*LOUD EXPLOSION* Reporting a WW2 Anti-Tank Mine

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[@roycejohnny9541]

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[@landenbrady8049]

@Royce Johnny instablaster =)

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[@joemasello519]

My favorite WW2 story was told to me by a man with a Russian accent named Pete. Pete was owner of a auto repair shop in upstate NY who was showing off a Walther pistol that he took from a German paratrooper that he shot and killed while floating down by his house in Russia. He had just learned his father had been killed a few days earlier fighting on the front and this was the first German he had seen in his life and when he yelled to his mother that a German was floating down she ran out of the house with a rifle and told him to run up directly under the paratrooper and shoot every bullet in the gun before the German landed. He was only 10.

[@lillejuensen8084]

allen liu thats horrible atleast give him a fast death. Mot all soilders was nazis

[@godlyanteater7075]

How could they have known he was ten and you couldn’t even get in the army when your ten

[@schoorinna3320]

@@godlyanteater7075 The boy was 10, not the german soldier

[@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial]

@@allenliu8820 fucks wrong with you?

[@issacarellano9909]

Joe Masello what year did it happen Or did he not specify

[@jetfirehi5229]

From 2km away that’s mental, imagine being inside the tank itself

[@Sp00kq]

A loud *BANG* followed by a lot of ringing. If you hadn't died

[@909mineman]

When the Canadians Attacked Vimy Ridge on April 9th, 1917 there were so many artillery guns firing and bombs going off that it could be faintly heard in london, 230km away.

[@brandonproductions8401]

1.243 miles

[@Blei1986]

nothing special... what´s more interesting is, the crater was surprisingly small. pretty sure it only detonated partly and cattered most of the explosive filling

[@Keenbeaver]

Just think those trees and that soil remembered the sound of that blast that hasn't happened in years

[@TvConfusionn]

Poor trees

[@weewoo4564]

They were like ahhh decades of no explosins, dead men, and.......KABOOM! Well so much for peace.

[@kev00193]

@@TvConfusionn And poor soil

[@nicogman8469]

RIP mine

[@MrDemonz101]

@Liberty Prime they do in Vietnam

[@vincenzo187]

Imagine hearing and feeling the Blast, but happening multiple times. That is the Feeling of WW2.

[@Benzy670]

God, I can’t imagine living in a time where explosions like that one were common. To think that that blast was just ONE mine of the war is really nutty, I mean, just look at the video footage of HUNDREDS of them stacked next to each other. Those things must have been going off left and right! Mental.

[@jpmisme1998]

Gotta remember that they "detonated it" with more explosives. They put C4 or some other explosive on it. And blew it to smithereens. So that way incase the TNT inside of the mine doesn't go off for some reason the only stuff left are very small partials that wouldn't even make a flash if they detonated.

[@libdaslappey2236]

No there was a safety and they were only detonated if 200 to 300 pounds were on it

[@anomalyp8584]

no they wouldn't

[@anomalyp8584]

@August Dahlström whut?

[@sickmit3481]

I live in germany we are constantly digging up ww2 ordnance. I dug up some anti tank mines in my backyard last year when we built a new garden house

[@k1ruki197]

12:43 what u came for

[@grumpymama1]

Thx

[@kraftmacncheese8733]

BLYAT

[@Bananaman74799]

Suki Blyat thank you fellow comrade

[@justsomeamerican5283]

The explosions is at 14:39 but you might want to start at 14:37

[@Juanparv02]

Cheers mate

[@mikeburch2998]

It's so cool that you (and us) were able to hear an explosion from WWII. That was a great video and thanks for sending it up. Greetings from Arizona.

[@butcherofthewest5825]

I agree wholeheartedly!

[@mateusztadeusz]

It wasn't, they used semtex to blow it up

[@keksemonster5850]

Are you not worried, that if you dig down you could hit a mine and just.. explode? D:

[@cpthrki5852]

Anti tank mines have very strong fuses, you'd have to pretty much jump on it to activate it.

