A screwdriver... For digging?

[jeff of pa]

Personally, if ground, I push the screw driver in & pop the Dirt out.
then dig through the gravel till I find the object.

If Grass,

I scratch a slice then push in and pop the dirt out

Since they insist on Screw Drivers, I figure they aren't real particular,
They just don't want you digging deep, or taking large objects out

 

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[ivan salis]

shove it in the ground straight down and wobble it outward --it will make a hole by which you can remove the object / coin --

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

This should be the universally approved tool. You pull the plug. Either the item is in it or still in the hole. You either dig the hole without impact to the surface or pull it from the plug from the underside. Replacing your divot with little or no consequence is a no brainer

 

[Msbeepbeep]

I'm waiting for the day when we can just aim a device at a spot on the ground, push a button and the coin, or item materializes on the surface, no digging needed!.......then I woke up! Darn!!!
Until then a screw driver is my main recovery tool.

 

[MackDog]

I have to use screwdrivers in WA. First use it to cut a 3/4 plug then push the sod back. IF you know the depth then stick in the screwdriver to about an inch above the target and pry up multiple times like airating. Then use your pinpointer to find target then try to get under it and lift out

 

[texasred777]

JOHUNT, sorry about your great grandfather. I remember my mom using an icepick to chip chunks from a block of ice. One day getting ice for the tea glasses, she missed and stuck the icepick into her thumb from just behind, and beside the knuckle, and it came out the end of her thumb. Dad had quite a 'pull' getting it out. This must have been in the late 1940s because we got a 'refrigerator' in 1950. lol

 

[Sandigger2]

Here's a video of coin popping. Deep targets or very dry ground can be challenging.

 

[TerryC]

RustyGunn's video says it all. For those coins a little deeper, slide your index finger down the blade to "hold onto" the coins against the blade. I also find one of those weed cutters with the wider point work well too. If you can't perfect your technique with a screwdriver, stay outta my parks! TTC

 

[bungyboy]

Mufasa... shivers