Scoopa
Tim
Well this saga has abit of history so here goes.....................
The History;
It's the cricket season 2011 and our unfortunate player has just finished bowling and takes his fielding position in 'slips'. After a couple of return throws he takes a position as the bowler approaches and next thing his gold necklace falls to the ground at his feet. That's not the problem! Were's the gold wedding band that was attached to the chain, placed there for safe keeping while playing cricket. A mad search is conducted, which includes the opposing side-NO LUCK. Wife's not happy and the future's looking bleak! At an evening BBQ our fellow mentions his loss to a mate. "I know a guy who's got a metal detector' and that's where I come into the picture. We meet at the location and after a thorough questioning by me, he assures me of the location in which he lost said ring. I spend 3 hours going over this area, which is now the cleanest piece of oval you've ever seen, but no luck. After being asked many times if he could have lost it outside the selected area he again said "No it's in this area mate'" At the end of the search he thanks me for my time and we depart....
Fast forward to today- 16 May 2013. I wonder what ever happened to that ring..........
With a little bit of time on my hands I decide to grab the minelab e-trac and hit this oval again. I rang the local council and explained the situation and they were great! I marked out an area which was larger then the original one indicated by our cricket player and commenced the search. An hour and half into it and having explored many great signals, I've got nothing! I decide to search one last strip before hitting the area he was bowling at and on nearly the last swing I get a really sweet signal (11;44) solid at nearly 6 inches down. (surely that's to deep) Can't be the ring, but it's just such a great signal I'll dig it anyway. A quick search and a gold ring hits the light of day. The ring was at least 5 meters outside the original search area. You can never trust what people tell you about where they lost something. So tonight the ring will be returned after two years in the dirt so I'll let you know how that goes.....
The History;
It's the cricket season 2011 and our unfortunate player has just finished bowling and takes his fielding position in 'slips'. After a couple of return throws he takes a position as the bowler approaches and next thing his gold necklace falls to the ground at his feet. That's not the problem! Were's the gold wedding band that was attached to the chain, placed there for safe keeping while playing cricket. A mad search is conducted, which includes the opposing side-NO LUCK. Wife's not happy and the future's looking bleak! At an evening BBQ our fellow mentions his loss to a mate. "I know a guy who's got a metal detector' and that's where I come into the picture. We meet at the location and after a thorough questioning by me, he assures me of the location in which he lost said ring. I spend 3 hours going over this area, which is now the cleanest piece of oval you've ever seen, but no luck. After being asked many times if he could have lost it outside the selected area he again said "No it's in this area mate'" At the end of the search he thanks me for my time and we depart....
Fast forward to today- 16 May 2013. I wonder what ever happened to that ring..........
With a little bit of time on my hands I decide to grab the minelab e-trac and hit this oval again. I rang the local council and explained the situation and they were great! I marked out an area which was larger then the original one indicated by our cricket player and commenced the search. An hour and half into it and having explored many great signals, I've got nothing! I decide to search one last strip before hitting the area he was bowling at and on nearly the last swing I get a really sweet signal (11;44) solid at nearly 6 inches down. (surely that's to deep) Can't be the ring, but it's just such a great signal I'll dig it anyway. A quick search and a gold ring hits the light of day. The ring was at least 5 meters outside the original search area. You can never trust what people tell you about where they lost something. So tonight the ring will be returned after two years in the dirt so I'll let you know how that goes.....
