How Dangerous Is A Cannonball?

[@TheShaggyfrog]

Many channels are about entertainment, and thats ok. But what I really like about your channel is that I actually can learn from it while being entertained. Keep up the awesome work

[@tristanrempel9662]

really loving videos almost every single day. I have pretty bad depression, and your videos make me so damn happy I almost watch them twice lol

[@lsd-25ayahuascadmt7]

Hope you're doing okay friend

[@BaronFeydRautha]

I LOVE your content man. The stuff you find is so much fun to be a part of. Watching you get excited about something in the water or ground transfers to the viewer and brings a sense of discovery with every video. And your plethora of knowledge adds so much to the subject matter. Keep the awesome content coming Chigger.

[@steveh9436]

I was reading an article about Sam White that died May 2 2008 in Virginia. He detected old battlefields, well they seem to think that he found a Navy cannon ball that was water proof while tryin to disarm it, it blew up and killed him. I guess he was the last casualty of the civil war. It's a heartbreaking story Chig. When you get a minute look the story up. Be extra safe.....Keep up the good work I love watching your channel brother.

[@shawndaniels6922]

Couple things I need to say here. First, I'm a big fan and I look forward to your videos. Second - I am a retired US Army EOD Tech with over 24 years of field experience, and I have to tell you, you've got some bad info here. 1) All explosives require 3 things in order to explode: HEAT, SHOCK, & FRICTION. The more sensitive an explosive is, it just requires less of the three. Just heating the black powder will only provide 1 of the three. Thats why a cannon ball (or propane cylinder) will explode if you drill into - the act of drilling provides all three. 2) Black powder gets MORE sensitive over time especially if it's exposed to changing elements, wet/dry, cold/heat, etc. 3) There are some cannon ball fuzes that are much more sensitive than others - for example: a Tice Concussion fuze is one of the worst - very durable and all-way acting, which means rolling it on the floor could piss it off enough to detonate the fuze, which in turn will detonate the powder. 4) If you call the police for any military ordnance they will most likely call the military EOD (I personally have responded to many, many pieces of ordnance civilians have dug up (or found in Grandpa's attic) over the years. It isn't "just a number" to us, it's always better to be safe than sorry... Good luck and stay safe!

[@shawndaniels6922]

1) We agree 100% 2) When Black Powder gets wet, it dissolves, when it dries, in reforms into smaller grains - smaller grains = more sensitive. Unless you can verify (and how could you) that the round has never been wet, or has been under water ever since it was fired, you would have to assume worst case and go with the more sensitive explosive filler. (I'm looking for a reference about the break down of Black Powder over time and environment, when I find it, I'll post it.) 3) I'm talking about a specific fuze: Tice Concussion, and all-way acting fuze that was armed by vial breaking and mixing with lead shot within the fuze when the round was fired, if the fuze grazed it's target (or hit it directly) the shot would create the friction required to detonate the round. Now, if someone finds one, is the vial broken? How could you know without a X-Ray? If the vial breaks ANY friction could detonate the fuze. We (as EOD) are taught to blow up any suspected Tice fuze. The Tice and the Borman are similar, except that the "guts" of the Tice were deeper in the fuze and had a much higher dud rate due to the vial not breaking. 4) Agree.

[@rdaugherty52]

You have so many cannon balls if I had one I'd be like ye haw. I ran a bulldozer right at a place where I probably could have found one. I was on a dozer on Big Hill ave on the east side I think of highway 421 in Kentucky about a 1/2 mile down from Ducannon Rd which was on the west side of highway. The confederate army implaced cannons right where I was running dozer. The union army had cannons fireing from Ducannon Rd at the confederate cannons right where I was cutting rd for subdivision. If I only knew then I would have looked at every clod. Anyway thanks for video very informative.

