Dont Dig your garden in Pinner

[Fuzeman]

What was found in fuzemans garden ?

 

[Fuzeman]

Hi All whilst digging my garden sometime ago i came across these items

 

[Fuzeman]

also these !

 

[DAZ REICH]

Is that you in the picture fuzeman and is that a soft focus filter used on the picture.
I wish I could find stuff like that in my garden already inerted .

 

[Fuzeman]

Hi Yep its me and the soft focus wasnt intentional it was the camera lense got fogged up .
I thought the butterfly bomb in the hedge was possibly the best shot it just shows how those things really were missed in hedges and trees , until years after.
steve

 

[DAZ REICH]

Was the butterfly bomb still dangerous after all this time

 

[spotter]

Fuzeman your a bad man,,i saw the pic of the butterfly bomb in the hedge and was like for f sake whats he playing at rooting about for those nastys,then read the rest of your posts you nealy gave me heart attack :laugh:

 

[Fuzeman]

Hi that butterfly bomb was dangerous ONLY if dropped on your foot.all the items in the collection are without exception are FFE (freee from Explosives ) or other hazardous material.
Steve

 

[DAZ REICH]

No I meant would it be dangerous still if found in a hedge after all this time out in the elements ,I would personally treat all unknown ordnance as dangerous but was thinking hypothetically.
Cheers DAZ

 

[waffenamt]

Good question Daz,i would have thought they are still dangerous after all these years.
I saw a picture of one in another forum found in woodlands.The wings had rotted just leaving the arming rod(of which im in need of!)and the body with fuze still in.


best

waff

 

[Fuzeman]

Hi All
All ordnance no matter what age is to be considered safe in fact it can be even more dangerous than when first dropped.
I believe the last casualty from one of these butterfly bombs was in the 1950, s i believe .
Its interesting to note that after the television series Danger UXB a lot of butterfly bombs were reported to the police by members of the public , who had these things for years , without thinking they were dangerous.
If the army were called to a house with one of these , they could if the circumstances right "blow them up where they were" i know of no instance where this happened , but just goes to show how dangerous these things were ?still are
At beltring a few years ago SD2 butterfly bombs were being sold openly as being training bombs that were dropped in a field , these were dug up and sold , the five i aquired from someone who got cold feet about them were found to be training rounds filled with Pitch but still had a live gaine fitted to the badly corroded fuzes , filled with smoke composition they could have caused nasty burns if ignited .
they were safely defuzed and are now in various collections and museums .
Steve

 

[waffenamt]

Steve,is that a `crabtree` discharger that you are using on that bomb fuze?


cheers

waff