Digger/Trowel recommendations

[Recruiter]

Needing to purchase a digger. I live in Oklahoma and the soil gets dry and roots on top in the wooded areas. I have looked at few but need some recommendations. I would hate to buy one and it brake after a couple of digs.

Thanks for your help

 

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[TonyinCT]

On the cheaper end there is the Sabretooth digger and on the higher end is the Lesche digger. Let me know if I can help more with your choice.
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[Charlie P. (NY)]

I sure like my Lesche digger. $34 to $40 depending where you buy one but they are a good investment. Depending on soil & decorum I use the Lesche, a U.S. Marine Corps fighting knife (70's Camillus version), a stainless steel bulb planter from Lowes with a narrow, half-round blade and a large, cushy hand grip and or a small wood handled trowel that was something my wife got free for a garden book club.

Don't show up at a town park or school with a 7" fighting knife. Bad form.

I also carry a bricklayer's hammer if I'm cellar holing, in the woods, or where there might be fossils. Great for chopping out tree roots, splitting shale, breaking up hardpan, etc. You can spend 2X more and get a chisel head geologist's/rock hammer - same tool.

 

[Recruiter]

Tony and Charlie thanks for the recommendation on the Lesche. Lesche it is. I went the garden trowel route and each time I would get a more sturdy tool but not sturdy enough. Hunted this Monday and unfortnantly half the garden tool is still in the ground.

 

[TonyinCT]

I sell them for 31.95

 

[Recruiter]

I sell them for 31.95

Ordered. Thanks Tony

 

[RON (PA)]

Guess you made up your mind. But anyways, I have heard nothing but great things about the Lesche. I have heard that they are almost indestructible. I think you will like it.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Here's what I'll carry in my trunk all season now. I can't find the little trowl, I think THE ADMIRAL stole it back. Crook. The Lesche doesn't show the teeth well in this image. One side has some root savaging teeth.

The relic shovel is basically the Lesche upset and after exposure to Gamma Rays.

Highly recommend the rubberized woven nitrile gardening gloves. "Puncture resistant" and that's not a bad thing where needles and razor blades occur (which they do regularly in local parks - sheesh!)

 

[Recruiter]

Here's what I'll carry in my trunk all season now. I can't find the little trowl, I think THE ADMIRAL stole it back. Crook. The Lesche doesn't show the teeth well in this image. One side has some root savaging teeth.

The relic shovel is basically the Lesche upset and after exposure to Gamma Rays.

Highly recommend the rubberized woven nitrile gardening gloves. "Puncture resistant" and that's not a bad thing where needles and razor blades occur (which they do regularly in local parks - sheesh!)

Thanks for the tip on the gloves. I thought about using gloves, but did not know about the rubberized gloves you mentioned. I always knew I was taking a chance without them.

 

[Pulltab Parson]

Hiya,

I know you made your decision on the digging tool but I thought I would add my 2 cents

I picked this one up at Lowes for about $15, Its called an Ames 7in1 trowel. IT works really well and its not intimidating at the tot lots.

 

[jeffinflint]

I got a Raptor, and I had sharpened at Ace Hardware. This is best digging tool I have ever used.

HH, Jeff in Flint, MI

 

[lionhrt9]

I got a Raptor, and I had sharpened at Ace Hardware. This is best digging tool I have ever used.

HH, Jeff in Flint, MI

I really like the look of that digger! I have been wondering about it for soil removal from the hole. I still love my lesche but friends of mine use the older Gator that removes soil much like that Raptor looks like it would remove.

 

[JW]

Wilcox 20" handled trowel, anything else is flirting with carpal tunnel syndrome.

 

[jeffinflint]

I have one those old gators, and I have to bend it back into shape just about evertime I go out. The Raptor puts the Gator to shame. Just make sure if you get one, that you get it sharpened. When out in public, the Raptor doesn't look like a knife, so it is less intimidating, but it is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Shallow stuff is a breeze, but if you need to go deep, it will go deeeeppppp very fast. It is well woth the money, it's not cheap.

 

[Tricia]

Just bought a Fiskar's digging trowel. Much like the Lesche but only $9.99 from Target's garden dept.

I use a pie server for sand. Yup plastic pie server that's used for serving individual wedges. Dollar store find.

 

[3searchin]

Hiya,

I know you made your decision on the digging tool but I thought I would add my 2 cents

I picked this one up at Lowes for about $15, Its called an Ames 7in1 trowel. IT works really well and its not intimidating at the tot lots.

I bought two of those, They work great and have a saw edge to get through those nasty roots (2 one for each truck that way I don't forget it...lol)

 

[jeffinflint]

Craftsman Rapid Digger

I love this tool for prospecting on hard tough ground. But, if you need to totaly rip some soil, this is the tool. However, it will rip through anything, even solid cement. So, you have to be careful with coins and jewelry. But, this is one tough tool.

 

[Sheldius]

Just bought the fiskar version of the Ames 7in1 trowel. Wanted something on Amazon to go with the C size batteries (2 Rayovac 12 battery packs for less than $21) I ordered to get free shipping. Doesn't have the inch markings, but otherwise looks the same. I'll see if I like it and let Tnet know if I don't.

 

[Timberwolf]

Hi all,

I can't even remember what kind of digger I use to use (yikes).
But here is what I have been using for several years.
Unlike the cheaper diggers, you won't have to bend it back in place or pick up any missings parts. It is nearly indestructable!
The only problem I can see, is trying to tell you where you can get one like it. It was not store-bought. I purchased two of these from a gentleman at one of the Treasure Expo's in Fremont N.E.
All I know is that he was an elderly man (probably in his 70's)that everyone called "speedy" because of how fast he was during the competition hunts. He would not take a check, it was "cash only". I think he thought the Infernal Revenue was watching him and maybe they were.
It has been a great digger. I hope I never loose it or wear it out.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

That looks dandy!

I have been trying to get the company that displayed this one to respond (without luck). If they ever do I will buy one and post the link. You are supposed to contact them for a price and they don't contact back. It looks ideal to me.

Long handled version, too.