March 3rd, 2010 by Brad Lovell

Yesterday I drove to Gordon, (about 30 minutes North of Sydney) to help Bruce locate his lost gold wedding ring. Bruce had been removing leaves from his pool filter, and throwing them into the bushes below. He felt the ring slip off, but could not find the ring amongst the leaf foliage. I arrived with my metal detector and started scanning the area. After a few false signals I had managed to recover Bruce’s lost gold wedding ring, which was hiding in a layer of dirt underneath the leaves. As you can see from the photo, this is quite a unique gold wedding ring.  It was nice meeting Bruce, and is always a pleasure to have the occasional fast and hassle free recovery Although as punishment for having a quick and easy job, I managed to get a leach attached to my leg. This was my first leach attack…and I stupidly just ripped it off (ouch!) Every job offers a new experience.

October 21st, 2009 by Brad Lovell

I received an email last week titled Lost Ring. The email was from Marty who lost his mothers wedding ring at Manly Beach. I did not read Marty’s email until around 3am, but asked him to contact me as soon as he was awake. Manly beach is a very busy and popular beach, meaning there are lots of other metal detectorists hitting the beach each day. Next morning at around 9am Marty called requesting my services. I quickly packed my gear and drove down to Manly beach which is only about a 20 minute drive away. Marty showed me the area he was sitting on the beach, and I started my slow and steady grid search. The first signal I received sounded nice and loud, but turned out to be a ring pull from an aluminium can. Then another ring pull…then about 5 minutes later, a gold wedding band I want to thank Marty for a generous reward for what turned out to be a quick and easy job.