Chains Recovered from Forestry Block
The Ringfinders service does far more than rings…
I was asked to locate what is referred to as a ‘snig chain’ that had been lost a year ago, and was now well overgrown.
“A snig chain is used to haul felled trees and logs out of the bush/forest”. Yes, I had to look it up…
This is the second time I’ve been asked to locate one, and farmers seem to be very sentimental about them. The first recovery I did was for one chain the farmer had had since the 1980’s, and was his “Favorite chain”… That was under a metre of freshly landscaped garden – I pointed to where it lay, they then set to with shovels to unearth it
This one was on a remote block with no road access. We had to wait until half tide, then bounced and lurched our way around the now exposed rocky coast in the little Suzuki Jimny 4WD, and up onto the farm.
“It’s somewhere in here”, said Bob. His arm waving generally towards a pile of overgrown fallen pines.
There was no way I would be able to get the coil in among the weeds and branches, I would have to detect from 4-5 feet above the ground surface
Hmm…
Still, I was looking for a large iron signal: Go for the big coil and open every setting up to full.
I worked my way in and around the trees until I got a definite repeatable signal in all the background ‘chatter’ resulting from the machine running ‘hot’. I tunneled down between the tangle of branches and weeds and reached into the leaf litter. My fingers closed around a steel shackle, and I lifted the end of the chain out.
Turns out there were two chains tangled in the undergrowth, both are now hanging back in the shed where they belong.
