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Took a metal pipe and wrapped tape around it and measured and marked distances. Then drove the pipe in the ground, to the desired depth and pulled it back out, dropped the coin in. Then used a golf tee to mark how deep it was. All the coins are nickels so it doesn't need to say what it is. I'm just going to let the natural elements fill the holes in because I don't have any loose dirt to fill the holes.
Will probably do some more with nails and pull tabs.
Planting coins for a test garden!
I've tried several different ways but my next plan is to dig a plug in the soil as deep as I want the coin to be,
then reach in at the depth I want and slide the coin into the side of the hole, then put the plug back in.
The idea is that none of the soil above the coin will be disturbed. (also nickels are not good coins to plant, they do real funny things after about 5")
I used my wife's bulb planter. It's marked for depth, so I push it in, twist to break the soil loose at the bottom, then lift it out. Drop in the coin, then squeeze the handle on the planter and the plug drops back into the hole. Step on it, and I'm done.
I used my wife's bulb planter. It's marked for depth, so I push it in, twist to break the soil loose at the bottom, then lift it out. Drop in the coin, then squeeze the handle on the planter and the plug drops back into the hole. Step on it, and I'm done.
I Made these for detecting, but the long handle keeps me from using it in our city park! it takes PERFECT plugs! but it still disturbs the soil above the coin in test gardens. Also, the plugger doesn't do well in REALLY hard DRY ground.
I used my wife's bulb planter. It's marked for depth, so I push it in, twist to break the soil loose at the bottom, then lift it out. Drop in the coin, then squeeze the handle on the planter and the plug drops back into the hole. Step on it, and I'm done.
I Made these for detecting, but the long handle keeps me from using it in our city park! it takes PERFECT plugs! but it still disturbs the soil above the coin in test gardens. Also, the plugger doesn't do well in REALLY hard DRY ground.
I used my wife's bulb planter. It's marked for depth, so I push it in, twist to break the soil loose at the bottom, then lift it out. Drop in the coin, then squeeze the handle on the planter and the plug drops back into the hole. Step on it, and I'm done.
I Made these for detecting, but the long handle keeps me from using it in our city park! it takes PERFECT plugs! but it still disturbs the soil above the coin in test gardens. Also, the plugger doesn't do well in REALLY hard DRY ground.
My brother " forum member SL51" who has spent a good bit of his life on golf courses said the same thing. I made ONE big mistake when I welded it together the first time, I put foot bar on the same side of the plunger peg as shown in the picture, but I later took it back apart
and rearranged it. It works really well for plug down to the 7" range. You can mark the pinpoint location with a golf tee and by looking down from the top you can align the hole in the plunger plate with the golf tee and be on target!
Dan, I found out the very same thing if the coins are deeper than 3"- 4" I have some coins buried @ 7" that have been there for four years and unless I use All Metal they
are the same as GONE!
That's why for the time I gave up on DEEP test gardens, my big brother Ron has some coins buried at @ 7" and when he first buried them they worked okay, then in like a week they just vanished!
That's why I've been thinking about digging a hole and then slipping the coin into the side of the hole at the bottom, thinking that might leave the soil above the coin undisturbed (As Whites stated, burying a coin disturbs the "Ground Matrix")
