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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
The Ring Finders Metal Detecting Service
John Volek
Houston/Sugar Land
The success continues! I must admit that I never imagined this 100% success streak would continue this long. The best part of it is not the actual streak, but the amount of people that I’ve been able to help out over the past few years.
The most recent, or should I say the most recent TWO recoveries happened this past Sunday(1/5/14)! The first was for Rodney. He called me on Friday explaining how he lost his wedding ring while taking down Christmas decor. I’ll let Rodney tell you how things went down after that.
Last week I took down my Christmas lights and decorations and was hurrying as it was quickly getting dark and beginning to snow outside. As I finished and came into the house I realized that my wedding ring had somehow fallen off while outside. I frantically went outside with a flashlight and attempted to locate the ring but was unsuccessful. The next day I was searching the internet looking for anyone that may be able to help, when I came across the Ring Finders website. I read Jim’s blog and was given a sense of hope that he may be able to help as he has a 100% location success rate. I contacted Jim and we made plans to meet that Sunday to attempt to locate the ring. When Sunday arrived I did not think we would be able to search as it was raining / sleeting with still over 5 inches of snow on the ground. Jim arrived with his friend Lance and after introductions the two men began to search for the ring. After nearly two hours of searching Jim began to thoroughly search each bush while on his hands and knees as a last attempt to locate the ring. I heard Jim call out that he found it and immediately showed it to me. Jim & Lance’s professionalism and skills were very present that day and I would recommend them to anyone who ever needs their services going forward.
Rodney
Stay tuned for the story of the second recovery in the same day!
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
We received a call from Christine about 3pm on Sunday afternoon. She got our name and number from a friend she had told that she had lost her wedding set of 3 rings.
Christine lives on about a acre of land, she had gone out to the back of the property to help her husband bag up some leaves that he had been raking together. They worked together for about a hour and finished up and carried the bags of leaves up to the garage about a half acre away. That was when she realized that her Wedding Set (3 rings) was missing. In a panic, she and her husband looked all over the yard, they dumped the leaf bags out but did not see anything. They spent several hours looking with no luck. Later in the day while talking with her friend, she told her about the lost rings. Her friend said, wait a minute I heard about this website of people who find rings. She Googled and found “The Ring Finders” website and called Christine back and gave her our number.
It was about 3pm when Christine called and she lived 41 miles from us. I told her we would be there in about and hour & a half. We needed to hurry as I was concerned it would get dark and it was already quite cold, and the darkness would only make it colder. We arrived and got our 2 Garrett AT Pros and Pinpointers out then Christine walked us to the back of the acre of property. She showed us all the places she walked and was helping her husband with the leaves. Ellen and I chatted about what area we would grid off visually and began to detect. Within 10 minutes I hear Ellen say “Here’s One”, I joined her as we looked through about 4-6 inches of leaves in a pile but nothing else rang up on the detectors. I told Ellen to keep looking and I ask Christine to show me the bags of leaves, my thinking was that if one ring was in the pile of leaves that they had been bagging then it was likely the other rings would be in the bags of leaves near the garage. I began to scan the full plastic bags of leaves with my detector and got 3 very light hits. I kept scanning but nothing else hit so I backed up to the bag with something metal inside. I tore a small hole in the bag and began to stick my Pinpointer into the bag. As I got a signal, I used my hand to begin pulling out whatever the metal was. 1st hit was piece of wire, the second was a metal screw and the 3rd hit I could not see it. Finally I saw a glint of Gold in the bag. I began to smile but had to fight the leaves to find it, and finally the smallest of the 3 rings rings was found. Christine was standing right beside me and could not believe I found it. Now the only ring missing was the most expensive, the diamond solitaire with several small diamonds around the band. After determining that nothing else was in the 4-5 bags of leaves, I walked back to the rear of the property and told Ellen that I had found one but that one was still missing. She had been working out visual grid and I went back and started back over the grid working the opposite direction. I made several passes checking every 2inch or less hit that I got regardless of the type of signal. Then I got a shaky 44-46 hit that was very weak, as I was checking everything I almost kept going but thank goodness I did not. I reached down and moved the leaves and grass and there it was, the diamond solitaire twinkled at me. I reached down and picked it up and ask Christine, “Would this make you Happy!” She and her husband were so excited and grateful. It is so much fun to see the reaction of our customers when we are successful.
So 3 rings, 1 in the leaf pile, 1 in a trash bag a 1/2 acre away and one in the grass 5-6 feet away from the 1st one.
Another successful hunt for “The Ring Finders”.
Don & Ellen Wilson – Dallas/Ft Worth
On December 29, 2013 Ryan Law was out playing with his dogs at a school football field that was near his house. During this play session his beloved custom made white gold wedding band had gone missing. The ring is a tad large and had become even looser by the cool temperatures that afternoon. Ryan spent the rest of the afternoon searching for his ring with no success. He called me that evening and we arranged for me to come and search for his ring on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve.
