Tony Reese, Author at The Ring Finders | Page 2 of 4

Ring lost during sand volleyball league.  Searched in between games and finally located on other side of net.  Search time: 1 hour

 

Ring lost during evening volleyball league.  Search time: 10 min

Ring lost while sledding on with children. First search was done during snowstorm (2 hours.)  Snow melted within a couple days, so I recruited help due to large search area. Ring was found during third search.  Total search time:  6 hours

This is also a co-worker of mine that I have been bugging for nearly a year to do a search for his lost ring that he had mentioned.   He wasn’t sure where he lost it but assumed it was during a game of catch with his son in the yard nearly 5 years ago (2009.)  It was until I recovered another lost ring for a another co-worker that had also been lost for nearly 5 years.   He was pretty sure that it would be in a small area next to the driveway.  After going over that several times with no luck we moved to the back yard.  It’s actually a pretty good size yard, figured it would take about 3-4 hours to go over it quickly.  Luckily about half way down the 3rd pass came across a signal that was right in the pull tab range but was a good solid consistent signal.   Dug a fairly shallow plug flipped it over and there it was, I looked over my should at him and he had a look of disbelief on his face.

Ring was lost nearly 5 years ago (2009) while owner was showing gymnastic like skills going down the slide of a bounce house.   During the landing of a near perfect forward roll with a 1/2 twist the ring flew off.  The bouncy house was scoured by all the other 3-4 year old participants with no luck.  It was presumed that the ring made it through the opening of the protective netting where the adults continued the search with no luck.  Who could figure that nearly 5 years later a co-worker would offer to look for the long lost ring.    It was a pretty well defined area with not a lot of trash, search only took about 20 minutes.  Ring was found about 2 inches under the grass.

Was contacted by rings owner after she searched for metal detectors on the internet.  She had been swimming at a nearby lake when she lost two rings,  they both came off as she begin to tread water.  I drove out after work and met her and a friend at the lake. Both of them waded out and watched me pull up a few coins, bottle caps, and pull tabs.   After about an hour or so, she went up to the beach and it was just her friend and I in the water.  Just then I had two signals fairly close together, one low and one high tone.  The more sentimental ring was made of silver (high tone) the other was a non-precious metal (low tone.)  I told her friend that I was pretty sure I just found her rings.  By the time I got the first ring  in the scoop(the one she really wanted to recover) she was again standing near us.   I pulled the scoop out of the water and reached in, I think she assumed it was going to be another coin.   When I held the ring out to her,  that familiar contagious smile spread across her face.  This really is a great hobby