Magnet Fishing
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This is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
I have a powerful magnet that I used back in the seventies. We lost the propeller from the wardens boat on Tradaegar Lake.
We didn’t find it (it was mostly aluminium with a steel bearing.
We did find quite a lot of metal junk. A hammer head, a public notice, bit of chain but nothing interesting.
Someone else used one off a bridge over the Usk. They got something really heavy and wondered if it was a bomb. Newport had been heavily combed.
It was an empty safe.
I’ve still got mine but I keep It between two steel plates outside as I have a pacemaker. It may be a myth but I don’t want to prove it.
I have a powerful magnet that I used back in the seventies. We lost the propeller from the wardens boat on Tradaegar Lake.
We didn’t find it (it was mostly aluminium with a steel bearing.
We did find quite a lot of metal junk. A hammer head, a public notice, bit of chain but nothing interesting.
Someone else used one off a bridge over the Usk. They got something really heavy and wondered if it was a bomb. Newport had been heavily combed.
It was an empty safe.
I’ve still got mine but I keep It between two steel plates outside as I have a pacemaker. It may be a myth but I don’t want to prove it.
I'm interested, but it's on a list with metal detectors & camera drones.
Anything I'd actually want to do with any of them isn't legal!
Anything I'd actually want to do with any of them isn't legal!
I would go for a metal detector. It depends on what you want. If its curious fun then have a go. All of what you pull up is ferous metal and has no value but I would say it is interesting. Pirate Treasure is not magnetic so there no geting rich unless its in a steel box. DD xxxx
I'd be overly tempted go and play in areas that used have a significant military presence shall we say? The magnet fishing would be similar. From the safety and legality perspectives, it's better that I don't have the equipment easily available!
lol. we live in Irela
LOL. we live in Ireland so theres no saying what you might pull from beneath the ground or under the water. .DD xxx
No but I want to. I have a good sized magnet but it doesn’t have a means of attaching a rope. I’ve thought of improvising a means of holding it but it’s a job. I then think to buy a decent fishing magnet then look at the price and go back to my first thought. And then procrastinate.
I think if I was going to explore it and thinking how A ) Careless/Clumsy or B ) Lazy people are I'd be dipping near edge of ponds and lakes and off bridges , pedestrian walkways over canals.
It will either be something people accidently dropped or something intentionally dropped to hide in the mire.
It will either be something people accidently dropped or something intentionally dropped to hide in the mire.
No but a friend recently made the suggestion to me that we should try it for me to poo poo that idea around here given unlike my pal I am very aware of my area's wartime history to be aware of the 2800 high explosive and 200,000 incendiary bombs dropped on the city and it's surroundings during the war, a believed 10% failed to detonate to be out there somewhere and yes they are being found mostly by innocent groundworks operations to count three this year of a size enough to level a street of which was not a patch of the 500kg monster that was uncovered the year before.
But seeing as the stretch of water I know my pal intended to magnet fish was during the war not only betwixt several major Luftwaffe targets not to mention what was moored in that stretch of water and what sank in it I know a fair few bombs fell in between to be quietly lying there on the bottom waiting for the unaware of history and the elevated UXO tier risk to wake them up again. Great shakes when there is a modern bulk fuel installation on one bank.
See that's the problem with any form of metal detecting in Britain is that we are a country that was heavily bombed to know not everything that dropped from the sky exploded on contact with the ground. Where to illustrate I watched a youtube video recently describing the discovery by a bunch of metal detectorists and military disposal of a German incendiary bomb uncovered in a farmer's field where as usual the aerodynamic tail detaches to be near the surface for the weapon to be deeper down, fortunately the detectorists recognised the tail structure to know what they'd found.
As I would suggest know the wartime history of the area in which you wish to search to be aware not everything meant for strategic targets fell on them.
Funny you should say that as we did discover stuff in a canal adjacent to a bridge when in a previous employ we ran a line of open cut pipework under the canal to have to close and over pump the section. Well rotted of course but a number of single shot flintlocks and early percussion pistols one of which through having an octagonal barrel I attempted to identify to figure potentially a weapon used in a nineteenth century crime. Later on when tying in road gullies to a sewerage tunnel we had mined up a main road the discovery of a Webley service revolver of which was handed to the police through awareness of the weapon's potential criminal involvement.
Brilliant story. Thank you. On the subject of solving historic crimes my friend was an archeologist and found some coin moulds from roman times they turned out to be made by a coin counterfitter. I thought that was so much better than finding the real thing. xxx
There was a story about a guy in the US who found a seriously high powered sniper rifle while magnet fishing.
Well I've been fishing swarf and needle rollers out of a hedgecutter gearbox with a magnet recently...
Don't be so negative. That attitude repels me..I don't understand the attraction
You are not alone, neither does science.I don't understand the attraction
(We understand the “domains” but a permanent magnet appears to be a source of infinite periods of work. They don’t seem to “run out” in any conventional sense.
Suppose yeah, that’s be the obvious, but you’d think there’d be better methods of disposal.
Oh yeah, I know that one. There are a lot of those to lose.
Thats what I thought . but would you be
I thought that. but I dont think you'd be bothered , Water destroys any evidence so its as good a place as any x
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