re: What those guys did was incredibly dangerous
Sure, it would have been a lot easier and safer to just blow it up in place. You could see the crater left by the munitions they couldn't move. Imagine what all of them would have done.
Another of countless examples of our forces endangering, or even losing their own lives, to try to protect Iraqi and Afghan civilians and their property. They get little credit for this, and the ones who do lose their lives in this process are tallied gleefully up as a sign of U.S. failure.