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Posted: 4/25/2024 8:54:00 AM EDT
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I guess after some old guy's death someone found unstable dynamite and the Fire Dept had to detonate it. |
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What’s the difference between pancakes and a Mini-14? Pancakes hit the spot.-dvanblaricom
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Since when does an FD detonate instead of a bomb squad?
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I don’t like making plans for the day. Because then the word "premeditated" gets thrown around in the courtroom.
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The lady who inherited the house called a friend to ask him to move the dynamite. He called the fire dept, must've been from California
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What’s the difference between pancakes and a Mini-14? Pancakes hit the spot.-dvanblaricom
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I've seen them burn a shed full of old dynamite we found on a farm. The cases on the bottom of the pile (oldest) were really, really bad.
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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.. |
What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time?
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Never doubt trained "professionals".
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They couldn't get the robot to put it in a containment vessel?
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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.. |
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I’ve heard of similar. Sometimes stuff is too unstable to move and it must be destroyed in place.
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Originally Posted By JLPettimoreIII:
bruh. 87% of Gee Dee couldn't get laid in a Thai brothel with a black AMEX and a kilo of the finest blow on the planet. |
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Originally Posted By BladedRonin: Since when does an FD detonate instead of a bomb squad? View Quote In a lot of jurisdictions the FD is responsible for the bomb squad. It sort of makes sense if you think about it… It probably should be the SMEs on chemicals and flammables. I mean a PD based bomb squad clearly works well for LA though. |
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Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? View Quote @generaldisaray Once upon a time, dynamite was sold openly at hardware stores to farmers and ranchers for stump and rock removal. Click here for DuPont’s old helpful guidebook. Many from that generation lived through the Depression and knew the value of thrift. They saved stuff, including unused dynamite. And/or, just like us, we buy and hold things that the government wants banned. So as they pass on, we discover stuff in garages, sheds, attics, basements, and barns that seems wild. But to them, it was just a trip to the hardware store. What will our grandkids say when they hear about us just buying an AR15 and ammo at a store and wandering home with it? I was lucky enough to meet a man who bought a Thompson SMG at a hardware store. He bought it and, just like us today, wandered home with it cash-and-carry. He still had it too, thankfully papered during the 1968 Amnesty. Cost him a lot of money, but he got his employer to cover the cost after a decade of duty as a railroad guard in Arizona. Here’s another link to times people don’t know about today. |
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Originally Posted By MethaneMover: WE USED TO BE A PROPER NATION. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MethaneMover: Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What's it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? Hahaha I do love that response. Only way it would be better is because why the fuck not it’s America |
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Good call! Old dynamite is very unstable.
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"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." - Robert A. Heinlein
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Originally Posted By prebans: @generaldisaray Once upon a time, dynamite was sold openly at hardware stores to farmers and ranchers for stump and rock removal. Click here for DuPont’s old helpful guidebook. Many from that generation lived through the Depression and knew the value of thrift. They saved stuff, including unused dynamite. And/or, just like us, we buy and hold things that the government wants banned. So as they pass on, we discover stuff in garages, sheds, attics, basements, and barns that seems wild. But to them, it was just a trip to the hardware store. What will our grandkids say when they hear about us just buying an AR15 and ammo at a store and wandering home with it? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By prebans: Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? @generaldisaray Once upon a time, dynamite was sold openly at hardware stores to farmers and ranchers for stump and rock removal. Click here for DuPont’s old helpful guidebook. Many from that generation lived through the Depression and knew the value of thrift. They saved stuff, including unused dynamite. And/or, just like us, we buy and hold things that the government wants banned. So as they pass on, we discover stuff in garages, sheds, attics, basements, and barns that seems wild. But to them, it was just a trip to the hardware store. What will our grandkids say when they hear about us just buying an AR15 and ammo at a store and wandering home with it? Forgot about the whole stump removal thing. I totally get it was available before we became pussyes I just couldn’t remeber the use case |
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Originally Posted By prebans: @generaldisaray Once upon a time, dynamite was sold openly at hardware stores to farmers and ranchers for stump and rock removal. Click here for DuPont's old helpful guidebook. Many from that generation lived through the Depression and knew the value of thrift. They saved stuff, including unused dynamite. And/or, just like us, we buy and hold things that the government wants banned. So as they pass on, we discover stuff in garages, sheds, attics, basements, and barns that seems wild. But to them, it was just a trip to the hardware store. What will our grandkids say when they hear about us just buying an AR15 and ammo at a store and wandering home with it? I was lucky enough to meet a man who bought a Thompson SMG at a hardware store. He bought it and, just like us today, wandered home with it cash-and-carry. He still had it too, thankfully papered during the 1968 Amnesty. Cost him a lot of money, but he got his employer to cover the cost after a decade of duty as a railroad guard in Arizona. Here's another link to times people don't know about today. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By prebans: Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What's it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? @generaldisaray Once upon a time, dynamite was sold openly at hardware stores to farmers and ranchers for stump and rock removal. Click here for DuPont's old helpful guidebook. Many from that generation lived through the Depression and knew the value of thrift. They saved stuff, including unused dynamite. And/or, just like us, we buy and hold things that the government wants banned. So as they pass on, we discover stuff in garages, sheds, attics, basements, and barns that seems wild. But to them, it was just a trip to the hardware store. What will our grandkids say when they hear about us just buying an AR15 and ammo at a store and wandering home with it? I was lucky enough to meet a man who bought a Thompson SMG at a hardware store. He bought it and, just like us today, wandered home with it cash-and-carry. He still had it too, thankfully papered during the 1968 Amnesty. Cost him a lot of money, but he got his employer to cover the cost after a decade of duty as a railroad guard in Arizona. Here's another link to times people don't know about today. |
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Originally Posted By prebans: @generaldisaray Just updated the post with another link to older times. You might enjoy the ad. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By prebans: Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: Forgot about the whole stump removal thing. I totally get it was available before we became pussyes I just couldn’t remeber the use case @generaldisaray Just updated the post with another link to older times. You might enjoy the ad. Hahahaha America use to be so kick ass. It almost sucks looking back that far and then contrasting |
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How old do you have to get to for the dynamite to begin appearing?
