eddy8men

need some hard targets for the cent

i'll put them on my list

guys don't get me started on the lack of brit armour. tis the season of good will after all all i can say is 2017 is going to be a good year for brit armour (unless the EU bans tank ownership as it plans to do) anyway let us see what the new year brings :cool2:

going to be a good year for british tanks

there should still be unit markings on the tank even after so long in the ground, we will find out very soon lauren i also got that book for xmas

i've got the sighting telescope for you if you need it

good luck with it mate. i look forward to the resto

i don't plan on going back to work until mid jan so will have plenty of time to recover it, (as long as we don't get a hard frost or deep snow). april is the cut off date for the vineyard so if it doesn't happen in the next 4 months it will have to wait another year and that is not what i want to happen, it's fustrating but i just have to wait for the boffins to come along and do their bit

reckon you're right sean

still can't get the geo fizz sorted, tried to hire a magnetometer and do it myself but the firm wanted mod approval beforehand. there is an archeology guy willing to help but he still hasn't got back to me, so it looks like i will have failed my immediate mission to put my hand on the covenanter before xmas but never mind it will still be there in the new year. i will keep you all posted

why did they make them so complicated !!!!

i'd like a valentine one day

whole periscopes and they fitted my cromwell perfectly, the prisms are also interchangeable

i bought 5 for £200 from a firm on http://www.allegro.pl

soon very soon

that's a very kind offer olaf. thank you

i've put the feelers out to uni's and professionals alike, whatever happens i get the feeling it will cost me at least £500 but it's worth it to get the go ahead to dig the covenanter out

good work tony, i think there is a lesson for us to be learned. it's very easy to interpret what's on the ground to what you want there to be.

i'd like to mention the part clive hughes and his son ian have played in this effort. about 15 years ago clive and ian went looking for elusive other covenanter and after buying a magnetometer and spending 6 days or more searching they found it. unfortunately for them it was not economically viable at the time to remove the vines and pay for the damages so the recovery was dropped (until i came along) and it was ian that got in touch with me and offered his services free of charge to take me to the tank and help liase with the owner, i've now dragged him in even more and have asked to use the mag detector again so to to clive, ian, tony and those that have offered advice and encouragement i would like to say thank you and iou a beer :thumbsup:

i'd love to go in guns blazing but i am only too aware of how much work is involved in making good the groundworks after the "party" has finished and it's a daunting task and no mistake, digging and recovering this stuff is fairly straight forward. getting all the "dig out" back together in the order it came out in, is not. so with that in mind it would be nice for me to get the known covenanter out as a one off then clear up, go away and come back for any others with a fresh head and hands. if this was a farmers field they would already have been recovered but it's not, it's britains biggest vineyard which makes things more interesting :-D

if bob wants to show us his rods in action then who am i to say no :-D

no magic mushrooms, divining rods, peace pipes or tv personalities. just plain old mag or ground radar is what's required. the vines are worth a lot of money so we have to be sure and more importantly the vineyard owner has to sure that we are spot on before i start digging. i'd like to pull the known tank out first (before xmas) and worry about any others after that

SUCCESS met the owner today and he wants to excavate the reburied tank as an exhibit and look for the others that he believes are there. we went to the dig site and the access is good and i can see no issues to prevent us from recovering at least one tank if not more. the tanks must be recovered before april. so i need a ground radar asap. does anyone have any leads for me to follow :thumbsup:

to be honest i'd be happy with one :-D however if more are to be found then i'm up for it but the thought of all those lovely grapevines getting crushed under the digger tracks is not a good one and making good the ground after we've gone is going to be the hardest part of the job !

nice one tony, thanks for taking the time to dig the pics out of your collection and post them up. it does look to be in great condition (all things considered) let's hope we can get another out of the ground :thumbsup: