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Once again, it is past my bed time. Tonight has been fun ! I leave one final post for the road and goodnight everyone.
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Decided to go bottle hunting yesterday. Took the flats skiff 15 miles one way bymyself. Blew the steering at 60 mph. Took a left turn onto the sand bar. I ws ejected 10 -20 feet onto dry sand. This all happened at 1:00 pm some how I flew clean and only got a couple scrapes. I used boards and lumber to slowly inch the boat closer to the sea.with tremendous effort I got it close enough for the tide to float it off. All this took me till 5
m. So now I just waited for the tide to come in . Finally I got her floating with another tremendous effort. Finally about 10m. Could only go in left hand circles. Now im thinking im screwed !! How am I gonna steer this thing home. After doing circle and almost getting stuck again . I had a brain storm. Ill fill the steering with some spare moter oil. After spilling half a quart on the console I got it to turn right toward home. No gps, no lights, no water left, and of coarse in the pitch black I ran up on 2 more flats, and almost clipped a channel marker. I finally got home at 2:00 am with alarms blareing, cooleing system almost cloged, covered in oil , and steering quit right when I was docking. As I was unloading to go home I realized I had broken 2 out 5 1800s bottles. The point is dont ever do this treasure thing without a partner. I almost killed myself 3 times yesterday. Im going back to bed !!!
m. So now I just waited for the tide to come in . Finally I got her floating with another tremendous effort. Finally about 10m. Could only go in left hand circles. Now im thinking im screwed !! How am I gonna steer this thing home. After doing circle and almost getting stuck again . I had a brain storm. Ill fill the steering with some spare moter oil. After spilling half a quart on the console I got it to turn right toward home. No gps, no lights, no water left, and of coarse in the pitch black I ran up on 2 more flats, and almost clipped a channel marker. I finally got home at 2:00 am with alarms blareing, cooleing system almost cloged, covered in oil , and steering quit right when I was docking. As I was unloading to go home I realized I had broken 2 out 5 1800s bottles. The point is dont ever do this treasure thing without a partner. I almost killed myself 3 times yesterday. Im going back to bed !!!
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Decided to go bottle hunting yesterday. Took the flats skiff 15 miles one way bymyself. Blew the steering at 60 mph. Took a left turn onto the sand bar. I ws ejected 10 -20 feet onto dry sand. This all happened at 1:00 pm some how I flew clean and only got a couple scrapes. I used boards and lumber to slowly inch the boat closer to the sea.with tremendous effort I got it close enough for the tide to float it off. All this took me till 5
Damn.... Good to hear you are ok!!
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Decided to go bottle hunting yesterday. Took the flats skiff 15 miles one way bymyself. Blew the steering at 60 mph. Took a left turn onto the sand bar. I ws ejected 10 -20 feet onto dty sand. This all happened at 1:00 pm some how I flew clean and only got a couple scrapes. I used boards and lumber to slowly inch the boat closer to the sea.with tremendous effort I got it close enough for the tide to float it off. All this took me till 5
Hey Bart . Are we related ?
I had almost the same experience many years ago while fishing the Connecticut River 5 am ,by myself. Miles away from anyone/anything in my 10 ft. Alum.boat w/9 hp outboard.I gunned it to get on plane(to get to another fishing spot). And hit a submerged log.The impact yanked the Eng. control out of my hand and the boat (at full throttle) went hard left whileI went hard right out of the boat, into the river. Just by the grace of God the flotation seat cushion flew out w/me.So there I am in the middle of the river,all alone,with my boat making full speed circles around me(w/a full tank of gas). Seemed like forever and finally a guy in a boat picked me up. True story.
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Lead. :P
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How old is that thing tom.?? Is left over from ww2 ?? Justs looks like an old water heater.
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Lead. :P
oh.....
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WWII . In WWI they wouldn´t get this 2 tons in the air
It is a HC 4000
It was used to blow away the roofs of civil buildings within a radius of 500 Meters and than throw phosphorus bombs to burn the buildings (and people).
They was thrown at our town when bombers was on the way back from Kassel or other greater cities. When the weather was to bad to bomb this cities on sight, the bombers flew back home and dropped the material on smaller towns. Also reason why we find on archeological dig sites so many "non-existing..." phosphorus bombs.
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PS:"water heater"
This was the reason why this sucker was buried around the 50´s when the house was build! They thought is is an old heater which was to heavy to pull out. Some old people know the story.
The back of it was found 80cm deep. The tip with the fuses lies a little bit deeper.
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Always been my hero!!!!
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Hey Roundness .Your into airguns, ck out this 20mm
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