What 2 Tools Do You Use The Most?

[Cariboo5]

Beside your detector or gold pan and camera....What 2 tools of the trade do you consider the best and why & how you use them

I have several I use, however when back packing into a creek canyon I want to go as light as I can ...But still have tools that will do the job..For example a rock hammer...Anyone have some thing else lighter etc. I will take a pin pointer instead of the big detector for another example. Looking for ideas that work for you..Thanks in advance to all who reply..

 

[Lakemonster]

My Pro-Pointer and my Treasure Wise digger..... ninety percent of the time I carry a small spade as well.

 

[Navy Dude]

A collapsable "trenching tool" military type. Made of aluminum. folds up nice. has a crude saw on one edge. I take it everywhere. (i am out with boy scouts alot). It is a toilet too. TP holder. Works great,you can bend them if youdig in real hard stuff, I use a hand maule for breaking up hard clay then dig out with "trencher"

 

[Frankn]

A 6" probe which is actually a mechanics hole alignment tool and my shark all steel narrow T handle shovel. It was hard to narrow it down to two, My compass & GPS were next. Frank
PS if at the beach it would just be a scoop.

 

[luvsdux]

For general detecting and coin shooting I always have my Lesche digger and an electronic pinpointer at hand.
luvsdux

 

[Cariboo5]

Thanks guys for the input, all good points. I'm back packing into more areas where there is limited road access and have to be hands free.

GPS, very good point as mine is always in my pack also.

 

[relichunters]

Trowel and Whites Bullseye 2 Pinpointer

 

[smcdmc]

I recently won a Pro Pointer at a club hunt. Prior to that I always thought it would be a waste of money because I can pinpoint pretty well with my detector. Well, having used it the last couple times out I wish I had gotten one a lot sooner. It makes recovery a lot faster and sometimes when the target reads very shallow I will use it before I even dig and can make a much smaller hole/slit in the ground. On a 4-6" hole 6" deep its nice to know on what side of the hole to concentrate on.
Shane

 

[Monty]

Some type digger and a pinpointer. What kind of digging tool depends on the soil, but the pinpointer will work nearly anywhere. Monty

 

[DPBOB]

9mm in the bad neighborhoods while detecting
and my lesche

 

[47thelement]

I just can't leave the apartment without my iPhone and milk frothier. It would be just ghastly to have a double skim latte without my milk being frothed.

 

[Mzjavert]

My very big, and now very dull, hunting knife that I use to open plugs.

 

[nafsbuc]

Pinpointer and my new treasure wise digging tool.

 

[Georges Minelab Safari]

Digging tool and pro pointer.

 

[gleaner1]

Custom, special-built digger made out of old shovel. Ears. Brain. Ooops, that's three. No, it's four! Holy Shoot, I lost control. Sorry.

 

[kayden]

pinpointer & wife after I bring home the jewelery to her

 

[Viddy]

#1 LESCHE DIGGER

#2 GARRETT PRO-POINTER

 

[kshollywood]

Lesche digger and pinpointer

 

[goverton]

Relic Hunting:
Metal Mason Square if measuring angles against N-S lines( if there are marked rocks)
GPS Garmin Legend etrac......pin point markers in field

Coin Hunting:
just a shovel
headphones

 

[63bkpkr]

In town the Lesche digger and my brass probe. In the hills the Gerber Gorge steel, not nylon, shovel with hammer - it is one tough little shovel! And a fiskers collagpsing pruning saw, cuts on the pull very sharp......63bkpkr