Second Time Lucky, Lost Ring And Bracelet In Garden
February 6th, 2010 by Brad Lovell
A few months back I received a phone call from Sree, who may have lost his gold bracelet in the garden below his balcony. I went out to 
search for the bracelet without any success. Last week I received another call from Sree, this time his wife had lost a gold ring in the same garden. Being Hindu, Sree and his wife put their gold items in flowers, and after prayer they throw the flowers into the garden below their balcony. Sree explained this is a Hindu tradition. One would figure this would be an easy job for me, looking for gold in a small garden area. But as luck would have it, this garden is full of plants with long bladed leafs which makes metal detecting very difficult. On my second visit to search for the ring, I noticed the garden was still flattened from my last visit. I began detecting the area again, and got a strong signal about 5 minutes into the search. The signal turned out to be the gold ring. Since I had driven all the way to Homebush, (west of Sydney) I decided to keep searching for the gold bracelet I had no luck finding the previous time. About half an hour later, I received a very faint signal and was parting the blade leaves to one side. Just as I was about to pull out my pin pointer, Sree saw the bracelet hiding between the leaves and grabbed it. As you can imagine, Sree and his wife we’re very happy to have both their gold ring and bracelet back in possession 
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This morning I drove out to Berkshire, near Richmond North/West of Sydney. My mission was to retrieve a wedding ring which was lost in the backyard of Meridith’s beautiful home. Meridith had actually felt both her rings fall off as she flicked her hand, but she was only able to find one of the lost rings. Meridith mentioned to me she was thinking of buying a metal detector on eBay to help find the ring before stumbling upon my website. It was a good thing she found me, as the area where the rings dropped was above reinforced concrete. The steel in the concrete was making the detector go crazy even at a low power level. Since I was having no luck stabilizing the detector above the concreted area, I decided to search to the edges of the concrete where grass could be hiding a ring. The first signal I received was Meridith’s beautiful white gold wedding ring. Meridith gave me a big hug and was happy to have her wedding ring back in possession. And considering the last two jobs I had been on where unsuccessful, my confidence was now back 
Today I drove out to Kingsgrove, south west of Sydney to search for a lost wedding ring. I received a call from Dawn who mentioned her husband noticed his wedding ring missing after a day of gardening. Dawn and her husband have been married for 38 years, so of course the ring holds a considerable amount of sentimental value. After meeting Dawn and her cute puppy Charlie, I began searching the garden. The garden was covered in fresh mulch, which seemed to be the obvious place to start my search. After about 5 minutes of scanning over the mulch, I received my first nice signal that could indicate gold. Finding the signal in the mulch turned out to be harder than expected, so it was time to bust out the new vibrating Pin Pointer. The Pin Pointer lived up to its name, and pointed me to the exact location of the signal. And there it was in my hand, a shiny gold wedding ring. Dawn was very happy to have the wedding ring back in her possession.
Althea had the misfortune of losing her late father’s wedding ring while playing basketball at a friends house. While playing with the basketball, Althea felt the ring slip from her finger…but did not hear or see the ring land. As always, I was happy to come out and help Althea look for the ring. After a short drive to Newtown in Sydney’s inner west, I met up with Althea and her partner, and we entered her friends back yard. Straight away I noticed most of the small yard was paved. There was really only a few places the ring could have been, either in one of two gardens…in a pot plant, or over the fence. I began my search by moving the pot plants, and basically looking under everything the ring could have possibly rolled under. I then began scanning the garden which was closest to where Althea was standing when the ring fell off. This garden was very thick with plants and shrubs, so swinging the detector in there was impossible without damaging plants. I kind of jabbed away with the detector covering the areas of the garden I could access. When I realised I was only really covering a small percentage of the garden with the detector, I decided to use my hand held pinpointer to get into the hard to reach areas of the garden. Unfortunately I was not having any luck. After about an hour of hunting, I was talking to Althea about the possibility of searching the neighbours back yard. Althea continued searching the thick garden while I ran the pinpointer over another garden. Not long after that, Althea yelled out found it! She had managed to find her late father’s wedding ring without the use of any equipment! The ring had fallen into the base of a plant in the dense garden. We we’re all incredibly happy that Althea had her ring back. I actually felt guilty accepting the call out fee from Althea, as she was the one who had found the ring.
Caroline lost her stunning Diamond Ring in the backyard of her friends house. She had been for a swim, and placed her watch and other jewellery on the towel. When returning from her swim, Caroline lifted the towel causing her jewellery to drop in the grass area around the pool. She managed to find everything except her Diamond Ring. After many hours of searching, Caroline decided to hire a metal detector from Bunnings. The metal detector Bunnings rented out was a Minelab Excalibur machine, which is a brilliant metal detector…but just not the right detector for this particular job. The Excalibur is a machine which can detect up to, and over a foot in depth. So when Caroline and her friends tried searching with this detector, they we’re receiving signals all over the place. And to make matters worse, the fence surrounding the pool was made from metal, which was also making the detector go crazy. After having no luck with the rented metal detector, Caroline decided to give me a call. As always, I was more than happy to help. After a long yet scenic drive to Pitt Town, a suburb near Windsor in Sydney’s North West, I found the property where Caroline had lost her Diamond Ring. Caroline greeted me and showed me the area where her Jewellery had dropped. After asking a few hundred questions, I began my search. I started out by lowering the power setting of my Detector. I figured the ring should still be on the surface, so by reducing the power setting I would eliminate any deep targets. After tuning the detector, I set off scanning the area within the pool fence. This is where Caroline’s other jewellery had dropped, so one would assume the ring would be close by. But, as what always seems to be the case, the Ring was not in this area. So I tried the other side of the pool fence. Once again, no luck. It was time to try a different side. Once again, on the other side of the fence of where the rest of Caroline’s Jewellery had dropped. This time, I received a signal. The signal was very scratchy, and I almost ignored it. But as always when doing a search for someones lost ring, I investigate every little noise I hear. After holding down the pin point trigger, the display mentioned the target was 0.5 inches deep. I began to part the grass with my fingers, and there it was. A big beautiful Diamond ring sparkling in the green grass. This was a learning experience for me. Normally I have an idea if the target is a ring by the tone, and target number displayed on the detector’s screen. But in this particular case, the target was very broken, similar to a foil tone. This could have been because the ring was close to another target which the detector was trying to discriminate..such as a piece of iron. It definitely has nothing to do with the quality of the ring. Something I will definitely keep in mind for future jobs. As I walked towards Caroline with her ring in my hand I observed a look on her face I am now very familiar with. It is the look of excitement, relief and extreme happiness, all rolled into one. After a few jumps for joy, Caroline thanked me kindly for finding her lost ring. Caroline, if you happen to read this post, please feel free to send me a photo of your beautiful diamond ring. As always, my iPhone does not do a great job of capturing just how stunning this ring is 