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To: Carolyn who wrote (161)	10/27/2001 8:45:36 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

What, ammonium nitrate? ... i just went to the Dubya thread where i know he posts, searched it with 'nitrate', got this malarkey - '...Ammonium nitrate fertilizers comes in much weaker concentrations than the 99%-plus required for explosives. Creating concentrated amounts of ammonium nitrate is quite complex ... ' - #reply-15676502 Not so ... i have myself bought fifty pound bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer at a feed store in British Columbia, dumped them into a plastic washtub on my front porch, mixed in a little diesel fuel from the slip tank in the pickup, not too much not too little, just enough to make it pasty, mix it up nice and even, then took it into the woods and used it ... failure rate zero, it all blew up just fine .... we used to use way too much mostly, being well away from residential and not knowing the fine points ..... don't do it any more since the early eighties, there's a ticketed blaster around now who doesn't overcharge, and we do much less of that sort of work now anyway ... it was always quite illegal without a ticket but highly practical, and safe as in church until lit off by the powder, you could drive your pickup over a bag of the stuff and it won't blow ... it's with the caps you have to be careful, and old leaky dynamite ... there was one guy, recently deceased [from other causes -g-], who used to set off about ten pounds of it on Hallowe'ens and New Year's Eves, he lived on a small hill and you could hear it for miles, it was a tradition ... any leftover anfo you can just spread on your garden, the tiny bit of diesel fuel won't hurt anything