Yikes!

[crucialbunny]

Went out to my potting table today and discovered this. I use the large, shiny, metal bowl quite often to mix up my soils and left it sitting in the sun yesterday. Apparently the bowl worked like a magnifying glass and burned a hole right through the plastic bottle I left in it. I like to use this bowl because it cleans up so easily. There was a paper coffee filter in it that was scorched as well but luckily it was still wet. I really dodged a bullet. This bowl is going back in the kitchen. Lesson learned.

 

[TOKABIGONE]

Wow, that is a bit scary! Parabolic concentration of sunlight can get unbelievably hot, huh.

 

[MeEasy]

Reminds me of my first wife after sunning all day in my old aluminum jon boat while I was fishing. She ended up in the hospital with second n third degree burns and dehydrated. She looked like a cooked lobster

 

[TOKABIGONE]

Never take the sun for granted. It can hurt you in many ways if you are careless!

 

[TheKieftan]

I’d like to see what that bowl could do to an ant hill

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Man we sure seen alot of that MeEasy when folks float the rivers here first sunny warm, day.

 

[Farmbuck]

Where I live the sun is not strong enough to do this. Still got some white shit on the ground.