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Today I went out to find a lost white gold wedding band for a young man who lost it by wiping snow off his pants.
He showed me the area and after 2 minutes or so I was able to find it for him. He was very happy and a little surprised at were I found his ring.
It wasn’t where he thought it would be but like most searches they never are found where you think it should be. It was in the opposite direction of where he thought it landed.
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I got the call the other night and this call I knew would be a tough search, because it was for a kids hearing aid and they are hard to find due to the little metal used to make them. I talked to Sue and she said that she was pretty sure of the location it was lost in so I said lets meet and take a look.
We were to meet the next day at 6:45 am and when we got there it was a nice day, still not light out but nice that it wasn’t snowing. I took a few detectors not expecting them to work as I’ve had some tough times with these hearing aids in the past. I noticed that the one detector wasn’t doing that good with getting a strong signal so I took out the trusted Garrett carrot and started the long process of grid searching on my hands & knees.
I told Sue that she and her husband & son should go for breakfast as it could take a few hours, before they left I asked if I could test the other hearing aid with my last detector…The Garrett AT Gold and bingo! I got a good strong signal.
I went back and started re-searching the whole area and I found it under a couple of inches of snow by a small tree!
What a great felling to know that I will be able to give it back and surprise them all…
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Snow eats rings, cellphones & keys…We don’t get much snow anymore here in Vancouver, but this year we can’t get rid of it…That being said the calls are coming in for help and today I had a search for lost keys in Mission BC & a search for a lost wedding band in New Westminster, BC.
The drive to Mission was over an hour and I searched the areas that the young man show me for an hour but no keys…After discussing the search areas he went back and found his keys in his garage. It happens a lot when we close off the area where people think they may have lost their item, when its not found it makes them look in other places they may not have looked before, this time it worked!
Just when I got back home I received another call from a young man who said he thought he may have lost his ring in the backyard where he was barbecuing the night before. We discussed the search and arranged for me to go there and meet his wife and look for the ring.
We met and I started the search and within minutes I found his white gold ring. I love my job and when I find what I’m looking for it makes me very happy!
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Christmas Eve day started out with a phone call from a young man who lost his cell phone while shovelling snow at his rental house in Port Moody.
He goes on to tell me that he thinks the phone was lost there and wanted me to search the area. I agreed and he sent me the location via google earth and I was on my way.
When I got there I searched the front yard then I searched the back yard and moments later I found his lost phone in around 4 inches of snow. It looked like the phone was in good condition and because it was frozen there was little water.
Then as I was packing up I got a text message about a lost ring and if i could help. I called the young man and he lost his ring the night before when he slipped on ice and his ring went flying. He searched that night but couldn’t find it.
It wasn’t far from were I was located so I headed out to help him. He was still at work and wouldn’t be able to be there to show me the area where he lost his ring so I asked if he could google earth me the location.
Amazing with the technology we have now to help us locate the area, it was a good thing I got there when I did, because after 20 minutes of grid searching I found the ring behind me on the road! It was bent a bit from being run over but it could be fixed. The lucky part for him was that the ring didn’t get stuck in the tread of someones snow tires and driven away.
Like may before him this young man didn’t tell his wife that he lost his ring, I’m sure he didn’t want to be in the doghouse on Christmas day.
I love what I do and I’ll help people every day and any day of the year until I die.
View the 2 recoveries on the video below and thanks for watching and Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
Yesterday I received an email from a young lady that said her husband had lost his carbon tungsten wedding band the night before while throwing snow at his daughter. She said she found me because of a Facebook post she did in regards to her husband losing his ring. A group of mom’s told her to check out TheRingFinders.com
This email came just before I was to do a podcast for fascinatingnouns.com in regards to my service and TheRingFinders.com
I called the lady back and set up a time for the afternoon to come out and find the ring.
We just had some snow fall in the Vancouver area and the night before I found a set of keys for a person who was shovelling snow in his driveway.
I can be just as busy in the winter as I am in the summer as snow is wet and cold and peoples fingers shrink and rings come off.
After the podcast was done I jumped into my car and set out to Richmond to do the search. I met with Kirsten and she showed me the area where the ring was lost, then I started the search.
After 20 minutes and no ring Kirsten came back out and told me that her daughter said that they were much closer to the car.
I stared scraping the snow away from the vehicle so I was able to use my metal detector as anything close to the car would set the detector off. I got a great signal and moments later I had the ring!
I also went on another search for a young lady at UBC, but no luck on that one as she didn’t know where the ring had come off her finger.
It’s what I call a closure search as I just searched an area of grass where my metal detector could be used, now she can move forward and start looking at other places where it could be like the coffee shop or her dorm room.
I love this job and I hope one day soon TheRingFinders will be a household name for helping people find what they thought was lost forever.
