So then this guy shows up...help!...

[mudpuppy]

He posted at 8 am this morning that he lost his wedding ring at the local boatramp last night...I got a hold of him since i just got home. I met him there, and of course the ramp is concrete/rebar with steel dock stanchions... I adjusted the F70 25disc, 45sens, to sort of hit on my wedding ring above the rebar overload, and commenced to wading...then a guy shows up that was pulling a boat and heres the story...half of the ring was inside the boat. Seems the victim was holding onto the boat and guiding it as it was being pulled up off the ramp, standing on the dock, the windshield hooked the ring and broke it in two...so no telling where the other half went, and what kind of signal it would make...if any of you have any ideas that may help, let me know... of course the muck at the ramp is littered with pulltabs, splitshot, bottlecaps and glass...and I was in there barefoot...I think half a ring would go right through my scoop anyway...and I think but dont know if it would be a foil reading or not...and I dont know if it can be found with all that rebar in there anyway...i tried the CZ 20, but could not disc out iron and still hit pulltab...Impossible?
Mud

 

[jim tn]

I am, well, heck, I guess I only have one suggestion. HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[tvr]

Half a ring will very probably hit in the iron range and not even into the low foil range; without the re-bar there to interfere ... so yes ... what Jim said!!
tvr

 

[ez4sure]

hey at least you tried good on ya mud

 

[grumpy]

Well I probally will sound off the wall but if you had underwater capabilities you might scour the imediate area with like a garrett pinpointer , not so sensitive and using it like a swiping side tool.?? I use that to go over coin spills at shallow depth and the hole rod and tip is hot so it works pretty good without going deep enough to get much garbage signal?? Running the side of it on the ground. Just a thought but the ring would have to be something really valuable or special to warrant anything ; just half of it??

Best of luck to You; U gonna Need it.
Grumpy

 

[mudpuppy]

Thanks guys...Yeah Grumpy, he's had it for 28 years...its not like it is a huge piece of gold, just sentimental. I told him to have another ring made with the half band found in the guys boat, so at least his new ring would contain some of the original. My only thought at this juncture is to take a flat shovel, and scoop the mud into a tub and hope it pans out. The other notion is there may be several gold rings down in those boatramp grooves and gaps between the concrete, a guy could possibly find in low water situations, or with some sort of suction like a gold dredge has.
Mud

 

[ElginTim]

Been on a couple painful lost ring hunt failures in the last couple years. Sounds like you're there Mud, good luck if you can come up with a workable solution.