With my own hands. We make a scoop (stingy) for searching on the beach

It is practically impossible to get a find out of the water with an ordinary shovel; the soil is washed off the shovel with water along with the find. For underwater search, you need a special tool - a scoop with holes, called a scoop. Skub can be bought on treasure-hunting sites or made independently from improvised materials. The scooter must be strong as a bayonet shovel, as the search must be carried out not only in soft sand, but also on hard rocky or muddy bottoms, which require a very strong scub.

To make a scuba, you need a bayonet shovel and a strip of metal, or even better, a perforated sheet so as not to drill holes in it. The holes in the upper part can be of any diameter, since the top is not a washing working area of ​​the scuba, but serves to retain the rock and strengthen the entire structure.

Rice. 2 We drill holes with a diameter of 13 mm in a shovel and a sheet.

Fig.3 Holes in the strip are drilled, can be measured and cut off.

Rice. 4. We welded the upper perforated part to the shovel and make a paper template for the back wall. The back wall of the scuba should also be with holes.

Fig.5. We clean the burrs and cut off all unnecessary.

Rice. 6. Finishing touch. We put on a long and durable birch handle. The handle is best made of wood so that the scub does not sink in the water.

In 2 hours we made a scooter, spending 850 rubles on materials. A shovel 600 rubles, a sheet of metal 100 rubles, a long birch handle 150 rubles. You can go searching.

From the video on the site of the treasure hunt video kladtv.ru http://kladtv.ru/video/2297.html you can learn in detail how to make a scuba from a shovel.

The search for coins, artifacts, jewelry or treasures is not limited to places of former settlements, roads, abandoned houses and wells. Many surprises await the searcher who decides to go with a metal detector along the beach or shallow water in front of him. It is not necessary that these places be actively visited today. Previously, in villages and larger settlements, as a rule, the beaches changed very rarely and people went to them for decades and even centuries, which can promise interesting finds to the treasure hunter.

Looking for treasure...

However, for such a detecting, using a regular shovel is not very convenient, because. sand is easier to sift or wash than to dig and sort out with your hands, especially in shallow water.

With a shovel on the beach is not very convenient

Therefore, it becomes necessary to use a more highly specialized tool than the usual shovel. It's called SCUP.

Scoop, what is it?

According to dictionaries, the word is borrowed from the English language, in which SCOOP means a scoop, ladle, scoop or spatula, which actually quite clearly reflects its purpose.

Standard scoop for sifting sand

Unlike a conventional scoop, the scoop is designed to sift or wash sand through the existing small holes, the size of which is usually 6-12 mm. Holes can be of different shapes.

In some models, a metal mesh is welded as a filter. Instead of a regular handle, the scooper can be equipped with a mount for an extended handle, which allows you not to bend down once again, but to immerse the scooper in the sand with your foot, which is undoubtedly convenient, especially if you are looking at a depth greater than the length of an outstretched arm. If desired, sellers can also find universal products.

To lighten the overall weight of the structure, long handles are usually made of wood, impregnated with an anti-wet compound, usually hot wax or paraffin. For the manufacture of handles, wood of ash, birch or maple is mainly taken. Other tree species may also be used. If you are interested in which wood the handle will be stronger, you can look at the table of hardness of wood species according to Brinell.

Scoops are made of metal (iron or stainless steel) or plastic. Accordingly, they have some of their own characteristics of operation, and also differ in price.

Buckets made of plastic.

They belong to the lower price range, the most affordable. If you wish, you can make such a stingy one with your own hands, from a plastic pipe of medium diameter and a plug.

The insignificant weight and the absence of interference for the metal detector is a significant advantage of such products, the hands get tired less, and the find in the stingy can be identified immediately by bringing it to the search coil.

Plastic scoops are light but short-lived

The relative softness of the plastic excludes the possibility of attaching a long handle, and also leads to fairly rapid wear or breakage of the scoop, which does not allow the use of these products in difficult conditions with significant loads. But if you want to try what search on the beach is, you can safely buy a plastic scooper, at least you won’t spend a lot of money and you can decide whether this type of search is interesting.

Iron stingy.

Durable, they can be mounted on a long handle. Too heavy - about 1.3 - 1.8 kg. As a rule, they are covered with an anti-corrosion compound, which is erased over time, and the metal rusts, losing its original appearance, but this does not affect the properties. So, if aesthetics are not the main thing for you, you can buy, especially since it costs half the price of a stingy stainless steel one.

Durable iron scoop prone to corrosion

This category has all the advantages of an iron product and another indisputable advantage - stingy stainless steel (if it is of high quality, for example AISI 304) retains its appearance for a very long time, without oxidizing even on welds, which of course pleases the owner and makes it possible to sell it in the future .

Perhaps the best option is a stingy stainless steel

On an individual order, the manufacturer can make a stingy aluminum or titanium, but this is a completely different price range, here, as they say, "any whim, for your money."

Happy searching everyone!

