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Is this organic?

 
                                
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http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/dupont/FarmingWithDynamite/Mimage01.html

Tickled me anyway
 
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Not exactly organic, but..... for a one time use not necessarily a bad choice. I believe even Bill Mollison suggests the use under the proper circumstances in the Designers Manual.

Jeff

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Better than a rotohoe
 
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That used to be the method of choice for getting rid of stumps and boulders.  Even as late as the '70s, I could just walk into a feed store, buy a case, and walk out.  I would imagine that today, you would have to jump through all kinds of hoops just to buy a box of blasting caps, yet alone a case of dynamite!  The guy I was working with sent his 16yo daughter back to the store for another box of caps.  No problem!
 
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