Lately I have made two trips to the Wehrmacht vehicle workshop to hunt for some more good vehicle bits. It is a fun and at the same time frustrating area to search because there is signals all over, most of the items covered or entangled in tree roots. A good cutter and a small saw have come in very handy this weekend. I freed many kilos of old metal from the sandy grip of the underground but the good stuff was further apart this time, so the pile of scrap grew considerably. Some of the finds that I brought back was a vehicle window frame, a metal panel and some brackets. I found a strange triangular lamp of some kind and big and heavy sirene that might actually be a coffee grinder. One of the last finds was a rear notek light body, attached to the bracket together with a license plate!! I threw it directly in the oxalic acid when I got home, and although it wasn`t in much better condition than the motorcycle plate it ll do as a very nice display piece.
After a couple of days with heavy rain keeping me at home I was happy today when it seemed to have stopped. I had other things to do at home but I could spare a few hours searching for parts from Wehrmachts vehicles. The very first signal today was another license plate! A big rectangular one this time. The joy!!! Next I found a small dumping pit with mostly barrell bands and stove bits, but there were also a few good things like a helmet liner, field shovel and boot heel irons, lots of them. Also in the dumping ditch was a small token that there is many rumours about. Its been called a Luftwaffe cargo tag and "ticket out of Gumrak/Pitomnik"tag, but in fact it was a kind of cable or line marker used by pioneers and signallers apparently. Two smaller items were by far the nicest ones, a note holder for an instrument and a small brass ring. I will clean it up carefully to see if it can be engraved.
After filling back the ditch I roamed around a bit and found the top and an inner part for a bunker stove, and a bit later the lid for the stove top. I found three different types of rifle buttstock holders and spent about an hour digging out four different vehicle window frames!! It is like when I am clearing away a layer of relics a new one appears so I will be back to this site soon.
Now I am off to check on how the license plate in the oxalic acid is doing.
After a couple of days with heavy rain keeping me at home I was happy today when it seemed to have stopped. I had other things to do at home but I could spare a few hours searching for parts from Wehrmachts vehicles. The very first signal today was another license plate! A big rectangular one this time. The joy!!! Next I found a small dumping pit with mostly barrell bands and stove bits, but there were also a few good things like a helmet liner, field shovel and boot heel irons, lots of them. Also in the dumping ditch was a small token that there is many rumours about. Its been called a Luftwaffe cargo tag and "ticket out of Gumrak/Pitomnik"tag, but in fact it was a kind of cable or line marker used by pioneers and signallers apparently. Two smaller items were by far the nicest ones, a note holder for an instrument and a small brass ring. I will clean it up carefully to see if it can be engraved.
After filling back the ditch I roamed around a bit and found the top and an inner part for a bunker stove, and a bit later the lid for the stove top. I found three different types of rifle buttstock holders and spent about an hour digging out four different vehicle window frames!! It is like when I am clearing away a layer of relics a new one appears so I will be back to this site soon.
Now I am off to check on how the license plate in the oxalic acid is doing.
Vehicle window frame.
Mystery part in great condition.
Some kind of panel, or prehaps a lid.
Door lock.
The sirene/coffeegrinder.
A bracket.
Mess kit and fork.
Mystery light fixture.
License plate!!!
Helmet liner and field shovel.
Boot heel irons.
The tag rumored to be a ticket out of Stalingrad, while it really is a cable tag.
Note holder.
Ring.
Bunker stove bits.
Rifle buttstock holders, 3 different types.
Window frame.
Three more window frames.
Random bits found.
The four window frames found today. The fifth is in the shed and is for a front window.
Some of the stuff cleaned up.
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