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MarkCZ said:In parks I normally use the plug style, in more manicured lawns I pop the coins, but I don't use a screwdriver, I use a blunt tipped probe.
Open wooded areas I may use a small shovel. In any case its ALWAYS good to try and leave the area as if you were never there! or maybe better!!
Some argue that long handled shovels and large holes heal better, but!!!!! that doesn't take care of the BAD attention that it gets, better or worse, its ALWAYS bad attention! In public places the lower the profile the better, the less mess left behind the better! Right or Wrong, or you can be right, but still wrong in doing it!!
Mark
I always cut a small circle plug with a ''small hand trowel'' as shovels just look bad. The one thing I wonder about as some say a square plug is easier on the root's and more likely to stay down when a mover go's over? I always like to make mine half circled hinge door type as it is smaller.GeorgeinSC said:When I first started detecting I talked to folks who do landscaping (re-sodding etc) about the best method for cutting a plug.
The reason I asked was on a lot of the videos that I was watching they were dugging the plug with the digging tool held at an angle towards the center of the plug so that the plug was coming out cone shaped.
The Landscaper told me that they were killing the grass by cutting off the roots and to dig with the tool held straight up and down so that I damaged the fewest roots.
I have had park employees (one was the park supervisor) compliment me on the fact that they had seen me dig hundreds of coins out of their park and they could not see where I had been digging.
They even gave me permission to dig on the ball fields when no one else was around.
It pays to to things correctly.