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Kind of a cool find but at Lowe's

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bnick2k11

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Hi guys...

If I might I'd like to share kind of a cool find I made at our nearby Lowe's store... I just started using my new Garrett AT Gold after having been away from detecting for 25 years or so... It is so nice and such a wonderful change from the old days technologies when I used my Compass X80...

Anyway when I purchased my AT Gold and the Pro Pointer I failed to order a nice Leshe digger and our local mining supply store was sold out so I've been digging with a small really blunt garden tool that after 3 house of digging in very hard ground was setting me up for a few blisters...

Today my wife and I were over at Lowe's Hardware and I happened onto these really nice Corona garden tools with super sharp cutting sides... I really tested them trying to bend them at all and these babies are super tough and strong and all for $7.98 each... So until the Leshe's are back my local mining shop I'm thinking these little guys may just work pretty good...

I'm heading out to hunt and hope everyone has a great Holiday Season and New Year...
bnick
Gresham, Oregon
 
Don't try to pry too hard with them...The metal will come right through the plastic handle...I have tried tools like these, and NOTHING beats my LESCHE...I thought the Gator would give it a run for the money, but I wore right through the rubber handle on my gator because I had to use the palm of my hand to force it into the dirt on too many occasions...LESCHE is #1 in my book...Gator is only backup when I need to move a LOT of dirt out of an already open hole...

HH,
 
[size=large]did ya try D&K detectors/ mining equipment on s.e. division? a nunber of the lawn and garden shops also carry them and i don't mean frem myer or home depot. the real garden stores like 7-dee's might have them.

HH[/size]
 
HH...

Hi, Well I gave them a good workout today and surprisingly I was impressed with their strength and 0% tendency to flex so these are way better than the run of the mill types we have all used which bend with the first few uses... Still I agree with you hands down the leverage and heft of the big Leshe will be a must for detecting... Actually I went to their web site the other night and wow I was impressed with all the tools they build... Like so many things we get what we pay for... I did check at D&K and they were out, but I hadn't thought about the other nursery's so thanks for the lead... Guess I need to make some calls tomorrow... Can't wait on this it's too important a tool...

Happy week...
bnick
 
[size=large]let your fingers do the walking, as my wife is always telling me. ya might give bob a call at N.W. detectors. he may have some in stock. the best buy i've gotten recenly is from Big Boys Hobbies of oklahoma. best price so far. other vendors on these forums might match or beat. just gotta shop. hope ta gets your soon.

Happy Hunting

from widebody[/size]
 
I skimp on the mundane accessories (gloves, headlamps, belts, pouches), but things like Pinpointers, scoops, shovels, diggers, and kneepads that get used all the time...I go for the best if I can afford em...

HH,
 
Corona makes good stuff, I have used their their pruners for many years.
Anyone found knee pads that stay put? I'm using these tommyco honeycomb gels ($15 at evilmart) & they're pretty good except for the tendency to slide down... The $4 Wells Lamont Nitrile gloves (also evilmart) are wearing like iron. The Fiskar's digger ($17 shipped on eBay) is sharp as a razor and thick tempered steel and the blade/shank are one piece, I find it about as useful as the Lesche, and like the large rubberized handle.
 
William...

Thanks for the great advice... Looks like you have got yourself some good gear there... We just ordered the Lesche $35... I'm having fun with the AT Gold and have taken 39 coins and 1 ring in 3 days... The ring at about 3" and was a kids ring so nothing valuable but the tone was so clean when she hit I just knew it was a good find albeit brass, ha... Took a quarter at 5" and and a dime at 6" in Disc 2 today so she does reach down...

I'm really starting to see the advantages of being able to shoot in all metal and then toggle the 'Iron Audio' and hear if it's iron before digging... When that low tone croaks it's positively iron... I'll still be digging when up at the claims so as to not miss the small nuggets that are up there but the ability to check a target for iron when in all metal with 0% discrimination is pretty cool... For the amount of garbage I've been shooting in the last 3 days the Disc 2 seems so much more useful...

Hope you have a good week...
bnick
 
Sounds like you're off and running! Yep. Santa was good to me this year. Good gear makes it more fun getting out there, for me, at least. Like having sharp knives when cooking. I'm hoping for a good melt today, I don't mind a little snow hunting now and then, but like it a lot better when I'm not covered in wet muck. But I checked out 10 library books on local history yesterday, so lots of reading to do... got some on early trails and roads, mining towns and camps, Indian massacres, Forts, and pioneering in the area, and a nice one with full text of the local paper from the early 1880s, so I ought to get some good leads out of those.

Happy New Year to all!
William
 
William...

