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Anyone who is surprised that high explosives are available has not had to deal with a bunch of large stumps. -- they're a nightmare even with a large excavator,
by nullc 2y ago
Anyone who is surprised that high explosives are available has not had to deal with a bunch of large stumps. -- they're a nightmare even with a large excavator, explosives are a life saver.
- sandworm101 2y agoOr a beaver dam. Imagine a bunch of those stumps all concreted together with mud.
- raddan 2y agoTwenty-plus years ago I hiked the Appalachian Trail. Back then, it was common practice to hitch a ride into town for resupply. One time when my partner and I were hiking in Virginia, we got picked up by a state department of conservation employee. During the ride I asked him what he did and he said “I destroy beaver dams.” When I asked him how he did it he said “with dynamite.” I laughed—how ridiculous, right?—and he looked at me very seriously and said “it’s not funny; beaver dams are difficult to remove.” For years I thought that this was some dumb redneck thing until I met another former DCR employee back home who told me the same story.
- op00to 2y agoI dunno, the image of some beaver watching a guy in green and brown blow up its hard work with dynamite is pretty damned funny. His little face all surprised and angry.
- kstrauser 2y agoYup. I was surprised when my cousin showed me my uncle’s TNT stash, but then explained how they cleared stumps off the family farm. One of my rural buddies told me how he spent a summer mixing diesel and fertilizer to clear fields, approaching it like a lab experiment and keeping detailed notes. Honestly, both sounded like a lot of fun.
- littlestymaar 2y agoOr you can use stump remover (Potassium nitrate) which allows to use fire to destroy them safely.
- lazide 2y agoIt doesn’t work very well, and it can cause underground fires which pop up a year+ later.
- littlestymaar 2y agoIt works well enough to be the only legal way of dealing with them in most of EU, and the consequences of mishandling are no doubt more severe with high explosive than simply “can cause underground fire”.
- lazide 2y agoUh, the EU has plenty of bans of very useful things. I know of at least one 500+ acre wildfire in California that was caused by burning roots. As to how much it matters or not? No clue.
- littlestymaar 2y ago> Uh, the EU has plenty of bans of very useful things. Yeah, like AR-15 and high explosives, surprisingly violent death rate is much lower here…
- solidsnack9000 2y agoLike speech, equity compensation... AR-15s are actually not banned in many parts of the EU.
- littlestymaar 2y ago> Like speech Speech, in both the EU and the US is free under the limits set by law, the US isn't an “absolute free speech land”, you will definitely be jailed for speech that goes against the law (for instance death threats, see [1]). > equity compensation... What are you talking about, I've been given equity more than once… [1]: https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/florida-mom-arrested-for-saying-delay-deny-depose-on-call-with-bluecross-blueshield/ https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/florida-mom-arrested-f...
- buildsjets 2y agoI read a book a while back about the founder of San Juan Airlines, a local commuter airline, in the Puget Sound area. There was an entire chapter that described the process of the founder clearing the Friday Harbor runway on San Juan island of trees, mostly working alone, using TNT and heavy equipment. https://www.amazon.com/Island-Bush-Pilot-Founder-Airlines/dp/096743694X https://www.amazon.com/Island-Bush-Pilot-Founder-Airlines/dp...
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