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Old 05-06-17, 05:00
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Default Covenanter Tank hulk recovered in 2017

This popped up today. Anyone know more to the story?

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-d-day-history
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Old 05-06-17, 07:34
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There is a long running thread over on www.hmvf.co.uk on this, worth joining and reading

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread...anter-recovery
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Old 05-06-17, 18:33
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Rick Wedlock, the TANK HUNTER!
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Old 06-06-17, 21:00
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it was me that found it and dug it up with a lot of help from some friends.
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Great story! Looking forward to updates.

(And no, I've found anything that cool while digging in the dirt.)
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terry you're just not looking hard enough
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i heard about the tank several years ago but did nothing about it until the issue was brought up again on another forum. i decided i should go down and have a look.
i contacted the vineyard and they seemed keen to help, so in january i went down with my labourers and found the tank quite quickly using a proton magnetometer. we had really good info on it's possible location from the vineyard owner and ian hughes (who had also surveyed the site 12 years ago but didn't dig a test pit to confirm the presence of the tank)

the vineyard were keen to publicise the event and sent a film guy down to record it.
this is the video he made

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Free wine for life now?
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Old 09-06-17, 21:54
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i got 6 bottles and shared them with ian. i'm more of a lager drinker anyway
this is ian driving his giant yank forklift, very handy piece of kit it was too
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