August 8th 2014 I received a call from Lori asking do you still offer this service, Yes I do was my reply. She asked how does this work and I explained the reward system and she gave me details re the Gold and Diamond wedding/engagement rings she lost last week at the ball diamond.
I arranged to hunt right away because time is important when it comes to recovering lost rings.
After a couple of hours, I did not find it but promised to return after dinner.
Well expand the search and high tone, yes the ring. Wow what a beautiful ring.
Lori was so excited to have this awesome ring back where it belongs.
I love my Job. Making people Happy is so much fun!
Lubna was a bit embarrassed when she rang me as she had thrown her engagement ring into the neighbour’s garden which was heavily overgrown with weeds and bushes. Of course she regretted it straight away but even after clearing away most of the weeds her family could not find it.
It is winter, here, and as soon as I arrived at the property it started to rain and I only had a short time before it would be dark. The area to be searched was very small but with so much foliage and rubbish I resorted to getting down on my hands and knees with my handheld pinpointer.
An hour later, with a pouch full of rubbish, I had finished the most probable area without success and had to extend the boundary.
A couple more bits of rubbish and then while pointing at the base of a small tree yet another signal. As I cleared away the debris Lubna’s beautiful white gold and diamond encrusted ring finally revealed itself.
It looks like it has bounced sideways off one of the trees and then slipped down to the bottom of another tree.
Sorry for the bad photo but it was dark by the time I took this
The smile says it all.
This was after I cleared away the weeds and rubbish
I received an email about a lost mans tungsten wedding ring lost in the back yard. He was just taking out a piece of grass from his hot tub the tossing the blade of grass into the yard. He did not expecting that his wedding would follow suit into the high grass. After he scoured around everywhere for it, raking the grass, rented a metal detector and even the lawn company mowed the grass before I could get there. After searching the area for awhile, and located the utilites as I was searching. There was the ring half way down into the dirt. he was very happy to get the ring back.
Lost Man’s Wedding Ring in Grove City, OH. “FOUND”
Lost Man’s Wedding Ring in Grove City, OH. “FOUND”
Lost Man’s Wedding Ring in Grove City, OH. “FOUND”
Lost Man’s Wedding Ring in Grove City, OH. “FOUND”
I received an email that a woman lost her white gold diamond ring. She was pulling out some poison ivy near some brushes and as she brushed back her hair, there also went the ring flying into the air and landing somewhere around the brushes. I met up with her later the same day to do the search. After looking in the brushes, leaves and grass there was the ring. She was very happy to have the ring back since she just received it from her daughter just a short time ago.
After talking more with her, she said that she received my information from her daughter. Come to fine out that this ring I found for her was also the ring that her daughter lost and I found for her back in March of this year. See link. http://theringfinders.com/blog/Jon.Baughman/2014/03/lost-woman-wedding-ring-delaware-found/
Lost Woman’s White Gold Ring in Galion, OH. “FOUND”
Lost Woman’s White Gold Ring in Galion, OH. “FOUND”
Lost Woman’s White Gold Ring in Galion, OH. “FOUND”
Tatiana saw my Craig’s list ad for metal detecting service and called me to help her find a lost set of keys at the enterance to Tecolote Canyon. She lost the keys in an area with some ice plant, both dead and alive, and unfortunately, some poison oak too! I don’t think I got any on me but I was hunting in it a bit before I noticed those rusty colored tridents among the other follage. It’s absolutely amazing how a fairly large set of keys can hide in plain sight. The search area was relatively small and we knew they were there so it was just a matter of time but I went over that same area 4 times without finding them but they practially jumped into my hand on the 5 pass. It’s strange how that works sometimes. Got a big hit, looked down, and they’re sitting there in plain site! Tatiana was happy to be able to drive her car home and not have to call AAA and then pay through the nose to get replacement keys made. A pleasure to meet you and thank you for the reward. It keeps me able to help others.
We received a call from a wonderful lady named Sandy, she said she had a desperate situation. I said OK, tell me what happened. With tears in her voice she said she lost a family heirloom, a 6 carat diamond ring, explaining how every diamond represented each member of her family who had passed away in her life time.
Sandy said that she had come home from work and gone into her kitchen. She always takes off her ring to fix dinner and always puts it in the exact same place. The ring slipped out of her hand and bounced once on the counter and disappeared. She had searched for 2 days but could not find the ring. She had removed everything from the counters, nearby shelving and checked under everything with no luck in locating her ring. I smiled to myself as she was telling me her story because it sounded just like a situation we had a few years ago of a man who loss his wedding band in his apartment bathroom. We made arrangements to come out in 2 days when her schedule would permit her to be there with us. (Note: Always have the client there when you initially search, many times the stories change when you arrive on site).
My wife Ellen, my son Tripp and I, all three went to Sandy’s home around 5:30pm; Sandy met us a the door and was so nice. I knew that our detectors would not work in her kitchen, so we only took in our pinpointers and inspection camera. Sandy described and went through the motions of reenacting what had happened with her ring. The whole time she was talking I was assembling my inspection camera. I began looking under and behind all the appliances and at first thought I saw it under the refrigerator but that was not it.
Then I laid on the floor and looked up under the kick plate of the kitchen cabinets and once again found a small gap of about 1/2 inch up under the cabinets. Understand this was not a large kitchen so we knew the item still had to be close. I used our inspection camera to run the 36″ camera line up inside the baseplate of the kick plate under the cabinets. The angle was very difficult to get the camera line into and tough to move around but in about 10 minutes we discovered the ring. I did not say anything but just winked at my son and my wife.
