White gold wedding band found in Denver, Colorado
On December 13th David and his wife had a small gathering of friends at their house, one of their friends brought their dog. David being the kind of guy he is, didn’t want the dog to be left alone in the back yard so he spent some time playing with the dog. While playing with the pup David noticed that his wedding band was missing and he went back inside to see if it was there, no luck. The whole of the party then went into the back yard and searched for David’s missing ring, no luck again. Photos from earlier in the day show that David had the ring on so the window of opportunity for the rings loss were narrow. David spent several hours over the next few weeks searching the back yard. Due to snow fall and the holiday season the search for David’s ring had to take a back seat till warmer weather.
On January 16th David found my profile on TheRingFinders.com and he contacted me about searching for his ring. We set up a date and time for me to conduct the search of Sunday the 18th at 10:00AM. Upon arrival at their home David took me to the back yard and gave me a run down of the events. My search area was the side yard which was pretty small and the back yard a nice size yard for an older home. I knew the search wouldn’t take too long as the yard wasn’t expansive. I pulled out my V3i and prepared it for the search, upon starting the machine I could hear all kinds of electrical inference from the overhead power, phone and cable lines. Luckily I had my trust old MXT with me as well so I prepared that machine for the search. After a few potential targets that turned out to be pulltabs my MXT let out a signal that was truly different than any of the others, the pinpoint let me know it was a surface target. I pulled back the grass and there sat a pretty silver colored ring. I pulled the ring from it’s hiding place and hollered for David. He was quite happy to get his ring back and was quite surprised at the speed of recovery, this search lasted less than 5 minutes. David mentioned that this recovery saved him 50 or so years of grief from his wife. We talked a bit, shot some photos and I was on my way home by 10:30. It was a great way to start off a Sunday.
Ring recovered 1/18/2015
Marian and her husband were visiting their friends in southern Minnesota on a cold winter day. The wind chill temperatures had dropped to nearly 30 below zero! When leaving that evening, Marian, removed her glove to retrieve her car keys. Hurried by the cold, she flung the car door open. Within an instant her engagement ring along with her wedding band went flying into the dark cold night. Friends frantically searched the area with flashlights but could not stand the cold long enough to locate the rings. The next morning, they rented a metal detector from their local hardware store and managed to find the wedding band; however, the platinum and diamond engagement ring could not be found. Marian called The Ring Finder, J.R., and he agreed to make the 2 hour drive to help locate the ring in below zero, blizzard like conditions. Once bundled up, J.R. began the search. The area was filled with many false signals, but he knew once he heard the correct tone on his metal detector, he had found the ring. He brushed away the snow-packed ground to reveal Marian’s ring, not far from where the car was parked. Her face lit up with smiles and gratitude as J.R. presented the ring to her and she placed it back on her hand where hopefully it shall never leave again! If you or anyone you know has lost a ring in the Minnesota area, please call J.R. (763-670-5544) to help you get your sentimental items back. If you are outside of Minnesota, check The Ring Finders directory, for a ring finder near you.
Jason called me Saturday evening from home in Corona, Calif. asking if I could help him. His friend had told him about TheRingFinders. He noticed his wedding ring missing after six hours of doing chores around his large property. Jason had spent a day and a half retracing all his activities in search of his wedding band. He lives on a large piece of property and had been doing a lot of work in almost every part of his yard. Almost everything he had been doing could have caused his ring to slip from his finger. He was taking down Christmas lighting decorations from his two story house, fences and trees. Dealing with hundreds of feet of cords coiling them up then putting them in storage boxes. He also took the Christmas tree from the house cutting off all the limbs to put them in large trash containers. On top of all that work he spend time cleaning his pool. All these activities were done without gloves and all these activities were the type of movements that would cause a ring to slip off a finger.
