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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

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Again thanks for the advice guys saves me making newbie mistakes


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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.

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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

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

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

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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.

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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.


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

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That would be good. I might have found my Saxon hoard by then lol.....
I hope am there when you find it haha laugh.

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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.


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