105. Tread Mine (Behelfs Brettstückmine)

a. Description. This improvised antipersonnel tread mine (fig. 128) consists of a standard German 1 kilogram (2.2 pound) slab charge wired on its side to a base board. This main charge is fitted with a pressure fuze 35 (par. 24) and covered with a wooden pressure board which is wired to the base board.

b. Employment. This mine is laid along road shoulders, trails, and hedgerows as an anti-personnel mine.

c. Functioning. Pressure on the pressure board actuates the fuze and detonates the main charge.

Figure 128. Improvised antipersonnel tread mine.

d. Installing and Arming.

(1)

Wire the main charge to a board so that the fuze well in one side of the charge fa-ces upward.

(2)

Screw a pressure fuze 35, with detonator, into the fuze well.

(3)

Adjust the height of the pressure cap by rotating it.

(4)

Wire the pressure board, over the fuze, to the base board.

(5)

Place the mine in a hole so the pressure board will be level with the ground surface.

(6)

Remove the safety pin from the fuze.

e. Neutralizing.

(1)

Cut the wires holding the pressure board to the base and lift off the pressure board.

(2)

Insert a nail or stiff wire in the safety-pin hole of the fuze.

(3)

Unscrew the fuze from the charge.

(4)

Remove the detonator.