Frigid ring search ends on warm note! Deerfield, Wisconsin
My car showed the outside temperature at minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. A stiff 15 mile an hour wind put the wind-chill factor at minus 25. It reminded me of the extreme winters my wife and I experienced when we lived in Alberta, Canada. I opened a package of hand warmers and slipped them into my large leather mittens. I knew I would need them.
A text message from Deerfield, Wisconsin resident, Alisa O’Neil asked for help in recovering her platinum wedding rings. The rings slipped off her hand and vanished into the winter landscape as she was running back from the mailbox in front of her home. She and her husband, Trevor, scoured the area, even used a metal detector, but they could not locate the missing rings.
Alisa’s father discovered my metal-detecting services on TheRingFinders.com, an international directory of metal-detecting specialists. Upon arrival, Alisa showed me where the rings had flown off her hand. Under such circumstances they could be anywhere, on the snow-covered roof or caught in the thick bows of a nearby pine tree. And so began an ever-widening sweep of the ground in the bitter cold. After 4 hours of searching however, the rings remained lost.
We took a short break, enjoying a scrumptious cup of freshly brewed coffee and homemade cookies. The warmth felt ever so good! And the coffee, I must add, was outstanding; Alisa knows coffee! The short break helped to spur us on.
I wanted to double check an area by the sidewalk. Reinforcing steel in the concreate made it difficult to hear any non-ferrous signals in the snow next to it. For this challenging area I swapped coils on my detector for one that uses a higher-frequency. It is particularly sensitive to gold and platinum in what detectorists call, “trashy” locations. Finally, five hours into the frigid search, a promising signal invited further investigation. The reinforcing iron close by was doing its best to overwhelm the detector, camouflaging the ring’s hiding place. But as it turned out, the signal was indeed that of Alisa’s wedding rings, complete with their gorgeous 2-carat diamond centerpiece! To say Alisa was ecstatic, is an understatement! I should have taken a video of her happy dance, squeals and all! Suddenly, nobody was aware of the cold!
If you or someone you know has lost a ring in the snow, don’t let the ring’s story end. It’s more than a ring. Give us a call. We’d love to warm up your day!
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It was a busy day on Sunday. At noon the ring at Grand Valley State was found and then at around 4PM we found this ring. Tommy called me and said his fiancee had let the dogs out the backdoor and was playing with them when her ring came up missing. On arriving Tommy took me to the backyard and I observed an area about 10ft square where they had been searching for the ring. There was about 2 inches of snow on the grass. Kiana was at work so she was not available to add her input into her actions. I made 2 passes with the detector and found out the amount of trash targets were overwhelming with all the chatter. Being the coldest day of the year I told Tommy he better go inside and stay warm because this was going to take me some time to sort out all the trash. Shortly after he went inside I got the signal I was looking for. About a foot from the concrete pad to the back door I got that strong gold tone and there was the ring. I told Tommy to send me a picture of Kiana when she got home. I suggested he surprise her with the glass of wine with the ring in it trick when she got home. 2 more entries to my book of smiles, what a fun day!