Mark in NC
Member
Whew! The more I've been swinging this new F70 the more I'm blown away by the power contained in this ultra-light package! I've been using the F75 as my main go-to machine, but I gotta tell you...the F70 throws some serious radio waves into the ground! (I have this mental image of earthworms running in terror when I fire it up!) With the cool new elliptical, concentric coil it's impressive...and still gets great target separation. However, if you have an F75, plug that big 11" DD coil onto the 70 ...watch out! It is DEEP! The F70 (and the F75 when you attach the concentric) almost takes on totally different operating characteristics depending upon which coil you use.
I've stated this before, and stand by it... (in my central North Carolina kinda dirt) the F70 is even deeper than the already super deep F75...When I first got it and checked it out in my target test garden, I never expected what I saw! I honestly thought to myself..."Okay...the F70 is a lower priced, toned down version of the F75" Well, I was only partially right. The price is toned down, but the power is NOT! This machine seems custom designed for seeking out those deep old coins. The raw power combined with the great threshold control system give me a ton of flexibility to hunt sites that have normally caused me problems. (The "Threshold" control actually quieted down an electric cattle fence at around -3, and seems to knock out sensitivity to smaller conductors without having a huge impact on coin sized target depth detected in (my) ground).
Combine this muscle with the outstanding weight and balance and I'm loving this detector! I've seen folks complaining about "build quality", but how the heck are you supposed to make a detector super light and all-day-usable (I ain't as young and spry as I used to be!
) without reinventing the package? I've had a "new" Fisher made F4 for almost a year now. It is my "Truck tool box" detector...one I have with me at all times in case I run across a nice spot that needs some detector attention. I've NOT been nice to the F4! I've dropped it, subjected it to the elements (I've left the poor rascal sealed up in the truck on NC Summer days, left it out in NC single digit winter cold, hunted with it in the rain, etc.) All this abuse, and it is still working as great as it did on day 1! A little uglier now, but operationally, ZERO problems!
I'm saying all this as a fan of the "old" Fisher who was as worried as anyone else when I heard they were bought by a different company. My "worry" turned to excitement however when I heard that the legendary Dave Johnson was going to be designing the "new" Fisher stuff! Mr. Johnson has the strongest desire of anyone I've ever seen to do new and exciting things with the metal detecting hobby! He has made it a mission to attack poor user interfaces and bad ergonomics...as is apparent in the brilliantly simple menus and options on the F75 and F70. Everything you need is there and EASY to get to.
In any case, sorry for the long-windedness, but this F70 and the cool line-up of "new" Fisher machines has me excited!
HH'n
I've stated this before, and stand by it... (in my central North Carolina kinda dirt) the F70 is even deeper than the already super deep F75...When I first got it and checked it out in my target test garden, I never expected what I saw! I honestly thought to myself..."Okay...the F70 is a lower priced, toned down version of the F75" Well, I was only partially right. The price is toned down, but the power is NOT! This machine seems custom designed for seeking out those deep old coins. The raw power combined with the great threshold control system give me a ton of flexibility to hunt sites that have normally caused me problems. (The "Threshold" control actually quieted down an electric cattle fence at around -3, and seems to knock out sensitivity to smaller conductors without having a huge impact on coin sized target depth detected in (my) ground).
Combine this muscle with the outstanding weight and balance and I'm loving this detector! I've seen folks complaining about "build quality", but how the heck are you supposed to make a detector super light and all-day-usable (I ain't as young and spry as I used to be!
) without reinventing the package? I've had a "new" Fisher made F4 for almost a year now. It is my "Truck tool box" detector...one I have with me at all times in case I run across a nice spot that needs some detector attention. I've NOT been nice to the F4! I've dropped it, subjected it to the elements (I've left the poor rascal sealed up in the truck on NC Summer days, left it out in NC single digit winter cold, hunted with it in the rain, etc.) All this abuse, and it is still working as great as it did on day 1! A little uglier now, but operationally, ZERO problems! I'm saying all this as a fan of the "old" Fisher who was as worried as anyone else when I heard they were bought by a different company. My "worry" turned to excitement however when I heard that the legendary Dave Johnson was going to be designing the "new" Fisher stuff! Mr. Johnson has the strongest desire of anyone I've ever seen to do new and exciting things with the metal detecting hobby! He has made it a mission to attack poor user interfaces and bad ergonomics...as is apparent in the brilliantly simple menus and options on the F75 and F70. Everything you need is there and EASY to get to.
In any case, sorry for the long-windedness, but this F70 and the cool line-up of "new" Fisher machines has me excited!
HH'n
