OLD dynamite ...... deadly . Forms crystals that are super shock sensitive . Before the back hoe tractor grave diggers used to take a quarter or half stick of dynamite to break frozen ground in cemeteries to dig a grave. As time past there was a shitload of OLD dynamite in the grounds crews barns in graveyards that my EOD team got called to render safe ..... had to be soaked down with acetone , gallons of it per case of dynamite to dissolve the crystals. Not fun...... if it was a remote building we would try to remove anything we could safely or else counter charge it with a few blocks of C-4 and blow it in place aka BIP it ! Nitroglycerine “crystals” will F’ya up if you don’t respect it.....
Yikes!!!
I’ll remember that, Thank You for the safety info.
Oddly funny, this morning on METV Oldies Channel the My Three Son’s show a Highway Blasting Crew found some old sticks and the Dog brought one home and was playing keep away and bouncing it all around, etc.
It was a fairly short, fat stick with protruding flats like a nut on the ends and in the middle of the stick.
The Older Guy on the Crew warned the Newbie about it being from the War and the instability to shock.
Now I’m looking over My shoulder doing a Rod Serling check...