My New Detector Kicked My Butt Today

[limegoldconvertible68]

Well, I got home from work and my new F70 was on my porch. I put it together and ran down to the old fairgrounds and messed with it for 2 hours. Its quite a bit different than my old 1265X. Being used to a turn and go machine I thought I would just turn the F70 on and start finding the goodies. Of course I got skunked. I know my 1265 so well that with the turn of the discrimination dial I just about knew what I was going to recover. It was killer on nickels and gold rings. Today my 3 consistent repeatable dime reads( 69-72) turned out to be aluminum cans. I had numerous 90+ reads and I never found anything in any of those holes. This is going to take some serious study to learn this machine. I have permission to hunt a house in town from about 1912. I am thinking of going over the front yard first with my 1265 and flagging all the good reads and then following up with my new machine. Today was embarrassing. Does anyone have any certain setting they use for older homes or an old fairground?

 

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[longsocks]

I've just had mine now for 5 days been pretty cold here so when I get out its only for a short time.. Its a different animal to learn than the turn on and go like my gta 1000 was .. all I can tell you so far to do is if your getting lots of china syndrome holes, make sure you ground balance, and you might have to turn down the sensitivity a bit. Other than that im in the same learning curve as you .. if you have any tips ideas send them back my way too thanks HH paul

 

[George (MN)]

I posted some setings that work here under Day 1 With Fisher F70 post by Michigan Badger. if they don't work there, experiment by planting a coin down a few inches or so & trying different settings to learn what is stable (doesn't false). Ground balance & go through the frequencies with a high sensitivity setting to determine which is quietest, then back off sensitivity just enough for quiet stable operation. Recheck ground balance often if ground changes & of course make sure spots you ground balance over are free of metal. HH, George (MN)

 

[Michigan Badger]

Howdy limegoldconvertible68,

I feel for you because I know just what you're going through.

I'm downstate (southern Michigan) right now and just taking a break from hunting an old farm house site. This place is ca. 1870's.

I'm using the F70 with 11"DD coil today.

So far all I've dug are rifle shells and bottle caps.

I found it impossible to ground balance in anything other than factory preset mode. Even then the GB wasn't perfect because I still had a little sound on the pump down and up.

I spent a good 45 minutes walking the property (using about 6 different settings) just trying to GB it perfectly but gave up. Once back home I did get the F70 to balance dead-on (no sound in the pump) but haven't been able to repeat it again anywhere.

I sure miss manual ground balance.

In factory preset it's pretty easy to tell the genuine signals. But I'm not sure about how deep the F70 is in this beginner mode. That will require some work at my coin garden.

Right now I'd say this machine has great potential but if digging those super deep masked coins and rings is your game this isn't an easy machine to learn. I see some similarities to the Minelab Explorer only I think the Explorer is much easier.

For low trash sites where one can get a good ground balance I'll bet one would kill with this machine. But getting it ground balanced is the biggest challenge. At first I thought telling the good from the bad signals would be the hard part but if it's balanced correctly the signals are rather obvious and the tones and meter readings are pretty decent.

Best to you and hope we all learn this machine soon.

Badger

 

[BuckleBoy]

Fisher 1265-X user, I salute you!

 

[Michigan Badger]

Fisher 1265-X user, I salute you!

Still driving that 1265-X BuckleBoy? I thought you sold it a while back?

Those don't seem to be easy to find in good condition.

As you know I once had the 1260-X and it got a lot of Barber coins for me back then.

Badger

 

[BuckleBoy]

Fisher 1265-X user, I salute you!

Still driving that 1265-X BuckleBoy? I thought you sold it a while back?

Those don't seem to be easy to find in good condition.

As you know I once had the 1260-X and it got a lot of Barber coins for me back then.

Badger

I sold my original '66 after 17 good years with no repairs.

Now I own a slightly newer one--same model. And I feel certain that it will help me find the goodies for another decade.


-Buckles

 

[George (MN)]

This detector certainly must be adjusted differently than many. It seems best to avoid threshold tone in hunting mode, but when ground balancing you probably want to hear a tone that's roughly equal in the air & on the ground. Michigan Badger, if you're using it at a burned buildings site, that would probably be the very hardest place. If you might consider less challenging ground, you should do fine. Best of luck & HH all, George (MN)

 

[Michigan Badger]

Michigan Badger, if you're using it at a burned buildings site, that would probably be the very hardest place. If you might consider less challenging ground, you should do fine. Best of luck & HH all, George (MN)

Yes George I'm sure you're right.

And too, that site had a high water table (low wet ground) and parts of it was still frozen below a few inches of top soil. I'm sure all of this contributed to the problem.

Also I think the old coins are that site are probably very deep. I dug a modern nickle that was about 6 inches deep. The old stuff may have sunk down 12 inches or more.

Badger