Posted on 07/29/2016 1:09:40 PM PDT by NRx
I never did play with dynamite but have handled it quite a bit. it is pretty safe until it gets old and when it starts bleeding through the wraper, beware.
never take it for granted.
But kids in my part of the country could get it easy enough and most of them knew how to use it.
One summer, Granddad was slowly clearing some woodlands. I remember going with him to the local feed store to buy dynamite to blow out tree stumps too big to yank out with his tractor.
After showing, he let me do it all, from attaching the blasting caps and measuring the length of fuse, and lighting it off.
For me, no Independence Day celebration ever beat blowing up stumps with my grandfather.
When I was a kid they had PSA’s (Public Service Announcements) in Sacramento, CA
They would do a close up of a Blasting Cap and then go to a baseball Diamond and show that if a Blasting Cap went off on First Base the Kid on Second Base is History
So basically if a kid finds a Blasting Cap leave it alone
We found them (sometimes boxes of them) and blew stuff up... not nearly as impressive as the PSA, we wanted some of the Dynamite that was supposedly near the caps, we never found any.
More fun than a kid should ever have! (I was 8 at the time)
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