the lawn tractor into the deal. Previous owner left gas cans for it, some of them not that old. Original owner was too lazy too replace the stopper/sealer caps on the stock funnels (threw them out), so basically all the cans were sitting open all the time - fortunately in a large open-sided shed.

A neighbour has a great pic he took coming out of Toronto one summer. Stuck in traffic, the SUV in front of him had about 5 gas cans strapped onto a receiver hitch platform. They'd lost the stopper for one can, so they just took a sandwich bag and screwed that down under the cap - of course, gas was seeping out the top of the can, enough that you could see it wet, even on a summer day.

I've seen comments on TBN about leaving gas can caps "loose" so they don't swell up too much. In a tight (well-sealed up) shed..... bad news right there. But obviously a stuck float on a machine or a cracked fuel line nobody noticed in time can be the cause too....

Good reminder..... and I'll borrow some other TBN'ers line about "remembering that 1/3 of a gallon of gasoline moves his 3500# car about 35 miles".

Rgds, D.

 

[daugen]

that got me to thinking Dave that a shell from the biggest battleships would be like that.
you just don't want to be around the muzzle...

 

[newbury]

Boom! wow, a tragic loss of Garden Machinery.

I loved the concept of British Garden Sheds. Their gardens are usually very small. The shed is equally small and located at the far end of the garden. Similar to a Man Cave. Somewhere with a workbench and some shelves & drawers where you can go and 'potter about' with your hobby or project and leave everything knowing when you came back it would all be just as you left it ready to continue work... Nobody is going to 'tidy up' while you're away for the day.
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I like the concept but in reality I prefer my version:

Nobody tidies up while I'm away either

 

[rd_macgregor]

Did somebody mention garden sheds and beer? This Aussie ad popped into my mind:
The Shed - Aussie beer advert - YouTube

With the (relatively) low alcohol content of beer, no shed explosions are likely.