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Fireworks guru going after world record with 62-inch shell
https://www.steamboattoday.com/news...-going-after-world-record-with-62-inch-shell/
Borden will launch the 62-inch diameter shell, which weighs an estimated 2,400 pounds, a mile into the air for detonation. It will be traveling at 300 mph when it leaves the ground.
It will be lofted to one mile altitude and the burst will be about one mile in diameter.
Borden is a fireworks nut, who, for several years, through his bank, Yampa Valley Bank, has donated the fireworks for Winter Carnival.
Borden once bought the town of Lay, Colorado, so he could obtain a federal license to manufacture fireworks. Today, he manufactures the big shells at his Steamboat ranch.
Experts Jim Widmann and Eric Krug will come to Steamboat this month to begin building the 62-inch shell.
The job will take 12-hour work days over a three-week period.
The shell will be launched from a mortar tube. The engineering designs for the tube were 60 pages long. The basic tube was built in Washington, and Steamboat Springs welder Rollin' Stone did the finishing work.
Steamboat Springs welder Rollin Stone helped build the mortar tube that will be used to launch the 62-inch shell.
"I spent two weeks in there," Stone said. "It gets hot." The tube is 26 feet long, its walls are 2 inches thick, and it weighs seven tons.
In February 2017, he launched a 48-inch shell, which was the biggest shell ever launched in North America. The 48-inch shell which weighed 1,271 pounds:
The mortar for the 62-inch shell:
https://www.steamboattoday.com/news...-going-after-world-record-with-62-inch-shell/
Borden will launch the 62-inch diameter shell, which weighs an estimated 2,400 pounds, a mile into the air for detonation. It will be traveling at 300 mph when it leaves the ground.
It will be lofted to one mile altitude and the burst will be about one mile in diameter.
Borden is a fireworks nut, who, for several years, through his bank, Yampa Valley Bank, has donated the fireworks for Winter Carnival.
Borden once bought the town of Lay, Colorado, so he could obtain a federal license to manufacture fireworks. Today, he manufactures the big shells at his Steamboat ranch.
Experts Jim Widmann and Eric Krug will come to Steamboat this month to begin building the 62-inch shell.
The job will take 12-hour work days over a three-week period.
The shell will be launched from a mortar tube. The engineering designs for the tube were 60 pages long. The basic tube was built in Washington, and Steamboat Springs welder Rollin' Stone did the finishing work.
Steamboat Springs welder Rollin Stone helped build the mortar tube that will be used to launch the 62-inch shell.
"I spent two weeks in there," Stone said. "It gets hot." The tube is 26 feet long, its walls are 2 inches thick, and it weighs seven tons.
In February 2017, he launched a 48-inch shell, which was the biggest shell ever launched in North America. The 48-inch shell which weighed 1,271 pounds:
The mortar for the 62-inch shell:
