A Great Tool for Digging

[pilot]

Just wanted to share this metal detecting tool with everyone as it has worked so well for me!

I found this tool at a Home Depot a few months back. I liked it so much I went back and bought a spare. It is a curved trowel that works great for digging plugs. It has a serrated edge and sharpened straight edge for cutting roots and I have cut right through a few bigger roots easily with that serrated edge. The tip is sharpened for piercing hard ground and digging out gravel driveway rocks and it has inch marks to measure up to 11 inches. The handle and blade are very tough, you don't have to worry about breaking it and I have used it to pry things out of the ground. Just be careful not to scratch your find, which I did once trying to dig too close to it. It fits good in your back pocket but I have mine on a tether now. It fell out once but I found it easily because of the bright green color. Oh yeah, it was only $9.97

HH
Kim

 

[pilot]

n/t

 

[kiwi-jim]

What a great tool,and a goood price.....

 

[MT_VertCaver]

It works great, unless you hook it on something....like a tree root.

The problem with it, is that the "tang" doesn't go all the way up the handle. And what there is....is near the edge of the plastic. I have a different model than yours....but I bet they are built the same. Just be careful around roots.

I intend to weld a good handle onto mine and use it as a backup.

 

[pilot]

The tang of the tool is sharpened also and in normal garden use, it says it is a twine cutter in the booklet. You could always taper that with a hand grinder if one wanted to. That's the nice thing about this tool, it cuts roots and sod so well if you need to. Those edges are sharp and I wear a leather glove for digging ! The tang body in the handle on my Home Depot looks much wider than your version. I have put some pretty good stress on it but I don't think I could break it with hand pressure.

HH
Kim

 

[TURNMASTER]

I have been using mine for a couple of years now. I working it within its limits. I do not pry hard with mine, still pry though and I can feel the tang starting to loosen. I filled in the tip similar to what MT VertCaver did, maybe a bit more though, it improves this tool a bunch. I hope it finishes the season, till I can get some thing better.

Jeff

 

[hunter12]

The broken one with the blue handle, is that the true temper digger. I have one to if so. If and when it brakes , I'll get a leschi.

 

[GNILAEH]

Exactly the one I bought from the same place. It`s been very durable. Pried up a few smashed pop cans around 3 inches with it.

 

[7centsworth]

I have had two of those . They dig really well but broke them both. Now I use a lesche.

 

[RickIowa2009]

I broke mine too, always catching on my towel.

 

[MickTwin]

I broke my first Ames when I tried to lever up a target way too hard. I've had my second for over a year and it's been fine.. I just remember not to use it like a pry bar. They are so $ cheap $ that losing them is no heartbreak either.

 

[pilot]

Yes, I used it to pry yesterday and I think I could break it if I leaned it to it. I bought a large dandelion screwdriver looking tool at the same time which is hefty enough for prying. Has a large soft handle and some good length.

 

[duggr]

Stainless steel, hollow handle with a screw cap on the end and a "soft rubber grip".
It's a "Mighty Digger"
Duggr

AFTER USE

 

[BADBAJA]

Man that is some nice workmanship. I am gonna give you a tip that will outsell more than you could make. Just drill a hole in the oval hand guard, going through into the handle. Make it large enough to drop in a white LED and a battery in the handle with a maglite style button. You would be able to light up what what you are digging and that would help a bunch. Like a flashlight digger(not Digger). Slide the clear lens down first with a thin foam or sealed so it could go it the water. I just bought a few lights at the dollar store with 3 LEDs that would slide right down the handle. I would use a streamlite or maglight with LED for maximize battery life and quality, plus some are water proof already. If you make and sell these you gotta kick me down one. Also start engraving or laser etching your name small and customers name BIG ACROSS THE BLADE that would be nice. Doing small production you can do that sort of thing.

I have a few other ideas for digging tools if you want to pm me.

 

[duggr]

Wish I can take credit for the digging tool but I can't! It was made for me by my friend Darren (Mighty AP) on T-net.
Yes, i know he could sell all he could make!! I would pay $50.00 for one after using this one....
\ Doug

 

[pilot]

I want one too!