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Digging a frozen ground :surrender:
- Thread starter JMorgan
- Start date
Bugar In. USA
Active member
I use a Lesche mini pick, works good, but when digging in frozen ground, is very easy to cut your target in two , so you need to dig /chop a bigger hole than you would in unfroze ground, have cut few coins and relics in two before i figured this out, the pick is very sharp and of real tough metal, stays sharp, cost bout 30 bucks or so.
HH
HH
Hugh Pharted
New member
what about dynamite? 
Try wooded areas. Leaves and ground cover many times will provide insulation from the cold to the point where the ground may not be frozen, or at best have a shallow frost line to punch through. If its an area that yielded relics previously, dig slow. I actually use a surplus bayonet to pry the ground around a signal rather than dig with a larger instrument; its slower work but reduces the amount of damaged finds. For fields prone to deep freezing, I reluctantly wait it out when those early or unusually warm days come around until the thaw.
Another suggestion is to try and hunt near where an underground spring feeds into a creek or pops up in a field. Normally these types of springs have warmer water and keep the immediate area from freezing as deep as areas farther away.
HH.
Another suggestion is to try and hunt near where an underground spring feeds into a creek or pops up in a field. Normally these types of springs have warmer water and keep the immediate area from freezing as deep as areas farther away.
HH.
SharkHunter
New member
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GRAY GHOST
New member
hello. confcav hit it right on the head...hit the woods! that's what we do a lot of when the ground is frozen solid everywhere else. it has to be really nasty out for us to stop detecting! good luck, and hh!
relics4plus
New member
Most of us use this time of year to do the research and go door knocking to secure spots for the sprin thaw.The relics are not going anywhere and will be there when spring gets here.Now a good time to hook up with Eric and pick his brain, if anyone can get good spots its him.
HH,
HH,
Pete in MI
New member
Been thinking of getting something like this for the snow and frozen ground up here in Michigan;
[attachment 117484 cuttle_fish_hoe.jpg]
Called a Cuttle Fish Hoe
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[attachment 117485 BachiGataHoe.jpg]
Or this Bachi Gata Hoe (if I can find a short handle version)
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Or a short handled Pick Mattock like this one...
[attachment 117486 PickMattock.jpg]
*****
Bugar, Do I sound desperate to get out and detect?
HH
[attachment 117484 cuttle_fish_hoe.jpg]
Called a Cuttle Fish Hoe
*********
[attachment 117485 BachiGataHoe.jpg]
Or this Bachi Gata Hoe (if I can find a short handle version)
*********
Or a short handled Pick Mattock like this one...
[attachment 117486 PickMattock.jpg]
*****
Bugar, Do I sound desperate to get out and detect?
HH
relics4plus
New member
might could use something like that! I think I will just wait for the ground to thaw!