Posted by Dick2 on February 08, 2014 at 05:36:26 from (75.172.222.153):
In Reply to: OT: Blasting Caps posted by LonM on February 07, 2014 at 19:23:54:
REmnds me of when I was a little kid. Dad had a well driller working on a new well. Driller hit a rock that he couldn't get around with his old equipment; told Dad that he needed do dynamite the rock out of the way.
Dad took him to Fargo to get the dynamite & caps that he needed. On the way home, they saw a storm with lots of lightning headed their way. They stopped, put the dynamite and caps inside a culvert and drove a mile down the road to wait until the storm passed. They went back and got the dynamite and caps and came on home. Dad was really uncomfortable hauling those explosives.
The next day I was riding my horse almost a quarter mile away when the driller set off the dynamite. The blast shook the ground under the horse; she threw me off and went on home! Of course, she'd thrown me off lots of time for now real reason so I was used to it.
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