Wedding ring lost in Oregon Construction site
A few weeks ago, I received a message from Caleb asking if I could help find his lost wedding ring. He was spreading hay over the construction site for erosion control, and during the process, his ring came off. He told me he had narrowed the area to about a 10′ radius, but had not been able to find it himself.
I asked him how confident he was the ring was on the lot, and he said he was “very confident” and certain it was in a limited area, since he felt it come off. We agreed to meet at the lot the next afternoon, thinking since it was a fairly small area, it would be a quick search.
I arrived and met Caleb, and he showed me the section of the lot where he was sure the ring had slipped off. He said he had just finished spreading the hay around by hand, shook his hands, and felt the ring come off. I fired-up the Manticore and began the search. Being an active construction site, there were a number of targets coming up. Each time I stopped to double check a signal, Caleb come over and start moving the hay. I explained to him the VDI numbers were wrong, as was the tone from the detector, or the target was too deep.
After spending more then a hour in that small area, I expanded the search to the left, right, and behind where he had been standing, thinking the ring may have flown off in a different direction. Caleb was still sure it was in that area, and he was sifting through the hay by hand. I loaned him a pin-pointer to use in his search. After we passed two hours, I told him I felt sure the ring was not in that area. We walked around the lot a bit and I had him explain again what he was doing. He said he hauled the bales of hay onto the lot, pulled it apart, and threw the hay across the bare ground. He was sure he had the ring on when he started, and it was gone when he finished, but he was second guessing where it came off. We agreed the ring could actually be anywhere on the lot, or in the shed where the hay was stored. It was getting later in the afternoon, and the temperature was dropping. I told him I would come back in the morning and search the entire lot.
I arrived and began again, but Caleb had to be working at a different location. I started on the same side of the lot, covering the same area, then down into hole around the foundation. About 3/4th of the way down the eastside of the lot in my expanded seach area, the detector gave out that beautiful, clean tone. About two inches down in the hay was Caleb’s ring.
I let him know I had found it (not where he thought it was), and since he was working, I marked the spot I found it, and told him where I would stash the ring for him to pick-up a little later. No smiling recovery pic, but did take some of the location and ring.
