Reese Burnett, Author at The Ring Finders | Page 2 of 6

Shane was making snow angels in his back yard after a big snow when he lost his wedding band. He texted me soon after, but we decided that, since warmer weather was on the way, we’d wait until the snow melted before attempting a search.

It was a cold and windy 21 degree evening when I came to search, but almost all of the snow was gone. It took about 10 minutes to find it and I saw Shane’s wife in the window literally jumping for joy when I gave the ring back to Shane.

 

Michael was snow blowing his driveway after a big snow. After discovering that his ring was missing, he was pretty sure that he’d lost while taking a break to get his car unstuck in the driveway. He looked for the ring for while and then decide to text me.

I left the house about 20 minutes after Mike texted me. It was an easy recovery. Michael had snow blown the ring into a pile next to the driveway. The ring came in loud and clear when I got the metal detector coil over it.

It’s always a great feeling to reunite a lost ring with its owner!

 

 

 

 

Makayla was doing fall yard cleanup in her back yard when she noticed that her engagement ring was missing. She and her fiance searched everywhere but couldn’t find it.

I got a text mid afternoon the next day and agreed to come out right away to search for the ring. The yard had a surprising amount of coins barely under the surface, which forced me to go slow and carefully check around the high tones that coins always give for the low tone of a platinum ring. After searching the yard and the flower beds, I was beginning to think that I was going to have to dig out all of the coins out, in case they were hiding the ring. But instead, I asked Makayla if she happened to have been in the chicken coup yesterday when the ring was lost. Makayla said ‘yes’, so I went in there with the chickens to search.

Makayla said the chickens would not bother me and she was right. The chickens were quite polite and moved out of may way as I searched. I’ve had chickens before and some of mine were quite mean and territorial. After about five minutes, I got the low tone I was looking for and found the ring slightly covered by chicken doo-doo. I said goodbye to the chickens, exited the chicken coup and showed Makayla the ring I had found while asking her ‘Did the ring look anything like this?’.

Makayla was very happy to see her ring again. She put it right back on her finger, but I had to ask her to take it off again for the picture. It was great to see Makayla get her ring back from those chickens!

I smelled chicken doo-doo while driving home, but it was worth it!

Levon was shaking some snow off of his hand when the ring flew off his finger and got lost in the snow. He waited until the snow melted and bought a metal detector to help find it, but the detector was beeping all time so it was no help.

I came out the same day Levon called and searched the area to no avail. That left only one spot: a small planter box near where the ring was lost. We (actually Levon) found the ring inside the planter box among a bunch of leaves! It was great to see that ring back where it belonged.

 

 

Paul was clearing brush at one of his favorite deer hunting sites when he noticed one of his hearing aids was missing. After searching for a while, he drove to the local metal detecting store to see about renting a metal detector.  The store owner explained to Paul that it takes some time to get used to using a metal detector and recommended that he call me instead.

I met Paul the morning after he called me and brought a friend along to help and make the odds for success better. After about an hour searching, we found the $2,900 hearing aid directly under Paul’s deer stand. It was great to save Paul the huge expensive of replacing it.

 

Gene was working in his yard digging up and moving plants when after a couple hours he looked down and saw that his ring was missing. He looked for  long time for the ring, but couldn’t find it – so he sent me a text and we agreed to meet that same afternoon.

This one was probably my quickest ring recovery ever. After talking with Gene about where to look, I started swinging the detector and within about one minute I got the familiar sound of gold. The ring had fallen into the grass next a planter box and was completely hidden by leaves. We were both very happy to get Gene’s ring back to where it belonged – on Gene’s finger.

 

After working in her garden, Michaela noticed that her engagement and wedding rings were missing. She contacted me and I came out that same day.

We just had some snow and a lot of leaves had fallen, making it impossible to find the rings without a metal detector. I picked up the wedding ring in about 10 minutes but I was getting a lot of interference from a metal fence that surrounded the area and couldn’t pick up the engagement ring.

We removed the metal fence almost immediately I got the familiar signal of gold. The engagement ring had fallen right by where the metal fence was.

Michaela was thrilled to get her rings back and it was great to help her out!

Thomas had tucked his run in his waste band before going on a jog and somehow the ring came out somewhere along the half mile jogging route that he took.

Thomas looked all over for the ring and posted flyers to no avail, so he contacted me and we met at the beginning of his jogging path the next evening. I had just gotten started swinging my detector when a lady drove by, saw the detector and asked if we were looking for ring! Fortunately for Thomas the lady had his ring and lived only a half block away.

Thomas was very happy to get his ring back and I was happy to be a part of it!

Nick was playing catch with a football when his gold wedding band flew off his finger as he was catching the ball. He and his friend did the right thing and marked the area with a tree branch before searching on their hands and knees for the ring.

After he lost hope in his search, Nick gave me a call and I agreed to meet him and his friend at the spot that evening. It didn’t take long to find the ring. It came in loud and clear and was about 10 feet away from the tree branch. Nick was very happy to put that ring back where it belonged – on his finger!

 

 

Richard was swimming under water in the lake by his dock when he felt his wedding band slip off his finger. He and his wife, Alyssa, looked hard and long for the ring, but it was lost in the silt at the bottom of the lake.

Alyssa called me and I agreed to come out that afternoon to hunt for the ring. There were quite a few old cans in the water and visibility was poor, due the silt I stirred up digging. After about 90 minutes, my floating sifter was full of old cans, can lids and shotgun head stamps. I finally dug the ring about 6 feet away from the dock in about 4 feet of water.

I hid the ring in my sifter amongst the trash and walked back to the dock. When I arrived, I set my sifter on the dock and told Richard that he should look through the trash in case his ring was there. Richard and Alyssa were thrilled to have the ring back and so was Richard’s mom, who was very nice to have there because she was very encouraging.