[AT] Preachers and Dynamite?

[charlie hill]

Yep but that combination is sure to bring the FBI around these days.  That 
is what they use at the rock quarry here but of course it is all carefully 
monitored.  When I was a kid and up to I guess 20 years ago there was a 
country store about 15 miles from our farm.  You could just walk in there 
and ask tell the store keeper how much dynamite you wanted and he'd go out 
to the explosive storage shed and bring back what you ordered.  I went to 
high school with a kid who's father was a Chevrolet dealer and a state 
Representative.  His grandmother bought him a case of dynamite for Christmas 
every year and he set it off like the rest of us did firecrackers. 
Firecrackers were then and still are illegal in NC but apparently there was 
no problem with dynamite.

I have one more dynamite story.   I grew up in a town of about 900 people. 
Every year when I was a kid in the 50's a Gypsy clan would come through town 
and they always camped in the same field.
I remember seeing them from a distance but my folks wouldn't let me get to 
close to them.  I guess they were afraid I'd get stolen.  LOL.  Anyway, one 
year in the late 50's some teenage and early 20's guys in the neighborhood 
slipped out into the edge of the field where the gypsy camp was set up and 
put a whole case of dynamite up in the fork of a big tree, stuck a long fuse 
in it and took off.
When it went off it blew windows out of houses for miles around and the 
Gypsy clan never came back to town again.  Oh,  the tree didn't survive.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Dotson
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:29 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Preachers and Dynamite?

    Most common way for blowing ditches is with ammoniun nitrate and dieael
fuel. Also is sometimes used to open the hard crust for digging footers.

                    Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Preachers and Dynamite?


> Larry,  I remember well when I was a kid, farmers using what they called
> "ditching" dynamite fired in a sequence to blow ditches.  Apparently it
> was
> a particular grade of dynamite.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Larry Goss
> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 4:19 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Preachers and Dynamite?
>
> Oh my!  I've got to read through that manual very carefully.  It may mean
> that "Uncle Jim's" technique for cleaning irrigation ditches came straight
> from the Blaster's Handbook.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve W." <swilliams268 at frontier.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 1:06:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Preachers and Dynamite?
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> I used to work with a guy that was a graduate of the Colorado School of
>> Mines.  He graduated sometime in the early 70's I think.  We were working
>> as
>> cost engineers on a huge construction project
>> and never got a chance to talk much about mining but he gave me a copy of
>> the Dupont Blasters Handbook.  It's more than a handbook.  It's over 500
>> pages hardbound on how to rig charges, time sequential charges, etc.
>> It's
>> mostly over my head as I know almost nothing about explosives.  I keep
>> thinking I'll study it sometime but I've had it for 30 years and haven't
>> done it so far.  My how time flies!
>>
>
> This is the 1922 edition
> http://knygos.sprogmenys.net/knygos/Angliskos/Dupont%20Blasters%20Handbook%201922%20ed.pdf
>
> -- 
> Steve W.
>
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