How to Dig two holes properly

[Detectingfreak]

Please note! This is a staged Hunt! I am going to show you two techniques for digging holes so you do not get dirt everywhere and you can leave no trace! That is the big deal here! We want to leave the ground as we had left it!!!

Now here is the video of me digging holes.

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Please leave comments in this post and on youtube. Tell me what you think. I planted the coins by the way! I just wanted to show you how to dig proper holes! This one guy in Seattle who gets hired to metal detect places all over the world taught me this and I am going to share it with those who do not already know how to do it. The first method you all may know. But the second method is one I had just discovered when watching him do this.

[jcrockster]

Thanks for the post. I had never seen the "I" method. I will try it next time out.

[bootybay]

I like the I method too...but that one will come in handy when you know from pinpointing how deep your target is..if its a deep target I would do the plug method.

[mastereagle22]

I've been using the I technique for a while. Never knew it had a name.

I made my own ground cloth out of the leg of a pair of jeans. I put two dowel rods inside the leg and then sowed them onto the material.

The advantage is that when you pick it up the leg is tapered so it becomes a funnel! Works great.

[greydigger]

Thanks for the info.
When I get my pinpointer I will try these methods.
Too afraid of excavating until then.

[Shortstack]

Hey, DF, you're the first person I've seen using that digging tool----other than me. I bough mine in OKC from Wayne in about 1995. That's a "bosshoss" digger isn't it? I had to put some foam on the handle and wrap it with Duck Tape to protect my hands. That hickory handle was eating up the palm of my hand, but there's no way I'd get rid of it.

[Possumguts]

I have found that sometimes when it is hard to locate the target without a pinpointer, you can grab the 4 corners of the cloth and lift the dirt up and swing it near your coil (instead of standing up). If your target is in the dirt, it will sound off...

[greydigger]

Great idea, thanks!