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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2360 on: April 19, 2012, 05:40:47 pm »

Hey Peter, are those some of the grasslands in the background of your black powder shooting table that you're talking about hindering your detecting? Nice pictures! I've only shot black powder rifles a couple of times in my life. Have a couple of friends that are deeply into it and they go to meets all over the US Pacific Northwest.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2361 on: April 19, 2012, 06:37:37 pm »

LOL! I have a Black Powder Canon I made in High School shop. 36 Cal and with the powder of a Black Cat fire cracker it will make it to page 289 in the Yellow phone book.

Yea, back then it was cool to make stuff like that.

Now days they don't even have machine shop or Industrial Art Classes.

No More Hands on Electronics, Welding, Sheet Metal and stuff.

Just how to subvert your parents into submission and stuff.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2362 on: April 19, 2012, 11:16:49 pm »

Arfieboy, you are 100% correct about the grass No no!

just is not funny. Anway, the fires are now just starting, so then we will go into black, burnt ground then good ground Great

some parts the grass is about 3' it is crazy.

Homie, we used to make cannons as apprentices and shoot ball bearings down the workshop, great fun those days, but like you say these days that stuff just is not happening Exhausted

the new apprentices are boring Laughing

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2363 on: April 20, 2012, 05:14:43 am »

Hey I made a cannon out of brass it worked very well till the day it blue up Grin

never made another cannon though Ho and all that I found of my cannon was a few bits of wood. too bad it was a nice looking cannon Sad

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2364 on: April 20, 2012, 09:49:34 am »

X, you should know that a kilogram of TNT will be a big bang Shocked

you do not seem to know the limits of science Cheesy

Are we going to look at the ruin on Sunday that I told you about down the road from you? Not sure what the grass will be like, but hey could be ok Great

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2365 on: April 20, 2012, 12:28:34 pm »

We can sure see why the unburned grasses would be a problem for you all!

All you guys talking about making cannons and black powder rifles in shop and industrial arts, there is no way the schools would allow you to make a firearm or weapon now days even if they did have the equipment to do it. At least in the politically correct US! Zero Tolerance, ya know! Detecting

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2366 on: April 20, 2012, 12:47:56 pm »

Been super dry here.. Fires already started. Man Made and Lightning.

Up north about 50 miles from here they did battle just the other day. Shocked

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2367 on: April 20, 2012, 02:16:42 pm »

The fires are slowly starting here by me now Devil

also mostly started by people I think Undecided

every year we go through the same thing. I hate the grass being long Angry

Black powder cannons are great fun, we used to shoot our homemade cannons at corrugated iron sheets... what a noise they used to make Great

I am a great fan of this stuff Pray

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2368 on: April 20, 2012, 03:06:22 pm »

Hey guys

How are you all keeping?
Fires are starting on my side of the hill too and I must admit that I do not like the high grass for detecting but the fire for me is a really bad thing as I have over 100 hectares of grass to feed my cattle during the winter months and even though it's not high (about 300mm) should the fire come my way it would be a very expensive day. I have two fire trucks ready to role at any given time and two tractors that could turn over the soil at any given place or time to fight that fire not to mention that should that fire start while my cattle are in the fields WELL there could be so much lost in live stock. Have any of you seen how 100 head of cattle behave when there is a fire?

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #2369 on: April 20, 2012, 03:43:00 pm »

Yep, the dumb azzes will freak out and run right into the fire.

Burn up there hooves and legs. Or Worse.

Smoke gets them before the fire. Shocked

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