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Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? View Quote Explained in first few seconds of vid, but you should watch the whole thing. Can use it to clear septic tanks too MVI_3406.AVI By Jimmy Ferris Spur Texas |
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Sweaty dynamite is spooky stuff, I've had to dispose of more than my fair share. Mostly by burning, but I've loaded a bit of it into rounds as well. You learn to be very careful with the loading pole
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Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? View Quote Come on. How many times in life have you needed dynamite and needed it immediately and didn’t have time to wait for the next free hazmat shipping sale? But it cheap, stack it deep. |
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We missing a member???
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"The woman was allowed to remove some of her possessions before evacuation orders were called and plans were made for the detonation. Crews knew the home would be a total loss."
Some? She was only allowed to remove SOME of her possessions before they blew everything up? That stuff had been there for years, but once the authorities found out, it has to go boom ASAP? She was obviously trying to do "the right thing", but this is another reason not to. They apparently evacuated the entire neighborhood and blew it up at 4 am. |
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Originally Posted By Aimless: https://kutv.com/news/local/decades-old-explosives-detonated-holladay-utah-ancient-dynamite-inherited-found-after-mans-death-house-home-destroyed-improper-storage I guess after some old guy's death someone found unstable dynamite and the Fire Dept had to detonate it. View Quote If it truly is dynamite, moving it is a bad idea. It if was TNT or other stable explosive, probably a dumb idea to blow it up in place. |
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Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? View Quote Thirty years from now it will be your ammo fort. BREAKING NEWS! Firefighters from People's Republic of California and Pacific Northwest Territories fire station 451 responded to a homeowner's report of a large quantity of ammunition in her basement, reportedly belonging to her departed husband. FD personnel detonated the ammo cache, destroying the home, and also burned the two adjacent homes, as an example to those who are not reporting their lawbreaking neighbors. Fire officials confirmed all 12 rounds were destroyed. |
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I remember we had a thread on this subject some time ago where a photo was posted of a few sticks of rotting, weeping dynamite in a burlap sack hanging in a shed someplace.
That was one of the scariest images I've ever seen on this site. |
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It’s… probably not as bad as you think it is.
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Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? View Quote Racism got rid of it. Once white liberals saw this: Attached File Immediate ban! |
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Originally Posted By jsteves: "The woman was allowed to remove some of her possessions before evacuation orders were called and plans were made for the detonation. Crews knew the home would be a total loss." View Quote |
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Originally Posted By prebans: And/or, just like us, we buy and hold things that the government wants banned. View Quote I bought my first AR-15 because of the approaching federal ban. I bought two quarts of hand soap when the government mandated a change in the formula. I used to have three bottles of the original bug-n-tar cleaner but I traded two of them away for some banned termite spray. I add TSP back into my detergent after the government removed it. My wife laments of times past when the household cleaners cut dirt and grease. |
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Originally Posted By odiedodi: It was easy to buy for a long time, prior to the pussification of society. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By odiedodi: Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What's it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? I remember going with my dad to buy some dynamite at a hardware store in Anniston, AL in the mid 1970's. We blew up a beaver dam on my grandfather's farm with it. I don't know if it all got used to be honest but if any was left over it likely stayed in Alabama, I did find some blasting caps while cleaning out a building after dad passed so I scoured the place to make sure there was no sweating sticks lying around. |
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You're not the board darling you think you are.
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Originally Posted By BuckeyeRifleman: In a lot of jurisdictions the FD is responsible for the bomb squad. It sort of makes sense if you think about it… It probably should be the SMEs on chemicals and flammables. I mean a PD based bomb squad clearly works well for LA though. View Quote Just don’t give them a pile of fireworks and a brand new super duper containment device. Unless you still want to be trying to have your house repaired years later. |
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Quite common when I was a kid. A lot of the farm supply places moved over to binary mixes when that became available, it was safer and a hell of a lot cheaper.
My uncle dug his entire septic tank and drain field thru solid limestone with binary and a hammer drill, He had no experience whatsoever other than a chat with the farm supply clerk. You had to buy "sets". IIRC it came in crates of 144, no individual stick sales. Same with blasting caps. Fuses and det cord had to be complete rolls. |
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Originally Posted By John-in-austin: Quite common when I was a kid. A lot of the farm supply places moved over to binary mixes when that became available, it was safer and a hell of a lot cheaper. My uncle dug his entire septic tank and drain field thru solid limestone with binary and a hammer drill, He had no experience whatsoever other than a chat with the farm supply clerk. You had to buy "sets". IIRC it came in crates of 144, no individual stick sales. Same with blasting caps. Fuses and det cord had to be complete rolls. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By JLPettimoreIII:
bruh. 87% of Gee Dee couldn't get laid in a Thai brothel with a black AMEX and a kilo of the finest blow on the planet. |
Originally Posted By GeneralDisaray: What’s it with all the old timers just having dynamite laying around all the time? View Quote You didn't need to have a license or permit to purchase dynamite per federal law for ag purposes till after 9-11., if I recall correctly . Most farm stores and co-ops stopped carrying it in the 70s. |
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Where's that water truck when you need it?
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They should have brought in the Los Angeles bomb squad. They would have leveled the entire neighborhood.
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