[@EasternExplorer]

There is a spot near here out in the middle of the forest called the 'bullseye' RCAF bomber crews used it for training and dropped dummy and live explosives on it during world war 2. I've always wanted to check it out and go digging but it seems it may be a stupid idea lol

[@jackieslack7999]

Even though the only Civil War shells I would ever see are on KZbin, theses videos of yours are fascinating, interesting and AWESOME! I love history! 👍

[@deepsouthdiggers580]

Hey Beau, I found this video very informative. A lot of what you shared reminded me of what I learned in firefighter training. A propane explosion is called a BLEVE and the expansion ratio of water to stream is huge, 1 to 1700 so 1oz of water will make over 13 gallons of steam. Stay safe when you are rendering them inert or they will render you inert:)

[@SuperDancingdevil]

Very good advice, Here in The U.K. and Europe as a whole we treat anything WW1 or WW2 with great care and generally leave it well alone and let the bomb disposal units deal with them, Interestingly in some parts of Europe especially around the area of the Somme and most other places where a lot of fighting happened the local farmers dig up unexploded shells regularly and they call it “The Iron Harvest”, But your Civil War as opposed to our Civil War was in relative recent history and even though those shells and balls are for the most part are pretty safe to handle I’d still treat them with a lot of respect and hand it over to someone like you to make it inert, Great advice and great video.

[@dbabyzo]

Saw most of your videos missed this one.... great video,reminds me of farmer who drilled or tried to drill into high pressure gas line that ran through his property trying to get free natural gas....all they found was pieces of extension cord going out to gas line!!!!

[@marvinellis1517]

WOW ! .....the secret mixture for Gunpowder......Thanks Chigger !

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

aquachiccer - You should pitch your show to the discovery channel. I'm totally serious. You have a really good shot at it. You're knowledgeable. You're entertaining. You have skills and above all; you're a showman. So go for it man!

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

aquachigger- I meant. Sorry. keep getting your name wrong.

[@randymusick3645]

Beau your videos mean so much to me because they are kind of an escape. Being disabled sucks. So please keep em come'n and the longer the better.

[@marchmanatee340]

+Aquachigger what is the most valuable think you found snorkelling

[@Muschu]

Keep your head up Randy! Find what you love, love what you do. I know you can!

[@randymusick3645]

Michiel Verbeek Thanks so much.

[@eddominates]

Still love this one. The eye contact is intense, it's like Chigg is telling you personally "DON'T F*** AROUND WITH CANNON BALLS"

[@jeffbecker8716]

Well you answered my question. After just watching your vid on wax-coating all of your Schweddy balls and shells, I was thinking that you might save all of the old powder and possibly dry it out and use it for re-enactments for that authentic smell as you mentioned. But alas, no Schweddy ball odors. Thanks, Beau!

[@OverlandOne]

Very interesting. I always "assumed" they had like 5 pounds of unstable black powder due to the age of them. Excellent. Thank you.

[@bobbrown6389]

Great video , as I was a EOD TECH for over 15yrs , your the first channel ,to warn people of danger of old Ordnance , We were taught, that all bombs,shells or rounds were alive , until we could check and clear the dangers, I've seen what happens when kids played with a WW2 Potato Masher German Hand grenade , the family thought they were dudes, but the child lost part of his hand, so lesson is all things are deadly ,until disarmed, and in doubt ask someone who know these things, great channel ,Regards from Downunder

[@robstirling3173]

Saltpetre, the oxidiser in gunpowder is water soluble, so if it gets wet it can dissolve out.

[@alexpolicastro2804]

From what I've read the Naval cannon balls that were made to be water proof and or skip on water can still be very dangerous even today as they are more likely to be preserved. Love this channel by the way!

[@alexpolicastro2804]

I do follow those rules for propane cans, but been around when someone dropped one in a fire. Boy was that exciting, but the diner did not survive.

