How Dangerous Is A Cannonball?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2016
- Cannonball? Propane cylinder? Are they both safe and dangerous at the same time? Why of course they are.
Steve unloading a cannonball:
• Steve Phillips unloadi...
BirdDogg / @birddogg
zz
Follow the ChiggsArmy!
My Patreon: / aquachigger
Instagram: / aquachigger
Facebook: / chiggsarmy
Twitter: / beauouimette
#MyAdventures #Aquachigger
About Aquachigger:
Metal detecting, treasure, history, coins, river treasure, adventure, nature, animals and MOAR! That is what my channel is about. I enjoy caving, SCUBA diving and flying my powered paraglider. I foster sick and injured pets. My channel is family friendly. My videos are meant to be fun, educational and informative.
Affiliate links to see and purchase the gear I use:
General Gear:
T-Shirts: www.bonfire.com/store/aquachi...
Garrett Metal Detectors:Magnet Big: amzn.to/2L7Arfi
Magnet Med: amzn.to/2HyYqlt
JackerySolarPanel amzn.to/2NMd62L
JackeryPowerStation amzn.to/2NELmNm
How Dangerous Is A Cannonball?
• How Dangerous Is A Can...
Aquachigger
/ aquachigger - บันเทิง
really loving videos almost every single day. I have pretty bad depression, and your videos make me so damn happy I almost watch them twice lol
Hope you're doing okay friend
Many channels are about entertainment, and thats ok. But what I really like about your channel is that I actually can learn from it while being entertained. Keep up the awesome work
I LOVE your content man. The stuff you find is so much fun to be a part of. Watching you get excited about something in the water or ground transfers to the viewer and brings a sense of discovery with every video. And your plethora of knowledge adds so much to the subject matter. Keep the awesome content coming Chigger.
I was reading an article about Sam White that died May 2 2008 in Virginia. He detected old battlefields, well they seem to think that he found a Navy cannon ball that was water proof while tryin to disarm it, it blew up and killed him. I guess he was the last casualty of the civil war. It's a heartbreaking story Chig. When you get a minute look the story up. Be extra safe.....Keep up the good work I love watching your channel brother.
Very interesting. I always "assumed" they had like 5 pounds of unstable black powder due to the age of them. Excellent. Thank you.
Thank you for all your advise. I have just started out in this hobby and LOVE all of your videos and have been learning a lot! I appreciate it and look forward to the next video...no pressure lol :)
I learn so much from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about Cannon Balls and other things you teach us. And as always, take care and HH.
Even though the only Civil War shells I would ever see are on TH-cam, theses videos of yours are fascinating, interesting and AWESOME! I love history! 👍
Beau, I love the videos on you finding the relics, but I'd also love when you show us the relics all cleaned up and having gone through electrolysis. All in all, great job with the channel!
Hey Beau, I found this video very informative. A lot of what you shared reminded me of what I learned in firefighter training. A propane explosion is called a BLEVE and the expansion ratio of water to stream is huge, 1 to 1700 so 1oz of water will make over 13 gallons of steam. Stay safe when you are rendering them inert or they will render you inert:)
Informative, fascinating, and all the info I will need when I find my first cannonball magnet fishing! Thanks!
thank you this is exactly the video I was wanting to see sooner or later!
Thanks for the education. Love your channel.
WOW ! .....the secret mixture for Gunpowder......Thanks Chigger !
There is a spot near here out in the middle of the forest called the 'bullseye' RCAF bomber crews used it for training and dropped dummy and live explosives on it during world war 2. I've always wanted to check it out and go digging but it seems it may be a stupid idea lol
Couple things I need to say here. First, I'm a big fan and I look forward to your videos. Second - I am a retired US Army EOD Tech with over 24 years of field experience, and I have to tell you, you've got some bad info here.
1) All explosives require 3 things in order to explode: HEAT, SHOCK, & FRICTION. The more sensitive an explosive is, it just requires less of the three. Just heating the black powder will only provide 1 of the three. Thats why a cannon ball (or propane cylinder) will explode if you drill into - the act of drilling provides all three.
2) Black powder gets MORE sensitive over time especially if it's exposed to changing elements, wet/dry, cold/heat, etc.
