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Quick update

I haven’t updated any blog posts on Adelaide Lost Ring Search for around 8 years- so probably time.

First up, yes this service is still active and I receive frequent requests for searches throughout the year. Summer and the warmer months are busy with lost rings at beaches and parks so I average around 10 searches per week while winter and cool months are quieter.

The systems and plans I use to find items have evolved over the years but fundamentals are similar and I still find great joy in returning items to people and making their day.

Smiles after a successful lost ring search at Glenelg South Australia

After all these years, and I started Adelaide Lost Ring Search in 2009 I still average around 80% success rate or 4 out of 5 searches. Sometimes it is just too hard with the client not knowing if the ring was lost at work, a friend’s house, in the car or walking the dog. Sometimes it is fairly easy and they have a solid idea where it is but just can’t find it.

Anyway, I will try to keep some content moving on this site because this is a great niche service that not many people know about.

To try and help distressed folk find this service and to help some people using metal detectors themselves for finding lost items I will start working on a Youtube page https://www.youtube.com/@shaunbranden and other avenues get the message out there.

Probably time to get out of my comfort zone and put my face in front of a camera so I can show some more folk how to efficiently find lost things. Cheers

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Finding David’s lost white gold wedding ring

On Christmas Eve Alicia and David walked to a local soccer pitch enjoying some nice Adelaide summer weather. At some stage during the walk David lost his white gold wedding ring and they were unable to find it. A few days later Alica contacted me via facebook and we worked out a time to catch up for a search that evening.

We met up at the Athelstone Soccer Oval and had a chat to work out where the ring could be and I went to work checking the larger areas with a Minelab Sovereign GT, then changing to a Tesoro Tejon near some fencing and finally an old tesoro I keep around with a 4″ hockey puck coil to get right next to metal objects like the fence and playground equipment at the park.

I searched some parts of the oval, then the playground but unfortunately I failed to find it during the 1hr we had and headed home after mentioning that I would probably come back one day to try again.

During the week I asked Alicia if David could draw me a bit of a map in case I went back so I could narrow down the search area a bit and this came back.

David's map
David’s map

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following day I decided to go back with this new information to try again. I searched the oval first with 3 passes up and down the path he probably walked, lots of checking at the gates and fence and then after no success I headed to the playground

Phone data of the second search

 

 

 

 

 

 

I swapped the Sovereign GT for a Tesoro in the playground and searched in and out of the playground equipment and around the edge until I finally found it snug up against a metal pole. Not being completely sure it was the right one I send a message to Alicia and kept searching for about another 20 minutes until I had exhausted what I could in the playground and went home.

It turned out it was the right ring so Alicia and David met up with me again and it is now where it belongs.

ring