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Yes Guy, We were allowed to do a little manual labor growing up! Tr, I like "P" for Plenty, I'll remember that. There was a near miss involved there when we touched off that shot. Dad had drove up within 500 feet with his brand new four wheel drive pickup. He'd parked and walked up to where we had the cat parked at the end of the two hundred foot long detontation wire which now that I think of it was probably closer to one hundred eighty feet long because we lost a little off the end every shot. With just over 600 sticks of dynamite carefully loaded and tamped in good for maximum blast, some very large pieces of stump went flying. One of those chunks, about half a big stump went right by the cat as we watched and square over the top of dad's new pickup. It seemed to crash down the hill thru the timber for about 30 seconds after barely missing the truck. We didn't have to pack any powder back to the magazine that night, all we had left was used in that shot. I think we got assigned back to the high lead rigging (cable logging with yarder) after that. We had more supervision there.
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