SHARPSHOOTERS MAKE BETTER DIGGERS

   I like watching Youtube videos and I watch detectorists on there all the time and it never Ceases to amaze me how folks use those little short Army shovels or small shovels with cut-off handles about a foot and a half long. WHY!!!!!!!!!  The digger (The person) has to bend over and tire his back out using these little short shovels. I used to have back aches from bending over to use the short-handled type shovels.............And then I found a remedy for that situation. I went to a Lowe's building supply and bought one of those sharp-shooter shovels with the long narrow blade and I took a hacksaw and cut off the last five or six inches of that long digging blade, which made the shovel just the right height with the blade standing straight up from the ground. Then I took the shovel and ground the cutting tip sharp and I sharpened one side of blade to help me cut chop through tough roots like an axe. Folks that's the best digger I've ever had and now I own two of them. So, go get yourself a sharpshooter shovel and do like I have done and you'll have one of the best digging tools you've ever used and your back will appreciate it.........

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 I've never learned to send someone a pic yet.....Here's how you do it, though: Just take a narrow-bladed shovel of the type that we call a sharpshooter that has long blade that is about 6 inches wide and about 16 inches in length. Then you just cut off about five inches of the blade or however much of the blade makes it comfortable for you to step up onto it when you start pushing it into ground with your foot. You'll want to sort of round off the tip by hacking the two corners off of either side of tip of the new tip of blade. Then you sharpen the edges with a file or grinder......then just sharpen one of the side edges of the blade to hack roots with....it's a dang tough digging tool. The sharpshooter has a D-shaped grip on end of handle. This is a back-saver to me and it will be to any other detectorist who usually has to bend down so much to dig holes and recover items-- I can even retrieve most items without bending over to to it. Just scoop it out with tip of the blade and grab items with my hand. Then EZ as pie I just stick blade beside the removed soil on ground and use my foot to scrape it sideways to refill the hole. EZ AS PIE!!!

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