*stopped at customs* customs officer: sir what have you got in the back of your van? Ian: eh, a WW1 Minenwerfer... customs officer: sir step out of the van.
There's a German WW1 mortar in the street near where I live in Qld, Australia. It forms part of a war memorial, it's lucky we don't get scrap men around here or it would be long gone.
Darth... the term 'Minnie Werfer' is a 'slang' name given to the Minenwerfer by British and Commonwealth troops during the Great War, together with the alternative phrase 'Moaning Minnies'.
that one is the " heavy " version , i know where there is a " light " version , serving as a gate guard is, not 12 mile from where i live , and i'm pretty certain the group that has it , don't know what it is.
What was the range on that shot? Seemed like a dead on hit in the middle of that target shack, which would be odd for a weapon of this type and age; and no ranging shot for calibration? Let me say what I think we are seeing here; the mortar fired an inert training round with a minimal powder charge and cut-paste a shot of the 'target' being demolished with an electronically triggered tannerite charge. I get it, it is generally impossible to convince the government to allow a civilian to discharge flying high explosive ordnance, but just be honest about it.
Yeah mate. 100% fake. That's why the pneumatic recoil system did not engage. Not enough recoil from that little Hollywood black powder charge they used. And I direct hit because they didn't fire anything. They just put some pyrotechnics in the "target". All for views.
It looks like they shot a chalk round into some tannerite... as long as it shoots the projectile, it would work with live ammo. And the barrel is rifled, hence the accuracy You can see a huge white cloud next to the explosion, that's chalk dust
Love this programme love Bruce's enthusiasm never met him but seems a nice bloke. He is a collector and he buys and sells so he is in it to make a profit like any other business person. Very simple if you don't like the programme don't watch it. More polite than calling someone a wanker when you've never met them.
Ooooh...triggered!! But the bloke is a bit of a big mouthed tosser, the sort you see at market stalls flogging old tat at silly prices and shouting....."Two apples at a paand"
If this were to be genuine, I bet they would have made the rounds themselves or found someone who makes them. I strongly feel that the original rounds would have been extremely dangerous and unreliable at best. It is almost impossible to keep 100 year old rounds in near factory condition.
@@DerKeksDerVerdammnis I was wondering the same thing. Is it even safe to fire a heavy mortar round through a 100 year old weapon? My son has a Winchester 1917 and those old weapons are very iffy because of all the time that’s passed.
Yeah right, firing live rounds out of something like this, on private land and not a MoD range? " I love the smell of BS in the morning - it smells like....television.
The minenwerfer shell's tip comes out of the barrel so you can clearly see there was never a real shell inside the mortar... fucking pathetic and dislike dropped
God damn dude with the glasses sounds straight outta "snatch" or "rocknrolla" or "lock, stock and two smoking barrels", any second he is gonna offer me a dodgy deal for a ton
5:10 Hey!, thats USS Leviathan (at the time) one of the largest ocean liners ever built, she was captured from the Germans by the US and used by the army until the end of the war, later being sold to "united states line" and subsequently used until 1938 when she was scrapped upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/USS_Leviathan_SP-1326.jpg/800px-USS_Leviathan_SP-1326.jpg
...my old high-school has a 25 cm Minenwerfer out on the front lawn...it was there when I left in '97, still there today...I don't know when they put it there though, but I would bet shortly after the war in that distribution program that you mentioned...
As o did explain a lot of people. The gun or cannon should kick back with the breach. When firing it. Not sure if they used training rounds and then ignited some tnt on the designated target or that is fake. Those were my opinions.
oh wow, they actually fire and projectile this time, such a shame that such an slow moving shell would have been easely visible on the explosion. but guess whats missing!?
this is what i do man after three seconds…......don´t know why you have to Insult me but maybe you should tell me where you live so that you can say FUCK OFF straight to my face and we will see what happens……………..
Doesn't look CGI to me, if you pause it it looks far more like a fake projectile than a CGI one. It wouldn't be hard to make a wooden or resin fake and more than likely a company already produces them. It would also explain the pop from the muzzle. If you pause at 6:14 you can see something definitely leaves, most likely they used a very weak charge and got the special effects team to work up the practical effect. It obviously wasn't a live projectile but I'm pretty confident it did fire something, as in a resin or wooden dummy.
