Hi, I'm new here, and also a new PA tester :)

[davesparks]

and the stuff available to the public isn't exactly well built!

That is beginning to be a sign of the times now . Even in our industry.

Well yes, but when it's packed full of gunpowder it's pretty worrying!

 

[ruston]

I know lol. I saw a 200 ton excavator steel plates caved in while backing away from the rock face and the blast set off prematurely.

 

[davesparks]

I know lol. I saw a 200 ton excavator steel plates caved in while backing away from the rock face and the blast set off prematurely.

Ouch!

My grandad had some similar stories from his days as a diesel fitter in the Australian mines and quarries

 

[ruston]

Ouch!

My grandad had some similar stories from his days as a diesel fitter in the Australian mines and quarries

Aye it was fun . If they did not stem the bore holes properly it was rock roman candles lol.
They whistled a tune on the way down.

 

[davesparks]

Aye it was fun . If they did not stem the bore holes properly it was rock roman candles lol.
They whistled a tune on the way down.

There's nothing worse than a whistling Roman candle!

 

[ruston]

There's nothing worse than a whistling Roman candle!

Aye , one of them came through the roof of the meat wagon (personnel carrier} and landed in the gangway between the lads. It was a miracle no one was hurt. It was an old Bedford 4wd converted ex army lorry. It had a hole in the roof like a shell hole