. Intensive farming and use of dynamite . ckages and Transportation High explosives are put up in cartridges, generally P/4 x 8-inch, and then packed with sawdust in wooden cases. They can,when thus packed, be shipped on freight trains or carried in wagons,with but little danger of explosion. There have been instances wherethey have been dropped, and the cases smashed, without an ex-plosion resulting, showing that these high explosives stand very roughtreatment*; still, it should never be forgotten that they are explosives,and we would particularly direct the readers attention to pages 99 to10
. Intensive farming and use of dynamite . ckages and Transportation High explosives are put up in cartridges, generally P/4 x 8-inch, and then packed with sawdust in wooden cases. They can,when thus packed, be shipped on freight trains or carried in wagons,with but little danger of explosion. There have been instances wherethey have been dropped, and the cases smashed, without an ex-plosion resulting, showing that these high explosives stand very roughtreatment*; still, it should never be forgotten that they are explosives,and we would particularly direct the readers attention to pages 99 to101 of this handbook, where stress has been laid on What Not toDo. If these instructions are observed, the user need have no fearof an accidental explosion. 86 EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING SUPPLIES Thawing There are various ways of thawing high explosives, but theonly safe methods are those which thaw slowly and gradually. Burying dynamite in water-tight boxes in manure is a safe andfairly effective way to thaw it, provided the manure is THAWING KETTLE The safest and best way is in a thawing kettle. A thawingkettle is a double-galvanized iron bucket, having an outside spacefor hot water and an inner water-tight receptacle for the thawing kettles are made in one piece, while others are ineffect two pails, the outer one for hot water and the inner one forthe dynamite. (See illustrations.)
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