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[maddogchilli]

Just bought a 1225x with 8" solid coil and a 8" spider coil. Amazing machine really deep. Getting maz headphones next then 11" spider coil and then 3.5" coil for trashy sites. Anyone else use a 1225x?

 

[MarkCZ]

That little 3.5" is VERY small! you can use it in trashy areas, but it would have to be in a very small area, its so small it doesn't cover much ground. I like the 5" better than the 3.5" because its deeper and at lest you feel like you have a coil on the end of the shaft LOL!

Keep in mind that I know your going to buy what you want, but if you don't mind me tossing my two cents in here then if I wasn't going to buy both the 3.5" and the 5" I would opp for the 5"
You can search flower pots with the 3.5" LOL! (or flower beds)

Mark

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Maddog,I would get rid of the solid 8 inch coil, two 8 inch coils is one 8inch coil too many.Sale one coil and use the proceeds to acquire a 5 inch coil.The 5inch 1200 series coil is a great coil.The 8 inch and 5 inch coil should work well for most of your hunting requirements.HH Ron

 

[MarkCZ]

Maddog,I would get rid of the solid 8 inch coil, two 8 inch coils is one 8inch coil too many.Sale one coil and use the proceeds to acquire a 5 inch coil.The 5inch 1200 series coil is a great coil.The 8 inch and 5 inch coil should work well for most of your hunting requirements.HH Ron

Well, hold on a minute!
If the solid coil works good then it has or could have a little different purpose.
The spider coils were designed around surf or water hunting (they don't float as much) but in tall grass or other weedy areas the spider coil doesn't work very well because the openness of the coil snags up on stuff, some people go as far as to rig up solid bottom covers for their spider coils, but if you have a really good working full covered boxed coil then that in many cases is a better land coil than the spider coil if its as deep.

Something to think about.

Mark

 

[maddogchilli]

Thanks peeps
That's a very good point markcz I think the solid coil is deeper
Thanks for replys

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Mark,my observation with a dozen or so user's prefer the spider coil.This was in a semi groomed area at the Buckeye seeded hunt.I have heard the argument the solid coil has an advantage of not snagging in brush,but if the brush is that thick the outer edge of the coil Will snag.The five inch has a smooth bottom and will snag less in the brush than the bigger diameter 8 inch coil.Maddog may want to make a comparison between these coils a air and coin garden test.My bet for a performance edge would be on the newer spider coil. HH Ron

 

[MarkCZ]

Well, I have a OLD teknetics 8500 with a box coil (solid bottom) and in tall grass the coil can be laid down on the grass and it will lightly press the grass down and glide over it, with the other detectors spider coils when you try to glide over the grass it will pop up through the webbing, especially pin-pointing and then you have to raise the coil up to get it to move again.
Now, on my 8" 1266 spider coil I found a Tesoro 8" brown donut cover (hole in the middle) that fit the spider coil and it helps the coil to glide better than the more open spider coil.

My Whites 5900 has a donut coil on it and its better (glides) than the spider coil. Now if the grass is a little damp then it will lay down better with either coil making the spider do okay.
When I jumped from years of the solid coil to the spider coil I had a lot of getting use to the spider coil! I had gotten used to scrubbing the ground pin-pointing with the old style coil and when I tried to do that with the spider coil all this grass would start sticking up through the framing of the coil making it hard to move (I had to keep lifting the coil up).

Now the donut coil isn't as bad because the small hole in the center and the large flat area around it works together in that if the grass is pretty tall the flat area will hold a great deal of the grass down, yea, some can stick up through the center but it's nothing like it being able to come up through the hole coil! the spider coil is WAY more open than closed.
So, for the type of hunting I do I would say the donut coil is the best of both worlds.

Now, there is a small problem with the donut coil cover on the spider coil, stuff can collect in the cover much like a pan, but in grass I can pretty much hunt a day and not get enough stuff in it to be a problem and the cover is very easy to get off and clean because of how open it is from the top, for the most part if the stuff that collect in the cover is dry then it just dumps out and if I was going to use it in water I would remove the cover.
Also, if he is getting more depth with the solid bottom coil and that's even more of a plus!

See, the pictures below.

Mark

 

[maddogchilli]

That is such a good idea. Iv resorted to the 8

 

[maddogchilli]

this is my fisher 1225x its my right arm man

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Maddog,the 1225X is a great detector nice photo.Pics of my weapon of choice.HH Ron