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.

Comments (0) Mar 10 2010

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