3) There are some cannon ball fuzes that are much more sensitive than others - for example: a Tice Concussion fuze is one of the worst - very durable and all-way acting, which means rolling it on the floor could piss it off enough to detonate the fuze, which in turn will detonate the powder.
4) If you call the police for any military ordnance they will most likely call the military EOD (I personally have responded to many, many pieces of ordnance civilians have dug up (or found in Grandpa's attic) over the years. It isn't "just a number" to us, it's always better to be safe than sorry... Good luck and stay safe!
1) We agree 100%
2) When Black Powder gets wet, it dissolves, when it dries, in reforms into smaller grains - smaller grains = more sensitive. Unless you can verify (and how could you) that the round has never been wet, or has been under water ever since it was fired, you would have to assume worst case and go with the more sensitive explosive filler. (I'm looking for a reference about the break down of Black Powder over time and environment, when I find it, I'll post it.)
3) I'm talking about a specific fuze: Tice Concussion, and all-way acting fuze that was armed by vial breaking and mixing with lead shot within the fuze when the round was fired, if the fuze grazed it's target (or hit it directly) the shot would create the friction required to detonate the round. Now, if someone finds one, is the vial broken? How could you know without a X-Ray? If the vial breaks ANY friction could detonate the fuze. We (as EOD) are taught to blow up any suspected Tice fuze. The Tice and the Borman are similar, except that the "guts" of the Tice were deeper in the fuze and had a much higher dud rate due to the vial not breaking.
4) Agree.
It's really cool that you go out and explore, you're my favorite youtuber that goes outside!
Great video , as I was a EOD TECH for over 15yrs , your the first channel ,to warn people of danger of old Ordnance , We were taught, that all bombs,shells or rounds were alive , until we could check and clear the dangers, I've seen what happens when kids played with a WW2 Potato Masher German Hand grenade , the family thought they were dudes, but the child lost part of his hand, so lesson is all things are deadly ,until disarmed, and in doubt ask someone who know these things, great channel ,Regards from Downunder
Very informative. I learned something today. Thanks for the vid!
Great video, I can say that Beau AKA Aqua Chigger will respond to all inquiries on artillery shells. Wealth of knowledge thanks for sharing.
I used to do metaldetecting for aavery large part of my life and basically earned over a million dollars through repairing and selling guns that I found in Russia in the fields and forests of Leningrad oblast and damn I had seen so much of artillery ordnance that if one would have collected all the TNT out of them,compiled it and blew it up-the explosion would have certainly dwarfed the Hiroshima or Nagasaki and trust me:I had quite a few crazy stories going on and could die quite a number of times-once I had a piece of heavily rusted shrapnel just about 3×4 centimeters wide and about half a centimeter thick sticking out of the hole in my scull once the 45mm HE artillery shell went off about 5 meters away from me:it's by far the most unstable of all explosive ordnance ever created or designed except for early BM-13 rockets that nobody ever could successfully disarm without blowing up because the designers did their best to make them impossible to recover once they were fired and throughout the war of all the 94 cases of Germans finding them and each time trying their best to deactivate them without blowing up in order to copy the technology itself but none of them were ever successful..Of all the rest of explosive ordnance you can find anywhere the early 45mm HE shells absolutely take the cake when it comes to instability so in my case the process of disabling them as well as any other explosive shit by that time was already for a long time just a routine that I carried out for literally hundreds of times until I finally almost ran out of luck..So the thing is that when it comes to the detonator in them-whenever by any reason the metal carcass of the detonator itself does get ruptured-the compound inside immediately starts emitting the little orange cloud that is the most dangerous thing you can ever see in your life because even the slightest disturbance of the air makes it to detonate immediately and so what ended up happening is that when I saw the cloud seeping out of the detonator of the shell that was right in my damn hands-I knew exactly what that was and so I slowly moved myself so that I could quickly and in one move of the hand just throw the shell away in the way so that the cloud will remain undisturbed for as much as possible to give me at least any chance of survival and so I threw it in the right direction because it went off about 5 meters away from me and trust me:it was a gargantuan luck and extremely well calculated and executed maneuver because otherwise if I screwed up-it would have gone off in my hands killing me instantly because it is essentially twice the amount of TNT than you find in your frag grenade and also twice the weight of the shell itself turning into shrapnel so that was basically like surviving a simultaneous explosion of two frag grenades 5 meters away from you with zero protection,not in the cover and with absolutely nothing between you and the blast except for just 5 meters of air..The funniest thing was that I was there alone and the cell phone had no signal in this area so I had to get back to my car that was about 3.5 kilometers or over two miles away from me through the forest with a huge hole in my scull with a chunk of rusted metal sticking out of it,while being at that point almost sure that I had lost an eye as well but as it turned out it was just a bit numb and too much blood had just covered it and so I couldn't open it for a while and in this condition I had to make it through the forest anyway and I did that!Than finally called ambulance,waited for them to arrive and just passed out..Now that was as scary and as painful as it ever gets!
