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« on: April 08, 2010, 06:07:45 pm »
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I am new to this, and haven't gone to parks yet. In a nutshell, what are some techniques to preserve the well maintained grass of the local parks? The city I live in has no ordinance regarding detecting at the city park so I plan on hitting it up for some coinage. I have lived here for 17 years and have never seen anyone with a detector out there. I would like to check out the fairgrounds at some point too. Thanks all.

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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2010, 06:12:06 pm »
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Hey Sean and welcome to the forum. There are video's on youtube on cutting a plug. I'm sure BA will give you some links. He is great at helping new people.

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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2010, 08:41:06 pm »
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If the soil conditions allow for it (i.e. well watered grass), and you can master it, the screw driver method is probably the quickest and most turf friendly method.....but it does take a good bit of practice.

Beyond that you want to keep the size of the plug as small as possible and you want to maintain the soil/grass integrity as much as possible---so cutting a V shape and lifting up the flap is going to be less damaging to the turf than cutting a complete plug and removing the whole thing.   And cutting a nice plug that looks like you cut a section out of a roll of sod is preferable to cutting a shallow plug that leaves you holding a lot of grass with bare roots.   The idea is you want to leave the least immediate evidence that you have been there and you also want to maximize the ability of the grass to quickly reestablish itself.

This is one of those skills that you really do want to practice on your own lawn first (that or the one that belongs to the obnoxious guy around the corner  Wink )

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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2010, 08:58:44 pm »
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2010, 09:14:19 pm »
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What is the screw driver method?

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« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2010, 11:01:19 am »
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The screwdriver method involves locating your coin with a probe (preferabbly one that won't scratch the coin--like a bamboo knitting needle).  Then you take a flat bladed screw driver, shove it into the ground next to the target, and then use the screw driver as a lever to "pop" the coin out of the ground.

You can find a pretty good discussion of recovery methods (complete with illustrations) here: 

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« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2010, 11:06:07 am »
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you can also "round off" the edges of the screwdriver with a grinder Wink

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« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2010, 07:09:31 pm »
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Bitburg...
That was some great information. Very concise and I will pass it on to others for sure.

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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2010, 10:15:45 pm »
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I am new as well, and I had the same question.  I have been working on the screwdriver method, and about 75% of the time if it is a coin or tab within 4 inches of the surface, I can pop it right out.  I hadn't heard of the v shaped plug but that is also a great idea.  Thanks for the heads up.

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