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The local Waconia newspaper was gracious enough to to a story on Team Finders and the Ring Finders last week. After reading the article, Stacy thought she would give us a try as her husband Bob had lost his Gold Diamond Wedding Band 4 years ago while raking and piling leaves in their compost pile. I went over to their house, only about a mile away -Which is very nice for a change. Usually I am traveling all over the State. Bob & Stacy showed me the area they were raking and where the compost pile was. It was actually a lightly wooded area which was easy to swing my detector through. I was searching and finding the usual suspects…..Pull tabs, foil, cans etc. I had covered the whole area we thought it would be and I decided to expand my search out another 10 feet or so. Right away I got a nice strong hit, I moved the top brush away with my shoe and i could see a ring. As I bent down closer, I could see it was exactly how Stacy had described it, A birds feather was lying right through the ring. Congrats on getting your Wedding band back Bob, thanks to Stacy for contacting me and thanks to the Waconia Patriot for writing the article on us.

Darrin

Jake’s lost Tungsten Wedding Band – Corn Festival.

 

Fall Festival – Dave’s 3 Gold Bands linked as one – Recovered.

 

 

Fall Festival – Andrew’s lost Tungsten Band – Recovered.

Fall Festival – Jillians Platinum Diamond Wedding Ring Recovered.

 

Hans was out raking leaves along the boulevard of his St.Paul home and after bagging up 3 large bags of leaves; he noticed his Platinum wedding band was not on his finger. He searched the web and found the ring finders. Hans called and we set up a meeting to recover the ring. He thought the logical place to look first would be the bags of leaves, I agreed and he pulled the 3 bags out of the garage. This is an older neighbor hood and it took me a little while to find a “clean” area of grass not filled with coins people lost over the years, so I could check the bags. The first two bags were clean, then I got a faint sound in the 3rd one. We opened it up and using my Sun Ray probe I searched in the densely packed leaves. The further in the bag I pushed my prob the louder my detector sounded off. I switched to pin point and heard that great screaming sound of  a Platinum ring. Glad I was able to help you out Hans!

Take Care.

Darrin

 

Amanda called to ask for help searching for her White Gold Diamond Engagement Ring. She lost it while playing in a corn pit at a local fall festival. I met Amanda and her family down at the festival at closing time to search. The pit is around 3 feet deep of corn and metal detectors only have a range of 12 to 15 inches for an item as small as a ring. I searched the area where the ring came off to no avail, Amanda and her family shoveled corn so I could get down deeper with my detector. We all searched for a couple hours and could not find it. I could see Amanda was heart broken at the loss and I told her not to give up hope – I will try again. I went home that night and called another Ring Finder in my area – Scott Juusola <- This is the guy who got me started in Metal Detecting around 25 years ago. Scott & I brainstormed on how to get down deeper into the corn with our detectors. We came up with a couple of ideas and a few days later, we set out to the corn pit for another search. We put both of our ideas to work and 15 minutes into the search, we recovered Amanda’s ring. What a great feeling to call Amanda and let her know that her precious ring was found. I truly believe the satisfaction we get from returning that special item that people thought was lost forever; gives us the determination to never give up! Congrats Amanda and Thanks to your Mom for her kind e-mail.

Take Care

Darrin –

Fall Festival –

Andrea left her name with the owners of the Festival as her husband lost his Platinum Wedding Band while playing with his children in the “Pit”  – I contacted Andrea and she said her husband was very upset about the loss. We got the ring back to her without her husband knowing and she and the kids went to surprise him with the recovery – If you read this blog Andrea – Let me know how it went. Conrgrats!!

 

Fall Festival –

Jeff’s White Gold Wedding Band.

I receive a call every year from the fall festival near my town. Many people lose their valuables while exploring all the activities they have. The next few posts are all recoveries from the festival.

 

Rob’s Tungsten wedding band…….