Friday June 20th 2014 7:32 pm Steve calls and asks can you please look for my Gold with Diamonds wedding ring?
I arranged to start the hunt Monday after my weekend at the cabin.
Steve showed me around the football sized yards that he was cutting on his ridding mower.
I spent 5 hours Monday with no luck.
Came back on Wednesday and after another hour and a half, Bingo, found it.
Wow what a happy couple, I love my job!
It was my 3 year anniversary, and my wife and I were celebrating at Devil’s Lake State Park in Baraboo, Wisconsin. We hit the beach, and I decided to play some catch with a football. I noticed that my tungsten carbide ring was a little loose on one of the throws, and I probably should have taken it off, but I didn’t. On the very next throw I looked down and my ring was gone. I wasn’t sure if it flew off on the throw, or fell off when I put my hand down. I was sick to my stomach. There were a number of people on the beach that day, so we rounded up 6-7 of them to help look for my ring. However, after a long search, nothing turned up. I thought for sure I would never see my ring again.
I called around trying to find a metal detector to rent that could be used in the water, but after calling a number of places … no luck. I turned to Google and found the www.TheRingFinders.com website. I contacted one of the members on the directory, but after a couple of emails back and forth, communication stopped and he didn’t seem interested in helping. I then reached out to Dan, and he responded almost immediately. Unfortunately, he was out of town on vacation, but he kept in touch and said he would help out if he could. He lives in the Madison area, so I was impressed he was willing to drive close to an hour just to help me out. On Father’s Day weekend, he made the trip up to Devil’s Lake to search for my ring.
Dan asked tons of good questions to get an idea on the location, what I was doing at the time, how deep in the water I was, where I was standing and what my ring looked like. He then performed the search on his own along with his 11 year old son, which I thought was cool. He said after 2 hours, a handful of bottle caps, pop tops, $0.39 cents in change … he was about to give up and then got a promising hit on his metal detector – my ring. Dan later called me and told me the entire story, I couldn’t believe it – he had found my ring. Later that day we met at the park and he handed the ring back to me. My wife and I both fought back tears, what am amazing feeling. My wife and I can’t thank you enough Dan and Carter for finding and returning my ring!
Jonathan P.
06-14-2014
Tungsten Carbide Ring Devil’s Lake State Park Beach
Monday morning I received a call from Andrew who asked me if I could help him find his wedding ring. Apparently while digging for shells in the shallows of the intercoastal water way he realized his ring was no longer on his finger where it had been for the last 5 years! Andrew purchased a new metal detector and spent a fair amount of time looking for his ring but only found a few sinkers and soda cans. So he began searching on the computer for information on how to find a lost ring and he came across www.theringfinders.com !
I agreed to meet Andrew Monday evening at 5 o’clock and as we talked and looked the area over I felt fairly confident his ring could be found. I spent the next two and a half hours grid searching in the water and came up with a handful of lead sinkers and an assortment of coins and junk. Then I got a great signal and there in my scoop was a nice hefty man’s gold ring! I hollered to Andrew and held the ring up in the air for him to see. I was sort of surprised to see a perplexed look on his face and as he came closer he said, “That’s not my ring.” As the sun went down I ended my search and reassured Andrew that I would be back later on in the week to look again.
The following Friday I returned and this time I arrived two hours before low tide and set up 4 PVC poles in the shallow water slightly overlapping the area I had previously searched. I was prepared to search until dark if needed and as I turned on my Dual Field and waded into the water the very first signal turned out to be another gold wedding band! Only this was Andrew’s ring and as soon as he saw it he said, “That’s it!!”
Thanks so much Andrew for your generous reward and for contacting me to help you!
