Will a claymore actually make a hole or just embed ball bearings in the clay and make it worse?
Oh, I was just throwing out 'splodey military things when I mentioned Claymores. I think I had in the back of my mind (six years ago) that the projectiles would break up hard clay. Lotsa little shock waves, I guess I was thinking.
Don't hold me accountable for something I said six or seven years ago.
Or yesterday.
It was so much easier when you could go down to the hardware store and walk out with a case or two of dynamite.
jim
And the only question was "Do you want 'lectric or fused caps with that?"
I don't know that much about explosives, but I knew a guy up in Boulder, Colorado who had a blasting license and we chatted a bit about that. He did a lot of work up in the Pinebrook Hills Subdivision, up in the foothillls, where homeowners wanted boulders broken up and tree stumps removed. He said that a certain hardware store would sell two or three sticks of low-percentage dynamite and fuses
sub rosa to individuals who had the balls to DIY it. Except he didn't use the term
sub rosa.
He said that was a hangover from the days when lots of mining went on up there in the hills and the claimholders would come in and buy the stuff and it was no big deal back in the day. That hardware store moved out east of town, perhaps just out of the city limits.
I found it amusing that the old retail space of that hardware store was replaced by some kind of pastry-and-coffee shop. Not unlike today's Starbucks. If they had only known that dynamite was stored in their basement at one time, heh.
But that was all long before Boulder turned all snowflakey and hand-wringey and scared of anything that happened with suddenness, whereupon young ladies and effete men are expected to retire toward the fainting couch. :D
He mentioned that there was also a store in Nederland CO which did about the same thing.
Terry, Master Rambler, Living Historian, 230RN
