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« on: October 28, 2006, 12:32:47 AM »
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What are your favorite digging tools?

I started out w/ a cheap stamped metal trowel that quickly started showing it's weaknesses.  Picked up a couple of aluminum--that's all they had!--trowels at Home Depot and managed to shatter them on rocks w/in a few days.  Returned them tonight, got another one of the aluminum ones--hoping I at least won't scratch silver with them--and grabbed one of those bent-screwdriver-with-a-fork-tip digging tools I thought would be good for prying rocks out.  Using a couple different pieces of sawed off fishing rod at times but I'm not good at using them yet.  Best use so far is poking through a sod slice for surface finds.

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« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2006, 05:49:07 AM »
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I use a Lesche model 76 digging tool.  It will pretty much dig through just about anything. 

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« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2006, 07:54:16 AM »
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From the land of the Bluenose..use an old hunting knife and that is  about it.  Serves me well when I don't sharpen it so it's fairly painless when I stab myself with it  well.   happy hunting! Shocked

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« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2006, 08:39:24 AM »
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It really depends on the type of ground you're digging in. Sometimes I need to use a geologists pick to dig a target. Other times just a small commercial digger will do.

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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2006, 04:24:35 AM »
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I agree with Steve it depends on the type of ground...I use all kinds of different tools from scoops, probes, trowels, picks, chisels, shovels.

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« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2006, 09:32:46 AM »
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i picked up an old machete @ a flea mart years ago.blade is only bout an inch1/2 wide,16" long,light,strong old beater.curved the last 4"~makes it easy to cut plug without bending over so much.also good for whatever you need to whack. for tough stuff~the wonder bar Grin

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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2006, 08:07:21 AM »
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I have used several digging tools(and broken many), but found one tool at a flea market swap while in Florida. It looked like the standard tool, large knife with saw blades on one side, but it was REALY heavy, and seemed like it would last a long time. I've had it four years now, and after prying, beating, and general abuse, it is still intact.

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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2006, 08:09:00 PM »
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12 inch Screwdriver  3.96

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« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2006, 09:02:25 PM »
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I've used a bulb planter on soft damp soil they go down 4-5 inches
and do cut a neat plug.
Got it at a hypermarket garden centre dirt cheap. (couldn't resist that one)

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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2006, 09:08:04 PM »
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be nice to try here but the soil is kinda hard

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