[@vgnlda]

@@cpthrki5852 about 100 -150 kg on the pressure plate to detonate the mine + the further resistance due to the oxidation process (70 years underground...).

[@cpthrki5852]

@@vgnlda so maybe even more than jump, I'm no expert on explosives.

[@vgnlda]

@@cpthrki5852 Yup, you will need a vehicle or a (very) heavy-set individual (100kg + 30/40 kg of additional weight in backpack/equipment) to trigger an anti-tank mine.

[@farmerman7947]

KekseMonster I seen a WW2 mine set off once, you would need something very heavy to explode it

[@Ivzu]

I've found german 20mm AA shell in my back yard that was used to defend the railway.

[@phantom4gaming640]

Cool

[@Ruvi5000]

Yeah as you do :D

[@joe-xk8nl]

Sure....

[@memphisplaya8162]

Wow

[@alexmuller1680]

Take good pictures and dispose of it properly. The fuse is made of picric acid and with time it start react with any metal.

[@donovanphipps777]

blast at 14:40 ...cheers

[@mww1006]

I disagree. That time is for the tail end of the blast "scene". 13:38 is a better starting point for those skipping ahead.

[@affekinka7271]

@@mww1006 no u wrong

[@mikaneous1140]

@@affekinka7271 what the hell r u talking bout'?

[@rasmus1600]

Usualy when handling old explosives, the EOD team detonates the mine/bomb/grenade at the place it is found. This is to move the explosives as little as possible or hopefuly not move it at all. When explosives reach their expiration date (yes, explosives have an expiration date) some explosives will begin to 'sweat' heat/friction/shock sensetive compounds, an example is dynamite which is made of nitroglycerin. This can make explosives a LOT more dangerous if they are moved. I've found a couple of german stock mines. Luckily they were harmless since the wooden stick had broken down so the explosives was open for the enviroment and the 75g of TNT was eaten up by ants. They apparently like to eat explosives.

[@Meboy-uv5td]

wait for the holidays and light up the ant nest, free firecrackers lol.

[@Sp00kq]

Nice to know that somewhere there were explosive ants some time

[@a1marine105]

Drop a flame down the hill and watch July 4 come early

[@heloripascal8997]

It looked like the mine was originally found further up the hill as Mike pointed out. My guess is that they moved it downhill into a more sheltered spot to reduce the spread of shrapnel. That would be my ha'penny worth, LOL.

[@rasmus1600]

Usually when detonating explosives containing a metal shell, you just dig a deep hole and put the explosives into the hole with the main charge and fill the hole with sand.

[@WildpixFPV]

I live in Berlin. Thank you for making our woods a bit safer! :-)

[@JoeSmith-gw6hc]

Man I'm glued to these videos. Thanks for keeping the history alive.

[@astrophel7215]

Just when I was going to hear the explosion an AD appeared on my screen Me: *GO AWAY*

[@SpheroJr3289]

Chile Ball me too

[@Minimeister317]

Download adblock then

[@exicutioner161]

Mobile users without KZbin premium can’t do that

[@theanzac208]

You look at these forests and they seem so peaceful it’s hard to imagine what a hell scape it probably was during the war

[@coldbeatz3918]

Peaceful yes indeed but before they used to be a battleground where it was life or death. Crazy to imagine yet i hope we never have to go through again....i hope lol

[@pascaletje9]

​@@coldbeatz3918 well.

[@digbiggbyflackbock7472]

Then just picking up those hand grenades is the scariest shit I’ve ever seen

[@saudade7842]

As soon as he touched the Mills Bomb I audibly said 'Oh shit' and just kept repeating 'Run away, run away' in my mind.

[@marcelanzeumafack902]

yes ikr

[@gazzas123]

In Bathurst This year a man fount a Mills Bomb and was throwing it around and hitting it with a rock not knowing what it was as it was covered in rust and mud. His sons told it was a grenade and so he threw it away. The army detonated it later and yes it was still a live one. He was very lucky.

[@Daniel-mb4ln]

12:55 the red dot doesn't indicate that the mine is still in safety mode. Above the red dot it says ''scharf'' what means that the mine is sharp. Greetings from Niedersachsen, Germany.

