Bomb disposal - Advice Please

[yellowfrog]

half a dozen big bangs and non of us will be around to worry about it!!!!!

 

[mire man]

without drifting too far from the OP which is very entertaining, The Russians are said to be flying aircraft around the UK and Eire with nukes on board etc, I wonder has it anything to do with the price of oil dropping? Nothing like the threat of a battle or a return to the cold war to get the oil up again, Alot of their carry on over in the Ukrain is all about creating nerves in the oil market hoping it will rise.

 

[Breakthru]

RAF need to stop pussy footing about and buzz those bad boys. Plan it right to create a sonic boom a matter of metres in front of those okld string bags and they will fall apart into the sea.

 

[Kevtherev]

The ruskies are looking that's all we do the same to them whether it be subs or aircraft.

 

[El arado]

@ Xerion ..... Thanks for your concern, I have had a chat with the landowner and we have decided to shape the banks only for now..... If in the summer it's wants more out the. We will pump it out and get it properly metal detected

Why assume the bomb is in the centre of the pond, if it was rolled in it is more likely to be near the edge. Be VERY careful.....

 

[DFC]

Long finished the job and still alive and kicking!!!!

 

[Kidds]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Common Ln, Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester WA6 0JS/@53.2604086,-2.7991733,1106m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x487ae6c87eaa5ce1:0xf326c84b92cd7353

Those munitions buildings show up well on Google maps

But my link appears to show them in Spain???? Fixed it

The aerial vids on the news tonight of the gas tanker on fire showed some of these ammunitions buildings.
Quite appropriate really.

 

[Mr Mackay]

I know a man that dug up a bomber in a farmers field ! He found a bomb and the bomb disposal came and fecked about with it for days.
He had to wait a while before being allowed back. Turned out the Whitley was on a Navex flight and was carrying practice bombs (they thought)

Once back on the job ,he came across 2 other bombs and being desperate not to be held up again , dug a nice deep hole and gently slid the buggers in there !!!

 

[Wheyibuggermair]

I know a man that dug up a bomber in a farmers field ! He found a bomb and the bomb disposal came and fecked about with it for days.
He had to wait a while before being allowed back. Turned out the Whitley was on a Navex flight and was carrying practice bombs (they thought)

Once back on the job ,he came across 2 other bombs and being desperate not to be held up again , dug a nice deep hole and gently slid the buggers in there !!!

Similar situation in NZ, farmers coming across remains of a large flightless bird ( can't remember the name at this time of night ) are supposed to inform the local authorities most apparently think " bugger that" and rebury them.

 

[Wheyibuggermair]

without drifting too far from the OP which is very entertaining, The Russians are said to be flying aircraft around the UK and Eire with nukes on board etc, I wonder has it anything to do with the price of oil dropping? Nothing like the threat of a battle or a return to the cold war to get the oil up again, Alot of their carry on over in the Ukrain is all about creating nerves in the oil market hoping it will rise.

No. it's just Putin extending his Macho image, they are unarmed, but a bit worrying nonetheless, oil and other exports have shrunk dramatically in Russia, so what's yer average dictator normally resort to?

 

[Kidds]

No. it's just Putin extending his Macho image, they are unarmed, but a bit worrying nonetheless, oil and other exports have shrunk dramatically in Russia, so what's yer average dictator normally resort to?

Don't know what was going on today but I saw what looked like a large passenger plane being given a very close military escort. So close that I thought it was maybe refuelling.
I watched them fly down the England/Wales border from the Dee down as far as I could see, probably about level with Shrewsbury. They were well over the Welsh border, planes don't usually fly that way and they didn't show up on Flightradar.

 

[glow worm]

Evening all!

A customer of ours has bought a piece of land that hasn't been cropped for 15yrs. He wants it knocking into shape ready for spring drilling.

As you can imagine it had all manor of rubbish, suckers, brambles etc growing all over it. We have since flailed the rubbish, flail cut the hedges where possible and we are going in with the saw blade next.

Once saw bladed we will be digging out the ditches etc. There are two ponds that need cleaning out too (including taking out a mass and I mean mass of dead trees etc). However, it has come to light that a bomb was found in the field (quite sizeable by all accounts) some 30 yrs ago. The finder of the bomb said that he and a couple of pals rolled the bomb into one of the ponds. Just to add I was gob smacked at this point that they rolled it into the pond.

So, after all that waffle, there is a chuffing great bomb in the pond destined to be cleaned out and I am after some advice on the right people to contact.

Any help gratefully received!!!

Regards

Adrian

@ DFC 1

run!

 

[kneedeep]

Don't know what was going on today but I saw what looked like a large passenger plane being given a very close military escort. So close that I thought it was maybe refuelling.
I watched them fly down the England/Wales border from the Dee down as far as I could see, probably about level with Shrewsbury. They were well over the Welsh border, planes don't usually fly that way and they didn't show up on Flightradar.

There's definitely summat afoot.
Out in yard at 9.45pm, as noisy a jet as I've heard ( were on Warton boundary eurofighter test track so know about noise). somewhere overhead.
The ground shook , heading N(ish)
Not a navigation light to be seen, no con trail, nothing, it was military, very fast and very noisy.
Totally out of the ordinary.

 

[Hurdle bunter]

Similar situation in NZ, farmers coming across remains of a large flightless bird ( can't remember the name at this time of night ) are supposed to inform the local authorities most apparently think " bugger that" and rebury them.

Moa?

 

[tanker]

Very interesting thread,..my mother is from a place not too far below Aberystwyth and one of the places once farmed by the family has a whacking great crater where a bomber had overshot the midlands and decided to drop the payload and get the hell out. Finding old ordnance is a deadly business in western Europe(& many other places,even some from the civil war in the usa)Nearly 1000 people have been injured or worse since 1919 in France &Belgium by the stuff that explodes so go careful.(The biggest ever found was an unexploded 'Tallboy' near the Sorpe dam(of Dambusters fame,also the bombs that sank the Tirpitz and blew deep bunkers and tunnels sky high) It was 21' long and weighed 5t,good luck rolling that into a pond...

 

[Wheyibuggermair]

Moa?

Got it in one, ta
Footrot flats

 

[tanker]

The biggest ever found was an unexploded 'Tallboy' near the Sorpe dam(of Dambusters fame,also the bombs that sank the Tirpitz and blew deep bunkers and tunnels sky high) It was 21' long and weighed 5t,good luck rolling that into a pond...

Just to add what I found on Wikipedia.."After the war, in late 1958 the reservoir was drained for bomb damage repairs, in the course of which, shortly before Christmas, workers discovered an unexploded Tallboy bomb. On January 6, 1959, the whole village of Langscheid was evacuated while Northrhine-Westphalia's chief bomb disposal officer, Walter Mietzke, and British Lieutenant, James M. Waters, jointly defused the 3.6m long bomb that still contained 2.5 metric tonnes of high explosive and 3 highly unstable tail-fuzes..''
That was an interesting day at work...(for workers and then the defusers...)

 

[alpha 1]

could have been worse,it could have been a grand slam lol

 

[Red Fred]

I believe they dropped an inert Grand Slam over the range near Fordingbridge in the New Forest. Even when dropped from a Lancaster (at half the designed altitude), it still penetrated around 70 ft into the ground, and it is presumably still there.

 

[tanker]

Barnes Wallis was a bit of a boy when it came to designing bombs...