Busseton Beach Lost Gold Ring Search Unsucessful
Busselton Beach where the Ring was Lost
My search for the Lost Ring in Busselton was unsuccesful, I spent 5 hours both in the water and on the beach looking for the ring, I cannot understand why I could not find it, because Boris knew exactly where the ring was lost, the area where the ring was lost in a beach which is very shallow. You can walk 20 metres into the water and still the water is only up to your waist.
The beach does not have any waves, there is not rocks around the beach, it is just pure white sand.
There are three possibilities about the location of this ring. Firstly someone else has already found the ring, the beach is frequented by quite a few people walking along the beach, people walking dogs and people swimming.
Secondly Tropical Cyclone Bianca caused very windy weather on the night that Boris lost his ring, so there is a chance that the ring could have been taken into deeper water.
Thirdly, about a metre from where the ring was lost are small wooden pylons (see image to left), there is a good chance that the ring is lodged somewhere on these pylons… mind you I dug alot of sand from around each pylon, hoping I might dig out the ring, but no luck. The reason I dug the sand away was because these pylons have large steel bolts lodged in them, and I could not move my metal detector anywhere near them without getting interferance.
I believe that scenario one and three are likely.
I am so sorry that I could not find this ring, unfortunately not all of my lost ring searches are successful.
How much do I charge to find your lost jewellery, money, rings etc?
I charge nothing at all to search for your lost item, but my services is based on a reward only if found basis that is, if I find your lost ring, jewellery etc, then it is up to you what you’d like to give me as a reward.
A small fuel surcharge may be required depending on the distance I need to travel.
If I don’t find your lost item, then I don’t expect anything.
I do not hire out my metal detectors.
Gold and Rubies
Beautiful Gold Ring with Nine Rubies
The other day when I was searching and beach metal detecting for a clients lost Silver St Christophers Pendant, Silver Necklaces And a Silver Ring at Scarborough Beach I found plenty of coins, but also a beautiful Gold and Ruby Ring which must have been lost recently, most likely by a overseas tourist as the Beach is right opposite the 5 Star Observation City Hotel.
Unfortunately I did not find my clients lost jewellery, but was very happy to find this beautiful Gold Ring with Nine Rubies on it.
Happy to reunite this ring with its original owner, but the person must be able to identify some of its unique characteristics.
Gold and Rubies
How much do I charge?
I charge nothing at all to search for your lost item, but my services is based on a reward only if found basis that is, if I find your lost ring, jewellery etc, then it is up to you what you’d like to give me as a reward.
A small fuel surcharge may be required depending on the distance I need to travel.
If I don’t find your lost item, then I don’t expect anything.
I do not hire out my metal detectors.
Metal Detector Hire Perth
Perth - The Worlds Most Isolated City!
Just to let any visitors know that I will be in Perth from Wedsneday 4th November to approximately late November.
But I will be returning home down south on the Fridays, returning to Perth on Sundays. During the week, I’ll be doing a few courses, but if you contact me, I should be able to do a search for you at the end of the day or in the evening.
So if you have lost any Jewellery or Rings recently at any Perth Beaches, Swan River, Parks, Playgrounds or at your home in the garden, please get in quick and book me to hopefully find your Lost Jewellery
If I can’t help you, I’ll find someone who can, I have some good metal detecting contacts who have helped me in the past.
How much do I charge?
I charge nothing at all to search for your lost item, but my services is based on a reward only if found basis that is, if I find your lost ring, jewellery etc, then it is up to you what you’d like to give me as a reward.
A small fuel surcharge may be required depending on the distance I need to travel.
If I don’t find your lost item, then I don’t expect anything.
I do not hire out my metal detectors.
Cottesloe Beach - Western Australia - Have you lost your jewellery here?
Operation Haystack – Metal Detecting Mission Accomplished!
My Minelab Excalibur Metal Detector
About four weeks ago, I got a phonecall from Eddie, to do a metal detecting search for a missing Fork Lift Prong which snapped off inside one of his bales of hay. See that Metal Detecting Story
That search was a successful search, and a few days ago I received another phonecall from Eddie, informing me that they had found one half of a star picket inside a hay bale and they needed my Western Australian Metal Detecting Services to locate the other half of the broken star picket.
For international readers a Star Picket is a Metal Fence Post, used by farmers to fence their paddocks to keep their livestock safe.