[@Enjoyinqtheoutdoors]

When that head came off the modern shell I jumped and got so scared 😂 11:40

[@Underbottom.Sandydown]

Forgot a can of propane in a scrap pile I burned.... nobody was hurt but I was glad I wore my brown pants because it went off as I was 50' away lighting a smoke

[@guntruckLT]

Great video, I can say that Beau AKA Aqua Chigger will respond to all inquiries on artillery shells. Wealth of knowledge thanks for sharing.

[@johnsheppard1476]

I used to do metaldetecting for aavery large part of my life and basically earned over a million dollars through repairing and selling guns that I found in Russia in the fields and forests of Leningrad oblast and damn I had seen so much of artillery ordnance that if one would have collected all the TNT out of them,compiled it and blew it up-the explosion would have certainly dwarfed the Hiroshima or Nagasaki and trust me:I had quite a few crazy stories going on and could die quite a number of times-once I had a piece of heavily rusted shrapnel just about 3×4 centimeters wide and about half a centimeter thick sticking out of the hole in my scull once the 45mm HE artillery shell went off about 5 meters away from me:it's by far the most unstable of all explosive ordnance ever created or designed except for early BM-13 rockets that nobody ever could successfully disarm without blowing up because the designers did their best to make them impossible to recover once they were fired and throughout the war of all the 94 cases of Germans finding them and each time trying their best to deactivate them without blowing up in order to copy the technology itself but none of them were ever successful..Of all the rest of explosive ordnance you can find anywhere the early 45mm HE shells absolutely take the cake when it comes to instability so in my case the process of disabling them as well as any other explosive shit by that time was already for a long time just a routine that I carried out for literally hundreds of times until I finally almost ran out of luck..So the thing is that when it comes to the detonator in them-whenever by any reason the metal carcass of the detonator itself does get ruptured-the compound inside immediately starts emitting the little orange cloud that is the most dangerous thing you can ever see in your life because even the slightest disturbance of the air makes it to detonate immediately and so what ended up happening is that when I saw the cloud seeping out of the detonator of the shell that was right in my damn hands-I knew exactly what that was and so I slowly moved myself so that I could quickly and in one move of the hand just throw the shell away in the way so that the cloud will remain undisturbed for as much as possible to give me at least any chance of survival and so I threw it in the right direction because it went off about 5 meters away from me and trust me:it was a gargantuan luck and extremely well calculated and executed maneuver because otherwise if I screwed up-it would have gone off in my hands killing me instantly because it is essentially twice the amount of TNT than you find in your frag grenade and also twice the weight of the shell itself turning into shrapnel so that was basically like surviving a simultaneous explosion of two frag grenades 5 meters away from you with zero protection,not in the cover and with absolutely nothing between you and the blast except for just 5 meters of air..The funniest thing was that I was there alone and the cell phone had no signal in this area so I had to get back to my car that was about 3.5 kilometers or over two miles away from me through the forest with a huge hole in my scull with a chunk of rusted metal sticking out of it,while being at that point almost sure that I had lost an eye as well but as it turned out it was just a bit numb and too much blood had just covered it and so I couldn't open it for a while and in this condition I had to make it through the forest anyway and I did that!Than finally called ambulance,waited for them to arrive and just passed out..Now that was as scary and as painful as it ever gets! Yet as well as at any other time and day of my life my love and appreciation of guns had been just as huge as always so I used to get out with my own favorite rifle-a sniper version of Mosin rifle that was my first gun that I ended up registering for my firearm license after 9 years of having it illegally but without ever getting caught with it and that actually helped me to focus on something that was good for me and most likely didn't faint also because of having her in my hands and almost like leading me and keeping me calm but focused..

[@TheGravitywerks]

In the 1960's a group of National Guard soldiers were camping at Fort Sumpter and had used CW cannonballs to line a fire pit....they became the last recorded deaths due to the Civil War. GREAT VIDEOS! Thank you!!

[@TheGravitywerks]

THAT would do it!

[@TheGravitywerks]

Thanks for all the history!

[@chrishildreth3996]

There is a very slim chance that I would ever find anything like this in Massachusetts, but I found this very interesting. Love your videos.

