Like your Lesche? You might LOVE the Ironclad Viking!

[Silver Simon]

I decided to make a video of my Ironclad Viking digger. IMO, it blows the Lesche away.

This video was actually a test of my new GoPro setup for filming some hunts this year. I noticed that my hat is visible in the shot, as well as the dead cat covering my external mic in the corner. It was very windy, but the mic/dead cat combo make the GoPro audio sound pretty great.

Don't forget to jack the resolution to 1080p 60 fps for best quality!

 

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[Chad1972]

I dont like for two reasons. One I would break this, just does not look as sturdy as the lesche. Second resaon is looks like I would cut myself every time I cleaned off the blade. I also didnt see a left or right hand version. I have big hands and the lip of the lesche lets me bear down better I would think. This would make a great digger for the wife or a lil kid maybe.

Are you talking about the Viking or the cheap Walmart tool when you said you could break it? Cause that Viking looks pretty unbreakable to me.

 

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[flgliderpilot]

Are you talking about the Viking or the cheap Walmart tool when you said you could break it? Cause that Viking looks pretty unbreakable to me.

I'm sure he's speculating about my Miracle Grow Hori Hori... The viking looks nice.

 

[victhedog]

Just got one off E-BAY
great digger built like a tank

 

[Chad1972]

I was out detecting and saw a handle sticking out of a giant stone, I pulled it out of the rock and a bright light shone out of the hole and I heard what can only be described as angels singing a chorus. So I held up my new Viking Digger and roared like the king Viking that I am. Ok ok, I emailed him and he mailed me one. It is a stout digger though.

 

[angleofattack]

I'm all about quality but I'm also into bang for the buck. There is a line there. I think the Viking Digger looks and by all accounts is a great tool. However when I looked at the cost I chose to go with the Predator Tools Piranha shovel for about 25 bucks more and a monster tool, perfect for Metal Detecting. As DirtyJohn did I bought the Wilcox digger for my hand tool for I think 13 dollers and its is a fine strong digger. So IMO this combo is a better way to spend your money.

 

[Bum Luck]

I'm a land surveyor and dig in all kinds of ground, some hard clay with rocks.
I will cheerfully spend $75 on a Estwing pickaxe because they work.
For a pocket digger, I use the Wilcox stainless trowel. I'm a beefy guy, but I've been unable to even flex it, while my Kellyco digger is bent.
It looks deceptively simple, but it simply works.
I will admit I haven't pounded it in with a hammer, but I've done about everything else.
http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Trowel-Situation-Indestructible-Guarantee/dp/B002GJ030U





About $15 on Amazon.

Cheers and HH!

 

[metaljunkie]

I just received my viking. Seems very well made and worth the cost. The ground here is half frozen, yet it still seems to cut a good clean plug. You can really feel the sawing action of the serated edges. Very pleased...

 

[GA_Boy]

I am beginning to think I am a "pansy," as I have never bent a digging tool, broken a scoop handle, or worried if the teeth on my diggers were to aggressive. Do all you guys have hair growing on your fingers or have a heavy brow? I use a Marine bayonet as a probe to pop the shallow coins or rings/pulltabs out of the grass. If the target is deeper I use the appropriate digging tool for the location.

I think some of these guys could tear up a Railroad track with a Pepsi Cola bottle.
Marvin

 

[dirtwizard]

those fiskars brand diggers mentioned are cheaply cast tools hardly fit for a gardener. Even with a lifetime warranty to bolster their claims of being rugged, they suck for detecting. I broke the handle off one in short order. It would probably be fine in soft soil without tree roots, which I have yet to encounter detecting. A lifetime warranty does squat for me when I'm out in the middle of a hunt. not bashing the brand either as I own and like many of their other products especially my pruning shears.

Ordered a lesche and the T handled sampson digger. Haven't had a single digging issue since. This viking digger looks very nice, had I not already gotten the lesche I'd be all over this.