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**Jan B** · 04-15-2004, 10:11 AM

Hello Shane,

Not really 'recycled' in the strict sense of the word, but at least re-issued.
I found this gasmaskcanister many years back while sniffling in a old farm in my neighberhood, it was still full of corn, probably to feed the chickens

As you can see, a steel handle was attached to carry it. And it still has the original serialnumber on it, painted in white.

Cheers

Jan

**paddywhack** · 04-15-2004, 10:47 AM

my dad uses a pair of ww2 us signal core binoculars(??) on are boat and for looking at boats in the bays are house over looks! very good they are to!!
il get a pic of them when i get my camera back!

**H BABERT** · 04-15-2004, 11:30 AM

Hello Shane,

No picture yet, maybe later, but i can tell you what i found or what i saw :

-Fj helmet to feed horses, chickens...
-Fj Knee pads in a football team for the goal
-Fj smock use for hunting as camo jacket (...cut

)
-Fj gloves use by an old lady in her garden to cut roses (as she was right hander, only left hand were in good shape

...)
So many example of re-issued equipment by farmers...

Herlé

**Theodor** · 04-15-2004, 12:16 PM

The first helmet that I got, ordinary army helmet shell, was used by the owner to feed the pigs, as a "shovel" for corn and other pig stuff. BTW he fought with it in the WWII as an infantryman, then used it for his civil works...

**Airborne Nut** · 04-15-2004, 02:04 PM

I love hearing about this stuff, keep it coming guys! Pics are great if you have any.

**junior** · 04-16-2004, 05:16 AM

I have a gasmask canister that was re-issued by the Belgian Civil thing....

**junior** · 04-16-2004, 05:18 AM

The father of my fathers grandfather used an M16 to put sugar in for his bee's.

**junior** · 04-16-2004, 05:19 AM

An old lady in my village uses a shovel of the US to work in the garden.

**Tamás Sebestyén** · 04-19-2004, 01:48 AM

Hi all. In my town old people usually use equipment left by the Wehrmacht. My collector friend have already picked up a can-opener used by an old lady, gasmask used by an old man when sprinkling toxic material in the garden, 200l fuel can. We will get one more, when the old man runs out of the corn

My friend also has a gasmask canister used as fuel tank for a motorbike, he picked it up on a veteran mbike-show. And everyone used helmets w/ handles to spoon out the c..p out of the toilet in the garden

. I have a german bayonet used for killing pigs.

**Philippe DB** · 04-19-2004, 02:18 AM

Hi Shane,

Here is a nice helmet conversion

KR
Philippe

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**Peter Wiking** · 04-19-2004, 05:33 AM

-German helmets is sometimes used as lamps above tables at biker clubs.
-At a Norwegian museum, use German stick grenades as spotlights.
-In a book about the "Bulge" atleast two farmers are shown using gun barrels from the Panther. One is using it as a drainpipe, the other barrel is used to hold up the roof.
-A Norwegian guy used some 20 gun barrels from the 20 mm flakgun as posts in a big fence. I saw these gun barrels my self and were offered to buy a few. Eventhough they had been at the coast, exposed to rain, wind and salt, they where still in rather good condition.

Cheers.
Peter Wiking

**Theodor** · 04-19-2004, 05:34 AM

Here in Bulgaria probably many cars have WWI German and Austrian shovels in the trunks, for bad terrain, winter and etc.

These were used by the Bulgarian army in WWI and WWII, but in the 70's and 80's many were sold by the state shops for car accessories/spares, as car resque shovels.
As a helmet collector, I was mostly impressed by a helmet story. In mid 50's a friend worked as a forestry engineer in the willd regions where meet the borders of Bulgaria, Greece and former Yugoslavia. Few inhabitants, but rich history, because there was heavy fighting in both world wars. So he was telling me of several small mountain villages, of only a few, centuries old houses, which had interesting decoration. Each house had lots of helmets, hanging upside down, with plants in them. He said, that by this "flower decoration" you could see who fought there. Because there were WWI and WWII helmets from Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, UK, Russia and many others!! I was eager to go there, but probably nothing is left 50 years later. Even if there is something left, the condition after 50 years as flower pot would be not worth the trip...

**zbiratelj** · 04-21-2004, 01:57 AM

helmet

hi,
in our couuntry SLOVENIA, there is also very much of this "activity".
many nice helmets were "destroyed"- for another use, mostly to feed pigs or as a showel for Sh*t, and this is because old peoples that lived through ww 2 nazy hell have a hate against it.

i even found my first helmet beside and deserted house. it was just laying there and it was used for this:

you know when there is rain and the dripping fromm the roof is anoying? well this " smart" lady put a HELMET there and it stopped the anoying dripping:

**DRm** · 04-23-2004, 05:12 PM

In my early youth I spent my days looking for german helmets on local farms
Successfull... I found nearly 200 of these (quite a lot if you consider that the little village I used to live in at that time only counted 2000 inhabitants...

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