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Water digging tool
- Thread starter tominrom
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Critterhunter
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For the sand I'm sure others will have some great advice for you. For river/stream hunting with hard rocky bottoms and such I've got a bit of knowledge on that. A scoop is useless in that situation (for us where we hunt anyway) and you need to seek out the shallower areas where you can sit down or bend and then work the coins out of cracks or around rocks with a screwdriver or some other pointy type instrument. In flat depressions you just use your hands, but be careful of broken glass or fishing lures. You need to use a soft touch when you are feeling around blind like that. For deeper water where you have to put your head under water, if the bottom is bedrock or rocky I'm not sure yet what to do in that case. I think you might have to use a snorkel and then just snorkel down and find it with your hands or a screwdriver or something to pry it out of tight places. Coins will sit like gold nuggets in streams. Any crack in the bedrock they'll drop into, and even a slight (inches) flat depression will surprise you in how it will hold coins with even a good current going by. I watched my one friend find a large cent laying right on top of flat bedrock in an area I was sure would have washed it away due to the current, but there it sat. Not even a depression either. It might have washed there with a recent storm though.
E-TREC-Virginia
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For hard rock bottoms, I use a pick with a strong magnet attached to the end of the handle.
Hey pulltaber I think I know were that picture was taken, if I'm not mistaken it was at the Columba GORGE near Stevenson WA.
I remember about 2 years ago they were making more room for the fair grounds and that excavator just sunk on the mud,
Or maybe It is a diferent one but I was passing by when it happen and the operator was swiming to shore for his life.
Just a coinsidence.
Any way I will need a diger my self too, for the same conditions but I will pass on that one.
can I use the regular diger for that?
I remember about 2 years ago they were making more room for the fair grounds and that excavator just sunk on the mud,
Or maybe It is a diferent one but I was passing by when it happen and the operator was swiming to shore for his life.
Just a coinsidence.
Any way I will need a diger my self too, for the same conditions but I will pass on that one.
can I use the regular diger for that?