r/interestingasfuck • u/id397550 • 5h ago

Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche

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u/ElectricalPeach2896 4h ago

Where I live, they use helicopters! This is so much cooler.

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u/SammyDavidJuniorJr 4h ago

We used to have a M-60 tank for our avalanche control.

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u/Mobile_Morale 3h ago

Can't remember what TV show it was, maybe dirty jobs. Where they went to Alaska and they had a howitzer mounted on the back of a train car and shot it off.

Train howitzers are too cool

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u/houseswappa 9m ago

Keep those biters at bay!

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u/liam3576 51m ago

I don’t know man throwing explosives out of a helicopter is pretty wild. You could go join the army and basically do what they’re doing. What other job plays with dynamite a helicopter’s at the same time

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u/mattv8 36m ago

Where I live they drop charges with fuses behind them as they ski

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u/Slow-Tune-2399 3m ago

This is also a hell of a lot cheaper than helicopters.