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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!

You can watch the video of the search below

Ann T. called me, while I was assembling the Christmas Lite Show in Comstock Park, MI, about her ring that she lost last Friday. Ann is a photographer and while taking family pictures in Prairie Wolf Park, Ann picked up a handful of leaves to use as a prop for her picture and noticed her ring was missing. Her ring was designed by her husband and was a one of a kind very heavy Platinum ring with a diamond center, she was very upset about the loss and posted the loss on Facebook. She received a reply to look up The Ring Finders. This is where I was referred to her by Tom Townsend another Ring Finder.

I set up an appointment for today to meet her at the park and search for her ring. Ann laid out the process as to where leaves were picked up and the walk down the hill where the pictures were taken. I searched the area to begin with at the starting point while my brother Doug searched the bottom of the hill. I joined Doug at the bottom of the hill shortly after coming up with nothing at the starting point. A thorough search was made at the bottom of the hill so we made our way up the hill to the starting point being joined by Ring Finder, Dave Boyer, a strong signal was received just to the right of my original search. The ring was found and a phone call was made to Ann.

Amazed that we found her ring we joined her at her home for the presentation.  Ann is a very happy and relieved woman and thanked The Ring Finders.

It was a warm day for November in Minnesota – about 65 degrees.  I got a call in the late afternoon and told Evan’s wife I’d leave soon and get there by 6:00.  It was nice out, so I decided to do something a little different and take my 1966 Corvette on the 35-mile drive to find the lost ring.

Evan was playing with his kids in the leaves he had just raked off his backyard deck when he noticed that his ring was gone.  He and his wife searched the area as best as they could, but just couldn’t find the ring.

The search took all of about 10 minutes.  Evan was thrilled to get his ring back and, being a previous Corvette owner himself, wanted his picture taken with the car!

This search was not initiated through the ring finders site, but I wanted to share it anyway for the happy ending.  Back in November of 2014, I received a call from a guy whom I work with asking me if I would be willing to help a friend of his find his lost wedding band.  It was on a Saturday, and I wasn’t working, so I said I would help. It had just snowed 7 inches of fresh light snow that night before, so I thought it might be a challenge, but I’d give it my best shot.  I had been handing out some business cards at work the week before to let people know I help people find lost items, jewelry, and anything they may value.   So,when this guy’s friend lost his wedding band he gave me a call.  I had told my friend at work, that I only ask for gas money and any reward was up to the client.

I use an ACE 250 with an 8 inch butterfly  coil which I have used many times when I am coin shooting.  The wedding ceremony was held at a reception hall that used to be a church, and the area where he lost the ring was not very big,  maybe 20 feet by 15 feet, but there was still 7 or more inches of snow, albeit very soft light stuff.  I met the two guys out in front of the building as they were still looking over the ground thinking they might see something.

They told me that this guy, I’ll call him Bob,as I don’t remember his name, and a few other guys had been out playing in the snow and throwing snowballs at each other.  When they decided to go inside for a while Bob noticed his wedding ring missing from his finger. They all went outside and after searching for about 15 minutes, someone found the ring.   Bob was relieved and they went back inside for a while to warm up.

Then about a hour later, the same group went back outside and started playing in the snow throwing snowballs.  After a while they got too cold again and they went inside to warm up, again.  It was, then,  and there that Bob noticed his wedding ring was missing again.  So, that’s when my friend called me and asked if I could help.

After I searched the big area where all the snowball fights took place with no luck, I concentrated on an area that was closer to the sidewalk.  I asked Bob where he had been standing when the last episode of snowball fights took place.  I swept over the area twice and I  had been there for 15 minutes or more and the winds were starting to get stronger and I was getting colder.  I decided to look near a sidewalk that led to a door that they used to get in and out of the hall.  After a minute or two of swinging the coil closer to that walkway, I got a beep and a pretty strong signal.   I used my Garrett Pro-pointer to get down closer, and there was the ring, about 2 feet from the doorway just off the sidewalk.  Bob was so happy to finally find it again, as his new wife was already not too  happy with him and this situation.   My friend took pictures of me and Bob and the lost/now found ring.  It was a titanium ring and not a cheap one to lose.  Bob asked me what he owed me, and I said just for some gas, and he then dished out $30.00 which I happily accepted.  This was a first time for me to help find anything for anybody, so it was very glad I could help and that my metal detecting hobby was getting more and more rewarding.