Pegged the FE meter Friday

[Mike Hillis]

It was like nugget hunting at this particular site. The terain was rough and the ground was bad. I used both the stock and the small coil.

Here is my ground readings with the stock coil: FastGrab numbers ranged from 84 to 88. FE3O4 bargraph was either totally pegged at 3 or one bar down at a 1

Using the small coil, FastGrab numbers ranged from 84 to 88 and the FE3O4 bargraph stayed pegged out all the time.

A sens setting of 85 wouldn't penetrate pass the surface and any high conductive targets read in the 90's

A sens setting of 75 wouldn't penetrate pass the surface but the higher conductive target readings stayed closer to true.

Dropped it into the 40's and was able to get a few inches. Overall the machine ran very nice. I used both Disc and All metal. I would like to have a small DD coil for this particalar area. Its full of bottle caps, beer tabs and broken beer bottles, and the small concentric still sees too much ground at places like this.
Got some change, little over $6 and nice little sterling ring. Nothing found here was deeper than 3 inches. It was too trashed to use all metal very long.

Don't normally post pics. but hey, its Christmas.

HH

Mike

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[Mr.Bill]

That is certainly tough ground. That's one of the great things about the T-2 & the F75, the Fe3o4 reading.

Raising the coil up off the ground a couple extra inch's may have helped a bit in getting more depth. Sometimes the ground overloads the front end of the detector with it's strong response, and it generally doesn't let you know about it. What you loose in raising the coil up could be offset by more in ground depth. It's just a little tip I learned from George Payne a while back.

Of course hunting in all metal mode would gain you a tad bit more ????

Thanks for the info.

 

[Bill Ladd]

That red clay is probably the worst ground I ever hunted.........some detectors just are plain useless there & I saw folks just throwing down detectors & going back to their trucks for another But the F75 & T2 handled it well I thought.
I'll be tackling it again in March & I think Tony will be using his new F75 there for the first time too.......
should be interesting.
HH,
Bill

 

[MattR]

Thanks Mike for the informative ground data and observations.

Such clear, concise reporting is worth its weight in gold !!!!!!!!!

I will add your data to my inventory of ground readings for the T2/F75.

Much appreciated ......

It's almost Christmas day here in the UK.....2315 hrs.

Just time to wish everyone a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas holiday.

I've been watching the news from the States, and seeing the snow in various places, so take care.

MattR.UK.

p.s....Thanks to Bill for his added description 'red clay'. Reminds me of my holidays in Australia, around Ayers Rock.

 

[Mike Hillis]

There should be some silver coinage at this place and I don't think it gets detected very often. I think by the time I pull a silver dime out of there I'll have the best settings and aproach mode figured out.

HH

Mike

 

[iliketodigit]

"I will add your data to my inventory of ground readings for the T2/F75."

Hello Matt are you posting your data base for the settings?

As i live in the UK the would be of great interest.

I should have had a F75 last Friday ordered from Joan Allen and promised next day delivery but it did not arrive.
Can't really blame J A parcel force will have too much on with it being crimbo.

When it did arrive on Monday they had sent a T2 by mistake which is J A error.

I might have kept it to avoid the hassle but had already bought a small coil from another source.
Parcel farce (deliberate miss spelling) should collect the T2 Thursday and hope to have the F75 Friday.

Regards, Mart.