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Stash of old dynamite in shed is frozen, can't be moved (Whoa!)
Janeville Gazette ^
| 2.20.04
Posted on 02/20/2004 6:58:28 PM PST by mhking
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posted on
02/20/2004 6:58:28 PM PST
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
No relation.
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
02/20/2004 6:59:00 PM PST
by
mhking
(My gravely throat feels like it's been attacked with a rusty rasp....)
To: mhking
They don't have to wait until spring to thaw it out - a quick application of a blowtorch would work just fine. Why those guys don't put a smart guy like me in charge of this stuff I just don't know...
To: Billthedrill
Yes burn it. I have burned cases of it, all it does is burn like sawdust.
To: Billthedrill
I have one of those counter racks that thaws really good. If I had to wait til spring we wouldn't eat around here:')
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:03:40 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
To: mhking
Just use a space heater ;)
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:05:31 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(Why are we even having this debate?)
To: mhking
Good thing Wisconsin doesn't have earthquakes ;-)
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:05:52 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: mhking
" on an internal communication error in his agency."CRS.
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:06:50 PM PST
by
spunkets
To: mhking
Calling the RonCo guy!!
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:07:04 PM PST
by
JZoback
To: Uncle George
Old dynamite grows "hair," if its not used within a reasonable time. We dropped the stuff down the ANFO drill holes to get rid of it.
To: mhking
George Foreman was on Sean Hannity's radio yesterday while Sean was book signing in Dallas, ( I went to the Anatole in Dallas but it was swamped! One of his handlers says he signs 600 books per hour!).
Maybe a Forman Grill could be used to "cook" the mess!
To: mhking
George Foreman was on Sean Hannity's radio yesterday while Sean was book signing in Dallas, ( I went to the Anatole in Dallas but it was swamped! One of his handlers says he signs 600 books per hour!).
Maybe a Forman Grill could be used to "cook" the mess!
To: mhking
Have they named the shed after Howard Dean yet??
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:09:46 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
To: mhking
George Foreman was on Sean Hannity's radio yesterday while Sean was book signing in Dallas, ( I went to the Anatole in Dallas but it was swamped! One of his handlers says he signs 600 books per hour!).
Maybe a Forman Grill could be used to "cook" the mess!
To: Uncle George
Eric's right. The old stuff sweats nitroglycerine. Very nasty.
If I were going to take a blowtorch to this stuff, I'd hold it all the way at arm's length... ;-)
To: Billthedrill
I would sure like to watch you do that from about two thousand feet away. I need to get a telephoto lens for my camera because I have an idea, I might get some neat pictures.
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:17:23 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(Volunteer for EOD and you will never have to worry about getting wounded.)
To: Uncle George
C-4 burns hot enough to heat enough C-Rats to feed a platoon. Just don't stamp on it to put it out! Notice I said C-Rats, not MREs. LOL
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:21:48 PM PST
by
ExSoldier
(When the going gets tough, the tough go cyclic.)
To: mhking
I remember reading a story in grammer school (awhile back)about a company hauling dynamite on a horse drawn wagon.
It was winter and the thinking at the time was that it was dangerous to let the dynamite get cold (freeze) so they had hot bricks under the tarp covered boxes of dynamite. The story went that the teamster got stuck in the snow and the dynamite did freeze. They found out that the dynamite was more difficult to ignite. That was new dynamite.
As dynamite ages, the nitroglycerin interspersed in the clay coagulates and weeps out, then becomes very dangerous. 25 years is old. I guess cold isn't good in old stuff.
Not an expert but that is what I remember.
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:23:29 PM PST
by
Cold Heart
(I have to drive my SUV a full year to feed 5 acres of rain forest)
To: Billthedrill
Most of Wisconsin was old growth forest until the 1850's. They clearcut the lower 2/3 of the state of trees, and blasted the stumps by the millions. More dynamite was used to clear for farmland than all munitions in both world wars.
All the hardwoods, some as old as a few hundred years were floated to mills all along the great lakes.
In the context of dynamite in Wisconsin, this find ain't a nothin but a firecracker.
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:28:10 PM PST
by
blackdog
(Churchill si veveret, ad remum dareris!)
To: Cold Heart
I know that glycerin mixed with bird crap and fruit loops makes some mighty powerful explosives. We did it in high school chemistry club.(when it was still PC to learn stuff)
The biggest explosion though was a dust explosion we created under a barrell, using graphite.
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:33:57 PM PST
by
blackdog
(Churchill si veveret, ad remum dareris!)
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