Well, a lady in Michigan a number of years ago (late '80s, early '90s) wanted a stump removed from her front yard. She was going to call a bulldozer, but an old codger told her he knew all about dynamite and could just roll that stump right out of the ground (yes, this IS possible). So he snakeholed three sticks under the stump and fired 'er off.

Nothing. The stump was still there in the ground. However, deep in the dark underground the roots had been blasted loose....

Annoyed, the old gentleman shoved a bundle of eleven sticks of 60%* under the stump and touched it off.

The stump rose, according the witnesses, about sixty feet in the air and came down through the lady's roof. It also left a fairly large crater in her front yard.





*60% nitroglycerine, by weight. This is heavy-duty dynamite.