Yet as well as at any other time and day of my life my love and appreciation of guns had been just as huge as always so I used to get out with my own favorite rifle-a sniper version of Mosin rifle that was my first gun that I ended up registering for my firearm license after 9 years of having it illegally but without ever getting caught with it and that actually helped me to focus on something that was good for me and most likely didn't faint also because of having her in my hands and almost like leading me and keeping me calm but focused..
Love your channel man keep up the good work
Nice and informative video chiggs. I love this stuff- relics or anything from the early 1900s and anything older than that. Kind of unrelated to this video: did you ever go metal detecting and find anything around your house/ property?
Very good advice, Here in The U.K. and Europe as a whole we treat anything WW1 or WW2 with great care and generally leave it well alone and let the bomb disposal units deal with them, Interestingly in some parts of Europe especially around the area of the Somme and most other places where a lot of fighting happened the local farmers dig up unexploded shells regularly and they call it “The Iron Harvest”, But your Civil War as opposed to our Civil War was in relative recent history and even though those shells and balls are for the most part are pretty safe to handle I’d still treat them with a lot of respect and hand it over to someone like you to make it inert, Great advice and great video.
Your channel is slowly becoming one of my favorites.
Saltpeter (potassium nitrate, aka fertilizer) is very soluble in water and could wash away. It's an oxidizer that allows the carbon to burn without air, and it's probable that it also oxidizes the iron in the shell while wet. Basically your gunpowder burns itself out slowly by rusting the inside of the ball while wet, rather than burning rapidly on carbon fuel as designed. (I'm a chemist.)
Very informational thank you !
Thanks,,, great info
Very educational video
Thank you for sharing
you're such an inspiration, keep up the good work and i hope you find more guns in the rivers
Saw most of your videos missed this one.... great video,reminds me of farmer who drilled or tried to drill into high pressure gas line that ran through his property trying to get free natural gas....all they found was pieces of extension cord going out to gas line!!!!
You, sir, are a genius!! Love your videos.
Good info. Thanks, well done.
Thank you for making this!! I know I've said it before but I appreciate how informative your videos are. Even when you're out looking for stuff, you take the time to explain points of interest and I think that is really cool. I wish I had the funds to buy a new metal detector but, alas, I'm stuck with my old one... She does the job, I guess..lol!
+Aquachigger thank you!
Just outta curiosity how do you get the fuses out of cannon balls?
Thanks for sharing
Roy
That answered the questions I've even searched with little answers giving in past....very Interesting learning the safe way...
Just one small clarification. I wouldn’t be quite as calm and casual with a shell equipped with a Tice fuse. The Tice fuse is a “chemical percussion” type fuse (percussion fulminate enclosed in a glass vial). I have never run across one in my years of detecting and collecting (started in 1972) but I am sure one or more are waiting to be discovered.
Reference: Author William Ripley, “Artillery And Ammunition Of The Civil War”, Promontory Press, 1970, page 281
Thank you, Chigg. Very informative. Question(s) answered.
Black powder that has been continually wet for years tends to lose some or most of its potassium nitrate (saltpeter) because it is readily dissolvable by water. It leaves behind most of the charcoal and sulpher which is rather harmless. However, there is also a small chance of finding a civil war black powder shell that happened to not explode and landed somewhere high and dry, plug down and in really good draining soil, i suppose the chance of finding one with viable dry powder still in it is possible. Drilling them causes explosion because the small fragments of steel that the drill bit is cutting, momentarily are red hot or damn near it, so as the drill bit punches through the shell into the powder there is a fairly high chance of setting it off.
