Local farmer hired a couple of guys to hand dig a well on his place. They hit solid limestone about 20 feet down. Farmer hired a self-proclaimed dynamite expert to loosen the ledge for removal. Benny would hand drill a hole, place a portion of a stick with a generous fuse, and tamp it good. Then he'd light it, scramble up the wooden ladder, and he and the other guys would pull the ladder out and get back. Clean out the hole and repeat over and over, until he had one charge of dynamite, and a little short piece of fuse left. Benny said he was done, but the others convinced him that the short piece of fuse was plenty long (they were on top looking in). Benny set the charge in the last hole, packed it good, and the old farmer said he placed one foot on the bottom rung as he bent over with the kitchen match. When the fuse lit, Benny spun around and broke the first two rungs on the ladder, then broke more rungs on the way to the top. The farmer said Benny just made it to the top and rolled out as the charge went off, while all the onlookers barely got their heads out of the way of the blast as it blew chunks of ladder all over the yard. Benny was trained (he said) in explosives in WWII. He had several other less colorful local mishaps, but he was forever referred to as "Dynamite Expert".
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