Incredible - One for the armourers!

[shettie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440 - A Browning machine gun - recovered from a crashed spitfire has lain in a bog since the war - and they've got it firing again!

 

[John Lloyd]

I loved my Browning, always an attention getter when you let it off.

 

[CC]

Great story DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[taz01]

Superb......

 

[Pikeman]

You think that ones good, try this one. After some tinkering and cleaning they got the diesel engine going. http://blog.kaiserwillys.com/wwii-tank-found-after-62-years

 

[karltrowitz]

Amazing. I've heard of WW2 guns being unearthed and fired before, but not after a 300mph plane crash!

 

[gemarriott]

Amazing. I've heard of WW2 guns being unearthed and fired before, but not after a 300mph plane crash!

big tough toys for big tough boysDT_Xtremez_14:

 

[penfold93]

You think that ones good, try this one. After some tinkering and cleaning they got the diesel engine going. http://blog.kaiserwillys.com/wwii-tank-found-after-62-years

I am sure this quote from your article is one for the geeksDT_Xtremez_30:

In September of 2000, they turned to Mr. Aleksander Borovkovthe, manager of the Narva Open Pit company AS Eesti Polevkivi, to rent the company’s Komatsu D375A-2 bulldozer. (Currently used at the pit, the Komatsu dozer was manufactured in 1995 and has recorded 19,000 operating hours without major repairs.)