. Clearing land of stumps. Clearing of land; Explosives in agriculture. Study the methods of handling explosives as outlined on pages 34 to 40 and 58 to 61, to which every reader is referred at this point, before trying to load charges. A few special hints will be given here. Charges of explosives usually should be as near as may be in a round bulkâ not strung out for 2 or 3 feet in a long hole. To get them so the hole must be enlarged at the bottom by scraping or springing. Slit the paper wrappings of the sticks and press the sticks in the hole with Slit Stick the tamping stick till they swel
. Clearing land of stumps. Clearing of land; Explosives in agriculture. Study the methods of handling explosives as outlined on pages 34 to 40 and 58 to 61, to which every reader is referred at this point, before trying to load charges. A few special hints will be given here. Charges of explosives usually should be as near as may be in a round bulkâ not strung out for 2 or 3 feet in a long hole. To get them so the hole must be enlarged at the bottom by scraping or springing. Slit the paper wrappings of the sticks and press the sticks in the hole with Slit Stick the tamping stick till they swell to fit the hole tight and shorten Wrappings to 2 to 4 inches in length. (See pages 24 to 26.) But do not do this if the hole is very wet. When you have many stumps to blast out, it often is a good practice to make holes in the forenoon and then to load and shoot after dinner. Load and fire all the holes you have prepared when you go to the field, after which you can proceed to make more holes. Always fire the charges soon after they are loaded. To do this prevents missing charges, and avoids chance explosions due to meddling, and the like. If the holes are wet, firing immediately is required to avoid weakening of the explosive by water. If you prepare your charges in the field, you can cut a supply of pieces of fuse before you go out. Make the pieces of varying lengths and crimp caps on them to prevent the powder shaking out of the ends. Take the roll along with you to provide for holes requiring longer fuse. Don't attempt to use pieces of fuse less than 15 inches long. They are dangerous. Use plenty of water when tamping the holes, and tamp well. See that the ground is packed solid, not only where you made the hole, but all around the stump. Often there are holes dug by skunks, groundhogs, gophers, squir- rels, rats or mice under stumps. Keep the charge of explosives away from these cavitiesâbetter fill them up. In lighting many fuses a gas- oline or oil torch is useful. B
Size: 1372px × 1821px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectexplosi, bookyear1917
