Fell Down Laughing

I was on a job today, 4" clogged sewer line. I was sizing up the situation when the husband came down stairs and started talking to me about it. I showed him the clog as you could see it from the c/o. He then related a story to me about a friend of his that lived in the country and played with cannons, who had a similar clog in his sewer line. Well instead of calling someone he thought he could take care of it himself by packing the line with black powder and igniting it. Well he cleaned out the clog alright AND blew apart his entire DWV system and blew the toilets off the floor with it.


His wife divorced him right after that. True story.

Cass,
LMAO! That reminds me of the time many, many years ago that some "friends" told me to fire a 12-gauge down a sluggish shallow well pipe to clear the point.
DA that I was way back then, I did. It blew water all over me, and the shotgun went flying and busted the stock. Since it was my shotgun, my wife didn't divorce me. Just had a good laugh at me. (Cleared the point for a while, though.) Thank goodness I didn't have any black powder back then. Who knows? LOL
Mike

A friend of mine told me the story of how his grandfather used to do maintenance on his cesspool. Occasionally he would put a 1/2 stick of dynamite in to help "clear" the seepholes between the bricks. One time he used a whole stick. A couple of weeks later he was walking in the front yard and noticed it felt "spongy". The lid to the cesspool then collapsed and his granfather fell into the cesspool. Luckily he escaped unharmed, but the cesspool needed to be redone.

tnt

My wife's uncle told me about the time they tried to blast a stump out of the ground. The dirt was so hard that the explosion could not go downwards, so it went sideways. He said they could see the earth mounding up as it went. It hit the basement wall and caved it in.