Finds a Gentlemans wedding ring. Detector hire Maroubra Beach

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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.  

The perfect Treasure map
The perfect Treasure map

Marking the physical search area from the treasure map I began grid searching. Within 10 minutes searching I heard the familiar beep a cry for rescue from someone’s gold ring found precisely in the search area.  This ring wasn’t ”some one’s” as it had the names of Mr Stephane and his wife, name neatly engraved on the inside band. The outside of the ring had a lovely unique pattern, so interesting seeing all the  different  designs. After admiring the ring I zipped it into a secure pouch so it wouldn’t be dropped and lost again. Ring secured, I texted  Stephane the good news, but before I could put the phone in my pocket a well spoken gentlman called out my name from the nearby beach access path. Wonder how  he knew it was me? No doubt the metal detector in hand tipped him off. I asked him if  he read the text message I just sent? He said no, as I handed him his wedding band. “No way! you found it already?   Thank you, and my wife thanks you. I told him how I threw some coins in the ocean for luck and  luck was given.  As there were ominous signs beach sweeper tracks over this part of the beach as well.  Stephane gave me some great advice for my web site which I thank him for as well as the very generous reward for the swift safe return of his ring.  I don’t think you could meet a nicer person with a little old world charm in a young face. 

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Lost hire car key Maroubra Beach

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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.

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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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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Hire service, metal detector hire finds Magical Irish Ring. Stanhope Gardens

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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.

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 car key search Enmore

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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. Lost car keys recoveredThe 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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Hire Metal detector hire service rescues Gold ring at Giraween.

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Wedding  Band Rescued

Wedding Band Rescued

 Hire Jewellery Rescue with metal detector , Peter had all but given up on his wedding ring ever being found. Peter a plumber turned excellent  landscaper wanted to wear a wedding band now he wasn’t in the plumbing trade. However while  laying wood chip mulch he took his gardening gloves off during the day, losing his solid gold ring as well.  Peter and his lovely understanding wife met me in the gardens Peter was working in.  He pointed out all the aluminium and steel benches  surrounding the garden in question and asked if they would be a  hinderance to the metal detector.  I replied  my etrac metal detector would discriminate the aluminium and steel seats, however it wasn’t going to be easy as the metal detector would still respond to the mass of metal.  So the hunt  begins, Backing the power of the detector  right off I was able to search closer to the the metal seats. The etrac was able to metal  detect to with in 100mm of the seats  finding a variety of metal bobby pins etc,  I then turned to my pin pointer probe that beeps only in  very close proximity to metal items.  I used  it to search underneath the seats in and around the  steel legs pushing it through the wood chips.  Still not finding Peters wedding band.  Dusk turned to night we had to stop searching for that night no one wanted to give up the on the ring but we had to  let it go.     Peter and his wife didn’t expect to find it  and paid me my base service fee. I said I would like to look for the ring for no extra  cost on my own time on the weekend if they would have me  back on the weekend.   They agreed but didn’t get their hopes up too high, a wise  precaution.  My good friend  Brad  from  www.metaldetectorehire.com.au  and  his diving  friend  offered to come over later in the day to assist in the  search for the ring, we always want the best result for our customers and I looked forward to meeting up with him again.  So on Saturday morning when I was fresh and full of renewed inspiration I started  going CSI (crime scene investigation) in minute detail on this garden and surrounds. This  time working the  garden from a new direction as metal detectors can react differently to targets lying at different angles. Still pulling out every metal target in my path.  An  hour into the renewed  search,  a beep,  a  gold  beep, the slightest hint of a gold reading being masked by surrounding metal  influences.  So I changed sweep angles  again a stronger gold  signal  this time. Using the pin pointer to lightly sweep over  the wood chips,  into the sunlight flipped the solid  gold band that was hidden beneath.   A lovely and welcome sight.  It was my great pleasure to call Peter and his wife who were on their way to shop for a replacement ring as it turns out,  I gave them the good news.  They meet me in minutes and were ecstatic as the ring was returned to its rightful place on Peter’s finger.  I thank you  both for allowing me to  re-search the gardens.  Thank you very  much for the ample reward you gave me.  A new ring just wouldn’t be the same as the one you took your vows  with.  I wish you both all the best in the  future.

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