I arrived for my search and Ryan and I went over the events of the rings loss and he showed me the areas that he and his dogs were in that day. I began my grid search of the area closed to the gate that we came through to get into the sports field. For being the last day of the year of the year the weather was unusually warm but after just over 2 hours of searching I had not recovered Ryan’s ring. Ryan needed to go to work so I told him I would be back the following day to continue the search.
New Year’s Day morning we were receiving a rain/snow mix so my search had to wait till afternoon. I drove to the school grounds and started my search of the area that had yet to be searched. After an hour and a half or so the ring was recovered by eyeballing it on the cinder running track that surrounded the football field. I called Ryan to let him know I had the ring but he was out of town. Just as I got to my car to put my gear away the snow started to come down, good timing.
Ryan ended up coming to my house that evening to claim his ring. He and his wife were quite happy to get his ring back.
Ring recovered 1-1-2014
Lost Ring Phone Support 🙂
Hi John,
My name is Alvaro ******** and I misplaced my aggie ring over the weekend at home. Normally I place my ring on top of the family dresser, and vaguely remember doing so. However, we have not been able to find it over the weekend. Are you able to assist with the search for this ring? It is likely inside the house in a drawer or crack(I think). We live in the Heights in a Bungalow. If you can assist us, please let me know how much you would charge for your services. Do you work off contingencies?
Thank you
Alvaro *********
832-***-****
Alvaro,
Thank you for contacting me, when I hear about these type of losses, I often recommend waiting for up to 72 hours, as the rings in these situations tend to show up on their own.
If that time has passed, and the ring is still missing from your home, you have to ask yourself these real questions.
1. Who has had access to the ring since you last remember seeing it. This list would include friends, family, service persons, etc?
2. Have you checked all the obvious places like your pockets, laundry basket, behind dressers, beds, etc?
3. Check the vacuum cleaner bag
4. Could the ring have bypassed any drain guard in any sink? If yes, you need to check the drain pipe traps.
MOST of my expertise in locating missing items (rings) is by utilizing the latest technology in metal detecting equipment. This work is traditional done in an outdoor environment. I have assisted people on these types of jobs before, sometimes a clean set of eyes can be a factor, but we need to focus on the fact that your ring did not disappear on its own.
Professionally, I often tell people to sit down and write out their daily activities of the day in question. This act often creates a recall we might not have had just thinking about the particular day or incident.
Let me know.
John Volek
281 330 7758
Hi John,
Thanks for the encouraging words; I took your advice and kept alert for it. Alas, my ring was where I least expected it; My closet.
Happy holidays
Alvaro
Great News and Happy Holidays
John
12/08/2013
I received a call today from Ryan and Jess regarding Ryan’s lost wedding ring.
Ryan and Jess reported Ryan was playing football in the front yard with family when
his ring flew off of his finger.
Ryan mentioned his wife Jess was not happy :), but after speaking to her she
insisted Ryan would be sleeping in-doors tonight regardless of the out-come.
Ryan reported one of his family members had located www.theringfinders.com after
his failed attempts at finding his ring.
I think you can tell from the smiles, today was a good day
I was happy very happy for Ryan and Jess, you could see the relief and happiness
in both of them when the ring was recovered.
Ryan and Jess
Ryan’s Wedding Ring
Equipment used on this Recovery: CTX 3030 and Pinpointer Pro
John
12/04/2013
Hi John,
I work for The Woodlands Township in The Woodlands and I supervise the
boathouse next to the woodlands mall. Today at work, my worst nightmare
happened. I went to shake someone’s hand and they pulled my ring off and it
bounced off the dock into the lake. It is about 4.5 to 5 ft deep where it fell
in and it is in probably a 5 by 5 ft area next to the dock.
I found you online at www.theringfinders.com when I was looking for metal
detector rentals. Is there ANY way you can help me with this. My ring is/was easily
my most prized possession.
Please, if you get a chance I would love to hear back from you with any help
you might be able to offer me.
Thanks in advance,
Kyle
I met Kyle this morning at the Woodlands Boat House and Kyle gave me a first hand
account of how the ring was lost and where he believed it landed in the water.
The job appeared easy from the top side, I was thinking, I’ll jump in this tropical warm
blue water, grab the ring and job complete.
Well the water wasn’t tropical or warm and the bottom of the dock was concrete with
apparently a lot of re-enforced re-bar. I found the ring, lots of luck on this job. I was
thinking to myself, Kyle you just witnessed an early Christmas Miracle 🙂
I was really happy for him, It was clear from the beginning the Ring was very important to him.
Kyle was nice enough to grab a shot of the recovery
Kyle with a big thumbs up.
Nice Ring
It was a good day
John
Equipment used on this Recovery:
Minelab Excalibur II