What Causes Farmers’ Pants to Explode? | MythBusters | Discovery 

Mythbusters - the childhood show that sparked my interest in STEM. And remember, the difference between science and messing around is writing stuff down!

I am laughing so hard every time seeing mythbusters use a skull to smoke a cigarette. It is the best anti-smoking ad ever!😂

Farmers had been spraying sodium chlorate, a government recommended weedkiller, onto the ragwort, and some of the spray had ended up on their clothes. Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizing agent, and reacted with the organic fibres (i.e., the wool and the cotton) of the clothes.

Casually making ANFO on TV is awesome

"Frank, why are you standing so far away?" "I want to continue to live." "...Okay, next question: *why am I standing so close?!* 😂

I used to be a professional shotfirer (explosives tech in the mining industry) and there's nothing worse than the feeling when you have a gap in the con line... It's only ever happened to me on a couple of occasions, after thousands of successful blasts. And even though it's unlikely to go off, you have to go and disconnect the faulty line, which considering my entire career was using the "non electric" tied in method (meaning every hole is connected to the point of ignition), it's a spooky feeling to walk back into a loaded and tied in shot AFTER you've already hit the buttons. Especially when you're absolutely sure everything should have fired, because you've checked it several times and gone through the checklists. Like I said, I've only ever done it a couple of times, but I'll never forget the sinking feeling of doing it. Especially because the mine I worked in was one of the biggest gold mines in the world and it was right next to the town, so there was often hundreds of tourists and locals at the lookout watching the blasts scheduled for 1pm and 5pm almost every day.

Thee Ultimate Blast on M.B. was when they blew up the cement truck

Farming fertilizer is well known to be explosive, so combining that with the pesticide it's very feasible that the new pesticide cocktail caused a chemical reaction with an ignition followed by the fertilizer powder causing the boom.

Always just a little bittersweet to see Grant in these... The world misses you dearly, bud.

I remember watching this on TV.

ah, young adam savage. I LOVE these episodes!

These old episodes remind me why, as a young high school student, I had the biggest crush on Kari Byron 😍 She had the brains, the style, the wit and that moonbeam smile. The woman had it all for me and considering she's almost 50 now, I think she still does.

AWESOME ‼️👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

That was awesome! We need this show to come back.

Boombob farmpants isn't a happy camper..😂

i watched this when it was on tv

amazing science

Thanks for the clip, looking forward to seeing it disappear in a week like the episodes on the Mythbusters channel

You've heard of Liar Liar Pants on Fire, get ready for

Why do I think they where using nitro for fertilizers and turned there fabric into nitro cellulose, a.k.a. Gun cotton

think you guys missed on this one. the fertilzer and the herbicide

Lol I don't think that gun cotton provided any thrust.

What's the secret ingredient

I'm amazed that this video has already been up for a day yet nobody made any lewd jokes about exploding pants.

Alticide? (1940's weed killer)

He? Mhe? What's happening?

Rerun!

Ammonium nitrate + {redacted} +(-) {redacted} = ANFO Patents tell you alot

wait they said a weed killer is flamable who invented that bet they caused alot of arson

Jeremy Clarkson.

All it takes is a juicy fart and a small static spark ! 😝

Guys stop posting clips.... Mythbusters have a channel where they upload the whole episode...and they have most of them up already... go do something else