[@Chewie26]

he means the red arrow below which points at "sicher"

[@dirtbiketoofast2959]

das ist nicht gute NEIN NEIN NEIN

[@dennislenz9454]

Die Amis sterben lieber, als Google Übersetzer zu nutzen😂

[@IronMikeMetaldetecting]

Another great video buddy, well done!

[@rickmurray442]

The woods hold so many secrets. Amazing.

[@danpackard6762]

Hey guys from Washington USA. Enjoy your videos a lot. Don’t know if I will ever get to see a European ww2 battle field but really enjoy seeing your adventures!

[@jasonsummit1885]

Hey, I'm from the same state as you!👍😁

[@kristianodegaard6682]

@@jasonsummit1885 Me three!

[@eric-yp8wo]

Ohio here

[@steveclark4291]

Kansas here !

[@BLACK3737]

This is very interesting, the more time is passing the more odd you feel when you see them. If you see old marks on the trees, barely visible foxholes and trenches remains, you realize how abandonned and marked these places are. If you think that the place you are standing on was a witness of war, probably people died there - it's pretty depressive. And what makes the biggest impression is the scale. Pick a point on a map of central Europe, probably something happened there. The fact, that they were not able to clean the grounds after the war shows how big area we are talking about. When I was young, we were collecting the stuff while just playing in the woods. No one of us had any kind of detector device. Greetings from Poland.

[@jarredwalker9919]

That's crazy those carvings in those trees are still there over 70 years later. I thought the bark would grow over it.

[@KB4QAA]

JW: They are not 70 years old. They are less than a couple decades old. Bark grows rapidly and covers old scars.

[@thedreamer8363]

I was always chillin when you show us real images/vids the function from things that you found.

[@billgrandone3552]

As you all film the area it's interesting to notice that almost all of the trees are "new growth". Very few look as if they were present during the war.

[@gijoemasters]

I like these kinds of videos, but the most insane thing I ever saw in one was they found a German ammo can and they heard clunking inside so what did they do? Tore it open for two rusted pistols. They pretty much destroyed the box it was in and it broke my heart.

[@ZieSpiralOut]

I’m obsessed with your videos. You should keep going east! Thanks for sharing these amazing finds with us! Love from the US!

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Thanks for appreciating!

[@theartistformerlyknownaslu3871]

Just imagine being dug down in one of the trench holes with artillery as loud as that mine just raining down on u blowing ur friends up and just not being able to help them... scary

[@IIIRobIII]

Imagine not being the hero of the story and just getting blasted to shit by artillery while hiding in a foxhole

[@theonlineitalian213soldacc6]

@@IIIRobIII There is no hero in war, only who is left.

[@samielkhosht1086]

IIIRobIII heroes? Which heroes? There is no such word in war nor good or bad

[@deise4208]

My Grandfather always tells his stories about the time after the war, when he was young (about 12 years). He tells that often when they found ammunition, they screw clamped it on something and hit the back of it with a hammer. Im glad he still lives. He and his friends also did things like throwing ammo belts in a campfire among other such stupidities. He also told how the SS Generals drunk themselves at the end of the war in the village tavern when the americans stood just outside of the village. Those Generals sent the Hitlerjugend (HJ) of my town to defend them, most of them being just at the age of 15, to defend their village. It is a very creepy feeling when I am at school, too because part of it was build for the HJ as a ''clubhouse''. With the clubhouse also a little arena for doing sport, where I now train with my friends.

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

Interesting, Berlin by Anthony Beevor is a good read, he tells how the German Generals urged their men to fight to the death then packed their bags and got on planes to Spain, says it all really............

[@chasebh89]

my economics teacher back in HS served in the military as a demolitions expert. one day a student asked him : "so if you found a mine, how do you disarm it?" " blow it up, cant explode if it already exploded "

[@robertphillips6296]

Not only are tons of WW2 explosives still around and dangerous, but there are tons of WW1 Munitions still to be found and deactivated.

