Be careful what you burn!!!

[7sleeper]

This is about one of the worst things that you can have in you fire wood. This just happenend about a week ago here in Austria. A young lady goes and buys a new wood stove and some fire wood at the local big box store. Lights here first fire and throws in some wood. What happened next is next to a miracle!
A high explosive fragmentation shell from the second world war, which didn't explode on impact, didn't explode during firewood processing and was ingrown into the tree, detonated! Luckily for the women only the primer and not the tnt explosive charge!!! Still the detonation was enough to seriously damage her wood stove.

http://www.krone.at/Oesterreich/OOe...ofen_explodiert-In_Holz_gesteckt-Story-429679

That is one of those pre christmas miracles for that young lady.

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[zogger]

Ya, we had a thread on this earlier, quite the surprise!

 

[7sleeper]

Didn't see it. Maybe a mod can delete my thread.

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[troylee]

We are pretty safe of that type of thing here in America. We didn't have that type of munitions when we took the place from the Indians, and nobody has invaded since.

 

[7sleeper]

We are pretty safe of that type of thing here in America. We didn't have that type of munitions when we took the place from the Indians, and nobody has invaded since.

Don't know if anyone has access to military training grounds and gets firewood from there!

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[troylee]

Good point

 

[benp]

Don't know if anyone has access to military training grounds and gets firewood from there!

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Ding Ding!!!!!!

Access to the grounds is key. I HIGHLY doubt that's happening to scrounge firewood.

My dad was a safety engineer for one of the worlds biggest construction companies.

When in Aberdeen, MD at the Proving Grounds, they were building a plant to decommission nasty stuff from WW1.

He said the job was closed down many times due to unexploded ordnance literally surfacing when doing site prep. EOD had to come in for disposal.

Who KNOWS what is stuck in the surrounding trees.

 

[zogger]

We are pretty safe of that type of thing here in America. We didn't have that type of munitions when we took the place from the Indians, and nobody has invaded since.

Well, down here we did have a war, with remnants and leftovers around, there were numerous unexploded cannon balls people have found throughout the years. Not to the extent of ww2 europe, but still.

It's funny, raised a yankee, never gave much thought to the civil war, as there are few visible reminders, down here it is totally different, monuments/plaques/parks all over and still a deep cultural memory of it. It is quite literally known as the war of yankee aggression, and there was quite a bit of ..well, no other word for it..genocide went on.

Now both sides whomped on the NAs, that was genocide, but very few southerners actually owned slaves, it was uncommon for most, but they still suffered quite a bit of scorched earth policies.

Quite an eye opener for me, it is *not* taught like it happened, a different viewpoint, up north, following the "history is written by the winners" deal..

 

[troylee]

If they fought wars back then, like they do today, the Civil War would still be going on.

 

[Chris-PA]

That must have been quite exciting! I wonder what % moisture that piece was?

 

[ukinionbbb]

Maybe a mod can delete my thread.

 

[mga]

one would have to x-ray each piece of wood, but with all the wood burning over the years, this was the first one ever reported.

so, the chances of it h

Well, down here we did have a war, with remnants and leftovers around, there were numerous unexploded cannon balls people have found throughout the years. Not to the extent of ww2 europe, but still.

It's funny, raised a yankee, never gave much thought to the civil war, as there are few visible reminders, down here it is totally different, monuments/plaques/parks all over and still a deep cultural memory of it. It is quite literally known as the war of yankee aggression, and there was quite a bit of ..well, no other word for it..genocide went on.

Now both sides whomped on the NAs, that was genocide, but very few southerners actually owned slaves, it was uncommon for most, but they still suffered quite a bit of scorched earth policies.

Quite an eye opener for me, it is *not* taught like it happened, a different viewpoint, up north, following the "history is written by the winners" deal..

not to get political, but, the civil war was really more about economics. different money between north and south, different wages, cultures, etc and most northern businessmen didn't like the profits the south was enjoying. the only way for lincoln to get support was to tug at the heart strings of the people about slavery. the rich businessmen were very pleased with the outcome. hell, even lincoln wanted to ship the slaves back to africa and owning slaves was constitutionally OK (at the time)

 

[Weesa20]

http://m.indyweek.com/indyweek/blasts-from-the-past/Content?oid=1188769

Story about live rounds on decommissioned army land.

There was also a story this past summer about finding unexploded Cannon ball by a kid in a stream from when the nice northerns whooped the mean southerns.

Both location are less than 10 miles from me.

 

[CRThomas]

We are pretty safe of that type of thing here in America. We didn't have that type of munitions when we took the place from the Indians, and nobody has invaded since.

Sell firewood that is burned indoors with poision Ivey on it you got your self a lawyer knocking on your door

 

[anlrolfe]

Years ago a story floated around about a guy that got PO'ed about someone stealing his firewood.
Story was that he drilled into a log and loaded it with a dose of black powder or ammo.
Urban myth or radical vigilante ?

 

[Upidstay]

oI remember one idiot was having his wood stolen. his solution? bore holes in some pieces and put a bic lighter in the hole. he went to jail.

 

[anlrolfe]

No telling how many could get hurt or killed.
I'd bet that criminal charge either had "wanton" or "reckless" attached to it somehow
Be best to place a strategic trail cam and get some pics of the culprit then let the law settle it out for sure.

 

[zogger]

Years ago a story floated around about a guy that got PO'ed about someone stealing his firewood.
Story was that he drilled into a log and loaded it with a dose of black powder or ammo.
Urban myth or radical vigilante ?

It most likely has happened, but I have never seen a bonafide news story about it.

 

[slowp]

Fort Lewis sells timber. Madhatte is one of the timber folks there. Mills that bought from them used to run the logs through metal detectors. It sounds like the Army is a bit more careful about where they place their timber sales.

Oh, and for the history folks, yes the war was about economics. Economics is just a code word for slavery at the time, which the cotton industry and others, depended on.

 

[Wildwinger]

oI remember one idiot was having his wood stolen. his solution? bore holes in some pieces and put a bic lighter in the hole. he went to jail.

Tempting, but obviously not smart. That's something best left to dream about