plug cutters?

[PAmike]

I found this on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14955&item=5754546743&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I was wondering if anyone uses one and how well they work? I coild make one up pretty easily.

mike

 

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[michinkae]

in my experience, these tools are more messy than they are worth. I use a lesche trowel. Whites will give you a pretty good deal for one.

 

[zommbee]

They only work on soft well cultivated soil and grass. Try using one in
the desert or where the ground is dry and rocky! Also, a fully-pulled
plug in green grass very often will simply die a week later, leaving a
brown circular divit. If you use a good tool (Lesche or similar), you
can cut a small 'horseshoe' plug that keeps some of the grass still
connected. That way it's far less likely to die after you dig. Just
my 2000 millicents.

Dave
Zommbee

 

[1320]

I like it...would work well in my neck of the woods. Thanks, think I'll buy me one!

 

[dudes2112]

I've heard many people say that the plugs look a little nicer at first but a few weeks later is the true test. I've not used one myself but have heard of the brown spots sometime later. Although it would most likely depend on how healthy the grass was as well or how dry it had been maybe. Looks like a pretty sturdy unit and if the price stays as low as it is now...

Dudes

 

[JBEIA]

I own one. It does a nice job...but if the object is not a coin and your pinpointing is off...I cut a nice medallin in half with mine, it was oddly shaped and I was off just a couple of inches when pinpointing. Also if you have large forearms forget about getting your hand down a 3 inch hole. I only use mine with the small coil...don't have to worry about pinpointing and the small coil doesn't go so deep that you need to stick your arm in the ground.

I almost forgot, I am in Iowa so we don't have much problem with grass dying exept in extremely dry times.

JBE

 

[Copper]

Don't buy that tool.

Back in the late 70's, I thought something like this would be great. I couldn't find anything like it for sale so I made one. My first time using it I ruined a token that was significant to the history of a little village. It was a trade token for a small store that once was there.

See the scan of the rim of this token. It doesn't show too well anymore but the eye can see these very nasty marks.

If you hit that coin with that digger, your coin will be badly damaged. It's not worth the risk.

Just a suggestion.

Copper

 

[michinkae]

The brown spot is one drawback. The fact that you dont leave the grass secured to the ground is another. When you cut a flap with your trowel you leave the roots of the grass secured to something that will help it grow back. With this tool, the grass isn't secure. I would stick to the technique of cutting a flap. go to http://www.whiteselectronics.com/miscaccw.php. look at the lesche tool that whites offers. This tool is the best I ever used. There is also one for half that price tha whites offers, but you will have to find your local dealer for that.

 

[Lowbatts]

I've got the industrial sized model fabbed from larger diameter steel, but carrying takes a mule. Worthless in rocky ground and with the tiny diameter you'll never pull deep coins using just that without serious risk of damage. I'm one of those who cut large plugs and plop them out using a keyhole saw. This of course for the deep targets. Never left a brown spot because if you take up the top couple inches you are pulling the root matrix and keeping it contained within the plug. My plugs are often 3 or 4" thick so they're good when they go back in. I don't dig many plugs in late July through mid September though because that's when it's hard ground and dry.