John: I think what saved me, car was parked in a straight line with tractor, car battery was on the right, and I was on left ahead of rear wheel. Between the tractor wheel, seat with battery box under it and fender, all shielded me quite well. I had gone direct to starter for my boost thus the tractor battery box was closed. I was very, very lucky.
Tractor didn't suffer any ill effects of the blast. I've done quite a bit of blasting with dynamite over the years, even set loads as large as 48-1" x 10" sticks and the blast wasn't any worse than that battery. I was 50'from that dynamite blast but also had better shelter.
Now the most messy explosion I ever had was dynamiting a frozen manure pile. First one didn't work, so I loaded a bit heavier, center of that manure pile wasn't frozen. I had the most speckled barn in the county. Folks used to stop by, ask who did the art work. I got into dynamiting quite young, my dad and I wanted to reclaim some flood plain. I had taken courses on open ditching with dynamite at ag college. We'd load as much as 2,000' at a time, and would cut a 5' deep, V shaped ditch. This was flood plain one had to be careful crossing with horses in the 1940s. By 1960 we were crossing it with big tractors and trucks. This product was called ditching dynamite, you made a hole roughly 2' deep with a bar, cut the dynamite length according to how hard ground was, holes were 6" apart, used one blasting cap on the first hole and the rest was chain reaction. It was about 25% of the cost of heavy equipment and no getting machines bogged.
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Today's Featured Article - The Cletrac General GG and the BF Avery A - A Bit of History - by Mike Ballash. This article is a summary of what I have gathered up from various sources on the Gletrac General GG and the B. F. Avery model A tractors. I am quite sure that most of it is accurate. The General GG was made by the Cleveland Tractor Company (Cletrac) of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally the company was called the Cleveland Motor Plow Company which began in 1912, then the Cleveland Tractor Company (1917) and finally Cletrac.
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