Detonating land mine using excavator bucket - GIF

[piper184]

Dang!
Good instincts. Let go of the controls
I wonder if the glass was extra duty as in "bullet proof'? I would think that regular tempered glass would have at least shattered and if it was safety glass it would have stayed in place but still broke in some fashion.
Or perhaps the mine was just over the edge of the hole enough that the berm protected the machine. Wonder what the stick and bucket looked like?

[mwmkravchenko]

That's a hardened excavator and look at what happened!

[lodola235]

In Belgium the army comes for free ; they still find many explosives from WW1 in the Flanders Fields every year ; also mustard gas bombs

[Hoosiersmoker]

He dropped his hands at the end like: "Not again! That's the third time this week!"

[Saltfever]

The first pic is click-bait. Two different buckets used. On the 1st bucket that detonated the mine, all teeth were the same length with even wear. The remaining teeth on the damaged bucket were uneven length. Two different scenarios faking it as the same explosion.