Hydraulics and springs, I think the breech is unlocked by recoil, which is dampened and reset by the Hydraulics and springs.. that one might be manual You could 3D laser image scan each part, and re-cast each piece with new steel from a ceramic mold... and then heat treat and paint.. for an exact, functional replica
Really nice but the big problem with things like this is finding the ammunition for it because they don't make it anymore and it would cost more money to have the rounds made if you could find somebody that can make them then it's going to cost for the weapon itself it's best to put it in a museum
how the hell do you get a minenwerfer over the english border
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FAKE as HELL! All they did was light off a black powder charge in the mortar. Then detonated another charge later in the field. Pretty bad CGI of a projectile leaving the barrel. Notice almost ZERO recoil and the blast from the touch hole as if were a Civil War cannon. Just as fake as their Panzershrek video where they fire a model rocket motor out of it and detonated a boat separately with black powder and gasoline. PS: you might want to tone down the overly done excitement.
I'm sorry but that explosion was not a result of the shell. That was a pyrotechnic planted inside the bunker to make it look like they used an explosive shell.
A CheyTec 408 costs 20 thousand and its a rifle the Minenwefer only costs 15 thousand and its a cannon! Why would he ever complain about the price? Also its from ww1.
Let me guess he buys some dog turd scrap an tells his guys "it was this 100 years ago, now turn it back into something or your fired for my unreasonable expectations."
5:37 your problem Bruce not your workers. You tell your buyer. Its not ready today but will be ready tommorow come tommorow. Thats your bad communication. You need to stick to your own schedule.
Armies didnt wear colorful uniforms to intimidate the enemy they used them for coordination purposes so the General could easily tell which men were his and which were the enemy...
so,an English dealer buys an undeactivated mortar in france....not legally possible...and brings it back to England in the back of a van,and nobody bats an eyelid......even deactivated guns in france are not legal in the uk,and cant be brought back.
Lol what. It was deactivated he just shoved a fake pyrotechnic down the barrel not a real round. Oh and deactivated guns from France are legal in the UK to the best of my knowledge, EU/UK deac law.
His pronunciation of minenwerfer hurts my soul
Same bro same
@@imthesenate6468 its Minenwerfer
@@Obscure_Nightvision_Reviews Say what
@@imthesenate6468 ye man im german and its called Minenwerfer
@@Obscure_Nightvision_Reviews I'm German too and didn't notice the error 😂
15 thousand is dirt cheap for that peace of history
Aye
Skylar durrant ”peace”
136 dollars scrap value max.
Working history
Seems like he spends a lot of energy just speaking
He spends energy on something else then speaking?
@@ok_man_kov4708 💀
*stopped at customs*
customs officer: sir what have you got in the back of your van?
Ian: eh, a WW1 Minenwerfer...
customs officer: sir step out of the van.
There's a German WW1 mortar in the street near where I live in Qld, Australia. It forms part of a war memorial, it's lucky we don't get scrap men around here or it would be long gone.
Scrap men?
@@powerbongo922 people who take and sell things for scrap metal profits
I love learning about WW1 and it’s weapons.
minny werfer, fuck sake.... lol
It sounds a bit like cockney for me
Darth... the term 'Minnie Werfer' is a 'slang' name given to the Minenwerfer by British and Commonwealth troops during the Great War, together with the alternative phrase 'Moaning Minnies'.
@@cuhurun i know... im just making fun of the way i first heard it, i had to rewind to make sure. but i am aware of this slang no worries bro :)
that one is the " heavy " version , i know where there is a " light " version , serving as a gate guard is, not 12 mile from where i live , and i'm pretty certain the group that has it , don't know what it is.
Smiles You haven't met Marion!!! She's German and a Force of Nature.
What was the range on that shot? Seemed like a dead on hit in the middle of that target shack, which would be odd for a weapon of this type and age; and no ranging shot for calibration? Let me say what I think we are seeing here; the mortar fired an inert training round with a minimal powder charge and cut-paste a shot of the 'target' being demolished with an electronically triggered tannerite charge. I get it, it is generally impossible to convince the government to allow a civilian to discharge flying high explosive ordnance, but just be honest about it.