[@jcyr925]

"Your likely to loose your hand" 😂😂I died laughing😂😂

[@ThisFish888]

Saltpeter is the oxidizer, when gunpowder gets wet the saltpeter dissolves, leaving only charcoal and sulfur. So the leftovers don't have the oxygen needed to burn fast.

[@upurhoe12321kevin]

Beau, I love the videos on you finding the relics, but I'd also love when you show us the relics all cleaned up and having gone through electrolysis. All in all, great job with the channel!

[@theironkiwi2948]

Close your eyes and hear Owen Wilson! Thanks for sharing beau!

[@tennesseegem1063]

I learn so much from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about Cannon Balls and other things you teach us. And as always, take care and HH.

[@coindigger5392]

That answered the questions I've even searched with little answers giving in past....very Interesting learning the safe way...

[@calebkelly9169]

Who doesn't just love a cannonball.

[@Jxrd99]

I'm going to sound ignorant as hell, but I never realized cannon balls exploded.l always presumed they were designed as more of an impact round, not explosive

[@throngcleaver]

There are cannon balls that are solid iron. They are called "shot", instead of shells. The projectiles with explosive in them, are hollow, hence the name, "shell".

[@loveshack8172]

SAME DUDE!

[@drunkinmonkey61]

Ya so did I. I'm actually thinking they only explode in the cannon to get them to shoot out but then just hit on impact. Not sure tho honestly.

[@mgtow6450]

There's a song that goes, "And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air....."

[@drunkinmonkey61]

+MGTOW a bomb is not a canon ball...

[@spikeydapikey1483]

'Hold my beer, and watch this!...'

[@charlieboyzname]

I think that's the kindest way I've heard anyone say "don't be ferking stupid". My PTSD banging today and you brought me back down, thank you for that my friend. How? because you reminded me that sometimes you have to be polite and (very) patient and remember to say it over and cover to dumbasses and those who know no better to get your message across....no point getting worked up, so your very informative video also helped an old military nutcase keep his head tight :) you really make me want a detector....only problem is I think my wheelchair would set it off all the time!! in the meantime I'll just keep going with you mate! P.S. it was good to see you where over in the UK, If your ever over here, in the Cambridge area, We have a spare room and front door key as well as a caravan/trailer on the front...come and go as you please rent free kind of thing.

[@gavinwilliamson1331]

thank you this is exactly the video I was wanting to see sooner or later!

[@jsokolosky]

Just one small clarification. I wouldn’t be quite as calm and casual with a shell equipped with a Tice fuse. The Tice fuse is a “chemical percussion” type fuse (percussion fulminate enclosed in a glass vial). I have never run across one in my years of detecting and collecting (started in 1972) but I am sure one or more are waiting to be discovered. Reference: Author William Ripley, “Artillery And Ammunition Of The Civil War”, Promontory Press, 1970, page 281

[@ExploringAlabama]

Ok Chigg, I have caught so much crap about the WW1 Shrapnel Bomb I found like the one in your video. Many comments refer me to you (the expert on bombs they said) and said I was pretty much foolish for turning it in. Mine was not inert. I am sooooo glad you did this video so when I get another negative comment about how I need to watch your videos to learn about bombs (since my bomb was sooo safe) I will refer them to this video. Good job as usual!

[@ExploringAlabama]

thanks

[@b3nadry1]

Instructions unclear, will assume Aquachigger said drill cannonballs and propane tanks in campfires.

[@jozsefnyisztor2109]

In the Somme Valley. farmers plow up Mustard Gas shells from World War One with great regularity. The EOD men patrol the roads near the plowed fields to pick up the shells left there by the farmers. In Verdun, I saw a tractor with plow attachment which was blown apart by a shell strike. If you wanted to make some spare money, you could get a job in France clearing the old shells.

