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don't buy a small spade the amount off digging you will do you need a good border spade the small ones are usually rubish

Again thanks for the advice guys saves me making newbie mistakes


Thanks.

Matt

Hi guys X plore and jeff and anyone else who do metal detecting.Need advice on what spade to get. Do not want to pay a lot as I know some quite expensive. Any suggestions?Been out today having little go as new to this and used my trowel just to get feel of it but soon realised I need a good spade fit for job.

the roughneck mini shovels are good about 12 pound and they do the job toolstation in Birkenhead also do a mini spade
for a fiver that look ok

Thanks Jeff store not far from me will pay them a visit.

Any luck on your purchase Cools?
Am waiting to see if santa will bring me one haha.

Hi Snowhite. Just really getting to know my detector using the back garden, holes everywhere. Found a five pence piece at least I know it works. Weather been pretty awful since I got it so not had a good go yet. Really good tho quite exciting when the beep goes off even if it turns up a pice of old coke can or such.yes put it on your Xmas list.

Ah great, well done.
Maybe we can meet up next year and do some detecting.
Hope X=plore will be up to support us as i have no clue ,its a new challenge for me haha.

That would be good. I might have found my Saxon hoard by then lol.....

I hope am there when you find it haha .

A Couple of years ago I bought a metal detector, I had a rotary clothes drier in the back yard and when Winter arrived I put it in the shed. The metal spike thats in the ground got buried with mud in the Winter, so when Spring arrived I could not find the hole. Hence the purchase, god knows what I done with it but it only cost me £15 off Ebay.