• Farmer finds sea mine burried in his Victorian paddock
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[quote]Earthmoving contractors have uncovered a sea mine from World War II on a dairy farm in northern Victoria. The Parker family from Kyabram were shocked at the discovery. The decommissioned mine was buried under an old dairy and was unearthed as part of landscaping work to level a paddock to make it easier to irrigate. Sarah Parker couldn't believe the find. "When Jeremy called to say they'd hit an obstacle [and that it was ] an old sea mine, I didn't think we heard him right." "We were quite shocked." Kyabram is over 200 kilometres from any ocean, so hitting a sea mine with a tractor is an oddity.[/quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/xCA1Sf0.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-13/sea-mine-found-buried-in-dairy-farm-paddock/6465386[/url] You don't see that every day.
[video=youtube;Cun-LZvOTdw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cun-LZvOTdw[/video]
-two seconds late is still late, I guess.-
[QUOTE=Mark9013100;47748620][video=youtube;Cun-LZvOTdw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cun-LZvOTdw[/video][/QUOTE] I knew somebody was going to post this the second I saw the article. Holy shit, I'm glad nobody got hurt.
[QUOTE=Solo Wing;47748636]I knew somebody was going to post this the second I saw the article. Holy shit, I'm glad nobody got hurt.[/QUOTE] on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] I'm not exactly an explosives expert, so I didn't know that.
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] What about all that unexploded ordinance found in England and Germany. They send the bomb squad in all the time. So they must be a threat
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] dude no wtf, old explosives get less stable over time, for example old dynamite has the nitroglycerin leak out and if it gets a good shake it blows up. Oh yeah, and don't forget all those kids getting their legs blasted off with 30 year old mines in vietnam and all those african places
[quote]The decommissioned mine was buried under an old dairy and was unearthed as part of landscaping work to level a paddock to make it easier to irrigate.[/quote] uh, I think it'd be fine guys :v:
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what?[/QUOTE] All that dangerous rust, of course. Someone could've gotten tetanus!
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] No, depending on the nature of the explosives (Comp B, straight TNT, etc) dictates the rate at which a explosive charge becomes less stable. They found, defused, and safely carried off site [URL="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/09/national/dud-wwii-bomb-defused-in-osaka/#.VVnue5-mrqB"]a 1 ton bomb in Osaka just recently.[/URL] When ordnance like a bomb fails to detonate it means either the fuse was no good or didn't function properly and the explosive train wasn't detonated and thus the payload wasn't detonated along with it. That [B]DOES NOT MEAN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE PAYLOAD IS NOW SOMEHOW INERT.[/B] The charge has actually become more unstable and can, depending on the nature of the explosive, and can detonate without a fuse. When ordnance becomes old, you don't just remove the fuse and dump the explosives out, you take it to a blow site and 'demil' it. In layman's you take it out to a open area, and EOD loads it with a shit ton of comp 4 or det cord and they vaporize the thing. Thankfully the article mentions it was decommissioned so the explosives were removed and the whole thing is inert, they could hang it over their mantle if they wanted, nice story to tell the kids.
[QUOTE=Solo Wing;47748636]I knew somebody was going to post this the second I saw the article. Holy shit, I'm glad nobody got hurt.[/QUOTE] That clip is a force of nature when the words "farm", "weapon" and "explosive" are uttered.
Its just a loada junk [editline]18th May 2015[/editline] Why on earth would anyone bury a decommissioned mine that's begging for future trouble.
Mainland Victoria is a helluva strange place to bury a sea mine of all things
[QUOTE=Sableye;47749199]Its just a loada junk [editline]18th May 2015[/editline] Why on earth would anyone bury a decommissioned mine that's begging for future trouble.[/QUOTE] Except it's decommissioned, which means there is no explosives in it anymore, soooo
[QUOTE=Rastadogg;47750666]Except it's decommissioned, which means there is no explosives in it anymore, soooo[/QUOTE] Some drunk naval officers after WWII wanted to play a joke 70 years old in the making.