[@tommyglasgowphd9242]

A Hugh battle took place East of here, some call a butchery. Moving ahead to the mid sixtys, a gentleman was plowing his garden.He unearthed two 6 lbs. He decided to weld them on to his fire place log holder. The cannon balls ignited killing him and blew out the whole rear of the house!

[@TWhiteShadow]

It's really cool that you go out and explore, you're my favorite youtuber that goes outside!

[@Lichlord]

Saltpeter (potassium nitrate, aka fertilizer) is very soluble in water and could wash away. It's an oxidizer that allows the carbon to burn without air, and it's probable that it also oxidizes the iron in the shell while wet. Basically your gunpowder burns itself out slowly by rusting the inside of the ball while wet, rather than burning rapidly on carbon fuel as designed. (I'm a chemist.)

[@treygibson7048]

I live in Union Co. KY home of what used to be Camp Breckinridge and we find tons of unexploded ordnance yearly. A team from Fort Campbell flies up and we have a spot they blow it up.

[@andyferguson8032]

Thanks for the education. Love your channel.

[@nathanduckeorth806]

Chig knows more about the Civil War that a college professor!

[@ItsThatGuy8669]

I live in Poland near a town (Borne Sulinowo) that was a Russian base after WWII. I want to magnet drag the lake near it, but I am afraid of finding a mine.

[@lennartvos8826]

The other round with the fuse on top of it is an 18 pounder WW1 shell. (for those who are wondering)

[@dmithsmith5880]

Black powder that has been continually wet for years tends to lose some or most of its potassium nitrate (saltpeter) because it is readily dissolvable by water. It leaves behind most of the charcoal and sulpher which is rather harmless. However, there is also a small chance of finding a civil war black powder shell that happened to not explode and landed somewhere high and dry, plug down and in really good draining soil, i suppose the chance of finding one with viable dry powder still in it is possible. Drilling them causes explosion because the small fragments of steel that the drill bit is cutting, momentarily are red hot or damn near it, so as the drill bit punches through the shell into the powder there is a fairly high chance of setting it off.

[@sonnyb.9252]

Hey Beau, Great video! I promise to "treat every cannonball just like a propane tank", although, I doubt I'll ever be able to get as much burn time on my Propane Lantern by screwing a cannonball onto it. Outstanding training presentation, as usual. Thanks!

[@hoplite101able]

Your channel is slowly becoming one of my favorites.

[@kaijupants9095]

Rust can actually be used as a substitute for sulfur in gunpowder. The saltpeter and carbon are the fuel and the other ingredient is the oxidizer.

[@5.3pachyderm15]

my granddad gave me a metal detector for my 15th birthday today and my first find was some foil my second find was a pull tab and my third find was an Axe head!

[@andreasbauer9116]

You can use an axe head thats not an bad find

[@JZcornwall]

Thank you for the informative video, I think I'm pretty unlikely to find any of those canon balls in the UK but still fascinating to watch. Many thanks!

[@alpinglow]

I found a grapefruit sized ball in northern Indiana as a child and always wondered what it was. It had a half inch'ish hole in it yet seemed like it was drilled without more than just a hole in it. Were boat anchors made out of iron balls? I no longer have this but have fond memories of it. Little did I or my parents know.... Good public service here! Love the channel!

[@kevindohm55]

Aquachigger you should make more magnet fishing videos.

[@packbadge]

Wow! Thanks for the information! I never knew that cannonballs had a charge within them. I always though that there was just a charge behind them like a giant upscaled musket.

[@charleswilder2985]

Cute shameless plug! I detected and took home, then to my office on Yongsan, in Seoul, two cannonballs and a couple of the several desk-bell-looking things. Actually, they looked like a young woman's mammaries. They sat in my office for months, until one day two Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel came to explain some issues regarding a contract they wanted. I did legal sufficiency reviews of contracts there. A second after they entered my office,the both jumped literally backwards out of my office and shouted for me to follow them. They called a team to take my cannonballs and the FUSES for Japanese knee mortars! They kindly told me that those were probably 15th century black powder cannonballs, very sensitive to changes in temperature, air pressure, etc. They explained that in the US I could pay experts to drill them safely, but nobody in Korea did such. They also explained what the "desk-bell" things were. Later, they sent me video of their detonation of those items, to show me that they had obtained secondary explosions of each of them. They might have been safe for years, then might have killed my whole family.

