Is blasting legal any more?

[dmccarty]

Tom_H,

Back around 2000 I was looking at using explosives to remove stumps. I'm pretty sure it was 2000 and not 2001 so things might have changes since September 11th. When I was looking into the option I read the Federal regulations I could find at the ATF website and talked with a blasting company. The bottom line was that I did not need a permit to buy the stuff. The hard part was the transportation and finding someone to sell you the material.

There are not that many blasting companies out there. The guy I found was local and I saw him on the side of the road. And I do mean on the side of the road blasting through rock for a drainage system. The would cap the hole with matting to prevent rock from being thrown. The large hole was something like 30 feet square and heading for China. They where blasting within 50-100 feet of a large apartment complex. Its a pretty built up area.

I figured I could buy the stuff but it would be cheaper for me to have used an excevator to dig up the stumps and safer. Dynamite ain't cheap. I forgot the price but it was expensive. Not to mention dangerous.

Sooo, if you think a backhoe or a dozer can't get the job done get an excevator to break through the hard pan.

Later,
Dan

 

[firtol88]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( East Texas, Louisiana - what's the difference, besides the Sabine river? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)</font>

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[sneaky_pete]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ( East Texas, Louisiana - what's the difference, besides the Sabine river? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif guess you're right /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

Just fishing for a response from East Texas Frank or Dmanspadge. I was thinking of the old joke:

Q: What's the difference between an Aggie and an Okie?

A: The Red River.

 

[Whiskey]

Tom_H:

When I tend to eat a bean heavy dinner....I blast alot. Never been busted, but I have raised my wifes eyebrows and wrinkled her nose on ocasion.. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif


Sorry.....I should delete this...but it's Friday and I'm feeling friskey

 

[Tom_H]

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Whiskey, not to be mean or anything, but.... your reply really <font color="red">stinks</font>. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Cactus]

This looks like it might be good............ a non explosive product for busting rocks etc....it works by expanding and cracking the rocks.

Look at Dexpan...I cant cut and paste web addresses for some reason or I would show the URL.

 

[Tom_H]

Thanks Cactus, I found the site. When I'm using Netscape, Mozilla, or Firefox, (all part of same company) I can't paste into TBN's URL function either. I have to go to Microsoft Internet Explorer. For some reason, when in IE, I can paste in the URL.

 

[HuckBB62]

I think if you add gypsum, sand, and compost, it'll keep that compaction loose and permeable. There's a lot of soil treatments available because of just what you talked about. The ag guys near you can tell you what they use.

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( When I'm using Netscape, Mozilla, or Firefox, (all part of same company) I can't paste into TBN's URL function either. )</font>
I wonder why that is. I use firefox most of the time, and have no problem with cut/paste to URL markup.
John

 

[Darren]

Have you thought about using the drill that used for the holes to blast rock? I've always heard them called an air track. The drill is mounted on tracks. The rig operates off air supplied by a towed air compressor. A sixteen foot hole wouldn't be a big deal.

If you've driven through a highway cut and seen the vertical remains of the holes evenly spaced on the rock face, those are the remains of the blast holes drilled by an air track.

Once you figured out where you want the trees, a rig could pin cushion the area down to the sand. Someone who knew what they were doing, could probably use a small charge to fracture the hardpan. It won't be cheap. The holes alone might do what you want.