Inexpensive Digging Tool

[Phil_R]

This digger isn't intended for coin-shooting in lawns or parks. Handle is 15.5" overall, head is 9" in length... most digging is with the 3 tine rake portion. Digger was purchased @ Lowes for $12.98 + tax.



Drilled 3/8" hole in handle, just under 1/2" deep. Neodymium (N42) 3/8" x 1.2" cylindrical magnet to epoxy in handle.



Digger complete with magnet... still under $15.00 total. Magnet protrudes about 1/32" from base of handle.

 

[RickIowa2009]

Nice

 

[Patchoguefrank]

HELLO, Phil,

your DIGGING TOOL LOOKS GREAT! However, you are only a short distance to the civil-war battle-field site of OLUSTEE. Have you been there? Did you ever

scope the area? It looks like the tools you made, are for pretty firm, or hard dirt digging. I am way down here in S.E. Fla.Before I made a 3/4 day trip, I would like to

know if it is possible to hunt civil-war relics in that area????? Your feedback would be GREAT! Thanks, Frank

 

[Phil_R]

Hey Frank,

Olustee Battlefield is located in Osceola National Forest and to the best of my knowledge, artifact hunting is forbidden. They may allow you to coin-shoot the public beach / boat launch area of Ocean Pond, but I would ask before taking detector out of vehicle. We have a Confederate "earthworks" located here in Suwannee County, in Suwannee River State Park... no artifact hunting.

 

[Patchoguefrank]

Thanks, Phil
I will be headed to N.C. in may, & thought to stop by Olustee to do some relic hunting, but that's out. I still may stop to see the area.

 

[PaulMBurgess]

You don;t even want to go there do you the trouble you can get into digging a civil war site in a national forest!Your'e playing with fire with the big boys.DON"T DO THE CRIME IF YOU CAN"T DO THE TIME!!!!!!!!! Besides giving us a bad rep that us MDerist don't need !That we already got by a few rotten eggs!