1922 version. I can't find that one, but found these two 1910 version https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94219#page/7/mode/1up 1920 version https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18062724W/Farmers%27_Hand_Book_of_Explosives
From commenter Anonymous over at the daily timewaster- https://ia800906.us.archive.org/13/items/farmershandbook00deptgoog/farmershandbook00deptgoog.pdf
Don't let the first Google page fool you. Just scroll down to the other 112 pages of happy fun ball stuff.
Blowing up stumps - good deal. Just enough gas applied to cause stump to move up a couple of inches to loosen roots and allow a tractor to pull stump out intact. Back before my time, but my Dad told me he witnessed this (but did not participate) first hand several times.
When I worked at a hard rock gold mine my boss would occasionally send me down to Alpha Explosives to pick up a load of ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil). No FBI security clearance, no ATF paperwork, just a 23 year old kid in a '68 Ford F-250 with 25 bags of prill.
Driving through the mountains with enough explosives to blow up the entire town of Alleghany. Good times.
I grew up in Gainesville, Fl. In probably 1955 or 1956 I took a ride with my father to a lumber yard in Ocala, Fl where dad bought a case or two of dynamite and some electric blasting caps. My folks had bought 80 acres (for $75/acre) west of Gainesville that had an abundance of lighter pine stumps. Dad used an auger like the one pictured, drilling into the tap root of the stump and putting a stick of dynamite in the hole. Ran a wire to our old Jeep and I, at 5 or 6 years old, had the great pleasure of touching off the explosion using the Jeep battery. What a glorious boom! Dad stored the unused dynamite in our garage, it was part of the house, there was probably enough explosive to blow our house to dust. I remember a man coming to the house and inquiring about the dynamite and my dad gave him what was left.
When my father was a kid he had a couple friends. Their father got some dynamite and went to a river fishing. He'd throw a stick in a pool and all the fish would leave the pool before it blew. He had his sons get in the chest deep water to herd the fish and keep them in the pool. He killed both his sons that day.
From 'The Crown' NetFlix series. Princess Margaret's limerick to President Johnson at a party - There was a young woman from Dallas, Used a dynamite stick as a phallus, They found her vagina In North Carolina, And her asshole in Buckingham Palace.
I remember watching my Dad and Grampa blow a stump out of a cornfield back in the early 70's when I was a kid. Still have the Hercules Powder box that the dynamite came in.
I met a security guard at a coal mine that was being developed in WV. He told me that he used to mine house coal at that site. He would go to the hardware store to buy dynamite and caps, drill some holes in the coal seam with a breast auger and blast away. He would back his pickup truck into the mine (about a 9-10' seam) and load it up. It was either mine coal, cut wood, or freeze to death back in the rural country back in the day.
1922 version. I can't find that one, but found these two
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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94219#page/7/mode/1up
1920 version
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18062724W/Farmers%27_Hand_Book_of_Explosives
From commenter Anonymous over at the daily timewaster-
Deletehttps://ia800906.us.archive.org/13/items/farmershandbook00deptgoog/farmershandbook00deptgoog.pdf
Don't let the first Google page fool you. Just scroll down to the other 112 pages of happy fun ball stuff.
Awesome stuff. I do love me old books and how they state things...
DeleteBlowing up stumps - good deal. Just enough gas applied to cause stump to move up a couple of inches to loosen roots and allow a tractor to pull stump out intact. Back before my time, but my Dad told me he witnessed this (but did not participate) first hand several times.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked at a hard rock gold mine my boss would occasionally send me down to Alpha Explosives to pick up a load of ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil). No FBI security clearance, no ATF paperwork, just a 23 year old kid in a '68 Ford F-250 with 25 bags of prill.
ReplyDeleteDriving through the mountains with enough explosives to blow up the entire town of Alleghany. Good times.
Know a story about dynamite and a tree stump.
ReplyDeleteSure looks like an awful big stump...
8 miles away or some such nonsense they found it?
I grew up in Gainesville, Fl. In probably 1955 or 1956 I took a ride with my father to a lumber yard in Ocala, Fl where dad bought a case or two of dynamite and some electric blasting caps. My folks had bought 80 acres (for $75/acre) west of Gainesville that had an abundance of lighter pine stumps. Dad used an auger like the one pictured, drilling into the tap root of the stump and putting a stick of dynamite in the hole. Ran a wire to our old Jeep and I, at 5 or 6 years old, had the great pleasure of touching off the explosion using the Jeep battery. What a glorious boom! Dad stored the unused dynamite in our garage, it was part of the house, there was probably enough explosive to blow our house to dust. I remember a man coming to the house and inquiring about the dynamite and my dad gave him what was left.
ReplyDeleteYeah, try that in Alachua County now and half the city of Gainesville would fall down like fainting goats.
DeleteWhen my father was a kid he had a couple friends. Their father got some dynamite and went to a river fishing. He'd throw a stick in a pool and all the fish would leave the pool before it blew. He had his sons get in the chest deep water to herd the fish and keep them in the pool. He killed both his sons that day.
ReplyDeleteFrom 'The Crown' NetFlix series. Princess Margaret's limerick to President Johnson at a party -
ReplyDeleteThere was a young woman from Dallas,
Used a dynamite stick as a phallus,
They found her vagina
In North Carolina,
And her asshole in Buckingham Palace.
I thought I'd heard all of these. This one is new, thank you.
DeleteI remember watching my Dad and Grampa blow a stump out of a cornfield back in the early 70's when I was a kid. Still have the Hercules Powder box that the dynamite came in.
ReplyDeleteI met a security guard at a coal mine that was being developed in WV. He told me that he used to mine house coal at that site. He would go to the hardware store to buy dynamite and caps, drill some holes in the coal seam with a breast auger and blast away. He would back his pickup truck into the mine (about a 9-10' seam) and load it up. It was either mine coal, cut wood, or freeze to death back in the rural country back in the day.
ReplyDeleteThis is the greatest dynamite story of all time- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzabmVIU6EQ
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