My son and I then went about trying to retrieve the ring as it was way back inside the underneath portion of the these cabinets. After using the tip of the camera and a coat hanger we began inch by inch to move the ring closer to the front of the cabinets, being only able get about 2 inches of our fingers inside gap. At this point the customer still did not know we had found the ring. While discussing techniques to retrieve the ring she heard us talking and we then confirmed with her what we found on our camera. She had to bend over and look at the screen but when she did she squealed, “that’s it, that’s it”, and began to cry. When she calmed enough to take a breath she started saying to her husband “they found it, they found it”. My wife had to console her while my son and I worked to pull out the ring. We could have had pulled off the baseboards but they had been painted over so many times and were so old we knew they would have broken. So we continued the slow way. Soon my son was able to get a coat hanger over the ring and then hook it enough to pull the ring up, remember this is being done laying on our backs looking at a 3″ screen on our inspection camera.
My son handed Sandy her 6 carat family ring (estimated $30,000), she was beyond happy, she hugged all of us many times and could not thank us enough. It was so much fun seeing her reaction and to know we helped put a smile back on her face and in her heart.
I checked my messages on my phone today after work and had a call about a lost wedding ring at a ball field. I got my equipment together when I got home and gave the lady a call.
Her name is Doretta and she thought she lost her white gold wedding ring at her granddaughters softball game the night before. She remembered taking the ring off earlier in the day but was pretty sure she put it back on.
Her husband and her had searched their house and the area where they were sitting during the game and came up empty. They live close enough to the field to walk there and took their own folding chairs so it could be lost along the way.
They showed me the location they were sitting at but she said they had moved three times because people kept blocking the view to the field. I was hoping someone hadn’t eyeballed it and picked it up.
I set up my CTX3030 so gold would make a high tone and had on my six inch coil because I expected it to be trashy. In the first area I had a great shallow hit at 12-13 that was a wad of aluminum foil. In the second area same hit another chunk of aluminum foil.
I moved to the third area. I was starting to run out of real estate. I started working the area and got a loud 12-9 signal and just out of sight in the grass I found it!
What a unique ring it is. She was so relieved to have it back on her finger.
I received a call from a guy that he just lost his Tungsten Wedding Ring a couple of hours ago. He lost the ring as he was swatting at a bee. On his downward swing the ring fell off into the grass and trees. I showed up and started searching in the grass, then around the trees and bushes with no luck. I continue searching, as I was looking deeper into the pine tree there was the ring. After looking on how the ring came to its resting place. I came up with that the ring had to leave his hand then hit the concrete porch floor then bounce off the side of the house then go through about twenty feet of grass then another three feet into the pine tree. He was happy that the ring was found.
On Sunday afternoon we got a call from a gentleman who had lost his wedding ring. He had been working all day in his yard digging a trench to relieve some standing water. After completing the several hour project he realized his wedding ring was gone. He and his family search for 2 hours and had no luck. He found “The Ring Finders” website and gave us a call. We spent about 20 minutes covering the area which was crazy with signals due to a power line running under his backyard. I decided to re-check the trench with full descrimination, looking only for gold. I got a hit near the end of the 15ft trench about 6 inches down. As I bent down and used my pinpointer through the mud and water in the trench I saw a glint of GOLD in the hole. The wedding ring was stuck in the wall of the trench about 4-6 inches down. I turn and ask the homeowner, I said, “I have a questions for you” “would you like to have this back and I handed him his ring“.
He and his wife were so excited they could not believe we found it… they kept saying “you guys are good, you guys are so good“. The wife came out and gave us hug… it was another successful hunt for the “Dallas Ring Finders”.
I received a call yesterday from Eric a resident of Bellaire, Texas regarding his lost wedding ring. Eric reported he had lost his wedding ring in his backyard while playing water volleyball in his new pool. Eric said he remembered hitting a volleyball and his ring flying off his finger. Eric reported he searched his yard for several days trying to find his ring. Eric said after unsuccessfully finding his ring he located “The Ring Finders” on a Google a search.
I made the trip out to Eric’s home this morning and was given a walk through of how and where the ring was lost. The backyard was under renovations, a beautiful new pool, landscaping steps, and new and old landscaping underway. The backyard had little grass, so the remaining search area was going to be several areas of monkey grass, small hedges and a few flower beds.
Having the 6″ coil for the CTX3030 was a big factor in this recovery. Most of my work was pushing the small coil through the small tight hedges to work the ground below and around the hedges. It would have been nearly impossible to have accomplished this task with the stock 11′ coil.
I worked an area of the yard that seemed most probable for Eric’s ring to have landed based on the information of how it was lost. This area was relatively heavy with scrubs and money grass providing a great hiding place for a missing ring.. I thought for sure it would be the spot. After spending sometime working the hedges and monkey grass in this area with no results, I moved to the far side of the yard.
I started in on one of the flower beds, pushing the coil through the hedges blindly when I got a nice signal. I worked through the ground cover vegetation with a pin pointer and uncovered a series of intertwined gold loops. I ‘ll be honest, I initially thought maybe I had found an earring , I was thinking to myself what the heck is it. I knew it was gold, but did not register as a gold wedding band.
I hollered over to Eric who was working in the yard, and held out the dangling loops of gold, I saw a smile on his face, and rest is now history.
Eric explained that the odd configuration (the gold loops) was a Gold Arabic Puzzle Ring, and it had belonged to his grandfather original, passed to his father, and now to him. Thought to myself (priceless) and awesome, that is something you could never replace.
I have picked up a lot of rings, but this was my first ever puzzle ring and what a cool story. It didn’t take long to figure out why they call it a puzzle ring.
The video is a quick clip of Eric putting his ring back together.
