I received an inexpensive 9" Wilcox stainless digging trowel with my recent Fisher F5 purchase. I'm thinking it would be great for "shooting" 2-4" depth coins, but little else. After an hour of digging in the Virginia clay/shale/rock (you mid-westerner's don't know how lucky you have it), I realized this just isn't going to work. Hands and wrists were wrecked with a cool looking blister in the palm of my right hand. So me-thinks T-Handle!
After a little research on the net to include this fine site, I can see it was done already with PVC and a prefab T-Handle someone found.
I wanted heft and the ability to put both hands on the sucker and use my 225lbs (16 stone for you blokes) into it to break into the "how the hell did anyone ever farm in this state" Virginia earth.
I present the following. 3/4" iron T-fitting with thread inserts and caps. The fitting screwed onto the grip perfectly. I cut the end of the hard plastic handle off exposing the steel shank of the trowel, added JB Weld compound from a recent project to the tip and to the handle where the T-fitting screwed directly on.
Oula! Zombie skull-crushing heft, two-hand CPR-like pressure, and far less wear and tear on the old hands/wrists.
Hold one you cheap man of Polish heritage! You spend that much on a decent detector, yet did not buy a decent $50-ish trowel?
Soon, the clad is accumulating.
After a little research on the net to include this fine site, I can see it was done already with PVC and a prefab T-Handle someone found.
I wanted heft and the ability to put both hands on the sucker and use my 225lbs (16 stone for you blokes) into it to break into the "how the hell did anyone ever farm in this state" Virginia earth.
I present the following. 3/4" iron T-fitting with thread inserts and caps. The fitting screwed onto the grip perfectly. I cut the end of the hard plastic handle off exposing the steel shank of the trowel, added JB Weld compound from a recent project to the tip and to the handle where the T-fitting screwed directly on.
Oula! Zombie skull-crushing heft, two-hand CPR-like pressure, and far less wear and tear on the old hands/wrists.
Hold one you cheap man of Polish heritage! You spend that much on a decent detector, yet did not buy a decent $50-ish trowel?
Soon, the clad is accumulating.
