I like blowing stuff up. It’s fun! I also like watching controlled demo. It’s soothing. I don’t know why, but it is.

You have your style of controlled demolition, I have my style. What say we put 120 shells in the air, time on target, each shell going through a different window of a condemned apartment building? Or, we can delay shells, putting one or two shells on target every two seconds?

I admire your style as well.

I worked as a Journeyman Lineman for 27 years. Our crew installed a couple of poles and some 1000W lights at a strip mine. Our contact informed us they would be shooting a wall, shortly, if we wanted to see it. I was the only one that stayed and damn glad I did! Was awesome!

Side note. I refer to myself as being Possum Blonde.

I've never heard that before! Little detail please. I was given my name in HS. Would ride around at night and catch a possum. Next day, after school, I'd scare the hell out of folks, chasing them around with a pissed off possum. The brothers called me Possum man. It stuck. 🙄

It’s just a running joke about my hair turning from Blonde to Opossum Blonde.

🤣 I get it now!

I don't ask why, I just accept it.

And enjoy the sooth.

Army 12B oom BOOM

Controlled demo exactly reminds me of the towers on 9/11

Sometimes it blows down.

There are quieter ways of putting trench lines in. All human problems can be solved with an appropriate amount of high explosives.

Exactly.

My brother does this in Alaska: surface blasting. I went with underground mining, busting 12' wide, 10' high by 6' deep hard rock rounds. Surface is cool, but underground is referred to as blast sex.

I could watch that all day!!

Mesmerizing

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Yeah give me some good old building demolitions and I’m a happy camper

It’s almost an art form.

I always thought that that would be one hell of a fun job

It’s hot, or colder than hell, dusty all the time unless it’s muddy. You have to pay attention. But you get to blow stuff up! It’s great!

That’s how @tollbrothers digs out a fountain for homes and then the homes foundations and roads develop big sink holes and swallow the home and roads up blasting virgin soil , compaction takes years before settlement

Yeah, and watching the controlled demo in slo mo...ya see the charges going off sequentially.

It’s orderly.

Yep.

Okay. Just please blow up the right stuff

Same here TD.

The man that taught me shoot always called it “therapy”. It’s all relative. Controlled power.

Range therapy was what we always called it.

That’s satisfying. Makes me happy.

Similar to World Trade Center, but horizontal 😉

Yep

Based

Magical. I could watch that all day. If only I knew blowing stuff up was an actual job. 🙄

Agreed

I got some moles in my yard. Have at 'em. 😁

This is satisfying

Hi Danny!

Eco-friendly too.

Same here 👍🏻

Controlled demo you say? Ever seen this one?

It all goes back to being a kid with cap guns and M-80s. We are easily amused. Right?

Loved the smell of the fired caps!

Cascades

We used to watch from the windows of the high school and see the coal mine on the other side of the valley as they lit off the next line of the strip mining. Good times.

I think we like it for the precision and at some point, precision becomes art

Open Pit Mining… Destruction with Appeal ( from a Distance )

Nothing like watching a good Drag Line Shoot running Right. Its Worth all the truck loads of Powder i Hauled In.

It's a fascinating sport and the more yah learn the more fascinating it becomes.