g'day folks i'm the coffee bush kid and today's subject that we're going to talk about
is a little bit of a touchy topic some people get a bit embarrassed when you mention it some people
cringe others get angry and some people just really don't care and
what today's topic is about is the angle of your digger
having watched lots of youtube clips over the past oh many years now people will always or
they end up scraping their targets and you know you can see it coming they
tend to do it time after time and two of the reasons they do that is because they put their
digger whether it be a trowel whether it be a shovel they dig towards the target
or when they've dug down they scrape across the bottom of the plug and this will inevitably
scrape a coin ruin a buckle just destroy something that was actually quite good in the first place
before they put their digger into it when you locate a target you really want to dig a hole
big enough to get it out not monstrous but just big enough so that you're not going to be near if
you like the target use the pinpoint function on your detector so that you know around about where
it is and a good rule of thumb is whatever sort of size your coil is or figure out how big the
target is and if it fits within your coil use your coil size as the diameter of the hole to
dig down now when you start to dig don't dig at an angle towards the target the most important thing
that you need to do is actually dig straight down so the sides of your hole are nice and and plumb
now you can see here i've placed as the ant has found a half penny down there just as a as a
target to show you when you come along with your detector you get your signal what you want to do
is make sure that the center of your coil is over the center of the target there are two ways
you can do the old 90 degree one where you get the target that way then you turn around 90 degrees
and you get the target that way or on the equinox well on the equinox range you use the pinpointer
mode and you would find out where it was now our target is right under the center of our
coil now instead of digging right down on the target with your desired digger use your coil size
as your guide as for how big your plug should be if you've got a bigger target well you'll find
that out in the pinpoint mode and you will dig a bigger hole but rule of thumb whatever your size
of your coil is that you're using you should be able to use that as your plug diameter now
for this little exercise i'm going to use my tiger blade to dig the hole there's our half penny there
there would have been our coil size so what i'm going to do we'll take that out for the moment
is you see how i'm already now wanting to push down at 90 degrees and you can
do multiple digs if you like and we can get that and you see near the end
i'm just pulling it back slightly when i dig my full circle actually this is enough what
i'm going to do is just bring it back a fraction i haven't scraped across you see now that the plug
is sort of fractured so i can come back this side again do the same thing
there we go and that plug will come out if the soil was good and tight nicely
now sometimes it's going to depend on your soil type as to whether your plug comes out nicely
or whether it's all sandy and and comes out all over the place but let's say that our target after
we've dug down is in the bottom of the hole what you should do then is get your pin pointer out and
what i like to do at this stage is i would drop my sensitivity so you press your minus a couple of
times so you really finally hone in on where the target might be in the bottom of the hole again
this is so you do not destroy it but what could happen is you just might have been slightly out
in your digging and your target isn't in the bottom of a hull in fact it's in the side wall
now what happens and i've seen it time and time again is that someone goes oh it's in
the side wall and they dig straight straight in on it that's a no-no you really want to be
out at the sides away from it to dig it out from the site or in fact even a better option
is that you would actually you know take another bite of the plug
out here and then you can just gently break that away and you see i'm not scraping across the
bottom i'm just coercing it so that the piece of soil pulls away you can then take that out
you would recheck again you got it good it's not there it's in this plug and you
can safely retrieve it now you've retrieved your target it's nick free you haven't damaged
it great you've still got one more job to do and that is to put all your plugs back
fill in your holes turn your top over again so that it's
it's all over and nice then we can stand up give it the old stamp down and make it actually look
like no one has been there at all and that's the sign of a really good detectorist so there we go
we've talked about the touchy subject always put your digger in at 90 degrees don't come in on the
angle you just really wanted that 90 so you and and don't scrape across the bottom of your hole
because that that's just going to destroy coins if they're just in the bottom as well so straight
angle all around that's the way to go because at the end of the day no one wants to put a scrape
mark across a sovereign i'm the coffee bush kid and it's been the top tip for the mindlab show