LM
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Obviously, not a 'beach machine' but took it out today at low tide to see how it did.
The fresh-wet and intermediate wet sand was a no-go. No worries, this was expected.
I was, however, able to get below the high tide line and into the tide line itself with *no* false signaling problems whatsoever. I'm guessing the sand had about 4-6 hours to dry out. That small coil really was nice when swinging in the high tide washup, since it was so easily manipulated.
Everything else was as expected about the machine. Digging up little foil fragments 10" deep, etc. Really impressive. One thing that's super nice about the Compadre for those of us who hate going out loaded down with crap (diggers, bags, pinpointers, heavy machines, etc) is that it's so light weight, you can grab the shaft with one hand and swing the machine around your hole to figure out if the metal object is in the fill or if there's more digging to do.
Honestly, if all someone wants to do is go to the beach and swing a machine around the dry sand, this thing is absolutely fine.
The fresh-wet and intermediate wet sand was a no-go. No worries, this was expected.
I was, however, able to get below the high tide line and into the tide line itself with *no* false signaling problems whatsoever. I'm guessing the sand had about 4-6 hours to dry out. That small coil really was nice when swinging in the high tide washup, since it was so easily manipulated.
Everything else was as expected about the machine. Digging up little foil fragments 10" deep, etc. Really impressive. One thing that's super nice about the Compadre for those of us who hate going out loaded down with crap (diggers, bags, pinpointers, heavy machines, etc) is that it's so light weight, you can grab the shaft with one hand and swing the machine around your hole to figure out if the metal object is in the fill or if there's more digging to do.
Honestly, if all someone wants to do is go to the beach and swing a machine around the dry sand, this thing is absolutely fine.
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