Giant Green Beach Shovel/Scoop

[Bill (S. CA)]

Anyone ever seen one of these before?  A YouTube hunter in Australia was using one at the beach.

[Bedrocker]

3 hours ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

Anyone ever seen one of these before?  A YouTube hunter in Australia was using one at the beach.

It's a cut down one of these.

https://a.co/d/iRnMIn1

On his or his dad's utoob he has a video on how he made it.

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

I have seen the same guy and he does well. Nice one can check for targets easy. 

I do think you maybe able to get away with it at some beaches where the sand is the only bottom and it would have to be a fresh drop beach. And one would constantly have to be aware of the durability issue.  

Years ago there was a guy in Florida who was trying to build a carbon fiber / composite material scoop, his name was Dig, never heard or seen anything come out of it. 

I'm very easy on my scoops, all have been either Aluminum, SS and Titanium.. and each has broken in time. 

[ivanll]

There are a few people that have modified and using that type of shovel in Australia.
The farther/son team once came to one of my favorite beaches in TNQ but only once.
This beach have tightly packed wet sand, that green shovel not so good to break surface on first dig.
Also need to drag it out of a dig as it is to heavy to lift when full of wet sand.
But not to criticize, we all do it our own way.

🥂

[King-Of-Bling]

Yup. It sucks. I found a snow shovel at a thrift store for $5 and gave it a go. It was sturdy. But did weaken when I cut down the lip to a "V" and drilled a bunch of holes in it. Went to Huntington Beach with it. Dry sand worked good but still kinda heavy as this is pretty big. Then in the wet compact sand , you just couldn't dig out giant wide scoops. The thing would flex and you're sorta fiddling with it to get a full scoop. Waste of time , but for $5 ,I tried. Might work good in soft fluffy sugar sand. 

[midalake]

10 hours ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

Anyone ever seen one of these before? 

I would snap that in 5 minutes. 

[tvr]

I saw a guy using a plastic shovel much like that in Atlantic City shortly after the Equinox came out. He had an Equinox and was very new to detecting. He was not able to dig very deep without taking many shallow digs as it flexed too much. I think I had one of the RTG scoops with me on that trip and he copied the information from the label that was still on the scoop; said he would order a scoop and ditch the shovel.

[Rivers rat]

From my experience with scoop the only one that didnt move was a prototype made in 2.5mm i then purchase a stainless steel pipe as a shaft.it was heavy but didnt move a bit.

RR

[Joe D.]

   Here's a few I've been looking at for just beach sand, when the scoop isn't deep enough or fast enough to dig a target! But they are sorta big! Saw a titanium one somewhere too, but can't find the picture! Ideally, I wanted to have it packable so if needed, it is readily available in my backpack!

   You might also consider an all stainless steel travel shovel; two part adjustable handle! Smaller spade head, but good for deeper holes in wet sand! That's about what i will probably end up getting ultimately!🍀👍👍