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.
Lost Ring Pasedena, Texas (Recovered)
I received a call Wednesday from Jennifer who had located me on www.theringfinders.com she was looking for someone to help her find her mother’s lost wedding ring.
Jennifer reported her mother Barbara had lost her ring in the front yard of her residence while tending to the front lawn and flower beds. Jennifer said her mother was pretty sure she lost her wedding ring of 20 years while working in the yard today.
I asked Jennifer a few more questions about the area to be searched and recommended she tell her mom not to mow the front lawn.
Final arrangements were discussed and plans were made for Friday morning.
Jennifer called me back a few minutes after our conversation ended; reportin her mother’s lawn service had cut the grass Wednesday afternoon. I told Jennifer we will hope for the best, and if the ring is in the yard I would find it.
I made the trip out to Pasadena this morning and meet with Barbara and was shown the areas in the yard where she believed she may have lost her ring.
Barbara returned inside of her residence while I searched the front yard and flower beds. About 15 minutes in, a good solid signal with a depth rate of one inch, I knew I was on the ring.
I packed up my gear and knocked on the front door a few minutes later. Barbara called out, come on in. As I made my way to the living area of the house I heard Barbara say “you couldn’t find it”?
I held out my hand and presented Barbara her missing wedding ring which resulted in some big hugs and smiles.
Thanks,
John Volek
www.theringfinders.com/john.volek
Equipment Used:
Minelab CTX3030
White’s TRX Pinpointer
The TRX is looking really good performance wise and performed well on its first field use.
Andrea and Travis were making a video and re-enacting a scene from The Lord of the Rings movie. Andrea finds her “Precious” ring on a log and then tosses it to one side. It was meant to land on a bank with almost no grass where it would be easy to see, however it landed short where the grass was a bit longer and they were unable to find it.
Andrea’s Ring
I thought this was going to be an easy, quick find as it was a very small area to search. I ran my CTX3030 over the area but couldn’t get a signal that remotely resembled a gold ring. I extended the search by quite a distance and we even reviewed the video to get an idea of where it may have gone. I then got Andrea to re-enact the throw with one of my test rings. Each time it landed in a similar area so I had another sweep.
Over a clump of grass I got a very weak signal that looked more like trash than a ring but I checked it out with my pinpointer. It was indicating something in the middle of the grass but it wasn’t until the pinpointer actually touched the ring that I could see it. It was sitting vertically on its edge right at the bottom of the grass.
Andrea’s ring safely on her finger
No one could believe that they hadn’t found it when the were looking for it but they all agreed that we probably wouldn’t have found it without the detector. Hugs and smiles all round.
Now, Andrea was a bit embarrassed by all this but when they showed me the video it looked pretty cool, and this will certainly add to the story.
They also gave me a generous reward for which I very grateful.
Received a call yesterday afternoon from Matt in regards to finding his ring which was lost last November after his girlfriends chucked it over the fence into somebody’s back yard after having a disagreement, I asked Matt why it took him this long to try and find his ring he said since it had snowed that day his ring would be buried and it would be safe there until spring, yesterday he was searching on the internet and found me and the rest is history.
Matt told me he had permission from the owner to look for his ring. Made arrangement to meet this morning at the lactation, arrived in the back yard where there was around two feet of snow lucky for me the yard size was only 33’ x 50’ with a deck and fenced; Matt told me it was a heavy gold ring with his initials. Searched the area for about 30 minutes with no luck, then bingo ring found! Underneath the table on the deck somehow the ring must have bounced off something and ended up there as you can see by the picture the ring was very large. Mat & Sam was very happy to get the ring back once again. Thanks Matt for entrusting me and the TheRingFinders to search for your ring.
Lost Wedding Ring Recovered Northwest Houston, Texas
I received a call from Fernando a resident of Northwest Houston on Thursday regarding his lost wedding ring.
Fernando stated he lost his ring today while trimming the hedges in his front yard. He said he had searched for several housrs and was unable to find his ring. Fernando said he later searched the internet and found www.theringfinders.com website and located the nearest Ring Finder.
I met Fernando at his residence this morning and was given the details of how and where he believed the ring had fallen of his finger.
The area to be searched was quite small, and the recovery was quite quick.
Fernando was quite surprised and relieved his ring was recovered.
Equipment used on this Recovery:
CTX3030
John
I got a call from Brian, who was referred to me from Jean, a woman I had helped out the previous year. She had lost her ring in her backyard while gardening. When she had heard that her friend Brian had lost his ring, she immediately told him to give me a call. The day was January 6, 2014. The temperature was -17 degrees, with a -41 degree wind chill. Let’s just say it was cold. My son and daughter were home from school, due to the historically low wind chills. After I got off the phone with Brian, my wife said – “You’re not actually going to go look for it in this weather, are you”? Well, Brian was in Middleton, which is my home town, so it wasn’t much of a drive. She just shook her head. We brought our metal detector along, but it was simply too cold to do the hunt. We were able to get the story on how he lost his ring, as well as a general idea on the search area.
Earlier in the week, Brian was over at a neighbor’s house for dinner. Shortly afterwards, he became sick to his stomach and said he had to return home, which was about 4-5 houses away. Unfortunately, Brian did not make it home. He threw up shortly after leaving, stumbled and fell into a snow bank. He said the next thing he remembered is waking up in his own bed, but he had no idea how he got there. After he woke up, he asked where his wedding ring was – it was not on his finger. He figured someone had taken it off while helping him up to his bed. However, no one had removed the ring and no one knew where it was. He thought back to the night before and remembered that he was not wearing gloves when he walked over to his neighbor’s house. His best guess was that it had slipped off when he passed out in the snow bank.
The next day, Brian had attempted to shift through the snow himself looking for his ring, but had no luck. As a last resort, Brian like so many others, rented a metal detector with hopes of locating it. However, after hours of frustration he gave up. You see, using a metal detector isn’t overly difficult, but figuring out what all the beeps and tones mean is something that takes practice and a lot of patience. You wouldn’t believe all the metal junk that is buried in the ground.
Once the weather had warmed up a little (literally back up to 0 degrees – the winter in WI that year was one of the worst), my son and I returned to Brian’s neighborhood to begin our search. Brian had given us a general area to search. We could see the piles of snow that he had searched through already. After about an hour of searching, we had nothing. It was cold, and we were about to call it quits when I told my son, “5 more minutes”. Well, it only took 2 and we had a strong signal. A couple scoops of snow and right there staring back at us was Brian’s shiny tungsten carbide wedding ring.
Carter and I got a quick picture with our find, and then handed it back to Brian. He still couldn’t believe that we found it, because he had search and searched on his own. He figured someone had picked it up and he would never see it again. Brian gave us a nice reward, which went toward two nice hot glasses of hot chocolate!
Brian S.
01-06-2014
Tungsten Carbide Ring Snow Bank