So I’m just posting this whilst I wait for the bomb squad...

[doobin]

Canadian 2” mortar. Quite common around here as Canadian troops used the hill for target practice in the run up to D-day.

 

[V8Druid]

stick it in a rubble bag and chuck it down the tip

 

[Charlie]

Don't sit on it though Doobin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46828770

 

[V8Druid]

Don't sit on it though Doobin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46828770

what a bloody idiot

 

[Charlie]

Useless fact; they used the tails of those to make the end of the Dalek guns

 

[Charlie]

There you go, you can ID it while you wait. Obviously without touching it!

 

[V8Druid]

There you go, you can ID it while you wait. Obviously without touching it!

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think it's past the identification stage Charlie .... green band with a full rusty body ain't listed

 

[Charlie]

That green band looks to be the obturating ring from the photo and not a marking.

 

[Charlie]

My bad! That band is the base of the fuse. looks as though it landed on the edge of the fuse by the dent and hence the reason it did not go bang.

 

[doobin]

They have a fancy robot in the back of the van

 

[Grahams]

Looks like you get all the fun. We are only finding spent stuff.
If you ask really nicely they may let you play with the robot.
Got a new flask for Christmas though.

 

[pettsy]

Looks like you get all the fun. We are only finding spent stuff.
If you ask really nicely they may let you play with the robot.
Got a new flask for Christmas though.
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Leave that in your truck while working and you to will probably end up with a visit from the police/armed response/bomb squad

 

[V8Druid]

Leave that in your truck while working and you to will probably end up with a visit from the police/armed response/bomb squad

especially led across the dash board ..... in the sun

 

[V8Druid]

Looks like you get all the fun. We are only finding spent stuff.
If you ask really nicely they may let you play with the robot.
Got a new flask for Christmas though.
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want one ........ could have some fun with that
..... especially with a couple of feet of Browning M2, 0.50 calibre machine gun munitions belt along side it ... which I just happen to have

 

[Grahams]

As I haven’t seen you on the news, I take it you survived. Was it live? Did you get to play with the robot?
Graham

 

[doobin]

They were going to let me press the button to blow it up, but it wouldn’t work. So they did it like in the movies with a battery. Nice big bang, made a crater a metre across. Happy days.

 

[BertB.]

Was that a 60mm mortar? I know even till a few years ago that was a favorite weapon used by Canadian Infantry.

 

[Grahams]

want one ........ could have some fun with that

I normally send out calendars to customers, but had wondered about sending them those flasks with my logo printed on, but thought it may lead to trouble. People don’t seem to have much of a sense of humour these days.
Graham

 

[Mark]

Seen an old torpedo dug up on site one day, old brown field site next to river Clyde where they used to be manufactured.

 

[V8Druid]

I normally send out calendars to customers, but had wondered about sending them those flasks with my logo printed on, but thought it may lead to trouble. People don’t seem to have much of a sense of humour these days.
Graham

would love to know where one could be bought from Gra ... **** 'em ... they need to learn to laugh