Hire Jewellery Rescue Metal Detector Hire

It was 4.30 pm on Maroubra Beach after a detector hire near the Rubicks cube north end of the beach where I failed to help  find  Mr Lee’s car keys even after much searching and fruitless digging metal detector search.  I had a sheen of perspiration on my forehead from the last job and the bitter taste of failure even though I shouldn’t beat myself up as some jobs can be mission impossible before they start. Not that we are ever to know that before we start a search.   To take debatable positive action I took a beach found gold coin and threw it out to sea for luck.  Not that I am superstitious. Well it cant hurt right?  Unless you happen to be swimming  along and a coin hits you in the back of the head out of the blue. Just kidding – I was aiming out  to sea.  Then it was back to business once again. In my hand I had Mr Stephane’s excellent treasure map of where he and his family had visited the beach and  unintentionally lost his wedding band. The prefect treasure map was a satellite image of the beach copied  from google maps and pasted into a basic  Windows picture editor like  Paint (in windows xp) there was added red rectangles  precisely locating the search area to within 5 meters.  

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The afternoon started at 12.30pm when I was on my way to  search for Mr Stephane’s wedding  band which  slipped off his finger while  enjoying  a beach visit at the lovely Maroubra Beach. I arranged to meet  Stephane later that day.  As luck and good friends would have it, Brad - another skilled metal detector from www.metaldetectorhire.com.au  phoned to ask if I was available to cover a  metal detecting job for him. (Brad and I work well together to put customers needs ahead of our own. ) Brad told me of Mr Lee’s story – how the night before he coincidentally lost his hire car key on the same beach as Mr Stephane’s  while he was travelling from Melbourne to Brisbane stopping in Sydney to visit friends. 

Beach eats hire car key.

 I meet  Mr Lee on the north end of the beach next to the giant rubics cube sculpture.  I also noted  while crossing the beach the tell tale tracks of the beach sweeping machine from earlier that morning and started to become worried.  Mr Lee told me if the key wasn’t found he would be stranded in Sydney for at least two more  days  in a motel waiting for a spare  set of car keys to be posted up to Sydney to enable him to continue his  journey.  Mr  Lee also said he had to call the NMRA out to unlock the car to get kids clothes out for the night. This was disastrous  news to  my mind and made me very determined to break this run of bad luck for this family and to find those lost keys. I had car trouble travelling in  New Zealand so I know what it is like having rental car troubles. Ours was broken into with a smashed window we had to wait for the window  to be replaced.  But sometimes the hardest work and best intentions can’t cancel stop the run of bad luck.   I searched hard in vain digging every metal target and there was lots of metal rubbish for three and a half hours. The search covered all the  area the family  had walked over and  played on.  The keys had to be there… or were they?   Mr Lees ‘s Sydney friend had joined us on dusk and we all basically reached the same conclusion. We where starting to think, that the key had indeed been swept up and taken away to a rubbish tip as the key is large with a hire car tag and easy to be swept up in the machine.   Mr Lee thanked me for my hard work and search efforts and paid me the a key search. I just hope Mr Lee had travellers insurance which covers these sort of out of pocket expenses while travelling.  From here it  was a 700 meter walk down the  beach walk to my original search job finding the gold wedding  band for Mr Stephane. I am not  really a superstitious person but I threw a  small hand full of coins I found on the beach into the ocean to try buy some good karma for the next job. Hope it works.

Tony  Jewellery Rescue.

