got me an f 70 :thumbup:

[wltdwiz]

hi all
i just got me a new f70 & looks like im home with fisher again
this thing is light & fast /. i had a f75 but i did not care for it as much as i would have thought.
ive been detecting for over 30 years & have owned just about everything thats ever been built in the last 30 years & this unit looks like the cats meow .. im loving the simple layout & the unit looks to have some real punch..
very sensitive to gold from my initial tests.. & it snaps on the coins..
ill do some field testing in the next couple of days & post my results.
any 1 has any tips or thoughts on the f70 please chime in
glad to be aboard
walt

 

[Cal_Cobra]

The F70 and F75 operate almost identically, aside from different modes (DE, PF, BC, BP, CL, etc).

The TID # system is identical, tones and tone modes are identical, coils are interchangeable, the only really big difference on the F70 is you now have a threshold in disc mode to adjust.

Enjoy the F70, I found going the other direction, F70 > F75LTD, increased my keeper success.

 

[zeekeys]

Walt I have the F70 and the more I use it the better I like it. It does a great job on the beaches and it is just a fantastic coin machine in the parks and schools. I can swing it for 6 hours and have done it a number of times. The more you use it the more you find out how well it adjusts to almost every condition you come across in the field. HH and Happy Trails......Z

 

[wltdwiz]

zeek
got to go out with the f70 for a bit today & all i can say is wow your right..
its quite a detector.. went to a beach on the Colorado river in AZ its very hot ground 95 on the meter & covered in rusty bottle caps & nails yet i was able to sort through the trash quick & efficiently
the f70 handled everything i could throw at it including working under power lines from the dam & preformed beyond my expectations .
fun light unit & its fast & capable of some killer depth
love the way i can zip through the menu on the fly & make quick adjustments
im loving it
thanks for the thoughts on it
good hunting
walt
theres not to much in the pile but i was only able to hunt for a short wile & the detector didn't pick up the boat
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[poorman]

Wait till you try the 11DD Coil on the F70. It makes a whole new animal out of it. Dallas

 

[zeekeys]

Walt I have to agree with poorman the 11" is good investment. I got the 11" coil and almost never put the standard coil back on, it stays in the detector box in the closet. The 11" does go deeper and it is harder to pin point with. Another good investment is the 6.5" elliptical coil. It does a great job. I carry the 11" and the 6.5" in the car. By the way I did have a problem with the 11" coil. Give the cable some slack on the connection to the housing so it isn't pulling on the cable and the connector. I carry the detector just under the housing where the upper rod slides into the housing and I must have put pressure on cable and the connector causing the 11" coil to short out. New coil courtesy of Fisher and was told they did have a problem but have since fixed that.
Walt the F70 is a light, tough guy that I have detected with almost every day since I got it, in all kinds of weather conditions, all kinds of site locations and it works fine. I have put hundreds of hours on mine and it is a very reliable detector. I have not run into a site I couldn't detect yet. I have been to at least 25 different sites and it has been able to detect at all of them. I only mention this because I have had detectors that I could not say that because they just didn't work at some sites. There was nothing I could do but get another detector out or go home. By the way I only have one detector and that is the F70.
Thanks for reading..... Happy Trails....Z

 

[wltdwiz]

yuppers the f70 is kickin but for my sites the 11 dd don`t work had the f75 & the dd cant work in the rusty bottle caps & my beach is covered in them
i do want to get the small coil should work great yes?
p.s tested the f70 on some nuggets & its hot
i find nuggets here regularly so im going out to a good gold location later today to test some more hope to have some to show later
thanks again to all for the tips
good hunting
walt

 

[ElginTim]

Well hey Walt, haven't been on since my trouble with FT service RE my CZ20 early last year and I planned on staying off because I don't like sounding like a groupie or a whiner. Having gotten an F70 a couple months ago for a great used price I'm back to chime in. Very impressed and Fisher won my confidence again for it's reliability.

Got the big DD coil on my rig and she's a wonderful machine. You're right about the bottle caps but as far as my oldies ratio going back up, it's a sure thing. Still trying to master the gold ring categories but who isn't?!?

One thing I love is my new found ability to tell mems from wheats from zincolns. Wow, Who'd have thunk it? Separating clad dimes from zincolns is harder but the silvers read uniquely (slightly higher in their respective categories) so far in my experience, with the exception of those deeper ones or those sitting on angle/edge.

One question for you rocket scientists: Most our remaining native ground here, that which was never developed or farmed to any extent beyond an original home site/cabin or pasture, has some high iron mineralization. Glacial drift with erratics/large field stones that give iron/nickel and foil readings depending on content and size. Where these occur with frequency under the ground it makes hunting noisy with disc less than 6 or 7. When hunting for the telltale nail beds and relics, I've tried doing the fast grab over these hot rocks to eliminate them from the sound spectrum. Predictable results are failure to GB or high FE content GB. But I like running disc 0 if possible. Question is:

Does this affect depth on actual iron/other targets in theory or practice?

Still haven't figured that one out but I know I can get small bits deep. Just wondering on the effects to other target categories and depth. Still haven't dug enough of those sites to feel certain of results. Been too busy revisiting some of my other "hunted out" sites, hehehe!

 

[Bozack]

Very nice!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

One question for you rocket scientists: Most our remaining native ground here, that which was never developed or farmed to any extent beyond an original home site/cabin or pasture, has some high iron mineralization. Glacial drift with erratics/large field stones that give iron/nickel and foil readings depending on content and size. Where these occur with frequency under the ground it makes hunting noisy with disc less than 6 or 7. When hunting for the telltale nail beds and relics, I've tried doing the fast grab over these hot rocks to eliminate them from the sound spectrum. Predictable results are failure to GB or high FE content GB. But I like running disc 0 if possible. Question is:

Does this affect depth on actual iron/other targets in theory or practice?

Still haven't figured that one out but I know I can get small bits deep. Just wondering on the effects to other target categories and depth. Still haven't dug enough of those sites to feel certain of results. Been too busy revisiting some of my other "hunted out" sites, hehehe!

ElginTim I've found on my F70 that a disc of 6 was perfect, it knocked out the really small pesky iron, never affected depth, and kept the F70 fairly quite (as quite as one could expect from these new noisy F-series machines ). I also really liked running the 11" DD on it, it worked much better then I anticipated it would to be honest, except for it's affinity for bottle caps.

 

[ElginTim]

Yeah the bottlecaps bounce enough to give a tell tale signal, but you gotta dig those wierd signals when they're deep no matter. Yeah in the parks and turf I set disc to either 6 or 21, depending on the trash present. So far the lowest reading I've gotten on gold is 22 with a small chaiin, but it locked on 22 and did not bounce. Almost like a gum wrapper.

Another thing that really impressed me on this machine is the pinpoint, it is tighter than on any of my CZ's, no question. That's with the 11" DD coil. When I hit this '26 SLQ last week at 7-8 inches, I knew with great confidence where it was under the coil.