Very interesting video Thanks Beau.
"Your likely to loose your hand" 😂😂I died laughing😂😂
I've stumbled across you and have watched everyone of your videos definitely the most interesting man on TH-cam keep up the videos
i like your video dont stop good job
Thank you for the info,that;s a good video!
Still love this one. The eye contact is intense, it's like Chigg is telling you personally "DON'T F*** AROUND WITH CANNON BALLS"
I think that's the kindest way I've heard anyone say "don't be ferking stupid". My PTSD banging today and you brought me back down, thank you for that my friend. How? because you reminded me that sometimes you have to be polite and (very) patient and remember to say it over and cover to dumbasses and those who know no better to get your message across....no point getting worked up, so your very informative video also helped an old military nutcase keep his head tight :)
you really make me want a detector....only problem is I think my wheelchair would set it off all the time!! in the meantime I'll just keep going with you mate! P.S. it was good to see you where over in the UK, If your ever over here, in the Cambridge area, We have a spare room and front door key as well as a caravan/trailer on the front...come and go as you please rent free kind of thing.
Job well done Chig.
Great video, as always. Thanks for sharing.GL&HH
Awesome video. I always wondered how safe your collection was.
Great video, thanks!
You are awesome, thanks for your vids!!!
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing
'Hold my beer, and watch this!...'
Saltpeter is the oxidizer, when gunpowder gets wet the saltpeter dissolves, leaving only charcoal and sulfur. So the leftovers don't have the oxygen needed to burn fast.
Well you answered my question. After just watching your vid on wax-coating all of your Schweddy balls and shells, I was thinking that you might save all of the old powder and possibly dry it out and use it for re-enactments for that authentic smell as you mentioned. But alas, no Schweddy ball odors. Thanks, Beau!
I’ve always wondered about this. Thx
Very informative I've just subscribed with all notifications!!!
Good work, and great video!
You are very knowledgeable about this thanks for sharing.
I don't know how I found your channel but, you have a fantastic channel. Thanks for sharing your collection and knowledge with us.
Kind regards Eric Dee
All your videos are without a doubt very informative and interesting,funny I was watching you break your record on 8 shells wondering if they could go off, started thinking about being a mouse in your house I'd head straight to the trophy room and the very next video is this one,thumbs up to you and noggin.
Great video Beau!
There is a very slim chance that I would ever find anything like this in Massachusetts, but I found this very interesting. Love your videos.
Love your videos!
I definitely appreciate that information brother 👊🏻 i just found my first ever Bormann...I have been scared to wash it lol🤪 i feel a little safer now 👍
Interesting video. I had no idea what dangers might of been there. You always find cool items. Lived near some battle fields before I got into metal detecting. Often wonder how those men made it through the battles. With hope and a prayer I guess. Thanks for great content.
("might have" not "might of" FYI.) The truth is that in major CW battles they could lose 33% of their men in every battle and these battles could occur one after another. "The Overland Campaign" by Grant against Lee in 1864 was just like that, one battle after another - The Wilderness, Then Spotsylvania. The general officers losses were also extremely high. They always led from the front.
In the Somme Valley. farmers plow up Mustard Gas shells from World War One with great regularity.
The EOD men patrol the roads near the plowed fields to pick up the shells left there by the farmers.
In Verdun, I saw a tractor with plow attachment which was blown apart by a shell strike.
If you wanted to make some spare money, you could get a job in France clearing the old shells.
aquachiccer - You should pitch your show to the discovery channel. I'm totally serious. You have a really good shot at it. You're knowledgeable. You're entertaining. You have skills and above all; you're a showman.
So go for it man!
aquachigger- I meant. Sorry. keep getting your name wrong.
Wow! Thanks for the information! I never knew that cannonballs had a charge within them. I always though that there was just a charge behind them like a giant upscaled musket.
Another great video!