[@TheGamingStoner7432]

Your videos are the only ww2 video i can watch. Its calming. Ive tried others but your channel has this informational and non long intro and big omgs to it that make it obnoxious. I love it

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Thanks for appreciating my style!

[@ahalfsesameseedbun7472]

6:33 those are 303 british rounds, the chargers are a dead giveaway.

[@Saunakissi]

"Here it comes..." and i get an ad lol.

[@paulchilders9969]

Are there really people that still don't know there are ad blocker programs?

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@@paulchilders9969 Lol

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I had Premium

[@Saunakissi]

@@paulchilders9969 On a phone, those adblocks doesn't work unfortunately.. and yeah, i'm not going to change to Vanced :P Some adblocks might work on a phone too, but yet i haven't find any which work in the youtube app.

[@trickyz3609]

13:38 Here’s The Siren

[@ds0305]

14:36

[@mowvu5380]

i'm quite new to this channel, these boys have some real wholesome passion for recent history. it's amazing to see what they pull up.

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Yes we do! I'm glad you like what you're seeing!

[@mowvu5380]

@@mdww2battlegrounds i look forward to your future uploads. top lads.

[@AbhishekKumar-vu3xf]

Blast from the past!

[@Phoenix258]

"ACHTUNG MINEN" *goes digging with spade*

[@MelodyOo]

anxiety hit the roof when I saw them pulling the mine out and cleaning it.

[@Hypergen-]

It takes 100 -150 kg to trigger most AT mines, so a lot of diggers aren't worried about it going off. The fuse likely doesn't even work anymore as dirt gets into every part of the mechanism, and water corrodes through everything.

[@samuelmellars7855]

@@Hypergen- TNT is relatively stable, and needs and booster explosive to detonate it. That booster might have decayed completely, or simply destabilized, to the point where a small knock will set if off. New explosives are relatively safe. old ones are very much not safe. There is a ship full of unexploded ordinance just off the coast of Britain, in a major shipping channel, that is considered too dangerous to touch, so they're just ignoring it and hoping it goes away (decays before it detonates)...

[@therussiansniper000]

I would love to live in europe and go to this places to find stuff, im a ww2 nerd, but i live in south america, went 1 time to normandy, utah beach and caen, and really enjoyed it, hope in the future i ll be able to live in europe

[@s70rk]

*polishes the trigger button* I don't care if it's on "safe" mode, it's ballsy.

[@nikoe9933]

Well, anti tank mines need a lot of pressure to trigger, but i agree

[@GabrielSkolderblad]

Well the thing is the explosion is from the new explosives added to destroy the mine.. It would be more interesting to see if the mine could actually explode by itself.

[@Doggepe]

You don't need 15 pounds of TNT to destory 15 pounds of TNT, most likely a very small amount was added.

[@Backdaft94]

No the explosion is from the mine, they only use a small charge to trigger it.

[@richardlerch1431]

Dont you worry about maybe setting one of these off when your out and walking in an area where there could still many of these still armed. Or do you have your detecting equipment working the whole time you are walking and detecting. Truly enjoy your work.

[@sumitbairagi6355]

Thank u for exploring it to us.

[@ddz7153]

Imagine if you were one of the soldiers in WWII hearing those mines setting off continously

[@devonriley110]

I'm a combat engineer, one of our specialties is route clearance, which includes dealing with UXOs. The way you deal with ordinance such as that wasted mine is not by detonating the charge in the explosive, but instead you place another explosive on it. So the explosion you heard was from more than just 12 pounds of TNT.

[@Josh-fh5ox]

Yeah, those were my thoughts. I'm guessing they go overkill on the explosives so that they never end up in a situation where they have a freshly smouldering unexploded anti-tank mine.

[@devonriley110]

@new salt The mine may have gone off but the crater was definitely from the destruction charge.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@new salt it might but it wouldn't really matter or make a difference

[@errusulistyo3810]

congrats you got the treasure of WW2 many people in the world want to have memories from world war 2 literatures..

