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Digging techniuqe

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This may sound like an unusual question, but I'd like some advice on digging technique. I have been away from the MD'ing activity for over 20-years and much has changed since then. I'd like a few pointers, so to speak on how some of you dig coins without making a mess and killing the grass. Maybe even what your favorite tool(s) for locating and extracting the coin are. Anything information would be apprecaited.
Thanks
Tim
 
Some people use screwdrivers, others use probes or plug cutters.
I like to cut 3 of the 4 sides of a square with a trowel and flop the sod back. I then lay a towel next to the hole and place the rest of the dirt on the towel. After I locate and remove the target, I pick up the towel and drop the dirt off of it back into the hole, compress. Flop the sod back over and step on the whole thing. You can get this down to where you can almost not see that you ever dug at all. Some advantages are that it's easier to find your target on the towel and the towel keeps you from getting dirt throughout the grass. By not cutting all 4 sides, you keep the roots intact and (hopefully) you will kill less grass. You will also almost never scratch your coin this way. The towel also gives you something to wipe the dirt off your coins with.
HH
Dave
 
Dave, thanks for the tips. The towel is an excellent idea and I like the 3 sided deal as well. I may incorparate the coin probe with all this and further cut down my retrieval time. Thanks again!
Tim
 
http://www.roguevalleycoinshooters.com/recovery.htm
This is a site that will give you a visual as well as textual primer on the subject.
Hope this helps.
HH
 
Thanks for the http. Lots of good tips and techniques. Thanks for taking the time and steering me towards it.
Tim
 
I just dig a plug 6"X6" but I mostly hunt farm fields. I have used a plastic lid, like a frisbee in size, when digging nice grassy areas but try to avoid hunting those areas. I only use a screwdriver when digging a known area that produces clad and change, I'm in Germany and have to be careful as I could scratch a real nice hammered coin. Have fun getting back into the hobby. HH, Mike
 
Hey TEH, Depending on what detector you use, you might want to look into a SunRay In-Line Probe. It works off your detector's batteries, and also, all the tone ID sounds of your particular detector. It will help you to pinpoint a coin up to 3in. in the ground. IT REALLY CUTS DOWN ON TARGET RETRIVAL TIME!
Also, if you have a shallow target near the surface, you just flip the toggle switch, and you can pinpoint shallow targets in the ground. Hope this helps you. Most of us that use them, would not be caught without one. HH, NamVetLesTreasureSeeker
P.S. SunRay makes the in-line probes for some
of the FISHER Detectors, almost all of the WHITES Detectors, and most of the MINELAB Detectors.
 
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