LWH36 wrote:i guess 16 dollars is a good price. This morning I went out in my yard and spent 15 minutes digging for a half inch nail. pretty deep at seven inches. When the grass is flipped back, how would I get the coin out if it is in the thing of grass without killing it? Also, I spent ten minutes on a 1965 quarter. It was under my deck, and all of the dirt is really loose, so the quarter probably kept falling back into the hole.
Yes, the ground is very moist today.
A pinpointer can help with not killing the grass if the coin is still in the plug of grass. You can use the pinpointer like a probe to push into the plug and root around for the coin. It is hard sometimes though. Really practice makes perfect. I haven't really come up with an ideal cheap way to solve that one. I bought a more expensive pinpointer just to combat this problem. My pinpointer will detect a coin up to 6 inches away. So most coins don't have a chance :l Most I can pinpoint directly on top of before I even dig. My holes are smaller because of it. Then ones I have the plug I can pinpoint exactly where it is in the plug. Just keep at it. I swear by pinpointers though. Having something is better than nothing.
