Home built scoop

[dieselram94]

Hey everyone, I am half done building my on the cheap sand scoop. I will be adding more holes and polyurethaning the handle. What do you all think so far?

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[GMD52]

Dram,

It looks a lot better than the one I made from a cat litter scoop, one thing I did was to rivet a piece of heavy gage coil stock to the front as a cutter blade. I secures it tightly to the front inside lip. But your's looks stronger with the PVC fitting. Great job.....Gary

 

[dieselram94]

Thanks Gary, I am trying to keep all metal out of the scoop so I can pass it under the detector to see if target is inside scoop. After cutting the 45* angle to the front I used a half round file on the inside to further sharpen the leading edge.

 

[dieselram94]

Some updated pictures...
P.s. Please excuse my nasty shop
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[Treasure_Hunter]

Your going to need to reinforce where handle meets scoop, look at professional scoops....

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[dieselram94]

Your going to need to reinforce where handle meets scoop, look at professional scoops....

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I was wondering about that. The handle goes all the way through and sits in a bored hole on the other side and immersed in resin with west system 404 mixed in. The handle is oak as well. I will add a brace to it...

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[Wily Dunk]

Good looking scoop. I never thought about using PVC before, now you got me thinking..

 

[fongu]

Nice job. Hope it works for you.

 

[creattionz]

I made one recently out of a exhaust pipe the bigest thing I found after useing it was I needed to lean the handle back. With it straight up and down it was really annoying trying to foot it into the dirt.

 

[wrecker]

Nice shop. Wish I could keep mine just half as tidy.

 

[dieselram94]

Nice shop. Wish I could keep mine just half as tidy.

Thanks, I find I keep filling it up with stuff all the time!

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[dieselram94]

I made one recently out of a exhaust pipe the bigest thing I found after useing it was I needed to lean the handle back. With it straight up and down it was really annoying trying to foot it into the dirt.

I leaned mine back as far as I could and keep the connection strong. I can see what your saying though.

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[dieselram94]

Well I just Finnished putting on four coats of polyurethane. I will try it out hopefully this weekend. Should work really well in dry sand.

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[creattionz]

Good luck. Since I made mine and got the AT PRO I've went out twice. Didn't find anything special but it was nice not to have to bend over and dig a thousand holes for once