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For  hire .  All hours metal detector hire  service. Its was 7pm Saturday evening when Tom phoned from Wamberal beach near Gosford. He told me his story of how he was wresting with his dog on the beach and some where in the excitment  his golden wedding band was pulled from his finger into the sand. Looking and feeling for it in the sand until night set in making any further search very difficult.  I think  Tom sounded a little surprised over the phone I was willing to drive to Wamberal  and search that night for the ring  he took his vows with.  I was glad Tom was willing to meet me about 9pm on a Saturday night a show me the search area on the beach as the tide was going out .   I feel it is important to search ASAP on a beach as the sand is always shifting . On some beaches they have beach sweeping machines contracted that can beat us to your jewellery buried in the sand. If that happens it is most likly lost forever.  The search began on a moonless night it was very dark on the beach,  the waves where pounding, the only light from near by houses illuminating the landmarks.  This did not  sway Tom’s unerring sense of direction and he soon located and defined the search area, the scene of the dog wrestling.   First of all I searched quickly closest area  to the sea  near a 3 foot vertical sand bank drop off, robbing the sea of  a possible new treasure. This was clear of any metal targets. Slowly I worked my way up the  beach, our  shadowy progress punctuated by the barking of a local neighborhood dog. The barking dog worked in our favour as the dog owners turned on outside flood lights to see what the noise was all about lighting our search area some what. The unusual minerals  in the sand was tripping the detector as metal targets. It is times like this cheap hire detectors will have you digging endlessly finding no metal targets, this can  be highly frustrating  for any one.  But to a reliable Etrac detector it indicated it was only minerals under foot, yet I slow down and always double check as minerals can mask targets. I don’t  like taking the slightest chance in missing precious memories through haste.

Lovely Gold Rounded ring.

 I worked my way up the beach systematically away from the ocean, I was getting worried as I was close to top  of the primary search area  with out any thing to show to for 45 minutes  work.  I was thinking the search  would have to extend down the beach over the area Tom and his wife walked before they noticed the rings was gone. A vast new search area with an ever dececreasing  chance of success…   On the 2nd last leg of the search sweep on the outer most edge of the detector coil was a metal signal not  gold. But quickly the reading changed as I centered over the target.  Toms ring then sounded like a golden Big Ben in the head phones loud and clear. With the quick use of  the pin pointer probe I had  hand full of sand and Toms wedding band in my hand.  It was solid and uniquely rounded inside and out on the band quite unusual must be very comfortable to wear.  Well Tom came over excepted the ring and in a spontaneous moment of happiness and relief bear hugging me  lol  I return gave him a couple of thumps on the back as the wave of success was like crossing the line in a State of Origin match I would imagine.   Tom held the ring in the head lamp light  I think the photo captures his feelings at that moment best of all, do you?   The  job  done, I was invited back to meet Tom’s family for a most welcome coffee before my return journey to Sydney. There I also meet  family dog good watch dog that started this lost ring story. Toms and his charming wife’s was happy, a little surprised and I think a little relieved the ring was back on Toms finger where she be wed him it 16 years ago.  I thank the family for the write up in face book and for the generous reward for coming out quickly and success.   However the story doesn’t quite end there as  I lost a digging tool possibly on Toms beach.  I put a reward out of $50 for my gator digging tool (fancy garden trowel) I lost some where on one of three beachs I visited that night.  So I in a total roll reversal  I experienced a new loss. I thank Tom for checking his beach for me but the trowel remains at large.  So the moral of this story is we all lose stuff and really appreciate its triumphant  if not unexpected  return  when  hope can be diminished.  I just hope my finder of the garden tool makes good use of  it   Tony from Jewellery Rescue.

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Saved by a hire service. A  miraculous metal detector hire true story at Narroweena in Sydneys Northern shore. The finding of  Jan’s  Grandmother’s, engagement diamond ring.  It was 7.30 am I had been up early that morning searching  local beaches for new treasures given up by the stormy ocean’s waves and currents but that’s another story.  Jan’s story began when she was standing on the balcony overlooking their yard.  She tossed a stick for their bouncing boxer dog  but right at the point of release she felt and saw both the stick and diamond ring  leave her hand and sail across the yard into a lovely garden of huge waist high birds nest ferns.  They searched the garden intensively by hand and sight even over the fence at the neighbour’s yard as a remote possibility.  The ring was an irreplaceable  golden heirloom  lovingly entwined with the  family’s historical love stories.  A new ring could never take its place.

