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All the year long,it's like this

The good thing is if he gets raided he has an excuse, there's not enough room on the tractor,,,,,,, he he eh
 
THat is just crazy! How he is able to farm that without explosions is amazing. You would think they would walk it with metal detectors and clear everything out. Not worth peoples lives or the cost of a tractor.
 
It truly is amazing how few accidents in fact happen, given the careless way these ERW are treated by a large amount of people (the farmer in this video by no means being an exception).
The things that still seem to instill some respect/fear are chemical munitions (or pieces thought to be such).
Probably the lack off "bad experiences" by the majority of (non EOD / professionals ) people regularly encountering these ERW leads to a certain, unwarented, complacency.
Given that quite a few high explosives used during WW1 tend to become more and more unstable with time (e.g. the crystalisation of Picric acid) the dangers of handling these ERW should increase rather than decrease.

regards,

Menno.
 
Hi

Don't be afraid :tinysmile_grin_t: many uxo can be carefully moved , but not all .

The farmers working on the old battlefields do all like this.
The work can't stop.

Don't forget that the great majority of the shells destroyed by the EOD come directly from the farmers;
they find the shells and bring them along the fields near the roads. The EOD comes after .
The farmer do like this from 1918 and they know how to do (very few accidents regarding the huge quantity they find everywhere).

they never move the aviation bombs.


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Ive a silly question. Where the heck where these photos taken? Was it a specific area targeted or is it like that all over Europe?
 
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Hi Lou

I think It's like this everywhere on the battle areas France , Belgium , Italy, Germany , East Europe...
Certainly Ukrainia and Russia also ...


the photos were certainly taken in France in a rgion of the Map here under (Red , Yellow or Green zone)

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And keep in mind that 4-5% of the shells fired were chemical filled. When you look at the millions and millions of items fired, figure in a dud rate of approximately 10%, add in lost/over-run or abandoned ammunition, you can see why more than 90 years later some sites still get an annual average of 1 ton recovered per day (350 tons per year).
 
As a teenager in the 1970s I read of a car crash somewhere in France, where a car load of four teenagers left the road in a former front line area and the impact detonated a WW1 shell. Two of the youngsters died and the other two were injured. Not sure whether it was the crash that did most of the damage, or the detonation that followed the crash. Maybe doubly lethal. It was hearing of things like that, that got me interested in disposing of UXOs.
 
I recall a PBS special, or some such, a few years back, depicting this specific "issue". It does seem they have little regard about the dangers, but as mentioned previously, the farmers probably know more about this ordnance than most anybody, having handled it since early childhood. Akin to pilots, there are OLD farmers and there are BOLD farmers, but there aren't that many OLD, BOLD farmers. I imagine they know the limits as well as anybody.

Rick
 
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