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grandpa says when he was blasting hillsides for road projects in the late 40's early 50's, he used to drive his dumptruck and get a pretty full load of dynamite and to be safe he put the blasting caps with him in the front seat of the truck:eek::eek:

looking back, he says that probably wasn't the smartest thing to do:rolleyes:

Flatheadyoungin and Mark make me feel old.

In the late 40's and early 50's I helped my dad farm 300 acres with a Farmall A, C, and H. Implements included a pto post hole digger with the auger on the end of a shortened axle on an old car rear-end, and a fertilizer spreader with the slinger on the pinion shaft, so that it turned when you pulled it. The most memorable was dynamiting newly discovered stumps from the mule-cleared land we row cropped. He let me hold the box of blasting caps and made me sit in the end of the wagon furthest from the dynamite......maybe I wasn't his favorite after all.
 

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