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Lost wedding ring lost on a large building lot found!

  • from Oregon City (Oregon, United States)
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Last evening I received a message from Deney saying he and his wife had been looking at a homesite property in the Oregon City area. While walking around the property, his wife lost her wedding ring. He was hoping I might be able to help him out.

We had a phone conversation a short time later, and he explained the situation. He said they had been walking around this 4 acre property, considered if they should buy it and have a home built there. While walking around, his wife had removed her two rings and put them in her pocket. When they got back to their ride, there was only one ring in her pocket. Confidence was high the ring was somewhere on the lot.
He had gone out and mowed the tall grass on the lot. Taken other people out to search, and tried using a HF metal detector, but hadn’t found the ring. The hail Mary was an internet search, locating me on Ringfinders.

Being not far from home, I was able to head out the next morning. I arrived slightly after 10am and met Deney and his wife, Stormie.
I interrogated them further, and learned the ring had been lost about three weeks earlier, but didn’t receive any insights to narrow down the search. Stormie had to leave shortly after I arrived. Deney had his borrowed detector, so I dropped a gold ring and had him scan it. His basic detector had a needle and speaker, which was very erratic, even on a prefect target.
I always bring a backup machine, so I gave him a quick tutorial,  and he set about searching.
I began a systematic grid search, beginning a distance outside of the area of the suspected loss. The area was relatively clean of metal debris, so the search moved at a decent pace.
About a hour into the search of the unshaded area, Deney decided to take a break in the shade, after giving me a bottle of water.

A short time later, I hit a very strong signal on the Manticore. Good tone, and shallow. Moving the grass, I couldn’t see anything.  Using my pin-pointer, I found what I was looking for.

Took a quick photo,  collected the ring, and went to check-in with Deney.
He was so happy to see the missing ring, I got a huge‘Bro-hug’

Having experience, good equipment, and patience makes all the difference.

Always grateful to help reunite folks with their lost memories.

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Ring lost in Portland Oregon found with a metal detector

  • from Oregon City (Oregon, United States)
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I received a call from Michael inquiring if I could help find his white gold wedding ring.

He was involved in some extensive renovations on his home in the Portland area, and he was fairly sure he had lost it in his yard while spreading straw for erosion control. I had an obligation that afternoon close by, so I was able to go over to do the search.

I arrived and Michael showed me the area, and described what he had been doing when the ring went missing. He said he would be in the house if I needed anything, and I began the search.

After tuning the detector to the local conditions, I quickly realized the area was littered with metallic debris. This slowed down the search process considerably. The ground was very dry, with large ‘dirt clods’ and cracks.
I decided to grid-search the area where Michael had spread the straw. I hit many large objects that gave very strong signals, making them read closer to the surface than they actually were, resulting in having to move around the straw to double check. I also went over some stuff that clearly registered as coins, which I dug out of the hard packed dirt.

I worked up and down through the yard, and as it always seems to happen to me, when I started up one of the last lines in my search pattern, I hit a good, repeatable signal. Looking down, I couldn’t see anything, but after kicking back some of the straw, I saw the faint outline of the missing ring.
I snapped a quick picture as it sat, and went to the house to find Michael.

He was inside, along with his wife, and I asked him to come out so I could explain the difficulties in searching his yard. I handed him the handful of coins I dug, then ran the detector over several of the large, loud objects in the yard. I took them down to the corner of the yard and ran the detector over his ring, letting him know I’d found it. I pulled it out and handed it to him. Michael seemed genuinely surprised, and his wife said she thought it was “like looking for a needle in a haystack.”

Good gear, experience, and patience takes the day.

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Wedding ring lost in the yard in Oregon,found with metal detector

  • from Oregon City (Oregon, United States)
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I received a message inquiring if I was able to help find a lost wedding ring.

I had a conversation with Cal regarding his loss.

He told me he had been doing some yard work, raking up yard debris and loading the recycling bin. He finished up, and was in his house when he discovered his wedding ring was not on his finger. He told me he never takes his ring off, and thought it must have come off somewhere in his yard, probably when he had taken his gloves off as he worked. He said it was a white gold band.

