leave the guy alone everyone has to start somewhere atleast hes on looking for info if you can afford a spade buy a bulldog or a good qaulity 2 piece spade nothink worse than buying a cheap one and it breaking half way through a dig a small fold up saw is very handy aswell,
and a locator ofcourse if you dont awready own one .
try and get out with someone awready into the game and learn from there
atb