I don't watch most of these videos as they mostly make me mad as many don't pinpoint so they don't know where the target is, then they take the shovel and just dig and keep digging to the side just like the video of the guy with the walker. What a big hole and dirt was all over the place and never watch if he filled the hole back up with what dirt he could find.
Some will say as we seen a while back that the shovels do a better job of digging a plug, but we see it don't in most cases plus seeing someone carry a shovel in a park is a sure way to get people looking and complaining.
I am from the old school of detecting since I started in 1973 and one thing that was pounded in was not to dig a hole unless you have to as we used ice picks to locate so we wanted to be right on when finding the target before we did any digging. We learned the ice pick ruined some nice coin so we went to brass probes and pushed in the ground slowly and use a screwdriver to dig the coin out with. Now we just take the time to pinpoint carefully and use our digging knives like the Lesche to dig a clean plug if it is deeper, if not we just use our pin pointers to tell right where the target is and pop it out with the brass probe or me with a long narrow screwdriver.
Been told of a caretaker throwing 2 guy out of a very old parks 2 different times the same guys as they used big shovels and was told next time they come back they will have the cops called. A few of us have no problem with this caretaker as we dig small plugs.
Got a busy body call the cops on me that said I was digging hole on the school property and after showing them how I did it and showed them where I had dug they just said they had to check it out and said they wish others would do it that as it was very hard to see where I had dug those small plugs.
I seen a lot in my years of detecting, some good and some real bad , I am surprised more places are not off limits from some of the areas I have seen and people I talk to as some people that are not happy they way some dig as they have no respect for public property.
The shovels are made for the farm fields where this type of digging works out, but too any holes should be filled back in.
Rick