[@xsaxspec6111]

4:19 would the grenade still be live or not

[@ColoursCapello]

It can be indeed. It just depends on how well it has been preserved.

[@j4n1x19]

In these conditions, no

[@xsaxspec6111]

Ok thanks you 2

[@Hinata-xj2gg]

Bobby Norman doubt it looks too rusty

[@chansenthebrave1]

The scariest part is: You cant really know until it explodes or is opened up and evaluated

[@Jellieshield]

My cousin dug up a live grenade from in the second world war a few years ago in the ardennes forrest

[@homes24]

Imagine hearing that hundreds of times a minute or more for hours and months....?

[@karlchris6469]

3:51 , No boy, its not a potato!

[@someguy-et6pd]

😅

[@Psychedelicseafood]

The tree carvings are almost as fascinating as the artifacts to me

[@Driplas_]

the siren you heard is used by the firefighters because when they have a fire or somethinc they get alarmed with this

[@furulund]

Nah, that's a blast warning. Heard it in mines and from demolitions

[@mojo_jojo]

@@furulund Nah, Niclas is right. The siren was activated long before the explosion (they got in their car and tried to get to the place of the explosion). It is used in germany to gather all the volunteer firefighters to help evacuate the area.

[@lordofrims]

Yup its a firefighter one, we have a similar one where I live over the volunteer headquarters.

[@tridder]

@@mojo_jojo well to be fair, those can only be found in rural areas and they are air sirens or rather used to be

[@vince6473]

I don't know where everyone is talking about. That's an air raid/emergency siren. They get tested every month on Monday. Everywhere in the Netherlands you can hear the sound. It's not used for volunteer firefighters as someone mentioned, they have a "beeper". A little speaker that makes hard sounds when they need them.

[@technicholls]

Wonderful presentation. Thanks for sharing. I prefer the on-screen text over constant talking. Would have loved to have seen the reverse side of the Mills plug you cleaned up.

[@ruinsmars9859]

Have you ever heard of a sand blaster. A sand blaster can make the stuff you find very clean and look better. Small sand blaster units are available at a number of websites.

[@Knifemaresama]

Just found 2 identical ones in the forest picnic area, on my first metal detecting trip :S, we should get a medal for finding them :P

[@Edwardnarby92]

Guys awesome video I really love your channel! I found a large British artillery shell in a creek bed in Hong Kong back in 2016. No idea what caliber it was, all I know was that it had been fired and that it weighed roughly 27.5 kilos.... (EOD report came out the next day) Went back the next day and saved a piece of the copper driving band as a souvenir:) Again awesome video guys!

[@dariuswackydawgblake3380]

The hand grenade is the British mills no.5 mk1 frag grenade, it was actually a prototype and was eventually adopted even though no one knew of it would fragment how they thought it would, it turned out it was fairly reliable but didn't have much shrapnel spread in comparison to today's m67 frag grenades

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

Hard to believe, my uncle may have walked these woods in WW-2. So proud of my late uncle Lancen from Ranger, West Virginia, USA.

[@KnorpelDelux]

Pretty positive the carvings on those trees are not actually from WW2. That is 70 years of growth on that tree. The bark is expending with the growing circumference of the tree itself and would leave letters unrecognizably stretched within a few years time. I've spent a lot of time painting numbers on trees for scientific purposes during university and was quite amazed how much of this stretching was going on within 5 years already.

[@I_DONT_SUPPORT_TERRORISTS]

I was thinking the same thing :) Maybe it was from other relic hunters (Germans possibly) searching the area a few years ago.

[@WildingWater]

This reminds me of when i lived in Germany i was at the school youth center playing soccer when they evacuated us suddenly. It turns out a bomb or mine had been found near by, i dont remember the exact details because this happened anywhere from 2008-2013 but i still remember it.

[@madmanmechanic8847]

I love the way you do your videos very professional I have never heard of you.

[@omarhamouda5608]

everybody gangsta until the turtle starts exploding

[@benlouw4208]

5:20 I've seen death before but seeing that dead soldier made me feel uneasy. The modern world sure has a ton of problems but i'm glad we don't have to go through shit like that.

