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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
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« Reply #4355 on: September 10, 2023, 03:13:22 pm »
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4358 on: September 10, 2023, 03:22:31 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on September 10, 2023, 03:20:18 pm
When in doubt, C-4.
I read somewhere that there are few problems in life that cannot be solved by the proper application of the correct quantity of high explosives.
I haven't had the reason (nor the materials) to check that theory out, personally.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4359 on: September 10, 2023, 03:39:19 pm »
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I read somewhere that there are few problems in life that cannot be solved by the proper application of the correct quantity of high explosives.


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Did you,by chance,ever take the SF demo course at Bragg?

The instructors there were some seriously twisted people,and nobody tried to mess with them.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4360 on: September 10, 2023, 07:04:58 pm »
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@Smokin Joe


Did you,by chance,ever take the SF demo course at Bragg?

The instructors there were some seriously twisted people,and nobody tried to mess with them.
No, I was never in the service, but I have had lots of friends who were.  :laugh:

I did work with a powder monkey on a road project through the Blue Ridge,and Henry could take that VW bus sized granodiorite boulder and crack it in half, shatter it into bits, or launch it across two lanes of pavement and a lane of deep fill, whatever you chose.
I only ever saw that man look scared once, when the boss was messing with a two part charge, ramping it with a shovel handle. His eyes got big, and I followed him over below the lip of the road surface and asked him , "I reckon what Carl is doing isn't recommended". He just looked at me and smiled (he didn't particularly like Carl) and shook his head. "Nope".
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4361 on: September 10, 2023, 07:21:08 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 10, 2023, 07:04:58 pm
No, I was never in the service, but I have had lots of friends who were.  :laugh:

I did work with a powder monkey on a road project through the Blue Ridge,and Henry could take that VW bus sized granodiorite boulder and crack it in half, shatter it into bits, or launch it across two lanes of pavement and a lane of deep fill, whatever you chose.
I only ever saw that man look scared once, when the boss was messing with a two part charge, ramping it with a shovel handle. His eyes got big, and I followed him over below the lip of the road surface and asked him , "I reckon what Carl is doing isn't recommended". He just looked at me and smiled (he didn't particularly like Carl) and shook his head. "Nope".

Heh. My guy was Norby. Same thing. Only time I seen him sweat, we was plumbing up a big shoot... about 150 feet by 12 foot shear, about 50 ft high... All the holes were drilled and packed, and we were doing caps and wire... Cocky as he is, we brought all the wire to the center and built the loom on the tailgate... He pulled the rip on the timer, and sauntered over to the truck, as I did too. Took our time getting in... laughed and poked a little fun about something or another...

It was his thing, to bet on the clock a bit... Anyhow, he reached for the key and...

click...
click...
click...

Sh*t...

click...
click...

Norby... We should git...

clickkk....
Nah... we can't outrun it now...

click...
VROOM....

Roll your windows down! kick the glass out..

He got us dang near out of the way of it, but we weren't going to make it, so he got as far as he thought he could, and turned her downslope for a sleigh ride to hell.

KERWOOOOM!

Woke up stacked against a big fir... Truck's totaled... we are bleeding out our nose and ears...
And he's laughing about it. Dumb sombich had a death wish, I swear.

Missed it by that much.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4362 on: September 10, 2023, 07:32:40 pm »
 :silly:

Yeah, I know, but IF you can laugh about it, sooner or later you will.

Henry was so good that when he did a shot up the mountain from us and a pumpkin sized rock landed right where the State Hand had been standing (we were having a little meeting on the next hairpin turn down the mountain, but all got underneath something when we heard the shot go off), they hired some guy to stand there with a clipboard and keep track of every stick that went in a hole after that.  I guess someone thought that might not have completely been an accident.  :shrug:
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4363 on: September 10, 2023, 07:39:50 pm »
Quote from: Jack Russell on September 10, 2023, 07:31:21 pm
I remember in the good old days when the perforators would detonate primer cord that was wrapped around a stump or even let you have a piece or 2 to "fish" with.  Those were the days...lol.  I hear the fishing was good.  happy77
"Nobel Spinners"... only saw that done with plumbing parts and black powder and canon fuse, back in High School.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4364 on: September 10, 2023, 07:54:10 pm »
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« Reply #4365 on: September 10, 2023, 07:56:35 pm »
Quote from: Jack Russell on September 10, 2023, 07:31:21 pm
I remember in the good old days when the perforators would detonate primer cord that was wrapped around a stump or even let you have a piece or 2 to "fish" with.  Those were the days...lol.  I hear the fishing was good.  happy77

My favorite thing for stumps was kinnepak. Mix the koolaid in the bag the night before... leave the bag open so it could throw heat off... Tomorrow pack four of those under any stump and it's gonna leave. Just don't be under it when it comes back.  :laugh:

LOVE that stuff for poppin rocks in a roadway...
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« Reply #4366 on: September 10, 2023, 10:56:15 pm »
It's just another tourist trap anyway
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« Reply #4367 on: September 10, 2023, 11:44:37 pm »
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My favorite thing for stumps was kinnepak. Mix the koolaid in the bag the night before... leave the bag open so it could throw heat off... Tomorrow pack four of those under any stump and it's gonna leave. Just don't be under it when it comes back.  :laugh:

LOVE that stuff for poppin rocks in a roadway...
Is that the pink stuff?  That's what Henry was worried about.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4368 on: September 10, 2023, 11:45:46 pm »
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It's just another tourist trap anyway
The ones with Marlboros are wannabes.

It's the ones with stogies you have to worry about.
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Is that the pink stuff?  That's what Henry was worried about.

Yeah... It's pink when it's mixed.
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« Reply #4395 on: September 15, 2023, 03:41:56 pm »
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"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

"More raccoons and squirrels have been arrested that people on the Epstein List"    

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #4399 on: September 16, 2023, 10:53:53 am »
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"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

"More raccoons and squirrels have been arrested that people on the Epstein List"    

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald
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