Bombs in the Woods

[Gologit]

Gologit, I remember Beale, I day worked for a rancher that had pasture leased on Beale. It was after 9-11 so we had to get security clearance just to check the cows. It was funny when we shipped cows, the guards ar the gate inspected the trucks., They had a little mirror on a stick they would check the bottom of the cow trailer, lol it was funny when an old cow on the top deck **** or pissed thru the air holes in the trailer, seen more than one guard get his uniform messed up lol.By the time we shipped out they quit that practice lol. Ed

You get around. First Covelo and now Beale. All the good places. We looked into running some cows out there but the good allotments were all taken and the grass was poor that year. Lots of government hoops to jump through too.

 

[M_S_S]

You get around. First Covelo and now Beale. All the good places. We looked into running some cows out there but the good allotments were all taken and the grass was poor that year. Lots of government hoops to jump through too.

I was raised at Sutter, our family ranch is about 2 miles east. Yeah I got a round lol. I shod horses at Beale in the 70's. They has a large stable there. I ran all over the Buttes when I was a kid and also the Sierras. I am sure you know Strawberry Valley, Northstar, Sclaes. My grandfather had the permit at Scales years ago, my uncle had it till about 1960 then he leased a place at Sattley for his summer pasture. I can remember my mom telling about driving cows to the mountains. They went right thru Marysville lol, you can't do that anymore lol. ED

 

[4x4American]

The most interesting comment was from the geologist, who said our people figured out where the balloons were coming from and bombed the heck out of it. They figured it out by the type of sand used for ballast.

I wonder if that is fact or fiction?

Hah! Scroll down some more, they busted it! The geologists finding out where the bombs come from was true, but the carpet bombing was false, because they found out after they stopped sending the balloon bombs. The Japs weren't getting any feedback on the news and thought that they weren't working so they stopped.

I thought it was interesting how much whining there was in the comments about the article being written in an older fashioned way.

 

[Gologit]

I was raised at Sutter, our family ranch is about 2 miles east. Yeah I got a round lol. I shod horses at Beale in the 70's. They has a large stable there. I ran all over the Buttes when I was a kid and also the Sierras. I am sure you know Strawberry Valley, Northstar, Sclaes. My grandfather had the permit at Scales years ago, my uncle had it till about 1960 then he leased a place at Sattley for his summer pasture. I can remember my mom telling about driving cows to the mountains. They went right thru Marysville lol, you can't do that anymore lol. ED

We might have run across each other some place or other. Our place was west of Live Oak and south of Pennington Road. I wasn't losing money fast enough logging so we also ran cows for 25 years to speed up the process.

Brownsville, Forbestown, Scales, Strawberry Valley, LaPorte, those are all like home. I did a lot of work at Feather Falls and on out Lumpkin Ridge toward Camel Peak and Little Grass too. That was always my favorite country to log.

 

[Jan-Sietze]

In the Netherlands we have the Explosive Ordnance Disposal,
in 2014 they have 700 unexploded bombs, mines, grenades and ammunition from the WW2 defused.
70 years later after the last war that are still two each day!

The European forests are full of old explosives .

Bombs from an aircraft are sometimes found back at 10 meters depth
not in the water, but below the ground ....

 

[madhatte]

That's scary stuff. You can feel the concussion from even smaller ordnance from a mile or so away. I'd hate to be any closer than that.

 

[Jan-Sietze]

Yes, I have searched the news:
It has been in the German Hoyerhagen, a grenade exploded in the fireplace

http://www.focus.de/panorama/kriegs...ach-blindgaenger-im-feuerholz_id_3599259.html

(google translate: https://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.focus.de%2Fpanorama%2Fkriegsgeschoss-im-kamin-explosion-in-der-stube-nach-blindgaenger-im-feuerholz_id_3599259.html&edit-text=&act=url )

Didn't some gal throw a bomb in her stove a few weeks back? I thought I remember reading about or hearing about something like that. Landed in a tree, no detonation, tree turned firewood, firewood into stove. BOOM. I thought it was in France or Germany or something. Anyone else hear anything about this?

Owl

 

[Odog]

I did some drilling and blasting on the sailor creek bombing range a few years back. We were blasting for an underground urban warfare complex. Anywho, the mps mentioned unexploded ordinance possibility and just to be careful. Naturally I'm drilling through 4' of dirt before I hit the rock. Out boils this mortar looking thing, I about **** myself. I grabbed a patrolling mp and he came over and pulled out the offender, turned out to be the stabilizing cone for an armor penetrating round from a tank. I've drilled in a lot of stupid spots, but the potential for unexploded bombs had me paying attention!!

 

[M_S_S]

We might have run across each other some place or other. Our place was west of Live Oak and south of Pennington Road. I wasn't losing money fast enough logging so we also ran cows for 25 years to speed up the process.

Brownsville, Forbestown, Scales, Strawberry Valley, LaPorte, those are all like home. I did a lot of work at Feather Falls and on out Lumpkin Ridge toward Camel Peak and Little Grass too. That was always my favorite country to log.

When I was a kid I helped the Thomas' gather Little Grass, they had the permit there before the lake was there . Lol my niece and her husband have a cabin there now.
Our home ranch was on ButteHouse and East Butte. Big white house my grandfather built in 1907, lol gramma wanted a house , he wanted more cows and teams , gramma won lol.
We probably did run across each other. Think we are around the same age. ED

 

[slowp]

More history linked to the balloon bombs. I did not know this.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-histor...ck-smokejumpers-helped-save-the-american-west

I have read articles about Mennonite (sp?) boys filling in as smokejumpers and firefighters during the war. They were conscientious objectors. But I've never read about the Triple Nickels.