I hate to tell you but when we busted beaver dams there was nothing slow or cracked about it. No that isn't a limb flying through the air its an entire tree. :)
It was a dam about 100+ yards long and 3-5 foot high. That was five 5 gallon buckets with ANFO(fertilizer and diesel) seeded into the middle of the buckets was 4-5 sticks of detagel(they look like giant sausage rolls). It blasted a hole in the ground 40-50 yards wide and 15-20 yards deep right where the creek was supposed to be. It drained the entire swamp in a day. Took them little bastards a long time to build it back too.
Of course it was the biggest one we ever set off and it cracked windows in the house plus knocked knickknacks off shelves so grandma forbid us from doing anything that big ever again.
My dad discovered that traps worked much better but for like 2 decades we were at war with the beavers. It was like a family reunion tradition to blow something up.
Also because of how dense the foliage is if you were close enough to see the dam you'd be dead and/or your camera would be broken. I think you might want to watch again and really grasp how large that boom was. Those are trees not shrubs. You're like a mile or more away.
I hate to tell you but when we busted beaver dams there was nothing slow or cracked about it. No that isn't a limb flying through the air its an entire tree. :)
https://youtu.be/gx_LzC51LCY
Yea, big difference between blowing up a Beaver Dam with explosives, and what I was saying.
It was a dam about 100+ yards long and 3-5 foot high. That was five 5 gallon buckets with ANFO(fertilizer and diesel) seeded into the middle of the buckets was 4-5 sticks of detagel(they look like giant sausage rolls). It blasted a hole in the ground 40-50 yards wide and 15-20 yards deep right where the creek was supposed to be. It drained the entire swamp in a day. Took them little bastards a long time to build it back too.
Of course it was the biggest one we ever set off and it cracked windows in the house plus knocked knickknacks off shelves so grandma forbid us from doing anything that big ever again.
My dad discovered that traps worked much better but for like 2 decades we were at war with the beavers. It was like a family reunion tradition to blow something up.
Also because of how dense the foliage is if you were close enough to see the dam you'd be dead and/or your camera would be broken. I think you might want to watch again and really grasp how large that boom was. Those are trees not shrubs. You're like a mile or more away.