[@wadeparkes8904]

you're such an inspiration, keep up the good work and i hope you find more guns in the rivers

[@TheBakerman55]

All your videos are without a doubt very informative and interesting,funny I was watching you break your record on 8 shells wondering if they could go off, started thinking about being a mouse in your house I'd head straight to the trophy room and the very next video is this one,thumbs up to you and noggin.

[@patrickdombrosky6951]

Thanks for showing the thirty-two pounders after you cleaned them. It's a shame that the straps were too corroded to survive all the way. They looked so good when you first found them.

[@steveh9436]

Job well done Chig.

[@shelleyrambleson9198]

Informative, fascinating, and all the info I will need when I find my first cannonball magnet fishing! Thanks!

[@jimmyroberts3]

actually it's their fuse adapters that I was referring to. they leak, thus effecting the powder inside. not sure of the matrix of the actual powder. have to ask beau that one.....

[@samconroyy]

Crapped myself at 11:46 didn't expect you to drop it thought it was still live haha.

[@slantsix6344]

An old man at a CW relic show said he was soaking a cannonball in lye to take the scale off and it blew the front porch off his house.

[@debbieholts7369]

he was Lye-ing to you.

[@piratepig0801]

Thank you for all your advise. I have just started out in this hobby and LOVE all of your videos and have been learning a lot! I appreciate it and look forward to the next video...no pressure lol :)

[@henrybucki7813]

interesting i had heard maybe 5 years ago of a man being killed in his garage by a cannon ball blowing up. not sure what he was doing to it, but enjoyed your stories as always

[@aquachigger]

That was unfortunate for sure, but he was using power tools to open them up and clean them and that caused sparks.

[@alnbaba]

I live in a port city that had an ammo dump explosion that sent modern shells all over the place. They are extremely dangerous and wash up from time to time.

[@garykolo8650]

Is the dog hair special order on the shirts ? LOL

[@PS3er2497]

Nice and informative video chiggs. I love this stuff- relics or anything from the early 1900s and anything older than that. Kind of unrelated to this video: did you ever go metal detecting and find anything around your house/ property?

[@Camroc37]

Don't forget that the friction from the drill and shell could be a source of ignition.

[@j.settle6448]

You, sir, are a genius!! Love your videos.

[@crazywolfgang3662]

In my opinion the gunpowder does not ignite mainly because saltpepper is water soluble, so by the time you open it, there's just charcoal and solfur.

[@whowhophoenixaz.2583]

Beau , Thanks for cannon ball history 101 . Learned a lot in such a brief video ! Now I'm going to go outside and shoot propane canisters out of my civil war cannon !!!

[@thevacuumtubejunky9774]

I don't know how I found your channel but, you have a fantastic channel. Thanks for sharing your collection and knowledge with us. Kind regards Eric Dee

[@taylorgipson3704]

I've stumbled across you and have watched everyone of your videos definitely the most interesting man on KZbin keep up the videos

[@1978punisher]

i like your video dont stop good job

[@doomedpoet]

Hello aquachigger As you mentioned we have the occasional problem with unexploded ordnance from the Second World War which include General bombs of all shapes and sizes Plus incendiaries and antipersonnel mines which the Germans dropped over half of England I remember one occasion when my Street had to be evacuated somebody was digging their garden and uncovered 1000 lb German World War II bomb ~ My only personal experience was clearing out an Anderson shelter in the garden of a customer and discovering a box filled with handgrenades all live ~ mind you we didn't mind as it gave us a few hours off While waiting for the bomb disposal people To make them safe. A few years ago In 1979 There was a TV series in the UK which was titled Danger UXB, A Dramatic series about bomb disposal during W.W.2 , One unexpected side-effect of the series using real deactivated Ordinance in the series, was the great British public suddenly realised That the doorstop Or desktop ornament They had had For many years Was actually live German ordinance And being British several people took the ordinance down to their local police station causing several police stations to be evacuated until the bomb disposal people can make the devices safe I think this has to be listed down as the most amazing side effect of Any TV series LOL

[@kathyberry4229]

you remind me more of Macgyver all the time! enjoy watching what you do.

