When they bury markers this deep, they are hard to find. :-@ Makes you want to smash it with a hammer!! :-$ Well, maybe in this case that would not be such a good idea!! +o(
I don't think I'd be hanging around any UXO, even for a unique photo. Has that item been determined to be inert?
A few areas in Bowie County have the concrete version as monuments.
> I don't think I'd be hanging around any UXO, even for a unique photo. Has that item been determined to be inert?
I try to treat that sort of stuff like it is ert, whether I've been told it is inert or not. 😉
Larry P
SHOOT IT WITH YOUR POCKET GUN
It was in the ert, but now they've done dug it up.
Judging by the size, shape, and orientation, looks like you found the end of the lower unit of one of my forefathers......
now you know why I'm tired all the time.....:-P
Don't see a fuse on the end that is up, is that the rear and the fins have rusted away and a point detonating fuse is still in place, aren't the delayed and penetrating fuses in the rear? Had to paint the depth charges several times a year and the Torpedo men would get us Gunners Mates to help move them around the deck. This was in 1960 and the depth charges were WW 2 ordnance, Nitro Glycerin is one components of TNT and other explosives, over time it can settle out and concentrate at the bottom of the container it is in, including depth charges, have seen that happen to TNT charges we had in the demolition locker, we would use soapy water to gently dilute the concentrate before cleaning it. The explosives in the depth charge have the same tendency over time, so the Torpedo Men handled those charges with kid gloves, we didn't, after lifting them down from the racks and K-guns, we we rolled them and survived that stupid activity. If that object that looks like a bomb casing is a bomb and it is loaded, you have a larger potential problem to deal with than just a damaged and dud fuze. Can it be blown in place?
jud,
That's a WWII 500 pound bomb. They are talking about using multiple blast blankets and blowing it in place. That's in Munich, Germany. They have LOTS of experience in handling those things.Got to watch them do a 250 pounder in Stuttgart one year and that was an incredible event, to say the least.
Makes me think of the WWII vintage cartoon where either Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny was a quality inspector in a munitions plant who had a giant hammer and a large marker. Any bomb that didn't blow up was labeled "DUD".
Get on Down, cptdent !! Your WWII bomb made yahoo news today.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/bomb-world-war-ii-detonated-purpose-224141873.html
I see you already updated this thread with the NBC news version. That is definitely hairy. :excruciating:
Here's a YouTube Video of you and your bomb.
[flash width=853 height=480] http://www.youtube.com/v/9BQIE00_3o8?version=3&hl=en_US [/flash]
This was timely.
I'm staking out 1400 UXO anomalies on a government site right now.
And explode-in-place is a very real option.
Treading lightly...
I did a 300 station static gps network on an old army proving grounds site back in the 90's. They found everything.
From hand grenades to 500 lb bombs. The UXO guys said that they did not like this site because soo many of them were duds. Hard to stay on your toes when only 1 or 2 percent were live. They are still working on that site. We have been discussing locating all of the observation bunkers. If we do that, I think we should grout in a cap and submitt the obsertations to OPUS db.
