Hire Jewellery Rescue Metal Detector Hire

It was 10.05am on a Tuesday morning I received a metal detector call from a referred customer for a metal detector hire job in Wollongong, Illawarra Dapto region..

Rescued 3.6K Sapphire

 This particular call was from a local farm. Hearing this my heart dropped, as many farm  jobs mean  covering a whole lot of ground reducing the chance of  recovery.. As it turned out Tracy took off her 3.6 karat sapphire ring to keep it clean while  rubbing some  cream on her child’s legs and arms after playing in some stinging plants. She placed the ring on the car parked on the grassy nature strip while using the first aid kit in the car. Ring forgotten now the stinging plant drama over, the car was moved  several meters away to mow the grass.  It wasn’t until later that night the ring was noticed missing and the search began. Shane  and his wife search hard and long into the night with the nagging fear the ride on lawn mower had shattered the huge near pure sapphire stone. The 18k gold ring /mounting was replaceable if it was mangled so they said..  Come morning the visual search continued.. Shane who had positive results using a metal detecting service before took charge of the situation and phoned for our Jewellery Rescue services.  At the time I quoted $120 due to the extra distance and time involved with my trip from Sydney.  A small extra price to pay given the princely value of the item.     Arriving about 11.40am meeting at their farm gate as arranged  Shane and  Tracy showed  me the search area where the car was parked. Firing up the detector on a clear sunny morning I started a grid pattern working my way down the hill towards the  infamous stinging plants. As pure luck would have it I was barely on the second sweep of the search pattern when the detector nearly jumped out of my hands the response was so pronounced to the found ring underneath the coil.  No mistaking that signal brushing aside a  tuft of grass was a huge sapphire ring totally undamaged  by the lawn mower as the weight of the  ring sat it low on to the ground out of the lawn mower blades way. I offered a discount on the job  as it was a quick search but ended with an insisted generous reward instead.  Thank you  both Shane and Tracy for your referrals and opportunity to find your  ring.

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