All the year long,it's like this

[AMMOTECHXT]

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[US-Subs]

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).

[HAZORD]

And to think, I bitch if I plow up large rocks.

[AMMOTECHXT]

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.

[Slick]

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

[Grimnar]

Those photo's are really something. Farmers over there definitely have some "cojones"!