Yeah mate. 100% fake. That's why the pneumatic recoil system did not engage. Not enough recoil from that little Hollywood black powder charge they used. And I direct hit because they didn't fire anything. They just put some pyrotechnics in the "target". All for views.
It looks like they shot a chalk round into some tannerite... as long as it shoots the projectile, it would work with live ammo. And the barrel is rifled, hence the accuracy
You can see a huge white cloud next to the explosion, that's chalk dust
@@callusdoc just a training round, everything else is real. The explosion looks like gasoline and tannerite
Love this programme love Bruce's enthusiasm never met him but seems a nice bloke. He is a collector and he buys and sells so he is in it to make a profit like any other business person. Very simple if you don't like the programme don't watch it. More polite than calling someone a wanker when you've never met them.
Ooooh...triggered!! But the bloke is a bit of a big mouthed tosser, the sort you see at market stalls flogging old tat at silly prices and shouting....."Two apples at a paand"
Now tell me where they found a stash of hundred year old German mortar rounds?
If this were to be genuine, I bet they would have made the rounds themselves or found someone who makes them. I strongly feel that the original rounds would have been extremely dangerous and unreliable at best. It is almost impossible to keep 100 year old rounds in near factory condition.
The explosions don't look like a mortar or artillery shell, I think that is fake.
@@DerKeksDerVerdammnis I was wondering the same thing. Is it even safe to fire a heavy mortar round through a 100 year old weapon? My son has a Winchester 1917 and those old weapons are very iffy because of all the time that’s passed.
Yeah right, firing live rounds out of something like this, on private land and not a MoD range? " I love the smell of BS in the morning - it smells like....television.
it's possible with a section 5 (which these guys have)
It's a chalk round, you can see the dust
Didn't he pay 10.000 instead of 8.800
That explosion was so fake.
Its a cannon/mortar what you expect?
@@blobfish6445 A real cannon/mortar explosion
a bit of dirt not a fucking massive HE shell
The minenwerfer shell's tip comes out of the barrel so you can clearly see there was never a real shell inside the mortar... fucking pathetic and dislike dropped
@@blobfish6445 Not Hollywood gasoline explosion.
6:09 for firing the cannon
God damn dude with the glasses sounds straight outta "snatch" or "rocknrolla" or "lock, stock and two smoking barrels", any second he is gonna offer me a dodgy deal for a ton
nice special effects on the firing of the morter. it has a recoil system. gun fired, no recoil. a big blank round with explosives inside the target
I have a minenwerfer field mutze and I thought that was cool, but to see one firing, wow!
“Why you got this mortar in your van, mate?”
Yeah
English Teacher : Please pronounce Minenwerfer
Me : Mini Wafa
English Teacher : That's not how you pronounce it.
Me: 'showing this video to her'...
Why would an english teacher teach German pronouncation
Unsolved mysteries
I love your show and your preserving history is super.
I love how literal german words are sometimes. Minenwerfer lit Bombthrower.
Minenwerfer means mine thrower.
@@ok_man_kov4708 or even more literal!
@@JeanLucCaptain i'm a german.
@@ok_man_kov4708 okay well that explains why you would know HEHE.
5:10 Hey!, thats USS Leviathan (at the time) one of the largest ocean liners ever built, she was captured from the Germans by the US and used by the army until the end of the war, later being sold to "united states line" and subsequently used until 1938 when she was scrapped
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/USS_Leviathan_SP-1326.jpg/800px-USS_Leviathan_SP-1326.jpg
...my old high-school has a 25 cm Minenwerfer out on the front lawn...it was there when I left in '97, still there today...I don't know when they put it there though, but I would bet shortly after the war in that distribution program that you mentioned...
Was hoping to see how its loaded and how it all works, but you cut straight to pulling the cord.
My favorite video on RUclips
As o did explain a lot of people.
The gun or cannon should kick back with the breach.
When firing it.
Not sure if they used training rounds and then ignited some tnt on the designated target or that is fake.
