Jewellery Rescue Metal Detector Hire

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.

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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.

Comments (0) Aug 02 2009

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.

Comments (1) Aug 02 2009