Look at my digging tool!

[Coinzappa]

This is my digging tool, it's a scuba diving knife! I love it. Cut's through the tuff roots when they appear like when your near trees. Plus it's very strong, more than 3/16" of an inche thick. Love the color, it goes with my Tejon!

 

[silversmith]

Yea, it'll be great till you're seen with it in some Tot-lot by some "o' my God" mom with little kids that'll call the cops on her cel phone 'cause you have a terrible weapon and might scare her children. Be wary.........

 

[Pyledriver]

+1 on that! I've had the cops called on me just for detecting alone, not to mention anything related to a potential weapon. Great tool no doubt, but not gonna score any points when you're explaining to a cop how harmless detecting is!

 

[coins101]

yep i used a knife like that before learned the hard way not to used it and spend some money on something a little more accepting. but looks like it would work great if you where on your property or some you knows

 

[Waterdog]

I have carried a K bar for a digging tool for many years, never had any problem with it. If I was approached by the cops or anyone else and asked to use something else, I could always find another digging tool.

 

[Number9]

I find it hard to believe that anyone that doesn't metal detect could tell the difference between a scuba knife and a Lesche Digging Tool.
I'd say anyone who would call the police, would do it for any standard knife-type digging tool that we might use.

 

[Cladius]

And you can strap it to your leg too!

 

[BobbyBridge]

Here in Michigan I believe that caring a knife like that unconcealed,always in view is not against the law!!! anyone that tries to make trouble with that is just trying to infringe on our constitutional rights.
IT IS THERE AS A TOOL NOT AS A WEAPON.

 

[Sven]

Diving knives are excellent tools, have very strong blades as well as being sharp.

If your worried about parents etc. feeling threatened by the sight of the knife and call security on you. You may ask yourself is the knife longer than it need be?
Sometimes the length will scare people, they watched too many horror movies. People who cook wouldn't give it another thought.

I have been using several knives over the past 40 years, still have my original digging knife that I still use today. It does have to visit the bench grinder soon.
It is a legal size to carry knife, wooden handle and balances very well. I have a trick that makes it almost impossible for anyone to notice your carrying a knife.
I have never been bothered about it. When detecting it it's easy to hold in the position pictured, it's out of view. When it comes time to use it, you let the blade
naturally rotate downward while holding the handle into gripping position. You do this as you kneel to the ground. When you retrieved your target, pick up the knife
and rotate it back into concealment position as you get back up. After while using this technique, it becomes very easy and automatic. By the way there is no
chance that the knife point will poke your forearm as your wrist will not bend inward enough to allow it to. Now this is also a great technique when hunting
and some undesirables walk your way. When they see that knife quickly rotate into position........

 

[silversmith]

Actually, if you insist on carrying a weapon for a digger, the best I've ever found was a "M-1 Carbine Bayonet knife." You can literally pry boulders with one. Scuba knives are ok for stabbing sharks but are made of stainless steel, tend to ware fast and are brittle. Check it out...

 

[UK Brian]

Can't see how a knife or especially a coin probe can get sufficient depth. Over this side of the water the smallest digging tool used would be a foot assisted trowel for use in a park or private garden where minimal signs of digging are essential (middle of picture). For compacted stone areas you use a spade ground to a point which can be forced between stones to lever them out. On fields or the beach an over length bladed spade. I grind mine to a T shape. This creates less suction on the beach and on clay as you lever back and as the full width is retained where your foot goes its less likely to split the bottom of the users boots.
All are kept sharpened and will slice through roots.

 

[jajayo]

Wow! The last time I checked. knives were legal, if someone calls the cops, a righteous cop would arrest the caller, or at least should.
BY THE WAY, THAT LOOKS LIKE A GREAT DIGGER, ONLY CONCERN WOULD BE THAT YOUR HAND MIGHT SLIP AND YOU COULD BE CUT BADLY.

 

[element]

In the uk its an offence to carry a knife... I use a trowel anyhow

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Might be great for cutting a plug but not for getting the dirt out comes to mind..Indeed the powers to be might consider it a dangerous weapon along with a good chance of cutting your hand are all minus features and a trowel made for the hobby and sharpened frequenly is more my style...

 

[Coinzappa]

Wow, those are some comments on my coin popper. Thanks to those who saw no harm in the device. Can't believe how some mothers would portray us as a killer with a set of headphone on our ears, a pouch on our waiste, pads on our knee's and a metal detector in our hands!

 

[knack4iron]

I've always used a hunting knife for coin hunting. And I love my Buck 124 and 1944 entrenching shovel when relic hunting. never had anyone say anything to me. If your hunting a tot lot, a regular spade would work if your doing it in peak times, afterall its just wood chip or gravel, you can always hit tot lots on sunday mornings or when its cold and no one is there. If your hunting a yard or park keep it sheathed.

I remember when I started back in the 80's I had an old german bayonet about 12" long and razor sharp. Does help keep the muggers at bay or at least makes them think when your detecting with the phones on. They figure if your walking around openly with a pig sticker what the heck could you have hidden? hahahahaha

 

[GoGoGopher]

You're Alien FREAKS!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! There IS GOLD in them thare hills right???

LOL...There is always gonna be some do gooder that has nothing better to do, and thinks they might get their 15 min of fame...

HH,

 

[Blazer-12]

Try something more user friendly and less threatening.

http://www.jimmysierra.com/tools_coinpopprobeC.html