Bomb disposal - Advice Please

[Mr Mackay]

I don't think there will be much left ,as it wasn't inert!! Ha
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-hi-tech-radar-exploration-remote-forest.html

 

[tanker]

@Mr Mackay ..Good find, interesting stuff indeed, and I was thinking about the guys in the first photo, when we put a girder across the end of the silage clamp to hold vertical sleepers in place we sling under the front end loader and drive in slowly amongst some trepidation...Nothing compared to these lads is it really..

 

[alpha 1]

Grand slam was and still is the worlds biggest conventional bomb,there was only one aircraft capable of carrying it, the lancaster,which had to be jacked up to get the bugger into the bomb bay.It could be dropped very accuratly because of angled fins that made it spin on the way down giving gyroscopic effect that made it stable.
The american's are trying to develope something similar today,it's costing them millions lol.

 

[Wheyibuggermair]

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...)

The ATOS in NI had a quirky sense of humour, they insisted that anybody (military) reporting a suspected bomb came with them while they investigated and if it turned out to be a bomb they were required to 'assist'

 

[Red Fred]

I don't think there will be much left ,as it wasn't inert!! Ha
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I think they tested several bombs, with the final one being the live one, which was tested almost as the first raid was ready to go. The crater was bulldozed after the war, but the outline can still be traced and it was huge!
When testing Tallboys, they couldn't decide where to put the movie camera to film it falling so they cynically decided to put it smack in the middle of the target as the least likely place to get hit. Needless to say, it fell smack on the target and blew up the camera. Barnes Wallis narrowly escaped burial when his slit trench collapsed from the earthquake.
When testing Highball bouncing bombs, the top brass sat on top of the test wall until a bomb bounced too high and scattered them.
The concrete centres of the test Dam Buster bombs can still be seen lying by the track, the metal outers having been nicked by pikeys long ago!

 

[tanker]

 

[Red Fred]

I like this film of the highball bombs, which includes tests in the New Forest. The Health and Safety leaves something to be desired though- note the onlookers

 

[tanker]

This is the grand slam,when it drops from the plane it still gives a shiver..

 

[Kevtherev]

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

What was the out come after ????

 

[gatepost]

I walked down the track to our cattle shed out on the hill a few springs ago, after some heavy rain had washed the track abit and there was a 2 1/2" bomb in the track.......Bro had been driving over it with the tractor for 5 mths!

Picked it up and rolled down a rabbit hole.
Every day occasion here

Hells teeth ,what sort of rabbits have you got I still use a ferret.

 

[gatepost]

If we are talking about oddities being found in fields and on properties, yall gonna have a hard time beating my half decomposed dead guy story. Or my skull story.[/Q

 

[exmoor dave]

Hells teeth ,what sort of rabbits have you got I still use a ferret.

Big ones!

 

[Andy044]

Post 306

What was the out come after ????

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

 

[ollie989898]

OK. Prove it. I have many contacts, and know what I am talking about.

How many planes have the UK to intercept Russian Bombers?

How many Bombers do Russia Have?

Antiquated British Fighters are outnumbered by at least 10 to 1 by Russian Bombers, without any Russian Fighter Support. Sheer numbers as has been admitted means that most would get through to their targets. Hopefully London and the Home Counties.

The British Response comes down to 3? Nuclear Submarines, of which only 1? is at sea at any time. I don't give a sh!t, as I can trace my family back for a thousand years, and I am from a line of survivors.

We've seen Invaders come and go, and still survive.

If HMG cannot get it's act together, then so be it. Russia would be just the next Overlord.

It might be the best thing that could happen.

All Empires fall, and Wales, Scotland and NI are last vestiges of the English Empire.

Goodbye England! I doubt if we would be any worse off under Russia.

IANTO

I doubt the UK fast jet fleet is adequate to defend against a mass Russian bomber incursion and probably never has been even during the Cold War, although how many aircraft the Russians have and how many they actually have ready for service, and how many paid and trained ready to fly crews they can field at once is another matter.

I am not sure British fighters could be described as 'antiquated' either.

Having 1 submarine at sea at any one time is plenty, they can carry 16 individual Trident missiles and each of those can carry 8 different warheads to be dropped on separate targets, with a mean accuracy of less than 90 feet, basically the most accurate nuclear weapon yet fielded. With a maximum range of over 6000 miles, a submarine could hit Moscow easily even if it was still tied up in Portsmouth.

In any event with the Russians and Americans both having sizeable inventories of missiles (and a collection of gravity bombs to drop from bombers) I doubt it would be necessary to fly a horde of bombers a thousand miles over numerous NATO countries to reach Britain when a missile could do the journey in about 10 minutes.