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Mike McInroe
Date: May 26, 2013
I had taken a week of vacation in order to complete various projects around the house, as well as tend to my gardening. Midweek just as I was heading out the door to run some errands, I realized my wedding ring was not on my finger. I quickly checked my pockets and it was not there, however I proceeded to run my errands. Upon returning home, I looked in the two most likely places and unfortunately it was not in either spot. I am a creature of habit and will put my ring in my pocket if I am putting on hand lotion, etc. My husband quickly pointed out that the shorts I was wearing had a hole in one pocket. We scoured the house for days looking high and low. We even cleared out all of the closets to check the floors, but sadly we found nothing. I was convinced I had lost my ring inside the house, but my husband thought it had fallen out of my pocket while I was gardening on my day off. After a couple of days, we decided to post an ad in the “Lost and Found” section on www.Craigslist.com as a last resort. That’s how we found Dan. He quickly responded to the ad offering to help. Since we had already searched the entire inside of the house, we thought it was worth a shot for Dan to come over and search our backyard with his metal detector.
I met Dan at our home on Saturday morning along with his young son. He was very professional and it was clear that they had done this together many times. I was impressed with the way he was using this task to teach his son the skills of metal detecting, as well as the importance of helping out others. Together they swept the front yard and found quite a few coins, but no ring. They did a very thorough search of both the front and the back yard, but initially did not find the ring. The entire time they never gave up, and then suddenly Dan called me over … he had found my ring in the lawn along the side of the house. I don’t know how many times we might have walked past it in the days since it was lost, but it was found.
I am very cautious when responding to an ad from Craigslist, but through the back and forth email with Dan to setup the appointment, I felt comfortable meeting him at our home on my own. He was professional and very respectful of the fact that I had lost something very dear. I cannot thank him enough and can only give him a glowing reference.
Thanks again,
Jean K.
Art was playing ball on Willows Beach. He got home to discover his ring was gone.
He called me and asked have you found my ring? I said no but I will look for it. A hour search on a crowded beach and a recovery.
The first thing he said to me was this ring will be re-sized, I never want to loose it again.
May 14th I got a phone call from Julia and she asked for my help to recover her Russia Gold wedding band. I arranged to search the next day.
After meeting with Julia and understanding that this ring had travelled three continents to get to her and now it was lost after only three weeks, I had to put my best effort into recovering it for her.
Well I am glad to say after less then ten minutes Julia is wearing her ring once again.
I received a call about a lost man’s ring. He was playing rugby with some friends then he put his ring on his shirt located in the grass. After he was done playing and pick up his shirt, he ring was gone. He tried to look for the ring then decided to give me a call. I showed up as the sunset was disappearing. I started the search with flashlight in hand. Searching and searching, finding trash and more trash. Then there was the ring hidden in the grass. He was very happy to have the ring returned to him. And so am I.
Lost Man’s Ring in Newark, OH. “FOUND”
Lost Man’s Ring in Newark, OH. “FOUND”
Hello Everyone, we got an email from a mom in a panic. She had hired a professional photographer to take Senior Pictures of her 2 graduating Senior High kids. The photographer took them to Cedar Hill State Park where the Bluebonnet flowers are awesome this time of year. The photographer had them doing all kinds of poses. The mom, Donna, saw her son turn around quickly and she said “What’s wrong”, he said, ‘my ring came off’.
Seven people looked for the ring for 2 hours with no luck. Donna found “theringfinders” website and contacted us. We met her at the park on Wednesday. Understand it is against the law to Metal Detect inside a State Park. We contacted the Ranger’s office multiple times before receiving permission to only scan, not dig at all for the lost ring. Donna walked us through the woods before getting to the Bluebonnet fields. We gridded off a 30 x 30 ft area and began to scan. It took about 20 minutes before I got a non-trash signal and when I bent down I saw the glint of a ring deep in the Bluebonnets.
I picked it up and said my favorite line, “Donna, I have a question for you, would you like to have this back?” and held up the ring. She was so excited, she thanked us and thanked us. The ring cost over $500 and her son had only had it a short time.
Another successful hunt for
The Dallas Ring Finders
Don & Ellen
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”.
Don & Ellen
I can help to find lost items with my metal detector. Please contact me through The Ring Finders.