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I normally won't touch Tesco with a barge pole because of their attitude toward motorcyclists at the petrol pumps. But, went in the other evening just to find a plastic jug to make a hand sand scoop for my wife for when she's working the beach, when I came upon this in the kitchen section.

£6:00 each for the containers (stainless steel) - £12-00 over 10+ years isn't so bad I suppose.

The rest are just bits I had hanging around my workshop
Old alloy brush handle
Few bits of metal bear
A few SS nuts and bolts.

Saves the £100 + their asking on e-bay

Mike

nice idea

lovely job mike!!!

look out inspector gadgets about  :D :D :D

looks the job mike and nice n cheep 2 , good effort

Should be good for the dry.
How is it coping with the wet stuff?
Any dimensions can not tell from the photo
good job for 12 quid thou  :)

very good Mike , I done one witn a plastic  petrol can and it work perfect and you can pass it on the coil  it was good but unfortunately I don't do much of beach detecting.  ;) very good design that scoop .Nap

hey love it, its always a good feelin usin a tool you made yourself. welldone

Nice work.

I've had home made foot assisted sand scoops before but they have always broken as they
get hammered on the beach.

I eventually got a stainless steel one professionally made that's never going to break.

I hope yours lasts and you have better luck than me!

Dimensions are 12cm by 16.5cm. Not that large but quite a sturdy SS container.

I do still have to enlarge the holes on the back and bottom slightly but that's just a few minutes work.
For the level of beach work I do, it should be OK for a while.

im working on my mk 2 beach scoop.the last one i made lasted 2 months.weldone mike,its ridiculous the price of scoops

good effort but plastic is whats needed....... ;D

Maybe but a good scoop saves so much time and your back.
You do pay for what you get.
My old spade and garret pin pointer was a good combo but no match for my scoop.
Hunting at night is so easy with a scoop.
For just dry sanding and fun a home made is fine.
But if you want to maximise detecting time a good scoop is the way to go.
The more rubbish you can dig in the shortest time leads to luck.
I forked out 120 on a Stavr scoop and have not been disappointed.
With out it hunting in the water would be impossible.
Every one can hunt the sand but only a few hunt the water plus no one uses disposable bbq,s in the water lol   

shovels dont last long do they? Faymous broke hers on the weekend.......................

Get a Draper/Roughneck mini spade, should last longer.

Nice looking sand scoop Mike. :)

funny how u should say that, have ordered 2 drapers...hopefully get them for the weekend!

my plan is to test my scoop to destruction then rebuild it ,keep doin that until its unbreakable.thats what they did with jeeps during the war ;D

Was that the war you fought in, Mike?  :o

It's cheaper to buy a proper stainless steel foot assisted sand scoop in the first place.

I've been through the home made period and it's false economy. Mine broke and I was then stuck for the
day with a wonky scoop.

I looked into getting a pile made as they're as rare as rocking horse manure but it never came off. Eventually
invested in one off the internet but I note thatr since I bough mine they've increased in price.

I bought my stainless steel sod buster about 10 years ago for about £35 and they're now about £55.....
a great investment and hedge against inflation!  ;D

i deserve to be left with a wonkey scoop lol :D

I didn't like to mention it but your missus mentioned it was always floppy........ :'(

your right there bob but i've got two and the other never goes down ask ur wife lol

This is a link for a really good stainless steel foot assisted sand scoop that splits for travel.

http://www.pro-tectors.co.uk/Stainless_Steel_Sand_Scoop_for_beach_metal_detecting/p481482_2180378.aspx (http://www.pro-tectors.co.uk/Stainless_Steel_Sand_Scoop_for_beach_metal_detecting/p481482_2180378.aspx)