I'm the same way and have put away over the years some great books on mining and geology for the west coast... Every once in a while when the weathers too bad to go out I'll open up one or more of those old books and climb back into how things were long ago...

In the mid 80's my brother and I would find ourselves in December working our 6" swivel nozzel way down through an untouched blue-pack clay, heading for bedrock at 10' deep... It's a sound you never forget listening to all those cobbles and gravel getting sucked up that 30' of hose to the 6" dredge... Any open or exposed areas on your cheeks or forehead you would know right away in that 35
 
William-NM said:
Corona makes good stuff, I have used their their pruners for many years.
Anyone found knee pads that stay put? I'm using these tommyco honeycomb gels ($15 at evilmart) & they're pretty good except for the tendency to slide down... The $4 Wells Lamont Nitrile gloves (also evilmart) are wearing like iron. The Fiskar's digger ($17 shipped on eBay) is sharp as a razor and thick tempered steel and the blade/shank are one piece, I find it about as useful as the Lesche, and like the large rubberized handle.
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I agree with William, Corona tools are quality tools.. Same with me, I have hand pruners made by them and for fifteen yrs they've never broken or failed.. I'm not saying that they are better than Leshe's because I've never used them.. But I am going to Lowe's tomorrow and getting that sharp pointed Corona digger, simply because I know the quality of their tools... I would be more than surprised if anyone will press hard enough to have a handle come through.. I'll let you know..
 
Sonnydigs and William...

I agree on how strong these Corona's are as I took the other spade shaped one out to try tonight right before it was totally dark... I was tied up today with honey-do's and was going bonkers to get back out with my new AT-Gold... The Corona Spade with it's razor cutting edge sawed through 10" of grass, dirt and rock like it was butter with 0% flex of any kind and I was pushing with some massive force trying to cover ground with just 5 minutes of remaining light... I now appreciate my Pro Pointers light because I used it on all 3 of my finds...

There used to be an old house down the hill where Mary and I start our walk every morning and it burned down 3 years ago and the lot has sat empty all this time... I hit just a tiny area of the front yard with the last workable light for 5 minutes and I found 2 coins and a Brass buckle... One 1968 penny at 8
 
Well, that was a productive short hunt! I, on the other hand, spent a couple hours sliding around in the mud and wet leaves in a creek ravine just south of downtown, finding a few pieces of clad and an astonishing amount of trash. Floods just before and after 1900 washed out what used to be main street, it's a 65' deep ravine now. I'm convinced that there's some good stuff in there, just going to take a lot of patience (and some waders & water recovery eqpt., maybe a sniper coil or 5x:geek: to get. The CCC built rock retaining walls along some sections, and in other areas people dumped "fill" (using term loosely to describe everything from concrete to garbage (found a few nice bottles) to c1930s cars), doing their civic duty, heh.

I also met another detectorist, I think he's a homeless guy and lives down there. I've noticed several primitive stick dwellings, and a couple of the old cars have a 'lived in' look about them. He was actually pretty interesting to talk with and gave me a couple of tips on places to hunt. He said he found a $5 gold piece out at Fort Bayard (have to check, not sure if detecting is actually allowed, historic site...), as well as some meteorite pieces. Gave me a little (14.7 gm) chunk :) Other than that, In the last few days, I found a couple of wheaties (1918, 1829) in a picnic area in the Gila NF, and a few odds and ends (green patina belt buckle with wrought iron tongue--rangers?), old leather harness pieces w copper rivets, etc. I found a few bucks worth of clad, filling that jar up! Mostly, just happy to be out in the warm (upper 50s) days and getting a little exercise! (sorry about cruddy pics, camera challenged today).
 
I started out with the Corona, bought at Lowe's, and it worked pretty good, but the Lesche is best for cutting through the tall fescue turf we have around here. I can cut through the thatch layer in about two seconds with the Lesche, but with the Corona takes about ten seconds, more if the soil is dry.
 
Hi Guys and yes I was cutting with the Corona last night through really soft wet saturated ground within 50' of a flooding creek... Soon as I dug and lifted a plug the hole was filled with water from below not above and that's where my finds came from last night so I am really thinking the Lesche will be the strongest when it arrives hopefully in a couple days...

William you've done very well from the looks of it... I'm dying to get down into our claims, 63 miles south of here as the crow fly's, to work the crevices with the AT-Gold... This being up here in so called civilized society ain't cuttin' it anymore... I was talking with my brother just the other night and he's working the dry washes outside the Las Vegas towards the NE, and we both agree we may have been born 100 years too late...

Mary and I have always wanted to visit New Mexico and now that SS has finally kicked in we may well just do it one of these days...
Happy New year...
bnick
 
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