14k Gold, Night Ring Recovery

On December 2nd on my way home from work at approximately 6:30 PM I received a phone call from a woman by the name of Leanne.. Leanne was distraught because she had just lost a 14 karat gold ring her husband had given to her from a vacation they recently took together.

Leanne had been working on their farm putting up Christmas lights along a wooden fence that keeps in some of their horses when she received a phone call from her friend took off her glove to answer her phone and that’s when she realized her ring was LOST.

After scouring the ground Leanne and her husband decided to look up the ring finders online and that’s where she found my number. Now being early December in this part of the country the weather can turn on a dime so I told Leanne I just had to run home quick to pick up some equipment and that I would be right over,

I had to make sure I had my headlamp with me because it gets dark at 5:30 PM these days I arrived at leanne’s farm around 8:00 PM. This is where Leanne and her husband showed me where they had put up Christmas lights and where Leanne had thought she had lost her ring when answering her phone several hours prior.

After listening to leanne’s story I realized that she had started the task of winding Christmas lights around the fence without gloves on to begin with and then she found it got cold quite quickly so she went in the house to go get some gloves.

Leanne was quite certain when she went to go get her gloves that she still had her ring on her finger and she was convinced that the ring had dropped off her finger when she pulled her glove off to answer her Phone.

It was then time to get started, I went to the car to grab my equipment and immediately headed off in the direction of where Leanne had began putting the Christmas lights on the fence when she originally started and was wearing no gloves at all, Leanne a little confused, and convinced that she had dropped her ring in a totally different location to where I was heading, I calmly explained to her that rings rarely drop where their owners think they drop them otherwise she probably would have found it by now and off I went in the opposite direction.

Leanne stuck very close by watching intently as I swung over the ground close to the fence I was taking wide slow swings, ignoring all signals from the machine that represented deeper targets I only wanted surface fines.

The first target of interest to investigate ended up being A USA nickel from the 1960s? I handed the coin to Leanne and continued swinging my machine. The Machine was ringing constantly but all the targets seemed to be below the surface so I ignored them

The second target of interest came just off of the fence onto the gravel driveway very close to where Leanne had started her task of putting up Christmas lights that day.

I pulled out my pinpointer and as soon as I touched the gravel driveway the pinpointer rang loud and clear and with the flick of a leaf of a small weed on the driveway a 14 karat gold ring an emerald on one side and a diamond on the other. was staring me in the face.

As I picked it up and turned around to face Leanne smiling I held my hand out to hers and dropped the ring into her hand. It had only been 5 minutes of detecting in the dark but it was an intense 5 minutes for Leanne.

Leanne was definitely overjoyed and couldn’t stop thanking me as we walked up to the house to take a good look at the ring it was such a good feeling to see somebody so happy and another satisfied customer.