I was able to go out the following morning, which fortunately coincided with a break in the Oregon rain.

Cal showed me the area, and explained what he had been doing. I began a grid search in the back section of the yard, finding a few coins and tons of scrap metal.

Cal had to leave, but his wife was still there. I got about 3/4’s of the way through the yard, when I got a faint but promising signal. I kicked back some of the bark and saw the very thin white gold ring. I called Cal’s wife over and gave her a little metal detector tutorial, going over scrap signals, then the ring. I picked it up and handed it to her, and she was super happy.

I wasn’t able to get a picture of Cal getting his ring back, but received a text with many emojis expressing his gratitude.

White gold

 

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Lost wedding ring in Oregon found with metal detector

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Kyle sent me a message a couple of weeks back, asking if I was willing to search for his wedding ring that had been lost in his yard for the past couple of months. I was out of town vacationing that week, and Kyle was gone the following week. Since the ring was likely in his yard, it was not a time critical search. He said he would reconnect with me later.

Fast forward about two weeks. Kyle reconnected with me, and I asked him to describe how he had lost his ring. He said he had been on his front porch one afternoon and saw a squirrel in the yard. He had been dealing with squirrels tunneling under the porch, so he grabbed a small chair and threw it, hoping to frighten it away. Unfortunately, his ring slipped off at the same time, vanishing to parts unknown. He was very confident it was somewhere in the front yard, or maybe in the neighbors yard. Kyle had to be at work, but his parents would be at the house, babysitting his young son.

I arrived and met Kyle’s father, who had been helping to look since the ring had been lost. He had even rented a metal detector, but he said it just made noise everywhere he had searched. Once I fired-up my detector, I found the first issue they had encountered. There was a huge amount of interference, likely due to the nearby houses and wiring running across the area. There was also a low, galvanized metal fence, metal landscaping trim, and a section of river rock. All can play havoc on a metal detector. I made adjustments on the Manticore and started searching the front yard. There were a few promising signals, but they all registered too deep. I moved over into the neighboring yard and began searching. Nothing until I moved a bit further from the likely area, where I received a promising signal. Using my foot, I kicked back the grass and still saw nothing. Using my pinpointer, I found the item, scraped a bit of dirt, and saw the ring. I went to retrieve my phone to take pictures of the find, and as I started back, Kyle’s father and young son were on the porch. I asked the boy if he wanted to help find his dad’s ring, and we went to the neighbors yard and I handed it to him.

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Gold wedding ring lost doing yard work in Portland Oregon

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I received a message from Seth, telling me he had lost his wedding ring doing yard work, and “you’re the man to call.”

We had a phone conversation about the circumstances of the loss, and the area.
As it was lost in his yard, I told him I would be able to come out the next day to do the search.

When I arrived, Seth walked me through what he had been doing when his ring went missing. He said he had been mowing the lawn in the front and backyard, wearing gloves, and emptying the clippings into the yard debris bin. He felt sure that the ring had come off in the backyard near the deck, and had even taken off parts of the deck  to search. He also told me he had purchased a metal detector and done some searching himself, but had no success.
I fired up the Manticore and started in the backyard. It turned out the yard was super trashy, with multiple signals, so it was slow going. I found several promising targets, but they were all too deep to be a recently dropped gold ring.
When I left the backyard, I found Seth in the front yard with his recently purchased metal detector. He was disappointed I hadn’t found the ring in the backyard, since he was sure it would be there.

I began searching the front yard, and Seth asked if he should dump the yard debris bin. We searched that with no luck.

The front yard was much cleaner than the back, so when the Manticore got a clean, repeatable signal, so I had high hopes. The lawn was pretty thick and green, so I needed the pinpointer  to locate the target. There it was! 😀 I snapped a pic, then began shutting down my gear. Seth had seen me from inside the house, and came out to thank me for trying. I told him it was pointless to keep searching for his ring. I then held it up for him, and his reaction was epic!

After a big high-five, he told me he was certain he would have never found the ring if it wasn’t for my help.

Thank you Seth for letting me help.

 

 

 

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