[@menotume]

I hope those new Chigger shirts come in Aqua.

[@ronaldroseborough9507]

Safety first, always the way to go. Thanks

[@thegreenphantom4304]

Easy way to avoid problems loaded cannonballs is collect sold shot only. An easy way to tell the difference, solid shot doesn't have a fuse hole or fuse, it's solid iron.

[@whitenorthstar]

A civil war cannon ball is well over 100 years old, The black powder contained in it is a mixture of carbon (Charcoal) sulphur and saltpetre (Potassium nitrate) saltpetre is VERY soluble in water so would have "washed out" in a very short period of time in a wet environment leaving only the carbon and sulphur that isn't soluble in water, Still...do not mess with cannon shot if you do not know what you are dealing with! great vids...enjoy watching them, Thanks,

[@michaelpierson7256]

I found a live 75mm ww1 shrapnel shell w/m1907 m.t. fuse identicle to yours, years ago. It was full of 1/2" lead balls w/ a brass tube going to the explosive in bottom under a 1/2" thick steel plate.

[@wizpin]

thanks for this, i was realy wondering if these things were not dangerous

[@effenfish661]

you are absolutely right about reporting modern (post civil war) ordnance to the police. many souvenirs are actually live, and even museum pieces have been found live. as for bombs squads/EOD, when in doubt, they get the C4 out.

[@TheRebel531]

Thank you, Chigg. Very informative. Question(s) answered.

[@seanaudette1763]

My question is, can gold be detected with any metal detector or does it require a more sophisticated one?

[@leokrupp4442]

Those cannonball roasts where getting pricey. I'll switch to Coleman brand propane tanks as a cheap alternative.

[@ExTR3AMLiMiTs]

Love your channel man keep up the good work

[@cuddles6938]

I bet those guys were in my Step Dad's state, Missouri, they don't believe nuthin' till you show em, haha.

[@aronwelten100]

here where i live in the netherlands they find a lot of artillery in the dunes. there is a special team to clear all those ww2 shells because there are quite a lot of them. some dunes are blocked off because they don't know if there are shells or not

[@terripipher1300]

thanks for the information .. I do remember hearing about a treasure hunter dying due to a blast of a shell he was very well known to the treasure hunting community...

[@charleswillsonpeale5739]

Sam White from Virginia.

[@garyhammond2213]

Very informative. I learned something today. Thanks for the vid!

[@thebatzinator]

Thank you for making this!! I know I've said it before but I appreciate how informative your videos are. Even when you're out looking for stuff, you take the time to explain points of interest and I think that is really cool. I wish I had the funds to buy a new metal detector but, alas, I'm stuck with my old one... She does the job, I guess..lol!

[@thebatzinator]

+Aquachigger thank you!

[@slantsix6344]

Some of the shells were full of shrapnel too. Some had small balls that would fly in all directions after it burst.

[@Lazywatchsmith]

would the gunpowder ignite if you take the rust of it with a magnet?

[@chazcarter2599]

+Jacque Au'Brione rust would act as a fuel not an oxidizer

[@justrob2656]

Hmm, thanks for the tutorial. Diddin know it was needed, but might have helped somebody!

[@johngill4524]

Very good information for people That don't know I like your videos very much very interesting a lot of history thank you😎

[@333Hogwarts]

What about a "Tice concussion fuse" ? I know they are rare but these can explode on impact.