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NW Iowa | My dad used to crack rocks with dynamite till a guy he knew was killed when he walked up to the charge to check out why the detonation was delayed and it went off killing him. That was enough to scare dad away from using dynamite. Fifty years ago we had a neighbor who played with dynamite. He tried to clean out the drainage ditch going through my farm using dynamite. The blast cleaned out a channel about five feet wide and a couple feet deep and a couple thousand feet long. It was fun to watch, the mud and grass went a hundred feet in the air but the channel it made filled back in after a few years. | |
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