I am new to this forum and have never found a coin, still waiting for my Explorer xs which will be here in 2 days...but:
I was on a mineclearing survey in 2008 in Denmark where i live. We were tasked to asses how many mines were left by the germans from WW2 and what condition they were in.
The area was closed to the public but there had been cows grasing there for a few years, so it was "assumed" that the mines were safe since no cows had died......
The idea was that enough sand had blown over them so that preassure would not set them off.Unless someone was stupid enough to dig them up...
The Danish goverment wanted to be sure.......thats where we came in the picture.
90% of the mines laid there was made of either concrete or wood to save material (a few even glass). Germany was losing the war when they laid them and had no metal to spare.
We were to detect the metal in the detonators which were brass and iron. The casing to the detonators were made of bacalite (old kind of plastic) and therefore undetectable.
we dug more than a 100 mines in 8 weeks, these are a few of the pictures from then:
Me on the left with most of the guys. we are inside one of the cleared areas. They are not wearing too much eyeshadow. thats just me protecting their privacy
I was on a mineclearing survey in 2008 in Denmark where i live. We were tasked to asses how many mines were left by the germans from WW2 and what condition they were in.
The area was closed to the public but there had been cows grasing there for a few years, so it was "assumed" that the mines were safe since no cows had died......
The idea was that enough sand had blown over them so that preassure would not set them off.Unless someone was stupid enough to dig them up...
The Danish goverment wanted to be sure.......thats where we came in the picture.
90% of the mines laid there was made of either concrete or wood to save material (a few even glass). Germany was losing the war when they laid them and had no metal to spare.
We were to detect the metal in the detonators which were brass and iron. The casing to the detonators were made of bacalite (old kind of plastic) and therefore undetectable.
we dug more than a 100 mines in 8 weeks, these are a few of the pictures from then:
Me on the left with most of the guys. we are inside one of the cleared areas. They are not wearing too much eyeshadow. thats just me protecting their privacy
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when you know there is "something" infront of you and you poke that alu stick into the ground infront of you and it suddenly stop on something hard with a "tick" you can hear its metal or concrete and your blood freezes everytime. Great job if it wasnt for the travelling.