Those were my opinions.
Finally we have a new episode
Mine werfer, it litrally werfs mines.
So if you were in charge you wouldn't declare war on the Nazi's when they invaded poland and belgium?
No I would not only if they decided to invade kekastan
@Cody Sonnet oy bastard its the german itself starts the war with the soviets
Are u asking about the mobilization before the invasion of Poland ?
Mr. Churchill sir, I personally believe that your translation is a bit off. If my wits are on, Minenwefer translates to mortar in english.
Its a blast from the past
I live in Germany,its called bloody meenenvairfer (as speaking english spelt Minenwerfer in german....got it ....good.....
)
we got it, thank you by the way. However i dont think the guy im the video will ever get it. you should hear him butcher jadgpanzer.
This things should be like millions of dollars
Bruce sure knows how to make that bread I tell you what a real hustler
oh wow, they actually fire and projectile this time, such a shame that such an slow moving shell would have been easely visible on the explosion.
but guess whats missing!?
man this is an unpleasent guy ……….can´t hear him talking for more than three seconds
Good - then stop the video and F Offf!
this is what i do man after three seconds…......don´t know why you have to Insult me but maybe you should tell me where you live so that you can say FUCK OFF straight to my face and we will see what happens……………..
@@kuhrti1 I bet his about 3 foot tall and has a big mouth.if you get his address please put it on RUclips.
And the GOIIIIY, TALKS JAST LOIKE THIS! As if he, were to drink… LEEDED PET-ROL. !!
I love this show.
Why are these talking heads yell like this ..? 😳
Chris Robin - not talking about the accent but the volume: them tv “personalities” yell these days 🙉
To make it look more interesting than real life
We watch TV mostly just to escape it
Of course it is Irritating
Especially when you do some research on the internet and find out about the dark or boring truth about you favorite TV show
Just how many jackets that dude changed during the film?
It's not your Werfer (Minewerfer?)
It's the mines Werfer (Minenwerfer) :D
Thank you for butchering the beautiful german language.
No man ever said before
Yes, German is poetic it sounds like throwing type writers down metal stairs.
Not to mention they are spitting everywhere
Nothing beautiful about it mate fucking dirty language
The Mighty Spoon O cheerio
Thats a small Canon with a big Boom!
It may not be long, but it's quite wide
Yeah because the explosion is faked, they fired a wooden or resin projectile more than likely, the explosion from some generic low power explosive.
@@Kav. They fired no projectile. Smoke, mirrors and CGI.
Doesn't look CGI to me, if you pause it it looks far more like a fake projectile than a CGI one. It wouldn't be hard to make a wooden or resin fake and more than likely a company already produces them. It would also explain the pop from the muzzle. If you pause at 6:14 you can see something definitely leaves, most likely they used a very weak charge and got the special effects team to work up the practical effect.
It obviously wasn't a live projectile but I'm pretty confident it did fire something, as in a resin or wooden dummy.
"So few i can count them on one hand" 15k to much
Like they fired actual shells from that.
3:30 how you throw out your back in a couple seconds.
More episodes please
*M I N N I E W E R F E R ?*
Imagine thousands of those firing down at you while you run through no mans land with machine gun fire and more
Hydraulics and springs, I think the breech is unlocked by recoil, which is dampened and reset by the Hydraulics and springs.. that one might be manual
You could 3D laser image scan each part, and re-cast each piece with new steel from a ceramic mold... and then heat treat and paint.. for an exact, functional replica
at 5:49 is that the opening theme song for always open podcast?
wait is that round real or blank i need to know.....?????
@hickspaced if its a real shell would they be standing there...!!!!!
Yes blank round. if that was a live round, the gun would recoil.
Also there's no way that this would be allowed in England. I really doubt that a guy who works for the post office has a high-classed licence for this
Blank because of the laws over there they sadly have to use pyrotechnics but up hear in the USA a man can own his own live firing Pak 40
coul you post this full episode
Really nice but the big problem with things like this is finding the ammunition for it because they don't make it anymore and it would cost more money to have the rounds made if you could find somebody that can make them then it's going to cost for the weapon itself it's best to put it in a museum
I saw this guy at tank fest 2018
that poor bloke got robbed, reconditioned that canon retails for 100,000.00
Sounds like Bricktop out of Snatch 😂
A big gun in the wrong hands it needs to be brought back to Germany
Hmmm, that's something a Germany would say.