I found a grapefruit sized ball in northern Indiana as a child and always wondered what it was. It had a half inch'ish hole in it yet seemed like it was drilled without more than just a hole in it. Were boat anchors made out of iron balls? I no longer have this but have fond memories of it. Little did I or my parents know.... Good public service here! Love the channel!
A Hugh battle took place East of here, some call a butchery. Moving ahead to the mid sixtys, a gentleman was plowing his garden.He unearthed two 6 lbs. He decided to weld them on to his fire place log holder. The cannon balls ignited killing him and blew out the whole rear of the house!
From what I've read the Naval cannon balls that were made to be water proof and or skip on water can still be very dangerous even today as they are more likely to be preserved. Love this channel by the way!
I do follow those rules for propane cans, but been around when someone dropped one in a fire. Boy was that exciting, but the diner did not survive.
Thanks for the lesson Chig, I was always wondering how these cannonballs were taken care of.. Maybe an insight on how you treat your finds after the actual find would be an interesting video?.. Watching the vids every time man!
May the finds be with you!
When that head came off the modern shell I jumped and got so scared 😂 11:40
good info Mr. Chig
Hey Beau, Great video! I promise to "treat every cannonball just like a propane tank", although, I doubt I'll ever be able to get as much burn time on my Propane Lantern by screwing a cannonball onto it. Outstanding training presentation, as usual. Thanks!
Close your eyes and hear Owen Wilson! Thanks for sharing beau!
Thank you for the informative video, I think I'm pretty unlikely to find any of those canon balls in the UK but still fascinating to watch. Many thanks!
thanks for this, i was realy wondering if these things were not dangerous
you remind me more of Macgyver all the time! enjoy watching what you do.
Very good to know. Thank You.
Interesting video ,although I'll never be doing this. Thanks for your video 's very informative!
Ok Chigg, I have caught so much crap about the WW1 Shrapnel Bomb I found like the one in your video. Many comments refer me to you (the expert on bombs they said) and said I was pretty much foolish for turning it in. Mine was not inert. I am sooooo glad you did this video so when I get another negative comment about how I need to watch your videos to learn about bombs (since my bomb was sooo safe) I will refer them to this video. Good job as usual!
thanks
So was my question from a couple of weeks ago the inspiration for this video? Excellent explanation of what and what not to do.
Black powder can be set off by impact, its unlikely, since the powder has probably oxidized beyond the point that could happen, although it is possible. Black powder that has been wet and dried out again is capable of exploding, it is worked wet in the manufacturing process for safety, and regains its strength when its dried. It is unlikely, but it is possible, so don't take any chances.
Beau your videos mean so much to me because they are kind of an escape. Being disabled sucks. So please keep em come'n and the longer the better.
+Aquachigger what is the most valuable think you found snorkelling
Keep your head up Randy! Find what you love, love what you do. I know you can!
Michiel Verbeek Thanks so much.
Instructions unclear, will assume Aquachigger said drill cannonballs and propane tanks in campfires.
Saltpetre, the oxidiser in gunpowder is water soluble, so if it gets wet it can dissolve out.
Crapped myself at 11:46 didn't expect you to drop it thought it was still live haha.
brilliant fascinating video.
In the 1960's a group of National Guard soldiers were camping at Fort Sumpter and had used CW cannonballs to line a fire pit....they became the last recorded deaths due to the Civil War. GREAT VIDEOS! Thank you!!
THAT would do it!
Thanks for all the history!
Safety first, always the way to go. Thanks
Chig knows more about the Civil War that a college professor!
Great Video!!!!
I found a live 75mm ww1 shrapnel shell w/m1907 m.t. fuse identicle to yours, years ago. It was full of 1/2" lead balls w/ a brass tube going to the explosive in bottom under a 1/2" thick steel plate.
Very interesting and well-planned and thought-out presentation. Thanks for sharing it! d8^)
I love your vids aquachigger
I have read that around 2006 a teacher blew off part of his hand, during class, while trying to smash a bug with a 40 mm shell he found while he was hunting. He assumed it was inert apparently and kept it on his desk.
Rust can actually be used as a substitute for sulfur in gunpowder. The saltpeter and carbon are the fuel and the other ingredient is the oxidizer.
Great video
Great video...I had no idea that the amt of powder was that small.