[@firemainstreet]

12:48 When I was a young boy, we make this thing in a fire and we running SOUVENIR :D

[@ostekakeutenost1308]

Your grammar sucks bro

[@janitor4481]

firemainstreet grammar bro sucks

[@janitor4481]

F.B.I_ yes grammar boy sucks

[@beanosmeanos8650]

Yes meksnso

[@deutschrusse5024]

Same but we "played" in a US trainingarea

[@user-qq9fy2ir4k]

i think the antitank minebomb is used to destroy tank but it didnt work as well so after much years it has been there btw take care of what u get and keep collecting love your vids

[@TheMaxpatton]

Take care of you. Greatings from belgium.

[@shinski8114]

i dont want to even imagine how many more active mines are in those woods lmao

[@butchkaminsky9470]

Nice bang, big bang on Chicago South side every night and more on the weekends.

[@Wolfgirl_-xp2tp]

no one : youtube at 2am: *LOUD EXPLOSION* Reporting a WW2 Anti-Tank Mine that we will recommend

[@chrisgaurissr1504]

Hearing that blast I can only imagine how it must have felt.

[@sotis1756]

Not much tbh.. if you’re in a tank you’re fucked if you’re on foot you’re fucked.. won’t feel a thing, a mine in this size will rarely leave you alive

[@rogthegoodboy3520]

Geweldig werk kerel. Niet alleen ruim je de boel op, je vindt ook hele mooie stukken geschiedenis.

[@yassinet5]

why do i feel powerful when i understand something others dont

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

The siren you can hear is the local firefighters being called out to man the road blocks. Volunteer fire stations in Germany often have sirens etc to call out the firefighters.

[@nolibtard6023]

13:40 this must be in eastern Germany, since the siren is a GDR model.

[@Thejerrorlp]

He said eastern front so yeah.

[@HeinzBulli]

Haben wir im tiefstem Westen aber auch

[@connorknowland9415]

I like seeing all the old stuff you dig up

[@tofu1394]

This looks like fun: I'd just flip out upon finding anything live, I love to spot and dig for things. I only get chances from old bases here in America. A few bullet shells, nothing to big. But ya'll finding MINES. That's a bit frightening. Glad you found it first! We had 2 kids die because they threw rocks at a live bomb I think. Look like it would be dropped from a plane, maybe a mortar? Anyhow, thank you!

[@MjrCarnyx]

Really awesome finds! Thanks for sharing :)

[@maahir44]

Tree 1: dude remember that stupid lil soldier put a land mine next to our toes? Tree 2: yeah...but it still hasn't explo- BOOOM!!!!!

[@NeoByteNL]

Cool, maar dacht al dat het een bekend filmpje was. Is dezelfde explosie als bij Mike :)

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Het was ook een gedeelde ervaring. We hebben allebei onze eigen abbonnees en ik wilde dit de mijne niet onthouden. Bedankt voor het kijken!

[@randomfox9970]

Metal Detecting WWII Battlegrounds very interesting video greetings from UK England Essex near London I done some digging in Italy 🐺🐾👌

[@IronMikeMetaldetecting]

Scherp Marko! :)

[@faboxbkn]

Very interesting!! cheers from Chile.

[@dawsonfradin9071]

I've always wondered. People always find unfired and primed bullets. What does one do with them? I assume they are not safe to shoot any more. Would they jest become part of your collection or do you turn them in somewhere?

[@kovelli6711]

Dawson Fradin you can sell them at a pawn shop or collect them

[@sylvananas7923]

Yeah they are not safe to shoot,yet can have a good value dependings in the state you find them

[@BigRed1551]

You can’t take them you have to note down the location and tel the athorities, then the cops send a bomb squad

[@lilsyrexv.2488]

13:56 the long alarm only means that it is a test alarm

[@mrnorthwestohiodude7758]

It wasnt the full alarm. I think it may have been a fire alarm. Small german towns use sirens to call firefighters, and they called the fire brigade cause you can see the fire truck at one of the road blocks.