The Blue BlobFish sure we invented it we build it and we should use it
what do you want a wwI gun use for? its obsolete
Ernsthaft Unus all we want is german weapons in Germany
Why use minenwefer when you have the Stürmtiger ?
New series started has it? Awesome.
The Royal Mail pay too much! 😂
Dude looks like hes more outraged with every word
how the hell do you get a minenwerfer over the english border
FAKE as HELL! All they did was light off a black powder charge in the mortar. Then detonated another charge later in the field. Pretty bad CGI of a projectile leaving the barrel. Notice almost ZERO recoil and the blast from the touch hole as if were a Civil War cannon. Just as fake as their Panzershrek video where they fire a model rocket motor out of it and detonated a boat separately with black powder and gasoline. PS: you might want to tone down the overly done excitement.
This is a three season tv show. I need to find this.
Sounds like the old gangster guy from lock stock, and smoking barrel.
you got a license for that?
There is one of these in front of our local VFW WO the wheel carriage
Bruce, is it miniwerfer or mineNwerfer?
'ITS A FACKIN MINNIE WURFUR INNIT'
I bet this show is a Guy Ritchie production....lol.
The " beat the wife and kids" British accent
I'm sorry but that explosion was not a result of the shell. That was a pyrotechnic planted inside the bunker to make it look like they used an explosive shell.
Little angry bowling pin when he spews his nonsense
This is my Mini Werfer it Werfs Minis
"THE MINNIE-WERFER" a few seconds in and I've paused to write this comment and leave jesus
Like the big boss in that kids film Robots..
Mr. Big well
Mean-ehr-vehr-phehr!
A CheyTec 408 costs 20 thousand and its a rifle the Minenwefer only costs 15 thousand and its a cannon! Why would he ever complain about the price? Also its from ww1.
That dude made 7grand flipping metal on wheels. Wow!
Nice!
Tornet Lego b(
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.
Let me guess he buys some dog turd scrap an tells his guys "it was this 100 years ago, now turn it back into something or your fired for my unreasonable expectations."
This is weird. I've known David for some time.
3:03 i thought he bought it for a tenner
Looks like it didn’t even leave a crater
What kind of show is this? It's a load of old crap, not worth watching.
@Moth Spread Meme Gotta watch it in order to know how crap it is.
The test firing is bullshat. I doubt the authorities would authorize such a live fire with 120 year old munitions 'miraculously in good shape.'
5:37 your problem Bruce not your workers. You tell your buyer. Its not ready today but will be ready tommorow come tommorow.
Thats your bad communication. You need to stick to your own schedule.
how has that mortar not crush the van suspension i think that van is more powerful
Armies didnt wear colorful uniforms to intimidate the enemy they used them for coordination purposes so the General could easily tell which men were his and which were the enemy...
What they said was true along with what you said, the colors also were to show off and make the soldiers look rich and good looking
Never heard of a flatbed and a winch?
Hey, he is the best!!!!!!
They are shooting this thing at 06:09
Bruce, do you have Slovenian ancestry? And does surname Vadnjal, rings a bell?
Minen-Wer-Fer
The original seller got practically scammed.
i love this show but its not real its fake because you would see a shell (where do you get it in 2018)
Wow he got ripped off big time something like that I would have told them one Million for it
*HANZ, GET ZE MINENWERFER*
I wouldn't repainted it.
so,an English dealer buys an undeactivated mortar in france....not legally possible...and brings it back to England in the back of a van,and nobody bats an eyelid......even deactivated guns in france are not legal in the uk,and cant be brought back.
Lol what. It was deactivated he just shoved a fake pyrotechnic down the barrel not a real round. Oh and deactivated guns from France are legal in the UK to the best of my knowledge, EU/UK deac law.
Wayt ay noice vaydyio!
Love how guys like this rob the person selling the piece and turn around and make 50-70% profit.
the sales are staged