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sleigh 30.11.2017
The article is educational. If they had written the average cost of different stingers, then it would have become priceless))))

Vladimir 17.01.2018
Hello! I would like to purchase this scooter, please send me a price list by email. mail and it is desirable to clarify the cost of delivery to the Crimea.

A scoop is a kind of shovel only for searching under water or on the beach, in a word, it is a scoop with holes, without which you cannot work as an underwater metal detector.

Every beach digger has such a device. If you also want to do underwater search, or just beach search. This item will be irreplaceable for you. They are either made by hand from a sewer pipe with a diameter of 100-110 mm, or factory-made from metal, and with a special mesh for screening sand.

In fact, making a scuba from a plastic pipe is not at all difficult. In any hardware store you buy the remains of sewer pipes with a diameter of 100-110 mm. You drill holes. The diameter of the holes, make according to your beach sand. Cut out the handle and your scooter is ready.

Examples of such work:

It can also be made from an oil canister, or other liquid:

Metal scooter

A metal scooter is not much more difficult to make. Firstly, you need welding skills, and secondly, a drawing. You can download it below:

It is more desirable to make it from stainless steel, for this you will need special electrodes that can cook on stainless steel. Be sure to make room for the handle so that they can work at a depth of chest.

You should end up like this:

You can buy a metal scoop, but it costs not so little, a normal scoop costs from $30 to $70. It is easier to do it yourself, or order from those who know how to cook.

(he is stingy or stingy, as you like) is simply vital for searching on the beaches.

What is this beach scoop , different from its counterparts (shovels or just a scoop)? The answer is painfully simple - in that it has holes (mesh, perforated or other structure) through which the main material (soil) wakes up or is washed out and only the object remains in the scoop, which gave a signal to the metal detector.

The variety of scoops (stingy) is simply amazing. This is their shape, and size and material, and indeed the purpose itself.

It's like a table knife, which can be different for different types of cutting ...

The main types of scoops for beach search (scoops):

The first type is made of stainless steel, which is necessary for its strength and resistance to aggressive wet environments (corrosion or, more simply, rust). There is no talk about shapes, thickness and other data yet.

The second type is made of various plastics, which also helps to resist corrosion, it is less durable, but it has a huge plus compared to other metal scoops / scoops, namely, it is not seen by a metal detector, which allows you to check the scooped contents. That is, we scoop (dig out) a portion of the soil and hold it over the device. If the target is still in the stingy (scoop), then the metal detector clearly informs about this by sound or in another way. And then there is no need to sift the contents of the scoop. This saves you a lot of time and effort.

Scoops are also short (manual) and long (foot). That is, it is convenient to use a short one during diving and swimming, as well as with a minimum set (takes up little space). A foot scoop (scoop) is needed for digging large volumes of soil using a method similar to a conventional garden shovel. Thus, we have more leverage (long handle) and more weight on the shovel (we transfer the weight of the whole body through the leg to the shovel) ...

Well, here's what I use:

For those who can make a stingy (scoop) with their own hands, or ask their good friends to make it, I post stingy patterns / patterns. Its dimensions are 240 x 300 mm. Such a stinger can be made both manual short and fastened to a wooden long handle.

I did not make a reservation about wood. Wood is the most suitable material for the handle.

But the handle must be processed in a special way to prevent the wood from getting wet and further rotting of the material.

The prepared dry handle made of wood must be sanded to a smooth state, and then heated in warm air (technical hair dryer or burner) and smeared with heated paraffin on a hot wooden surface with a brush (to a state of liquid close to boiling). Excess paraffin on the handle is removed by reheating the wood with a hairdryer and wiping with a rag (cotton rag).

The handle made in this way lasts for many years and does not absorb moisture!

Today, the sights of Armenia are popular with tourists. For those who are cops on the beach, scuba for beach search, it's just an irreplaceable thing. After all, if you want to get a find that is at a depth of 1 m, or a little more, you just need to somehow get that handful of sand that squeaks. Scub was invented for this!

Scoop - in a word, it is a scoop with holes. The diameter of which does not allow the find to be sifted, and the sand goes away. So the signal stays in the scoop.

A modern underwater treasure hunt simply cannot imagine his life without this miracle scoop. Scubas are different, both made of plastic and iron, for underwater search.

For example, this scoop that you see below is designed to search on land. Makes it very easy, from a pipe "diameter 110". For this you will need:

A piece of plastic sewer pipe, 110 or 100 in diameter, 500 mm long. Finding such a piece will not be very difficult. You can buy, but as a rule, these are leftovers, they will be given to you for nothing.

It will be difficult to make a metal scub yourself. Here you need to know how to use welding. It is easier to order in a turning shop. All this will cost about 200 UAH. The main thing is that the scooter is comfortable to use. Order something from this and be sure to make stainless steel.

So scuba for beach search is very simple, especially from a pipe. True, if you dig in the old days, and rarely go to the beach, you can not do it, it will come in handy for you at most 5 times.