New sand scoop

[bearbqd]

Don't know if anyone has posted about these yet, but I found these while shopping at IKEA today (incredible store btw). Thought this was halfway there to being a cheap, ready made sand scoop. Technically its called a kitchen utensil rack. They are only $5.99 at IKEA. Just weld on a handle or have a welding-skilled friend make one and you're good to go.

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Don't know if anyone has posted about these yet, but I found these while shopping at IKEA today (incredible store btw). Thought this was halfway there to being a cheap, ready made sand scoop. Technically its called a kitchen utensil rack. They are only $5.99 at IKEA. Just weld on a handle or have a welding-skilled friend make one and you're good to go.

Picture could be deceiving but it appears narrow, and the holes are too small to sift sand efficently, the holes would need to be larger.....

 

[bearbqd]

Its not the size of a large sand scoop. The hole is 4 3/4"diameter, its 7 inches long, and the holes are 10/32 ( a little over a 1/4"). I think it'll work pretty decently.

 

[Excavateur]

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30131716

Thanks for the scoop on the idea for a scoop.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Its not the size of a large sand scoop. The hole is 4 3/4"diameter, its 7 inches long, and the holes are 10/32 ( a little over a 1/4"). I think it'll work pretty decently.

Not trying to discourage you at all.

I do a lot of beach hunting, 1/4 inch holes drain sand very slowly, holes in my scoop are 5/8" wide, twice the size of those, with aluminum mesh on the bottom 1/4 of the scoop to catch earring studs. My scoop is 12 " long, 8.5" wide... I would not want to hunt sand with holes that are 10/32 (5/16"), take too much time to drain....When beach hunting you want to get to your target as quick as possible and move on to the next target... I am sure a few new hunters could use it, but they will quickly find it is slow and want to move on to a better scoop.

Good luck and good hunting........

 

[bearbqd]

Its not the size of a large sand scoop. The hole is 4 3/4"diameter, its 7 inches long, and the holes are 10/32 ( a little over a 1/4"). I think it'll work pretty decently.

Not trying to discourage you at all.

I do a lot of beach hunting, 1/4 inch holes drain sand very slowly, holes in my scoop are 5/8" wide, twice the size of those, with aluminum mesh on the bottom 1/4 of the scoop to catch earring studs. My scoop is 12 " long, 8.5" wide... I would not want to hunt sand with holes that are 10/32 (5/16"), take too much time to drain....When beach hunting you want to get to your target as quick as possible and move on to the next target... I am sure a few new hunters could use it, but they will quickly find it is slow and want to move on to a better scoop.

Good luck and good hunting........

It might be a good starting point and drill a lot of the holes out bigger. Maybe drill pretty big ones on the solid areas. Wuddya think?

 

[LaKASkill]

I like it!!! Thanx for the pic and the GREAT idea!!!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Its not the size of a large sand scoop. The hole is 4 3/4"diameter, its 7 inches long, and the holes are 10/32 ( a little over a 1/4"). I think it'll work pretty decently.

Not trying to discourage you at all.

I do a lot of beach hunting, 1/4 inch holes drain sand very slowly, holes in my scoop are 5/8" wide, twice the size of those, with aluminum mesh on the bottom 1/4 of the scoop to catch earring studs. My scoop is 12 " long, 8.5" wide... I would not want to hunt sand with holes that are 10/32 (5/16"), take too much time to drain....When beach hunting you want to get to your target as quick as possible and move on to the next target... I am sure a few new hunters could use it, but they will quickly find it is slow and want to move on to a better scoop.

Good luck and good hunting........

It might be a good starting point and drill a lot of the holes out bigger. Maybe drill pretty big ones on the solid areas. Wuddya think?

If I was trying to make a scoop out of it I would drill all holes but a few rows on the cornor and one row on bottom that will become the bottom side adjacent to handle to catch any earring studs. Drill them at least 5/8" in diameter which is smaller then a dime.

For me the scoop would still be too small, under 5 inches wide, but with larger holes it would drain faster. The faster you can recover a target found, the more targets you can hunt.... With my 8.5 inch wide scoop I usually get target in first scoop unless buried deep.

Once again not trying to discourage you at all, I started with small scoop and found I wasted my money, both on the size, and the money spent. I figured a $50, 5 inch medium handle scoop was a good scoop. I was warned before I bought it to invest in a good scoop, or I would be wasting my money and looking for a scoop again within a few months. I found out I was wrong, it was too small and broke it inside a month.

Good luck and good hunting......

 

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[Dedimus]

This is a good tip.

 

[outdoors]

the holes look like that they would do the just fine.. I had to put a 1/4 screen at the bottom
of my sand scoop because I had studded ear rings fall threw the larger holes and almost
lost the find, the sand goes thru slower but I don't lose small finds anymore