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Ring lost while gardening found by Adelaide Lost Ring Search

George phoned after he lost his wedding band while gardening in his backyard in Southern Adelaide (Aberfoyle Park). He had been scrambling around in some heavy undergrowth pulling out weeds and had no idea where the ring was lost.

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George’s lost and found wedding band

I started metal detecting the green bin, then the paths he had carried the weeds along. Apart from a small lawn and the green bin, the rest of the search was all along a colourbond fence and a metal shed so it was difficult.

After about 1hr I eventually found it at the base of a tall clump of grass under a shrub right next to the fence. Fortunately the Garrett Pro Pointer can be detuned to detect adjacent metal items like fences.

 

 
George had emotionally given up on it, so was very happy and a little surprised to have his white gold wedding ring returned 🙂

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George’s found wedding ring
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Ring found in Oakbank

Andrew phoned up after his brand new wife Christiana lost her platinum wedding ring while taking photos during the reception.

She had walked around 100m down their driveway, climbed through a wire fence (picture this in a wedding dress and pregnant ) and had a series of photos taken in a horse paddock and near a dam.

The search area was fortunately around 1/2 acre on a 10 acre property in lovely Oakbank in the Adelaide Hills.

Andrew was keen to help, so I set him up with a backup metal detector (Fisher F2) while I went to work along the fence line, and then into the horse paddock. I finally found it on the third pass in the paddock using the Minelab Sovereign GT and Garrett Propointer.

Lots of smiles and a hug

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A little detective work finds the ring without a metal detector

Turned up to a nice house up on Mt Osmond at 5pm today to find a lost wedding band. Introduced myself and had a quick chat for a couple of minutes.

Then at around 5.03 I asked all the heavy questions about what he was doing at the time, where he had been, what was he wearing, is there a chance it is in the car, bin, house, and all that logistic stuff …

5.07 He mentions that he did pick a few bundles of weeds up and moved them around …

I ask if he was wearing gloves ….

5.08 he gets a glint in his eye, walks around side of the house, finds the gloves and pulls the ring out.

All done in 8 minutes without turning using the detector at all

Awesome

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Lost wedding ring found on Brighton Beach

Dom called me on Saturday while I was away on holiday. He had lost his wedding band at Brighton Beach just south of Adelaide on Friday and tried to find it himself after buying a metal detector. Unfortunately he was unable to find it and found me online. I spent about 45 minutes looking in the areas he pointed out then extended the search area a little and found it. A nice gold wedding band found and returned 🙂

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Dom’s recovered gold wedding band
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Dom, very happy to have his lost wedding ring back

Great to see Dom and his wedding ring reunited.

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Sentimental Ring Found

I had the absolute pleasure of helping out Phil and his wife with a very sentimental lost item yesterday.

The call came in while I was knee deep in databases so was in itself a welcome relief 🙂 Phil was originally looking for a hire detector to find his late mother’s wedding band but after a quick chat I explained that the hire detectors were not really ideal for new users in wet beach salt water sand environments and suggested just getting me to pop down there..

It was decided that I would drive down from the foot hills and run a search for the ring …

I met Phil at Glenelg where I handed him some flags to mark out the search area and went to work walking one pass, turning back and picking up a awesome low tone signal about half way back along the second pass. It didn’t sound too deep so I just leaned down and pulled the target out with my fingers and called Phil over 🙂

The ring had that high gold content almost red tinge and had a lot of weight about it. A beautiful ring, and awesome ending to the search and I will never forget the look on Phil’s face when he got his Mum’s wedding band back after having it on a chain every day for 18 years.

I love this job 🙂