True Story

[Flatheadyoungin]

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

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

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.