[@lilsyrexv.2488]

@@mrnorthwestohiodude7758 Danke für diese hilfreiche Information, nun werde ich zum Lidl gehen und mir ein Eis kaufen und es essen.

[@nathanturner6730]

When the blast went of i instantly had goosebumps the things mankind do to one another is horrendous just sad and yet the intelligence design and manufacture such equipment is astonishing

[@solveigbollig2519]

I grew up in an area where finding bombs and granates is a semi-regular thing, so I am kind of used to the sound. But I still remember, very vividly, driving by the next bigger city by car and hearing an explosion and feeling the shockwave. I knew that wasn't a planned detonation since the public is usually warned in advance; turns out a 500kg bomb was accidentally brought to a recycling center where it was damaged and subsequently detonated, killing one person and injuring about a dozen more. Some elderly people definitely had flashbacks, my grandmother couldn't stop talking about bombs for a couple of days.

[@nathanturner6730]

Thank you for replying and sharing a piece of you life was very interesting to read im from the uk and is not really heard of at all

[@kenakena3978]

Love your channel bro, im a detectorist myself 😎👍

[@voltag3man]

all the explosion you heard was just the dynamite or C4 they used to get rid of it, 90% chance the mine didnt explode because the explosives inside most likely met moisture and or majority of the explosives have eroded away

[@1ttanker]

In the sixties I used to find ordinance all the time in the Etaine vicinity as I wandered in the woods held by the allied forces and German forces during two world wars. Turned in several mines, motor sites some plane downings as and electronics in the forested area close to the township of Etaine and the military base close by. Ran around Verdun but it was more dangerous because of the major battles with fort Dumont and the trench to trench war of WW1

[@PorkyJones]

The bomb squad mooved that mine because the orignal psition was on higher ground. Mooving it to a lower position helps to direct the shockwave of the blast into the air instead of mooving it straight forward in all directions. 12 Pounds of TNT is already heavy stuff. In my time in german Bundeswehr i detonated 56 pounds at once and we waited just 50m away from detonation behind a dam. We hab to open our mouth because otherwise our lung could explode because the air inside could not be released fast enough. Which is also the main reason people die because of explosives in near range. Organs inside the body are squeezed heavy because of the shockwave.

[@blipblip88]

Nicely put together! You look like you have a lot of fun! Keep up the good work. I enjoy these a lot.

[@mdww2battlegrounds]

Thanks for appreciating!

[@Mini-z1994]

Fairly certain they didn't want too be anywhere nearby the area it was found and setting that one mine off without knowing if there are other mines in the area where it was found.

[@davemas357]

The “Fat American” reference by one of your subscribers was a nice touch!

[@jamin_pakk]

Thank you !

[@jasonharryphotog]

good work guys, viewer from the uk

[@jeremyeliezer7439]

Nice Vid! Btw, are you keeping them, if not. Can i buy it from you for my collection? Thank you ;)

[@dermonch4934]

alter , ganz schön grobes Teil , aber bestimmt erst auslösbar ab nem gewissem gewicht , aber trotzdem geiler und gefährlicher Fund

[@lucca04]

molto bello complimenti

[@damoisellecadillacducarlad6626]

Immer auch deine Videos Jungs. Es ist schön, dich für eine Weile wiederzusehen. Minen ja, und immer noch keine tote Leiche ! Viel Glück und bis bald. Bises aus Frankreich

[@johnwatt6359]

3:17 look like metal suppositories ... ouch!

[@Aizat-kj9no]

Great video!!! Hello from Singapore..

[@pbtascpdebidebi6992]

I really enjoy your videos, very professional I must say. I love the history you uncover and the integration of the historical film and photos. Thank you for the English subtitles, and for sharing the finds after cleaning. The Germans seem to have marked every piece of their equipment in detail. Are you military or civilian with an interest in the military, and I hear English spoken are you American?

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

He sounds British.

[@dannyh8288]

All I ever find metal detecting is pull tabs from beer cans.

[@pweter351]

Can't believe they don't find most crap like shrapnel and spent bullets