"<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">Are you strong enough to pull 200Kg if the magnet sticks to something metal and immovable?"</span>
I'm keen to know this too.... how are people hauling safes out of the muddy canal?
How the hell do you get the safes out?
Presumably it’s quite dangerous if your fingers get between magnet and some metal
I did this with my mate's magnet when I was about 10yo and it took the pad off my finger.
well I took my grandson down the cut today for half an hour.
his first throw only dragged in another golf club
I'm really struggling to find another way of posting images, since photobucket went tits up.....but try this
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/xfIu0
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/y35Et
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/KwHa7
As a precaution the socks-and-crocs were destroyed in a controlled explosion. 💥
Just got my 200kg beastie in the post this morning, got a bit to close to the microwave!!!
Let the treasure [rusty old crap] hunting begin.
When you pull out a load of old shite, like shopping trollies and stuff that's just to large and buggered to bother keeping, what do you do with it? Leave it on the side for the canal and rivers trust to deal with, or take it home and wait until you have a large enough pile to be worth weighing in?
(I really hope the answer isn't chuck it back in).
Thread revival!
Just spotted this news story;
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/family-goes-magnet-fishing-and-finds-a-bag-full-of-guns/
Flippin hell, that's amazing. I don't think I'd be so keen for my name to be made public! Looks like a gang of some sort has hidden them to be retrieved later... Douglas may become a target...
Interesting article. As I read it, it sounds like the guy had a good look through the bag for anything to “upcycle” then took the guns to the police.
if I found a bag of guns and ammo I would be calling the police to come and collect them.
I saw some people doing this down my local canal recently.
It's only because of this thread I realised what they were doing!
Otherwise I would have been quite confused! Seems interesting I guess ..
A mugger pushed a man into a canal before pulling the victim's wallet out of the water with a fishing magnet.
A Chinny Reckon story but he's sticking with it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45023683
if I found a bag of guns and ammo I would be calling the police to come and collect them.
I'd be too tempted to have a go first.
I’d be too tempted to have a go first.
I think I'd be reluctant to put my fingerprints and DNA all over guns of such incredibly dubious origin!
ferric cruft
Beautiful.
There's a guy on Youtube called drasticg. I've watched a few of his videos out of interest and he's found parts of shotguns, numerous knives, knuckle dusters, safes, CCTV Hard drives etc. Crazy what people throw into canals hoping they will never be seen again...
That one is from Deansgate locks in Manchester.
To be fair, if he pulls a hard drive out the canal with a massive magnet then there isn't likely to be much left on it!
Leave it on the side for the canal and rivers trust to deal with, or take it home and wait until you have a large enough pile to be worth weighing in?
(I really hope the answer isn’t chuck it back in).
Leave it seems like the MO around some of the manchester ones,
Perhaps this is part of the reason the royal mint doesn't use ferrous metals in coinage...
JHJ you have obviously never waved a magnet over a coin.
Nope...
and I've never been to Llantrisant either officer...
The only time i've ever done it is if i've dropped something in the river at work. Then not always successful at retrieving the item i've dropped 🙁 Similar to when I actually fished many moons ago and couldn't catch a cold.