Mike (Virginia Beach)
New member
Well, I've found MANY a diamond ring with my Minelabs since the last time I posted a find in here. But the CZ-70 is still one of my all time favorite machines and I'll always have mine. And it's found its fair share of gold rings too...just not lately. Until today, that is.
Yesterday a lady where I work lost her thin 14K diamond ring in a HUGE plastic trash can full of heavily compacted shredded paper from emptied out paper shreddders. This stuff was tightly mangled and tangled together. Despite searching through it repeatedly yesterday, they were unable to find it. I told her I'd bring my detector today and we'd find it. So today we brought one of those huge industrial heavy plastic 50 gallon+ trash bags full of shreddings outside (which was about half of it), laid it on the ground, and with everything notched in, I scanned it with the CZ with the 10.5" coil. Nothing. I rolled the bag about 1/4 of the way, stamped it down a little, and hit it again...nothing. So I rolled it a little more, stamped it down some, scanned it...dink, dink, dink...foil, all day long. I said "There's your ring."
I pinpointed it, took out my Schrade Old Timer, and cut a hole in the bag. I carefully spread apart the shreddings in the pinpointed area...there it was. Everybody was so surprised. Everybody but me. She gave me a big hug and was very happy. Unfortunately, no camera to document the event at the time. Still, good deed done for the day and I suppose I could call that my "First 2007 gold ring!" and get away with it.
Yesterday a lady where I work lost her thin 14K diamond ring in a HUGE plastic trash can full of heavily compacted shredded paper from emptied out paper shreddders. This stuff was tightly mangled and tangled together. Despite searching through it repeatedly yesterday, they were unable to find it. I told her I'd bring my detector today and we'd find it. So today we brought one of those huge industrial heavy plastic 50 gallon+ trash bags full of shreddings outside (which was about half of it), laid it on the ground, and with everything notched in, I scanned it with the CZ with the 10.5" coil. Nothing. I rolled the bag about 1/4 of the way, stamped it down a little, and hit it again...nothing. So I rolled it a little more, stamped it down some, scanned it...dink, dink, dink...foil, all day long. I said "There's your ring."
I pinpointed it, took out my Schrade Old Timer, and cut a hole in the bag. I carefully spread apart the shreddings in the pinpointed area...there it was. Everybody was so surprised. Everybody but me. She gave me a big hug and was very happy. Unfortunately, no camera to document the event at the time. Still, good deed done for the day and I suppose I could call that my "First 2007 gold ring!" and get away with it.