In Flanders Fields

[svandamme]

i'm not into digging myself, there's a group called , now get this "the diggers".
These are history buffs but they reeeally like digging.

http://www.mausershooters.org/diggers/ (part in english)

These guys usually have at least somebody around who knows a thing or two about the different types of bombs...The biggest risk is not explosions, shells are not as easy to set off, not even after 90 years in the mud.. but leaking gas shells, that's a whole different story.

Farmers same thing, they often find em while plowing, and they will simply carry em to the side of the field, and stack em up by the road.
If they can lift it, they will move it to the side of the road, if not, it's a big one and they call Dovo..

The military has a base here that has been cleaning up WW1 bombs since forever. They are called Dovo and were established after WW1 for what then was thought a couple of years worth of cleanup.. slight underestimation of the task at hand.

Dovo will patrol the country roads when it's plowing season.. Farmers don't even have to call em up, just stack the ammo by the side of the road, usually by an electric pole..
Dovo anually picks up 150 to 200 ton like this.

These guys have reputation that they will demine ordonance that deminers from other nations won't even go near. Or so i was told by an American.

Dovo has also been active in other places where cleanup is needed, Vietnam, Cambodja, Lebanon and more recently Afghanistan..

They have the biggest Controlled Demolicion Chamber world wide, for disposing (suspected) gas bombs..


regular ordonance , they will blast in open air..

couple of times a week..during summer..They got plenty left to keep going for years and years.

This is their base, the buildings are ammo stocks ,awaiting to be disposed.

http://maps.google.be/maps?q=poelkap...ewest&t=h&z=14