I had to ask this guy to please burn the pick-axe he stole from Yukon Cornelious..

[MNCoinhunter]

I admire his enthusiasm, but I hope he does'nt take that thing to any parks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIZwNp90nZ0&feature=autoshare

 

[D&P-OR]

Seems like a real nice guy but YIKES, that pick axe!

 

[daddyflea]

Don't make fun I have to use one here. Ground is too hard for anything else. I actually own a good hand digger but it would take a Hammer to push it in the ground.

 

[BarberBill]

There's times and places for a digger like that, but not on parks, lawns, fairgrounds etc.
BB

 

[D&P-OR]

Don't make fun I have to use one here. Ground is too hard for anything else. I actually own a good hand digger but it would take a Hammer to push it in the ground.

TAKE IT EASY!!-----Nobody's "making fun"----this is actually VERY serious!-----You start slinging that thing around in parks (or MANY OTHER areas) and we're ALL going to be out of business (because of hunt site closures).---Like there haven't been enough areas closed to our great hobby already!-------If you're in a remote area and in CERTAIN areas of ground--then, ,yeah, maybe a shovel or a pick.-----But we've all got to use our heads about target retrieval & site damage if we want this hobby to survive!------Site damage AND PERCEPTION OF site damage is EVERYTHING!------Del

 

[Mike Hillis]

Metal detectorist are not the only folks that frequent FINDMALL.
Those that wish to regulate or even outlaw our hobby also come here and read.
Even though we respond to the video and talk about how bad this reflects on our hobby, it can still be used as proof that metal detectorists tear places up. Let those that wish harm to our hobby dig up their own dirt. Lets not make it easy for them by locating and posting it here ourselves.

My 2 cents.
HH
Mike

 

[Larry (IL)]

It is true that we should not spread bad behavior, but those looking for such videos would probably look at the source, You Tube, before looking here for examples wouldn't you think? There sure seems to be thousands of examples to pick from there.

We can't stop the newbie from getting a cheap detector at the department store or lumber yard and start digging beeps before even reading the instructions. I think the best we can hope for is to educate those who are just learning when we find them and try to keep collateral damage to a minimum.

 

[JimGilmore]

Guys like that need to have en edumacation....take their detector away and give them a fine...

 

[hunter12]

Pick axe, He looked like he was digging a fox hole . I agree not in parks .

 

[MNCoinhunter]

I posted it simply to show folks who are new to the hobby the wrong way to dig for targets. Someone a while back mentioned that newbies need this sort of info here to make good choices in the matter. He seems like a nice guy, and I was just poking a little fun at him, but he does need to buy a trowel and learn to cut nice plugs.

This video was posted on Facebook by nuggetnoggin in case anyone was wondering.

 

[daddyflea]

I dig in parks, Churchs, School grounds ect and this is what I normally use.

The Ground here is so hard a Trowel which I have, would have to be driven in with a Hammer. In fact I got special permission to hunt our local School Ground and after digging maybe a hundred coins I was asked by the Superintendent when I was going to start Metal Detecting. I dug several right out side his Office and he did not even know I had been there. Point I am trying to make is that it is not what you dig with, it is how you cover your holes after that count.

 

[joekool]

I use one similar to that also, Of course I can use mine in a manner you cant tell how the hole was dug or covered. But point well taken about perception !

 

[daddyflea]

I use one similar to that also, Of course I can use mine in a manner you cant tell how the hole was dug or covered. But point well taken about perception !

In ground that has some moisture if you are careful this cuts a good 4 inch plug.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Nothing like digging up a relic pull tab the way he digs he must scratch the heck out of his pulltabs

 

[jmaryt]

i'm in complete agreement with this!..it's bad enough that some people believe we destroy property!
posting a video depicting an ignorant a** with a "pick" in a park "obviously" is doing us a disservice!
just sayin!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[jmaryt]

maybe go in the water?..fresh and salt bodies of water hold a "ton"
of goodies!..summer's comin!..just sayin!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[jmaryt]

this kind of stuff will get us all 'cooked"..the video should be pulled!..'archies"
get wind of this,and they'll try to 'fry" us all!..just sayin!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Maybe you should pull the video Larry, the drama in here is getting pretty thick.

 

[Larry (IL)]

I try to be as lenient as I can with the delete button Dave and this thread might be serving a purpose educating new "diggers" what is not acceptable.

 

[Terry Soloman]

OK, first we burn Dave, then we kill 'im (for posting this rabid, hobby-killing, vile, mildly sexual but not in a homophobic way video in the first place even if his intentions were to educate the hillbillies out there still using pick axes on their front lawns Christmas morning), then we go after the guy in the video! First, we'll take his metal detector and break it over our knee (as some of the guys play "Branded" on their harmonicas and gazzoos). Then we will pee on his lawn and send him back into the house in shame, while some of you oggle his slightly overweight but seductive old lady. Whaddaya Say?!