Comments (0) Aug 03 2009

Ready for hire, Metal detector charged up always ready to go on a hire  service. It  was 11:30am on a cool winters morning, the phone  rang I was talking to a good man ( names with-held  privacy requested) that was telling  me  his tale of  loss. 

Magical Ring wanted to be found and reunited with its mate.

He was weekend gardening, spreading out a layer of sugar cane mulch on the garden for the spring time vegtables when he notice his wedding band was missing from his finger.  It  mischievously slipped off while working with the mulch and was hidden.  They first searched by hand , then  bought an inexpensive Chinese metal detector of  unknown quality and used it with no success sadly.  I think the message here is if your going to buy / hire get a good machine  I recommend www.minersden.com.au  if you want to DIY.   I  jumped into  the car and meet  with his wife at their house.   She was clearly shaken and upset with the loss and recent unsuccessful search attempts.  She showed me her matching wedding  band they had specially crafted in Ireland.  A beautiful  pair of  matching Celtic designed rings. I scanned her  gold ring as good metal detectors can discriminate against all other metals and find only the matching gold signature of the target jewellery.  So the metal detector hunt began. The lovely lady had no sooner sat down in a  garden chair to watch my search progress ., two sweeps  later with the E Trac detector and there was a  perfect matching gold ring signal coming from under the mulch near a small tree trunk.  Out with the pinpointer probe and the search was  over in less than 2  minutes. From under the suger cane mulch emerged the matching wedding band mate.  It was very clear I suggested to the  surprised  lady the magical Irish  ring wanted to be found fast  and returned to its mate with out delay. I am now wishing I took a  photo of the two rings together as they where meant to be.  I thank you very much for offering me an addiitonal  reward on this  job but in good conscience I couldn’t  accept the money as the ring did all the work quickly.

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Hire Metal Detector hire service and the lost key  jungle search started with a  metal detector hire request for assistance from Else a university student in Ultimo who for close on 10 days had been searching in vain for her friend’s lost car keys dropped some time while gardening.  She phoned as soon as she discovered my web page and metal detector search service. The garden on arrival was  full of mature plants with a compost bin in the middle for organic waste. It was night time with rain showers, making the garden all the more dark and jungle like.  I was prepared  for the rain and the dark.  I wasn’t to know it at first but this  job was to be the amongst the most  challenging metal detector jobs I have undertaken. When starting the search it soon became apparent overhead there where power lines above the bushes and underground there was a buried power cable with 12V AC for the front gate entery latch. On the near sides of the garden were concrete slabs with steel  reinforcing mesh.  This meant the E trac metal detector had to reject interference from two nearby power sources power and discriminate the  large mass of steel in the concrete to pick up other metal signals. To many other detectors this would be game over, a no go search zone but with some advanced metal detector techniques this area was searchable.  The  metal detector was able to cancel all but the very close 12v ac power cable less than a meter from the search area. The machine was  yet constantly warbling in a noisy manner due to the close  12v power  under ground line yet  luck would  have it I was still able to pick out clear metal target noises.  But the worst was yet to come.  As Else  was adding to the  the compost bin heap it was strongly thought the key was lost in it. So the search began pulling out all metal items digging in and around a pungent compost heap steaming in the cold night air as it was disturbed. Digging  through the  mound was really  bad now so you know why it was one of the worst  jobs. lol  All manner of  metal rubbish was removed that didn’t  belong in a compost  heap. but no key was  found. It was then  Else  mentioned she used some of the compost to fill 200mm deep hollows in the garden nearby so we turned the all metal search over them pulling  out numerous metal bottle tops and metal bits.  But in the end out  popped  her friends missing car key. After thoroughly washing  myself and equipment I thanked  Else for the base fee and the extra unasked for reward money for enduring the compost heap beyond  the call of  duty.

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