[b112]

I'm curious what circumstances besides desperation not to lose your cutting would lead you to put it up with high enough moisture content that there's risk of explosion.

As a little girl, my grandmother got blown up is a barn explosion, around 1900. She's was fine, but passed on a couple of decades back, so I can't ask why they did it.

Just that every once in a while, she'd make sure I knew "don't do that!"

[msrenee]

Oof. Glad she was alright. Both for her sake and your existence. There's so much danger on farms beyond the obvious machinery hazards. Grain silos terrify me. I've never dealt with them myself but have seen the aftermath of explosions and heard the horror stories of corn turning into quicksand underneath folks who climb in to get the auger clear.

[b112]

Pigeons too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6QI58zZBc