Swanville, Maine lost engagement ring found and returned
Last week I received a text from Jacob asking if I would look for his fiancé‘s lost Engagement ring. He stated she lost it while watering her flowers. He purchased a Metal detector specifically to search for the ring, but was unable to find it. He felt after searching that he lacked expertise to find the ring. A plan was made to meet the following afternoon after his fiancé got out of work. I arrived a little early before she got home and spoke with Jacob on the phone confirming the search areas. I started with the easy areas first around the flowerbeds. at the end of the second flower bed loop I hit the first good repeatable signal. I had the ring and had only been detecting for 10 to 15 minutes.
Jacob‘s fiancé arrived shortly thereafter. I introduced myself greeting her with my hand out stretched for a handshake with the ring hidden in my palm hoping to hand it to her with the handshake. The idea sounded better in my mind than how it actually worked! As she was not expecting it, she dropped the ring.
She said what was that? I reached down and picked up the ring handing it to her saying you’ve dropped it a second time.
She was all smiles and indicated that after a long day, this was a great way to end it!
PS I forgot to get her picture
Received a text from Christa stating she lost her wedding ring this morning in her front yard. Arrived early afternoon and she told me the story of they were having a birthday party for her 3 yr old son and she was playing with the kids in the front yard when she felt her ring fly off. Losing the ring kind of put a damper on the party. She was in the grass area to the left of the driveway and that is when her ring came off. She had searched that grass area and the driveway and the street but had no luck finding the ring. I set out searching that grass area and came up with no ring. I told her the ring is not in this grass area and I said, « did you search on the right side of the driveway in the grass area »? She walks over to that side of the driveway and in about 10 seconds she spots the ring in the grass about three feet from the driveway. She beat me to it. The birthday party is back on in full swing!
On my way home from work I received a text from Habib. He was very anxious to see if I would be able to find his wife’s beautiful diamond earing she accidentally lost at a large family party the day before. He sent me some pics and I was relieved to see the size, due to the fact many diamond earrings are extremely hard to locate. We agreed on a mutual time to meet later in the day, and for him to bring the other earing so I would be able to scan it with my metal detector, which helps tremendously, knowing exactly what tone to listen for. With that information I am able to block out most of the other tones I will receive in a backyard setting. Once on location I met with a gentleman who showed me the entire party setup, and the main areas Saba, Habib’s wife had spent most of the time that day. I decided to begin the search, as Habib was going to be about another 15 minutes due to some heavy traffic. I had quickly covered an area where the tables were set up, especially where Saba was sitting. The yard area was quite huge, and there were many food stations, and activities going on throughout the day. Once Habib arrived I listened to the other earring, and was quite pleased with the solid low tone it gave off. With that information I was able to move quite a bit faster, due to the fact that not may signals of that type would be present. I of course would check anything fairly close. I had changed direction after the first location was done, simply due to the fact the foot traffic would be moving in the direction I was working. I made one pass, and just after I turned to make another one, BINGO, my metal detector emitted a tone that I was almost certain was Saba’s missing earing. After moving the grass around a bit, there it was pressed down even with the dirt, just out of human sight. Luckily there was no damage to the earing. I looked around to find Habib, and he had walked way over to the neighbors house, where there was valet parking, and another possible area the earring could have been hiding. When I showed Saba’s earing to him, he was it total shock, as this recovery could be labeled “a needle in a haystack” Once again all parties involved knew the tiny details to narrow down this vast search area, to just the areas where his wife had spent most of the day.
