Show DY nil aronte FOIN FOH stumps IF JUDGMENT IS USED IT MAY BE HANDLED WITH SAFETY never under any circumstances undertake to thaw explosives before fire or in stove awas follow printed directions by GEORGE ROBERTS in th the a use of dynamite tor for ridding laud of stumps one cannot bo be too careful in handling the dynamite and the caps used to set it off it if good judgment Is used it may be handled with perfect safety it should bo be stored in a dry well ventilated ted place where the temperature will not rise above aboe 90 degrees F the caps should bo be kept in a separate place as they are much easier set off thin than he dyna mite it is un to tell most persons that dynamite should be protected from havy jars and should not bo be stored where any shooting is likely to be done A few ew sears ears ago a carload of was exploded at jellico terin tenn b a bo be firing into the car with a 22 caliber rifle most moot dynamite freezes at a torn tera pera ture between 40 and 60 50 degrees F some brands will freeze at about the freezing point of water mater frozen dynamite should not cot be used never attempt to thaw it until printed dl di erections lons ions which come with every ever box and if no directions are ob tain them from your dealer have been thoroughly studied never under any circumstances un dermake to thaw dynamite before a fire or in a stove about the only needed are an augur and a tamping rod an old broom or hoe boe handle are satisfactory neier nei er use a hammer or any other ob eject for driving the tamping rod the hole Is bored at an angle of about 45 degrees so that the charge position of auger in boring hole will come under the center of the stump it if stumps are hollow bollom or of course the charge will haie bae to bo be located under some firm part of the stump some blasters throw a log chain tightly around the hollow stumps to facilitate their removal the amount of dynamite to be used depends upon several conditions the character of the stump the character stump of the soil and bethar i it iq i ampt or dry whether ine stump is green or parti pard decayed and the nature of the root system therefore it is mant featly impossible to gh gie e specific dirac eions as to the amount of dynamite to be used the amount of dynamite required to blow stumps of the same lind in the same soil does dews not vary nary directly with mith the diameter but more nearly with the square of the diame ter or in other words with the area of a cross section of the stump the area of a cross section of a stump 48 inches in diameter Is 16 times as great as the area ot of a cross section of a stump 12 inches in diameter however only on judgment developed by b ex peri enee can determine how much of the explosive shall be used in a given case the blowing blaming of green stumps Is from two and one halt to three times as great as tor for dead ones |