Short trip, overslept zzzzzzzzz

[Monty]

Didn't get up at my usual 4:00 AM this morning and finally woke up at about 7:45! That's late for me.
By the time I got dressed and on the road it was already getting hot! I made a short trip to a park where someone had posted it was hunted out on another forum. Spent 15 minutes and recovered a quarter, two nickels and six pennies, all clad. So, don't always believe it when someone says a certain place is hunted out! Spent a couple of hours "prospecting", that is looking over a few places I intend to hunt in the future. I like to know who is out and about at that time of day and what the lay of the land is before I get there. Then I got home and spent about two hours working at building a sandscoop for my new water detector when it gets here. Used 3" PVC pipe and an end cap. Got most of the holes drilled but it got too hot even to be outside! Put it up and will work on it tomorrow. I read about one of the forum members making his own scoops and decided I could do that! The only trouble I had was keeping the holes straight and I didn't! But it will work ok I think! JIM

 

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[Bavaria Mike]

Hi Jim, I made scoop similar to the one you are making with PVC pipe and a cap, I used a wooden handle and mounted it straight up and down which makes a 90 degree angle. I should have put more of an angle on the handle, say 100 degrees as mine is a little hard to push down on with my foot as I have to extend my arm out far to get the point of the scoop into the sand. I also use an 18"X18"X3"" piece of industrial type styrofoam tied to a thin rope, then tied to my leg or where ever to dump the scoop onto, works like a floating table. Here's a pic of my scoop, hope it helps. HH, Mike

 

[Monty]

Hey Mike, How'd you attach the handle? Epoxy? I have enough PVC to make several scoops so I might try making one with a handle also? Thanks for the response. JIM

 

[lonewolfe]

Hey Jim what kind of water machine are you getting?

Inquiring minds wanna know!

 

[JakePhelps]

I woke up at 10:00 today, now thats what you call late

 

[jeff of pa]

JIM

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MIKE ;

? ?You should Post THe steps to Make them in Techiniques.

? ? ? ? ? JEFF

 

[Monty]

There's another post on the forum someplace where a member made some similar scoops out of PVC. He will make one and sell it to you very reasonably or help you make one. It's just a matter of boring a lot of holes and shaping and cutting the PVC so it will work as a scoop.

I decided to put a long handle on my first one so I found an old wooden broom handle and bored a hole through the cap at a slight angle, inserted the broom handle and used Gorilla Glue to keep it in. It looks pretty sturdy but that remains to be seen. I had some aluminum tubing that would have been stronger and would last forever but it also would be picked up by the detector coil. I wanted to be able to run the coil over the scoop and see if I had picked up the target or not. Also, I have trouible bending because of my bad back and hopefully I can scoop with the long handle without having to bend over so far. Will be doing a test run in the next few days. JIM