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Ring lost in Portland Oregon found with a metal detector

  • from Oregon City (Oregon, United States)
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I received a call from Michael inquiring if I could help find his white gold wedding ring.

He was involved in some extensive renovations on his home in the Portland area, and he was fairly sure he had lost it in his yard while spreading straw for erosion control. I had an obligation that afternoon close by, so I was able to go over to do the search.

I arrived and Michael showed me the area, and described what he had been doing when the ring went missing. He said he would be in the house if I needed anything, and I began the search.

After tuning the detector to the local conditions, I quickly realized the area was littered with metallic debris. This slowed down the search process considerably. The ground was very dry, with large ‘dirt clods’ and cracks.
I decided to grid-search the area where Michael had spread the straw. I hit many large objects that gave very strong signals, making them read closer to the surface than they actually were, resulting in having to move around the straw to double check. I also went over some stuff that clearly registered as coins, which I dug out of the hard packed dirt.

I worked up and down through the yard, and as it always seems to happen to me, when I started up one of the last lines in my search pattern, I hit a good, repeatable signal. Looking down, I couldn’t see anything, but after kicking back some of the straw, I saw the faint outline of the missing ring.
I snapped a quick picture as it sat, and went to the house to find Michael.

He was inside, along with his wife, and I asked him to come out so I could explain the difficulties in searching his yard. I handed him the handful of coins I dug, then ran the detector over several of the large, loud objects in the yard. I took them down to the corner of the yard and ran the detector over his ring, letting him know I’d found it. I pulled it out and handed it to him. Michael seemed genuinely surprised, and his wife said she thought it was “like looking for a needle in a haystack.”

Good gear, experience, and patience takes the day.

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Engagement ring lost on Oregon coast.. found!

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Late Friday night, I received a text from Ricardo, stating he needed help finding a lost engagement ring somewhere behind a very popular resort hotel in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
After seeing the message, I noticed that I had missed a call from him earlier.

I called him back a bit after midnight, and we discussed the situation. He said he had purposed to his girlfriend, now his fiancée, during their trip to the Oregon coast . He had hired a photographer to take photos of their special moment. Several photos were taken.

Into the photo shoot, one was where Ricardo was reclining in the sand, with Daniela, his now fiancée, was on top of him, showing the ring. When they stood up, Daniela brushed off the sand from his back. Shortly afterwards, she realized her new engagement ring was no longer on her finger.

Ricardo was confident the ring was in a small area, even though they had spent hours sifting through the sand with no luck. Even people staying in the resort overlooking the beach had come out to help, but the ring was still missing.

I already had a search scheduled for the next morning, but this was looking for a lost earring in a private yard. This was convenient, since I already had my gear loaded. I texted my prior appointment, letting them know I had a time sensitive search, asking them to reschedule.

Cannon Beach is a bit more than two hours from my home, so I set the alarm and was on the road around 0530.

I gave Ricardo an update on my ETA and he said they would meet me when I arrived.

I arrived at the Hallmark Resort slightly after 8AM. I explained to the front desk why I was there, and they graciously told me I could park in their lot until I finished finding the missing ring.
Ricardo and Daniela met me, and we walked down to the beach where the ring went missing. On the way, they told me we were looking for a platinum ring, with a single diamond.

Once in the area, I started a circular search from where they thought the ring had been lost. There had apparently been at least one beach fire in the area, so the detector was getting multiple hits.
On the outer edge of my search area, I hit a strong, shallow signal. Reaching down I found a steel cap from a beer bottle. I picked it up and palmed it, thinking I might be able to use it to extend the suspense of the search for the missing ring.
Searching a bit lower from the suspected area, I received a faint, but repeatable signal. I used my foot to sweep back some sand, and the signal got better. I kicked back some more sand, and about 4 inches deep I saw the glint of a diamond ring.
I turned back to Ricardo, holding up the bottle cap saying this is what I always find on the beach. He looked at me a bit perplexed, then pointed down to the sand and said, “Wait, what’s that??”
I was forced to admit I was trying to play him a bit, and that was the ring. I picked it up from the sand and handed it to him.
After a few seconds for the realization to arrive, Ricardo put the ring back on Daniela’s finger.
Suddenly there was a huge amount of cheering from the overlooking balcony’s. Looking up, we saw many people in the overlooking resort had been observing the search.

I just didn’t have it in me to ask Daniela to take off her ring so I could take anymore pictures of it in the sand, so I just have these photos.

Maybe 20 minutes of searching recovered the missing ring.

We were able to find the ring early enough so Ricardo and Daniela could go have a nice breakfast before their drive to the airport, and flight to Texas.

I’m so happy to be a small part of the story of Daniela and Ricardo’s future together. All the best going forward, and I thank you for the invitation to your wedding!

