Hire Metal detector hire service finds heirloom ring, Narroweena

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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.

Diamond ring 2 Meters in the sky.
Diamond ring 2 Meters in the sky.

So the search began where Jan best thought she saw the  ring hit the fronds  of a particularly large birds nest fern.  The search  area wasn’t particularly big but moving the metal detector search coil through brush is a tricky task at times. I moved the  metal detector around,  inside  and up the fronds of the huge ferns.  As they are designed to catch leaaves why not rings I reasoned.  But not this time.  About 30 minutes into the search I had pretty much covered the ground twice and  apart from the normal assortment of non gold metal items found, there was no sign of the Diamond ring.    Standing in the middle of  the garden looking back at the balcony I was thinking that there were a couple of trees in the possible rings flight path which had lovely ferns growing in the forks of the branches.  Ferns were also tied on the sides of the trees.  So on a hunch, I started waving my metal detector in the air up and down the trees over my head.  The look on Dennis’s face watching  my unexpected tree search was basically one of disbelief .  lol :)   At  first the metal detector picked up the metal wire holding the ferns in place on the tree, but then at extreme range there was a second beep, this beep was a strong and very positive gold reading.  I asked  Dennis if  he had a ladder, I think he  found me the ladder just to humor me somewhat.  So there I was waving the detector all around a tree Approx 2 meters above the ground.  While waiting for the ladder, I targeted the gold signal somewhere in the fork of the tree.  I swapped the metal detector for the pinpointer close work and ease of climbing  the ladder to find the source of the  signal.  Now up the ladder looking down on the tree fern in  the tree fork  I didn’t need the  pinpointer.  There in plain sight,  was the ring.  Sitting sparkling in the sun nestled in the fern.  Handing  the engagement ring down to Dennis was a  great feeling and hearing him call out to Jan  “he found it” - ”Tony found it in the tree”.  Jan who was on the balcony replied   “what!!  no! I dont  believe it.”   If I hadn’t been there I might not have believed it either.  This is the sort of story parents will tell their children if they want them to grow up to be expert metal detectorists.  The moral of this story is if you see me searching  for your lost jewellery away from the “target  area “  humour me as I will go the extra lengths to find your jewellery too.  Dennis and Jan thank you for making me welcome in your home.

 

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