Tired of bending over to dig up those nasty nails? try this

[JOE in MD]

Installed a magnet in the tip of my shovel handle. Now all I got to do is dig the plug and find the iron target and snap!! to the magnet it goes. Strong enough to pick up a piece of shell frag with no problem.

 

[skookum]

Hello,
Unless I am mistaken, the magnet looks round (like a ball).
Wouldn

 

[GoGoGopher]

Your thinking is correct skookum...The round magnet is just easier to mount in the shovel handle...It is smaller and fits in a drilled out hole...

HH,

 

[Critterhunter]

If you are using a shovel so you don't have to kneel down then thanks for giving this hobby a black eye and getting more places to be off limits to us. Perception is everything to the general public. Nobody should be using anything but a small digger kept in a harness. Using shovels, military shovels, or diggers with long handles looks bad to the public. If you don't feel like bending/kneeling down then find another hobby and not give the rest of us a black eye.

 

[JOE in MD]

This is a very strong magnet and I will only use it for locating those small little rusty nails that are hard to find in the dirt.

 

[JOE in MD]

EXCUSE me if I ruffled your feathers and I normally don't post like this, but I think you should understand one thing. I do KNEEL DOWN AND USE A SMALL DIGGER when I'm detecting parks and lawns. NOT when I'm in an open corn /soy bean fields or wooded areas relic hunting. Using a hand digger to dig down 2 feet for a shells would be ridiculous or digging out a Civil War hut/ Trash pit. I also use a SHOVEL on private property(fields) with the land owners permission or at organized hunts along with a lot more guys using SHOVELS. One thing I can't stand is when I see someone using one of those so called Richmond shovels and just chop the ground to pieces trying to get the target. I use a SHOVEL and cut a nice wide plug flip it over locate the target and put the plug back in, GRASS SIDE UP!!!. So I think you should get the facts straight before you bash someone about there detecting techniques. This is just my opinion to your post and I will not carry this post any further to stir things up. H/H

 

[OldBeechnut]

Just a stand up for joe


Critter, Joe is by far No rookie...I've shot video of joe hunting and He is Very professional and a great ambassador to the Hobby. One of joe secret spots, definatly not a place I would take a small hand shovel.

 

[JOE in MD]

n/t

 

[scox]

If you are using a shovel so you don't have to kneel down then thanks for giving this hobby a black eye and getting more places to be off limits to us. Perception is everything to the general public. Nobody should be using anything but a small digger kept in a harness. Using shovels, military shovels, or diggers with long handles looks bad to the public. If you don't feel like bending/kneeling down then find another hobby and not give the rest of us a black eye.

You obviously don't hunt in the woods where roots and briars are your constant nemesis. How about you get your facts straight before you jump on somebody else's method of recovery, solely because in your small mind you think that your way is the only way that is correct.

Shane

 

[SGTLOWE]

n/t

 

[boog]

I think you owe an apology-----If you are wrong then so be it--and you were
If you are using a shovel so you don't have to kneel down then thanks for giving this hobby a black eye and getting more places to be off limits to us. Perception is everything to the general public. Nobody should be using anything but a small digger kept in a harness. Using shovels, military shovels, or diggers with long handles looks bad to the public. If you don't feel like bending/kneeling down then find another hobby and not give the rest of us a black eye.

 

[Tin Fin]

Critter,

I use a shovel too, on MY OWN land, and WITH MY permission - it's a forest; and I refill my own holes too. Your concern for public perception is well founded, but based on what Joe said to start with, no one knew where he was using this; to assume it was in public places was just that; assumed. Joe said nothing about Where he uses this in his original post - assumptions cause problems; but Joe seems to be a reasonable person. A public blast like that, based on an assumption, deserves a public retraction; especially given the backing he has from other, very well established, hunters. I'm sorry Critter, but you are wrong on this one.

 

[JOE in MD]

n/t

 

[fsa46]

This is the reason many people are reluctant to make a post. They post a technique or something they do or how they do it and someone jumps down their throat, or in some cases makes fun of them.

 

[tomcatpl]

ok guys lets keep it friendly .. critterhunter jumped the gun a bit but i'm sure he ment well for the hobby shake hand and make up

 

[CHIPMONK]

Hi Joe CHIPMONK IN MD.Great post and tip. something else to consider when I relic hunt I have leather carpterners "hammer holder" on my nylon scuba belt that I place my shovel in and let it drag along side of me. But after loosing some expensive shoves and military knives and probes in the woods I now spray paint them with pink paint. One last tip when I water hunt I have two large round magnets bolted to each side of my scoop that are available at the small local hardware stores and there was one man who told me he uses a magnet from a old scraped computer harddrive to chatch thoes nast little bobbypins in his waterscoop. good hunting