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:usaflag: Fresh Air, Sunshine, Milder Temps and Metal Detecting!! What a Life!! :detecting:
- Thread starter Cupajo
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Kelley (Texas)
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Sorry to hear that you were hampered by rough water. I sounds to me that you might be building a new digger because putting a kick bar will only buy you some time, not reshape the digger. You may not have found very much this time, but I can tell that you enjoyed yourself, and that is what it is all about. Thanks for sharing this story with the Forum. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas) 
Hi Fred,
I reached over a five gallon pail in my van to pick up something and I leaned too hard on the rim of the pail.
By the time I realized what was happening I had bruised a rib and it really puts a crimp in twisting, lifting etc.
In spite of the wire basket being bent the scoop has a lot of life left in it yet.
I have another waiting in the wings, but want to see how many miles I can get out of this one.
Thanks for your reply Friend,
CJ
I reached over a five gallon pail in my van to pick up something and I leaned too hard on the rim of the pail.
By the time I realized what was happening I had bruised a rib and it really puts a crimp in twisting, lifting etc.
In spite of the wire basket being bent the scoop has a lot of life left in it yet.
I have another waiting in the wings, but want to see how many miles I can get out of this one.
Thanks for your reply Friend,
CJ
Those are pretty good scoops, but for the kind of digging I have to do they will fall short in capability!
I built a welded stainless scoop in the early '80s and still use it today.
I call it my "Poor Man's Backhoe"!
It is the only scoop I have run into that can do what it does without putting me in traction!
[attachment 144580 SandScoopPoorMansBackhoe007.jpg]
I have moved tons of sand and heavy stone, as in small boulders, to recover my finds.
The scoop mentioned above is one I built for dry/wet sand hunting and can not be used in the water as it is too light for anything but sand and light gravel hunting.
[attachment 144581 Scoopparts015.jpg]
Regards,
CJ
I built a welded stainless scoop in the early '80s and still use it today.
I call it my "Poor Man's Backhoe"!
It is the only scoop I have run into that can do what it does without putting me in traction!
[attachment 144580 SandScoopPoorMansBackhoe007.jpg]
I have moved tons of sand and heavy stone, as in small boulders, to recover my finds.
The scoop mentioned above is one I built for dry/wet sand hunting and can not be used in the water as it is too light for anything but sand and light gravel hunting.
[attachment 144581 Scoopparts015.jpg]
Regards,
CJ