Posted: 9/29/2009 3:28:25 PM EDT
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It's kinda like looking at a underwater tank obstacle. You can't really see anything.  This is what it looks like during a drought!  With these guys being State workers, OSHA regs were being utilized. Distance, is your friend. However since this is a heavily wooded area the standoff distance was back beyond the treeline, so no visual. Tannerite is louder. With that being said, the Kinesticks were buried over 5ft into the dam. Most of what you see on youtube or what not are people placing cratering charges, really not effective on dams. These guys cut a channel by placing an array of 6 to 9 charges in the dam. They put 3 up dam, 3 mid dam and 3 down dam about 3 to 5 ft apart and chained them together with detcord. This video was the 2nd shot of the day. They blew a much bigger dam way back off in the woods before I was able to meet them out there. |
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Who was the contractor, if you don't mind telling?
I ask because of my past career in explosives (14 yrs). We took down a few of these things ourselves in East Texas over the years. We utilized the 1/2 lb KinePak, also (8 per hole) on 25 millisecond delayed non-el's all the way across. After a while, we discovered how to make our own bangalores (spelling?) using 6-8 inch PVC and lots of 50 gr. DetCord. FUN! |
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Quoted: I'm curious how you accounted for 16 beaver. Did you shoot/trap 16 beaver? OR Were 16 beaver accidentally caught in a tragic explosion? I shot 2 this go around, they shot 2 and trapped 12. I don't have any conibear traps.  All the blasting was done after they felt enough were eradicated, plus with all the rain it was getting difficult for them to get on the area with the flooding. The state guys were Parks and Wildlife in conjunction with the USDA. They used 1.5# sticks of Kinepak, one per hole. This was by far the most effective technique I've seen. I've gone up to 20# charges of tannerite and cratered (1massive burried charge) but never got this kind of result. |
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It's kinda like looking at a underwater tank obstacle. You can't really see anything.
This is what it looks like during a drought! With these guys being State workers, OSHA regs were being utilized. Distance, is your friend. However since this is a heavily wooded area the standoff distance was back beyond the treeline, so no visual. Tannerite is louder. With that being said, the Kinesticks were buried over 5ft into the dam. Most of what you see on youtube or what not are people placing cratering charges, really not effective on dams. These guys cut a channel by placing an array of 6 to 9 charges in the dam. They put 3 up dam, 3 mid dam and 3 down dam about 3 to 5 ft apart and chained them together with detcord. This video was the 2nd shot of the day. They blew a much bigger dam way back off in the woods before I was able to meet them out there. Twenty five years ago, my cousin was trying to get hired on as a Wildlife Biologist with the Arkansas Game & Fish Commision. Before a slot opened up they put him to work as a "Trapper Technologist". He would trap nuisance animals, etc. Most of his work was near the newer subdivisions around Little Rock involving beavers and the problems their dams caused. He partnered with an explosives guy. Rob would go in a trap as many beavers as he could, then they would blow up the dam. Sometimes they would go back a few months later and do it all over again. 
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Old school Oregon there! Now too many hippies to blow up a dead whale.
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