[QUOTE=Mark9013100;47748620][video=youtube;Cun-LZvOTdw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cun-LZvOTdw[/video][/QUOTE] People post this video in a lot of threads that have stories like this, but I think this is the most relevant it's been yet :v:
[QUOTE=Mark9013100;47748620][video=youtube;Cun-LZvOTdw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cun-LZvOTdw[/video][/QUOTE] This gets posted a billion times already but I still watch it anyways Hot Fuzz is just that great
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] Nyet, explosives from olden days are still prime to go off. Just needs some right conditions if you will to do so. For example, some people have pulled up artillery shells from Brit vessel through out the World Wars that used cordite, and didn't realize that cordite can ignite even when wet.
[QUOTE=Solo Wing;47748636]Holy shit, I'm glad nobody got hurt.[/QUOTE] Naahhhhhhh, s' a loada' junk!
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] They are still blowing up 5-20 undetonated ww2 bombs every year here in the Netherlands. Roads gets closed down, people get evacuated. [URL="http://www.omroepgelderland.nl/web/nieuws-1/2077256/eod-laat-vliegtuigbom-ontploffen-in-ede.htm#.VVpEw_ntlBc"]http://www.omroepgelderland.nl/web/nieuws-1/2077256/eod-laat-vliegtuigbom-ontploffen-in-ede.htm#.VVpEw_ntlBc[/URL]
This reminds me of a scene from the 2007 film "Hot Fuzz" starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. [editline]18th May 2015[/editline] Not sure if anyone here has heard of it though.
Someone mentions sea mines, Instant Hot Fuzz.
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. People are still getting blown up by land mines and unexploded shells from world war [i]one[/i]. Most of the areas subject to the 8th Air Force in WW2 are still to this day digging up and detonating unexploded munitions, as are areas in Britian subject to the Luftwaffe during the Blitz. They're even finding the occasional V-2 Rocket warhead in London, and every weapon they find is still capable of obliterating everything around it. If that anti-ship mine has its explosive filling it is still live and it is still capable of going bang. Thankfully, this mine was inert before it was ever buried, but if it had been buried with its HE charge it could have left a crater the size of a large house when the tractor bumped into it.
So why the fuck was that there? That's quite out of place.
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] Don't try to educate about something you don't know about, especially when it involves dangers like explosives. Seriously if you told that to a bunch of people and someone actually listened to you they could die... wtf dude
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] Expired explosives become more, not less dangerous, they become far more unstable and prone to exploding without reason
[QUOTE=Ta16;47748948]No, depending on the nature of the explosives (Comp B, straight TNT, etc) dictates the rate at which a explosive charge becomes less stable. They found, defused, and safely carried off site [URL="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/09/national/dud-wwii-bomb-defused-in-osaka/#.VVnue5-mrqB"]a 1 ton bomb in Osaka just recently.[/URL] When ordnance like a bomb fails to detonate it means either the fuse was no good or didn't function properly and the explosive train wasn't detonated and thus the payload wasn't detonated along with it. That [b]DOES NOT MEAN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE PAYLOAD IS NOW SOMEHOW INERT.[/b] The charge has actually become more unstable and can, depending on the nature of the explosive, and can detonate without a fuse. When ordnance becomes old, you don't just remove the fuse and dump the explosives out, you take it to a blow site and 'demil' it. In laymans you take it out to a open area, and EOD loads it with a shit ton of comp 4 or det cord and the vaporize the thing. Thankfully the article mentions it was decommisioned so the explosives were removed and the whole thing is inert, the could hang it over their mantle if they wanted, nice story to tell the kids.[/QUOTE] That sounds like a fun job.
[QUOTE=hydrated;47748685]on what? explosives expire, you'll never get anything that old to go off[/QUOTE] With that logic would you willingly jump on a 30-60 year old land mine? Because if so, you both lack common sense and posses much bigger balls than I.
[QUOTE=UntouchedShadow;47750951]Naahhhhhhh, s' a loada' junk![/QUOTE] -insert hot fuzz reference here- Seriously, this whole thread became a hot fuzz memorial. Glad the mine was inert though. I'd have hated to see what would happen if it was still live.
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