I got a call Friday and the young lady asked me what the chances are in finding a ring that was lost earlier in the week at English Bay Beach…She thinks it was lost there but wasn’t 100% sure of the location.
When I get calls like this I like to ask lots of questions and one was, why do you think it was lost at English Bay? She replied that she was in town on business and at lunch she went to the beach, ordered a hamburger and sat on a log enjoying a sunny day. After eating the hamburger she walked to the Watersedge and washed her hands, then went back to her hotel where she realized her ring was gone.
To me it made the most sense that the ring must have come off when she was washing her hands and I felt confident if she could put me in the right area we’d have a good chance of recovery. That being said it was lost for four days and there’s always a chance some other metal detectorist may have found it.
The other factor was that she was now back home in Ottawa, Eastern Canada, 4 hour flight away. Saturday morning I picked up my metal detector and headed to the beach, I took pictures of the area she believed she was sitting and she confirmed the location…You have to love the internet! Without it, people wouldn’t find TheRingFinders and no second chance!
Within a couple of minutes I found her wedding band! I get as excited as the people who lose it when I see it in my scoop. I quickly took a picture of the ring and text messaged her it was found.
I then raced over to FedEx and sent it back home to a very happy young lady.
I hope she sends me a picture of her and her smile so I can take my ugly mug off this post.lol
I love my job! You can watch the video of the search below.
It was a rainy day and I got a call to search for a lost ring in a garden in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver. I love these calls and rain or snow wouldn’t stop me from searching!
The young lady was certain the ring was some where in the garden because she took it off and put it in her jacket pocket along with her glasses.
She found the glasses in the garden but no ring, I started by searching the bags of garden trimmings but no luck. I then began to search the garden area and still no luck, I asked more question and she told me that she spent an hour in the garden shed.
Bing! That was the one place we hadn’t checked and after searching the whole shed the very last plastic planter I got a great signal with my pin pointer.
There it was in the bottom of the plastic planter…it was a nice relief to see it there as we were running out of options! Its funny where rings can show up and if it didn’t it may have been there a very long time.
I sure love my job! Meeting such lovely people and seeing their smiles!
I got a call from a young man Friday evening and the call kinda went like this…I found you on TheRingFinders.com and my friend lost his wedding band while taking wedding photo’s at a river in South Surrey…Do you think you can help?
I said sure thing and we discussed the time and day we’d go look for it. I was hoping we could take a look on Saturday but they would still be celebrating their big day.
That was good because I had a search for a 3 carat diamond ring that was dropped out of an apartment building 44 floors up ($5000 reward) unfortunately there was only about a 5% chance of finding that ring because it was a concrete jungle all around the area it was dropped.
I met up this afternoon with Sunny and his friend Sandy and they showed me where the ring was lost…I was surprised to see that it was lost off a dock! I thought it was close to the shore. Fortunately the tide was low and I was able to get into the water very close to the ring.
I received a good signal 6 feet or so under the dock and it was hard to try and dig the target so what I did was scoop towards me and after 10 minutes I found his beautiful ring!!!
I told him I was going to get out of the water and get another metal detector from my car, but instead I presented him with his ring! I love the reactions!
I wish I could do this all day long and help others who need this service!!
I got a call from a young man who told me that he lost his custom gold wedding band in the ocean while trying to learn how to paddle board.
The water was rough that day and he had a hard time getting up on the board, he kept falling into water and he remembered that it was waste deep and a sandy bottom.
That helps me a lot as when I went down there on the slope at low tide there was a lot of rocks and further out there was the sand. He told me that he didn’t know when the ring came off his finger and that makes it hard to narrow down the area.
He put me in an area of about 70 yards wide and about 60 yards long…That is pretty huge when you’re in water and looking for something as small as a ring but I love the search!
After listening to his story many times I desided to start the search out front of where he entered the water and I went up to waist deep and started searching up and back from waist deep to ankle deep and after the 5th gridline and only an hour I hit a strong loud & proud signal and I was thrilled to see the gold in the scoop!
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I was at work when I got a call from a young lady who said that he daughter lost her ring that was given to her by her bother. She said that she googled and found TheRingFinders and thought that she would give it a chance.
I could tell she was a little sceptical but most people are until you find what they’ve lost then they become belivers!
She told me that they had a wedding party in their back yard and that’s where her 9 year old daughter was last seen with the ring.
I arrived at her place in the evening and it was dark but that is fine for me! I don’t mind working at night and sometimes its easier and not as hot.
She showed me where her daughter said that she’d lost the ring and after a couple of minutes and no ring I just expanded the search a little and bang! There was her ring sitting in the yellow grass and hard to see but my detector see’s it all…
I love making people believers in TheRingFinders and with all the amazing RingFinder members all around the world we are making people Smile!!!
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