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How-To:  Blast Through Boring Farmwork With Dynamite

How-To: Blast Through Boring Farmwork With Dynamite

I think it was in one of the WWI-era “Boy Mechanic” books that I found a DIY project opening with the direction to “pick up a few sticks of dynamite at the hardware store.” I can think of a lot of projects I would like to undertake – and many more than I would like to write – that would start out in the same way, today.

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Utterly Insane Sledgehammer Fireworks During Carnival

Utterly Insane Sledgehammer Fireworks During Carnival

This has to be the craziest DIY town fireworks celebrations ever!

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“The joy of sex don’t last like the fun of shootin’ anvils”

To “shoot,” an anvil, for the record, is to blast it several hundred feet into the air using a charge of black powder. This delightful man, Gay Wilkinson, is apparently the world’s champion anvil-shooter. The fireworks start at 1:30. [via Boing Boing]

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