When the going gets tough, bring on the dynamite!  The guys are building a road in some very rocky terrain out north of us.  It’s much too rocky to dig with the dozers so they drilled some holes, filled them with dynamite, and blew up the rock!  Above, Josh is waiting for the signal to push the ignite button.  And, no Josh isn’t just standing there all alone.  I just cropped it so he’s the only one in the photo.  The main guy with the radio is right there beside/behind him!

The wire wrapped around the orange thing in the first picture is connected to the dynamate in each of the 80+ holes.  Below, the first couple explosions.  They are all set to go off one after another.  I’m including a few pictures of the explosion in sequence and if you look toward the bottom you’ll see the pile of rock that’s left covering this road after they’re done blasting.

The last picture above is mostly dust and smoke as the rock settles.  This is what it looks like after the blasting and after it’s all clear to take a look.  The guys are looking things over to see how it turned out.

Josh and Tim take a closer look as Grandpa climbs the rock pile with the big dozer.  I like this picture because you can really see the size of the rock and the dozer with Tim and Josh standing in close proximity.

The picture below gives you a better look at the type of rock they’re trying to work with out there.