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Wedding ring lost in an Oregon yard, found using a metal detector

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Received a text earlier this week from Rob, informing me he had lost his platinum wedding ring in his friend’s yard in Molalla, Oregon. He had searched for it, crawling through the grass, and used a metal detector, but came up empty.

We were able to meet on the property the following Saturday. When I arrived, Rob was already out searching, but he walked me through his activities the night the ring was lost, and where he had been in the yard. He strongly believed he had lost the ring in a section of the yard near a pathway where he had given his buddy an enthusiastic “bro-hug” as they walked through the area. He also walked me through all the areas on the property he had been in that evening. He was sure the only thing he had done that evening out of the ordinary was his hug.

I decided to start searching the area along the left side of the pathway, considering the left hand is where you wear a wedding ring. My grid search found the area had lots of scrap aluminum, and some miscellaneous iron targets. Did pull out a nickel and a few bottle caps. I could also see Rob was searching around other places in the yard by hand.

Before leaving the area I was searching, I moved into the left side of the pathway. Great signal turned out to be a sprinkler head.  Than some foil. A few feet later I hit a scratchy sound, but VDI numbers on the Manticore that were perfect. Sweeping the other direction, the sound was still questionable, but the VDI and depth seemed perfect. Reaching down and moving the 3 inches of wet grass, I could see the ring 💍.

I went looking for Rob, who was in a lower section of the yard searching. I asked him to come up so I could show him the issues that had complicated the search. I ran the detector over a few targets, expelling they didn’t sound right, or were too deep. I then went over the spot where his ring was and told him that was it.
He dug through the thick wet grass and pulled out his ring.

Rob was super happy to have his wedding ring of 17 years back on his finger.

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Wedding ring lost in Oregon for seven months, found with metal detector

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Right at the end of January, I received a text from Lalo inquiring if I was available to provide my services to help find his wife’s lost wedding ring.

He said six or seven months ago, he and his wife were doing some yard work out back, and her ring went missing. He had purchased a metal detector and tried multiple times to find it, but since he had no idea what he was doing, he had no luck. He was also concerned that due to some of the huge rainstorms we had, the ring may have been moved down the hillside. I assured him that unless there had been some substantial sliding, the ring wouldn’t have moved very much.

He wasn’t sure if the ring was white gold or platinum, but it was both her engagement ring and wedding ring welded together, with diamonds.

His hope was to find the ring and return it to her as a surprise Valentine’s Day present.

I was able to go over to his home the next day, while his wife was away. He showed me the areas he believed the ring had been lost. Searching that area, I found nothing but nails and aluminum scraps.
Moving lower into the yard, I still was getting junk signals, and was getting ready to switch out to a smaller search coil, since I was searching along a metal fence. Each swing to the right hit the fence, causing a big response on the detector, but since I was using a manticore detector, which is very capable, I continued.

A bit further, I got a hit off the fence, an iron signal, and something else. Using my pinpointer, I pulled out a nail. Knowing that you have to double check the hole, I used my pinpointer and found what we were looking for!!

Lalo seemed genuinely surprised when I handed him the ring. I hope his wife was pleasantly surprised to receive it back for her valentines gift

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Lost wedding ring in Oregon found with metal detector

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Kyle sent me a message a couple of weeks back, asking if I was willing to search for his wedding ring that had been lost in his yard for the past couple of months. I was out of town vacationing that week, and Kyle was gone the following week. Since the ring was likely in his yard, it was not a time critical search. He said he would reconnect with me later.

Fast forward about two weeks. Kyle reconnected with me, and I asked him to describe how he had lost his ring. He said he had been on his front porch one afternoon and saw a squirrel in the yard. He had been dealing with squirrels tunneling under the porch, so he grabbed a small chair and threw it, hoping to frighten it away. Unfortunately, his ring slipped off at the same time, vanishing to parts unknown. He was very confident it was somewhere in the front yard, or maybe in the neighbors yard. Kyle had to be at work, but his parents would be at the house, babysitting his young son.

I arrived and met Kyle’s father, who had been helping to look since the ring had been lost. He had even rented a metal detector, but he said it just made noise everywhere he had searched. Once I fired-up my detector, I found the first issue they had encountered. There was a huge amount of interference, likely due to the nearby houses and wiring running across the area. There was also a low, galvanized metal fence, metal landscaping trim, and a section of river rock. All can play havoc on a metal detector. I made adjustments on the Manticore and started searching the front yard. There were a few promising signals, but they all registered too deep. I moved over into the neighboring yard and began searching. Nothing until I moved a bit further from the likely area, where I received a promising signal. Using my foot, I kicked back the grass and still saw nothing. Using my pinpointer, I found the item, scraped a bit of dirt, and saw the ring. I went to retrieve my phone to take pictures of the find, and as I started back, Kyle’s father and young son were on the porch. I asked the boy if he wanted to help find his dad’s ring, and we went to the neighbors yard and I handed it to him.

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