Comments on: Flickr Pool: Dyno-mite

By: Tim W

Tim W — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:32:06 +0000

>>I was surprised the method of disposal was burning down the garage around the dynamite.. <<

Yeah it needs more then fire to get going.. like a blasting cap.

I worked for a summer making explosives.. Left shortly after a guy showed me that the anfo we were making would explode with just a blowtorch

By: boomstick

boomstick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:13:02 +0000

They recently found a garage containing old Dynamite here in Cleveland. I was surprised the method of disposal was burning down the garage around the dynamite..

http://www.fox8.com/wjw-dynamite-txt,0,2891053.story

By: Fzzt

Fzzt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:24:59 +0000

It’s all fun & games until for whatever reason you aren’t home and someone calls the bomb squad and they blow up your ‘tool chest’ with their water cannon!

By: Toolhearty

Toolhearty — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:47:06 +0000

beano_t Says:
June 24th, 2009 at 8:09 am

Apparently stump removal and land clearing was the main purpose.

…and farmers used it to make watering holes for livestock.

1 stick dynamite + 1 buried drum of fertilizer = instapond

By: esmor

esmor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:07:52 +0000

I understand the use of finger joints, but why so many of them? I, too, would be more worried about the bottom failing. From some quick research, dynamite itself is not particularly dangerous unless it is old and “weeping” the nitro from inside. The blasting caps were more dangerous. As an aside, the color is brown or beige, not red–at least for modern stuff.

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:24:34 +0000

On an unrelated note, it’s Wile E. Coyote, not Wylie. Just FYI.

By: beano_t

beano_t — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:09:43 +0000

True about the finger joints but if it were my dynamite box I would be worried about the base falling out to bottom. I guess i am not going to have much explosives in it now anyway….
on another note my mother in law said she used to have 4 of these but three have disappeared before she gave me this one. If you look around you can find a DuPont explosives manual online. Apparently stump removal and land clearing was the main purpose.

By: bs

bs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:28:32 +0000

finger joints are strong because they have lots on long grain to long grain glue area. you would not want your 50 lbs of dynomite falling out becase some pecker head just butted two pieces of wood to make a corner would you?

By: esmor

esmor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:31:11 +0000

Anyone know why the sides were finger-jointed the way they were? The bottoms are just nailed on, fwiw.

By: heywood

heywood — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:45:09 +0000

yup…and we’re so much better off keeping good honest americans away from any explosives.

bullsh**~!!!!

I remember hearing that kiwis that had been coming up every winter and working ski patrol were no longer allowed to set off any charges after 9/11…what a bunch of crap.

I like blowing up stuff as do most guys, but would never put another person’s life in danger. I hate this government’s policies.

Wish we could go back to the old days.

By: Pete Judd

Pete Judd — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:38:45 +0000

I miss the days of going down to the feed store and picking up a few sticks. We used to take a quart milk carton and fill it with gas and strap a quarter stick to it and place it on the other side of the creek from the back porch. I was exactly 100 yards from the back porch to where we placed it. The 30-06 was sited in for 100 yards and the but end of the stick was around the size of a quarter. The noise and the fireball where great. Maybe I am telling my age with post. Yhis post brings back great mems.

By: kdp

kdp — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:41:01 +0000

dijital101 wins.

My grandpa managed one of the oldest working oil fields in east Texas. He kept a box of dynamite in an outbuilding for who knows what.

After he retired he kept a working plunger that he used as a door stop.

By: dijital101

dijital101 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:41:37 +0000

Has nobody noticed that this says “extra dynamite”? That means that not only does the Red Cross blow up stuff with dynamite but they want to make sure they don’t run out.

By: Pencilneck

Pencilneck — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:02:57 +0000

Turn it into a travel case, best carry on luggage ever.

By: Toolaremia

Toolaremia — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:22:52 +0000

Nobody is going to ask the obvious? Why does the Red Cross need dynamite!? ;-D

By: beano_t

beano_t — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:39:21 +0000

I’m going to attempt some restoration on this… then i will post some more picts in the flicker pool

By: Adam R

Adam R — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Where can I get some detailed pics?

By: Gladiator GarageWorks

Gladiator GarageWorks — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:47:10 +0000

This reminds me, I’ll have to ask our engineers if they test our Gearboxes to withstand dynamite blasts

excellent old-school pic!

By: pmbard

pmbard — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:22:02 +0000

…and I’m off to eBay to start a new collection.