Man, I just love blowing stuff up!!!

[scottessex]

As long as he doesn't blow up the dog poop with explosives, as awesome as that sounds......not a good idea.

[Scary Gary]

How did you know about that ?
It never ceases to amaze me of the thing I thought was a good idea when I was a kid.

[ms80831]

Originally Posted by BEN S

Maybe someday Mark but not this time. Did you and todd get that pre rotator sorted out?

Just got the parts. We will be working on it this Saturday before we leave.

M

[BEN S]

Mark,
Maybe I'll be able to stop by and pester you before I go.

Scary, that's funny, if you ask my oldest why he was brought onto this world he will tell you "My dad was to cheap to buy a Zenith with a remote control"
It worked out well, he learned all sorts of useful skills during his 18 year indentured servitude!

[Mark E]

Similar story to several other here:

As a kid I was poking around in my Dad's shed many years ago and on the bottom shelf was a pile of about a dozen sticks of gelignite all melted onto the wooden base.

Knowing about nitroglycerin and sweating gelli, I went and got my Dad and showed him the problem.

"Hell, he said, that's a bit dangerous, we'd better get rid of it!" Then he reached down and bundled the whole lot into his hands and headed out the door with it. Put it in a pile on the grass outside and threw a match on it and let it burn ....

I'd been considering pouring cool water on it before moving it, but he sorta took the decision out of my hands...

By the way, I'd beaten him out that shed door by quite a stretch.

[gyrodude]

I'm a MSHA mine safety instructor. I deal with the use, storage and transport of explosives. The proper way to dispose of dynamite is to burn it.

[BEN S]

Just fisrt make sure no "old timer" tried to save money after a dud and broke down the shot to reuse the sticks later. Might still have a cap in them!

[Scary Gary]

That could be exciting .

[buckwill]

when i was 14 or so we, my best friend and i lived back to back,, made rockets out of co2 bottles,,and aluminum cigar tubes with johnson grass poison( think it was ammonium nitrate) and sugar melted together in an old alum pressure cooker, poured hot into the c02 cartridges and fired with nichrome stripped out of old irons,, toasters, anything with heating elements inside,, glenns mother and my mother and grandmother wondered why she couldnt keep a working toaster,today lilbourn missouri has an ordinance agasinst any kind of fireworks inside city limits, on last day of summer vacation we had enough mix but no bottles so we pour all we had inside a 1 inch pipe nipple capped and bell reducer to 3/8 inch, about same burn area and nozzle ratio as the co2,, hey we were scientists,, this looks about right, our launch ramp fell down, that thing went off horizontally down the alley into old mr (dont remember his name,, school janitor) junk 55 plymouth and high ordered in the middle of his chicken coop next to the plymouth,,, white trail pointed right to us,, they had seen us doin that for weeks but this was first time they had seen chunks fallin out of the sky,, no more home made rockest for us on pain of some scare time in local jail,, buck,, i did have fun when i was kid tho,,

[buckwill]

Originally Posted by Mark E

Similar story to several other here:

As a kid I was poking around in my Dad's shed many years ago and on the bottom shelf was a pile of about a dozen sticks of gelignite all melted onto the wooden base.

Knowing about nitroglycerin and sweating gelli, I went and got my Dad and showed him the problem.

"Hell, he said, that's a bit dangerous, we'd better get rid of it!" Then he reached down and bundled the whole lot into his hands and headed out the door with it. Put it in a pile on the grass outside and threw a match on it and let it burn ....

I'd been considering pouring cool water on it before moving it, but he sorta took the decision out of my hands...

By the way, I'd beaten him out that shed door by quite a stretch.

thing about it is,,, the wood with the nitro soaked into it is as or more dangerous as the original dynamite, i moved one out of my grampas shed after i came back from viet nam,, and it made that "scritch" noise with little puff of smoke,,, just that close,, when i pulled it off the shelf,, tore those shelves out VERY carefully detonated everything out in the field,, seems shelves went up with old dynamite

[Arnie Madsen]

Originally Posted by scottessex

As long as he doesn't blow up the dog poop with explosives, as awesome as that sounds......not a good idea.

Those west coast guy will blow up anything .... ask Gary Not sure if it was California , Washington or Oregon but a dead whale on the beach was starting to stink. The local citizens called the sheriff and he promptly got a box of dynamite and blew the whale up.

Worked good .... except instead of a rotting whale in one spot , there was rotting whale meat all over town.

[Scary Gary]

It was Oregon.
And every anniversary of that event they show the whale being blown up on the news.
The news reporter that was there is still a reporter here in Portland.
Every one and everything got covered in rotting whale.
It has to be on YouTube somewhere.
I don't know how to post it. But if someone can find it, it really worth watching.

[Arnie Madsen]

Thanks Gary .... I found it

Exploding Whale in Oregon - YouTube

[Scary Gary]

That's the one.
Now I could see when I was 9 years old thinking blowing up the whale would be a good idea.
Now by the age of 12 I would like to think that my deductive reasoning skills would have told me that as fun as blowing the whale up would be that it would still be a very bad idea.
I want to know where the adults were at when this plan was put into motion and executed ?

[BEN S]

Apparently hiding from the 200 lbs chunks of blubber falling from the sky!