This is especially entertaining if you know something about explosives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/video...ont_know_shit_about/

Years ago, back when Clinton first started gating off roads around here, we flew out on a rescue to meet an ambulance about an hour west of town. We sat down and were waiting for the ambulance to meet up with us and one of the local EMS guys and I got to talking. We were both bitching about them gating off roads and he says to me, "Let me show you something". I said, "OK", and we walked over to his truck. He opened up the toolbox in the bed of his truck and he had at least twenty sticks of dynamite in there. He says, "This is how I deal with gates!".

I always like that old fella. He died a few years back...of natural causes.

I have no comment except for You have to love old Texans.

Jim

I saw this a long time ago. Thanks for posting.

Reminds me of my EOD days back in the 70s and the stuff we saw and did. Good times.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Years ago, back when Clinton first started gating off roads around here, we flew out on a rescue to meet an ambulance about an hour west of town. We sat down and were waiting for the ambulance to meet up with us and one of the local EMS guys and I got to talking. We were both bitching about them gating off roads and he says to me, "Let me show you something". I said, "OK", and we walked over to his truck. He opened up the toolbox in the bed of his truck and he had at least twenty sticks of dynamite in there. He says, "This is how I deal with gates!".

I always like that old fella. He died a few years back...of natural causes.

About 4 decades ago the US forest service decided to gate off a bunch of roads up in North Idaho. Some wise folks decided to remove them. Used dynamite on the first few. Then they just started ripping them out with their trucks.

Forest Service hid what amounted to game cameras trying to catch them. Guys stole the cameras.

Forest service finally started "kelly cuts" which were just 6-8 foot mounds of dirt across the road. Took about 5 minutes for the guys to figure out how to get across those, in their 4 wheel drive trucks. My step dad showed me how they did it.

Why were they blocking the roads? Because a bunch of politicraps decided they wanted to hunt there without dealing with locals.

Did not work as well as they thought it would.

Wish I had a dollar for every tale like that I heard growing up. Seemed to always come from an uncle who was a rancher.

Love it.

The explosives part reminds me of a buddy of mine.... and our first attempt at moonshine.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Amateurs. It's amazing what a little confinement can do to explosive performance.

The outhouses in the national forests are serviced by having a truck suck the stuff out. The new guy gets the job of sticking the tube in.
Watched this when the crew decided it was time to "initiate" him. Main reason was a large family had been using it and whatever they were eating stunk. They started pumping, then sent a blast of air back into the toilet. Stuff flew everywhere and the guy was covered. Then the crew cleaned everything up. The sight of the spray and chunks was unbelievable.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Amateurs. It's amazing what a little confinement can do to explosive performance.

I was waiting for what I knew to be coming in that story, delivered as expected. How the guy couldn't have figured out he was literally creating a shit cannon is unbelievable. A couple of small holes in a concrete container, it has to go somewhere.

My sides hurt and my eyes are still watery from laughing so hard. Can you say DOOFUS! Dayum! LOL