what's your digger of choice?

i dig with an old hickory handled butcher knife. i keep it kinda dull because if it's to sharp i cut myself. duh. it cuts a good plug, easy to handle and cheap. i don't have a lot of patience so if the signal is real deep i fill the hole and go for another. i mean, beyond a foot. if i want to get serious, my friend has this HUGE back hoe trencher! what does every one use?

I use a Hercules digger by Predator tools when I am in an area that I can. I also have a very nice hand digger simalar to the Lesche. Good diggers make our hunts easier.

I like Lesches.  Can't hurt them even if you tried.

I picked this up at a dept. store the other day. About five bucks.

i went to lowes and spent 13 bucks its a great digger

   you asked my choice not what I have to use
     Joe

 I like Kellyco's gator digger.

LESCHE, everything else has bent in the Georgia clay.

After several breakdowns of the generic garden shovel, I purchased the Gator digger from Kelly Co. and I have been a happy digger ever since.  I have had it about a year and only sharpened it once.


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   you asked my choice not what I have to use
     Joe

nice, joe! i want one.

two half foot gaden shovel when i out in the feild, hardware flower trowel they look like a gater but bend pretty easly.

I have used a Gator digger from Kelly Co. and bent it and i am not hard with tools. I now use a LESCHE for over 4 years and never bent it.

HH

Oak -- sweet home Alabama

still like my old knife guys. i am great at breaking tools. i broke two of my wife's garden trowels before i hit on that old butcher knife 15 years ago. still diggin'. heck, i even broke my breaker bar! i want that drag line tho, joe.

I use a 99 cent plastic spade from K-Mart.

Why?

Simple, it's heavy duty plastic and doesn't break, even in rocks and rock hard sand. I can easily uproot grass with little or no work involved AND BEST OF ALL there is no metal and it cannot be picked up on my metal detector or pinpointer, so it doesn't interfer with digging.

for normal digging I use a Lesche,  for real hard dirt,  I use a predator

Sniffer

Small shovel, about 2 feet long.  Saves the back and knees

This great tool -

I use a Gator from Kellyco.
Ken

for normal digging I use a Lesche,  for real hard dirt,  I use a predator

Sniffer

hi sniff, what's a predator, and where? Bill

This great tool -

tell me about it. what and where? thanx, Bill

I ordered my predator on line at predatortools.com,  I 've got the Model 58 Little Eagle.
when I first bought it I used to remove a rotted 6 x 6 post and I hit a sprinkler line right beside it,  I didn't know I hit it until the hole started to fill up with water.  This thing is sharp and strong

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   you asked my choice not what I have to use
     Joe

Uhhhhhh...Do you have a picture of your pinpointer??

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,146472.0.html
 

I ordered my predator on line at predatortools.com,  I 've got the Model 58 Little Eagle.
when I first bought it I used to remove a rotted 6 x 6 post and I hit a sprinkler line right beside it,  I didn't know I hit it until the hole started to fill up with water.  This thing is sharp and strong

oh my! wet mess. i hit a 240v. cable with my knife. just a minor nick. asked the owner what he wanted done. he said just some 100% silicone on the cut. i fixed it, wrapped it with water tight tape and gave him a nice barber quarter i dug.

when I hit the line,  the system was off.  no pressure,  whew,  I went to Lowes,  bought the parts I needed,  had it fixed and back in service in about 30 minutes

Sniffer

I have a couple of store bought diggers, but this one is my favorite.
It was hand made (not by me).

I have been using it since about 1994. It have yet to bend it or brake it

TW

This great tool -

looks awful clean and shiny. better get diggin! nice.

Predator Tools are a company of George Lesche.  A Lesche is a Predator.

I like my Fiskars garden knife. $7 or so at Fleet Farm. (or probably Home Depot too) The only problem is they don't take massive amounts of abuse or they snap at the handle. They're still pretty sturdy though and they have a 2 year warranty.

Fiskars part # 7079