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Most of the quarry blasting in this area is handled by Orica Quarry services..

I removed a few posts for impersonation, along with a few replies to those posts that were off topic for the thread.

I can assure you that this deputy has seen more explosives than most, if I'm not mistaken he worked in a quarry for a couple of years

That doesn't mean anything I know several people that work in quarries and don't know the first thing about explosives. Most places today hire out the blasting due to the ATF regs. on storage and transportation

I can assure you that this deputy has seen more explosives than most, if I'm not mistaken he worked in a quarry for a couple of years

Note from GoAshe: the username for this post was removed for impersonation.

I used to have an old British friend that said Prima-cord was fun to wrap around a two story house and cut it in two. He would have told me more, but he would have had to kill me.

It is tagged with a serial number. Used to play with dynamite years ago. Carefully remove the beads of sweat and throw them on a concrete floor. Would like a small firecracker. Prima cord is fun to wrap around a tree and then detonate.

Clearly the Barney slept through his high school physical science class during the part when they covered how energy works

Your right about that fins. I also like how the sheriff's deputy made the comment about blowing half the road away. I am willing to bet this is the first he has ever seen any explosives and that he has never used any.

Well, we do know the media has a problem with accuracy of details and like to speak about things they are ignorant about.

CooperFarms (view profile)	Posted 8:57 pm, 03/03/2014
Oh boo hoo. Who in this room has not lost a few sticks of dynamite when they were drunk and had to stop and pee along the river. A big deal over nothing

LOL. I can tell you it will be a big deal if they can trace it back to the last person who had possession of said explosives. The ATF is pretty anal about that stuff now you must keep a log of where and how much you use and then there are the storage requirements.

Yes fins it does look like it is wet but the news video says it and the news paper was dry. The picture shows what appears to a plastic tube it would be hard for it to sweat through a piece of plastic. It is interesting that they said it had a serial number on it which is news to me. I have use quite a bit of real nitro based dynamite and have never seen a serial number on a stick. Trust me when I tell you that you don't want to handle nitro based dynamite that is starting to sweat with your bare hands. It will give you the worst headache you have ever had mine was so bad that I couldn't see for several hours and every time my heart beat it felt like my head was going to explode.

As I said before I have never seen dynamite in a plastic tube with metal crimps on the end like a sausage tube but I have seen gel explosives package that way. It has been several years since I have handle any explosives so it possible that the packaging has changed. However most of the time true dynamite is not used much any more because water gels and ANFO are cheaper and safer to use. About the only time I see dynamite used anymore is in holes that are wet since ANFO doesn't work in the water.

I am by no means an expert on explosives and make the above comments base on my personal experiences of using explosives in job related blasting of rock.

Oh boo hoo. Who in this room has not lost a few sticks of dynamite when they were drunk and had to stop and pee along the river. A big deal over nothing

Joe, when you enlarged that photo, does that stick the guy is holding look like it's started to sweat?

I thought they started tagging explosives with microscopic tags with serial numbers in the explosive after the Oklahoma City bombing

I have never seen a stick of dynamite that had serial numbers it could be a new requirement though. I also have never seen dynamite in a plastic tube with ring clamps either it is wrapped in a paper tube with crimped ends much like the end of a shotgun shell. What is shown looks like one of the many gel products that comes in what looks like a sausage tube and is very different from dynamite.

I read the sticks had serial numbers on them and could be traced.

It would be interesting to see where it came from since the ATF has strict storage rules for explosives and any one who's magazine was broken into would be required to report it. I am willing to bet that it came from some old famers basement or barn who has died, and who ever found it didn't know what to do with it or was afraid they would get in trouble for having it. Remember its not been that long ago when all you needed to buy explosives was an ID and it was common for farmers to keep some around

you dont need a license to steal it.

Kinda sketchy information there. I know you have to have a license and permit to even get dynamite. Is the tv crew setting up exciting scenes for the show?

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/...nty/nd4dw/