Star Picket embedded in the Hay!
Anyhow I arrived at the place, around noon today, and Eddie showed me the bales I had to search, around 20 bales all up.
I used my minelab excalibur metal detector to undertake the search, even though this detector is basically an under water and beach metal detector
, I find this detector very powerful and easy to use, and will pick up all kinds of metal easily.
Eddie arranged the bales, and soon I started getting good signals, around 50% of the bales of hay had pieces of metal, such as bits of wire, but the wire was not what I was looking for. I had to find the star picket.
The Target
With all the bales that I got metal signals from, we put them to one side, and then individually broke open the bales of hay to find what metal was inside of them. About 6 bales of hay later, we found what I was hired to find, the other half of the broke star picket.
Billy "Blog Author" Search Hay Bales
I was happy and Eddie was happy. A big piece of metal inside a bale of hay can do hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to the hay processor. And if one of those bales of hay was imported overseas and their customers found it, then that could mean a loss of a good valued customer and once again many thousands of dollars to the company.
$10,000 Buried Cache Found!
Billy (LostTreasure.com.au Author) Holding the Found Cache of Money
A few days ago I wrote how I had received an email from John, who told me that he buried money, and could not find it.
Well I arranged to meet John at his house to carry out a metal detecting search of his backyard to find the buried money. I asked John what caused him to bury the money and basically he said that he did not trust banks and burying it would be the safest way. Previously he had buried $20,000 in two jars which he managed to find no problems, but the missing $10,000 that he emailed me about was nowhere to be found.
Day 1
I arrived at Johns house and immediately started metal detecting in the area where he said that he believed he buried the cache of money about 12 months before hand. As per usual with backyard metal detecting searches, I knew I would start getting immediate signals from other pieces of metal, coins, bottle caps, rusty nails, aluminum foil and much more.
John told me that he buried the money in a glass jar, the money was wrapped in aluminum foil and plastic wrap, so I was looking for a good sound that would correspond to “aluminum foil”
John had previously digged in the area where he said that the money was buried, and I told him, that would likely make the hunt harder, because of all the misplaced top soil and so forth.
This search was prooving far more difficult that what I had expected, within a couple of hours we had dug away around a tonne of soil, this was because of all the trash metal in the ground. I asked John how deep did he remember burying the money and he said around 3 foot deep, so I was a bit wary that my detector would pick up a signal that deep. That is one of the reasons that I decided to remove a couple feet of the soil.
It was really hard work, hot and sweaty, I arrived at his place around 3pm and by 6pm I was still there, it was getting dark and both John and I were getting tired. I also started to doubt Johns story, thinking that maybe he did not bury it at all, or if he did, he had already dug the money up and forgot about it.
John also told me he marked the asbestos fence with a small X which would correspond to the place where he buried the money, I searched the fence for the X but could not find it.
I also question myself, maybe someone saw John burying the money, and stole it, or even maybe one of Johns close friends stole it.
I told John, that it was time to stop digging, and to re-evaluate the situation, I question him numerous times about the hidden stash of money, asking such things like “Are you sure this is the spot?”, ”Did you tell anyone?”, “Is there by chance you’ve already dug it up?” and many other questions.
All of which he was certain and answered the right questions.
Anyhow I decided to call it a day and to come back the next day to continue with the search.
I left John’s place, rather dissapointed not to have found his hidden cache of money.
Day 2
I arrived at Johns place uncertain, but still confident that I would find the money for John.
Like the day before, we dug and dug and dug! I metal detected the whole area over and over. I also made myself the day before a “Money Probe” A long thin piece of steel with a footrest to push 3 – 4 feet into the soil, hoping that the probe would hit the jar under the top soil.
Once again it was starting to get dark, and there was no hope of finding the money.
Then I asked John about when he marked the fence, and then I decided to go over to the asbestos fence again to have a closer look for the X he said he marked as the spot near where the money was supposed to have been buried.
And guess what, I found the X marked on the wall, and told him I found the X, we then went one of the spots where John said he had buried his last cache of money, and I decided to dig the shovel there.
$10,000 in Buried Money Retrieved!I dug about two foot of soil out, then waved my metal detector over the hole, I heard a very very faint signal. Then I grabbed the shovel off John, and dug out another two foot of soil. As I shoveled the soil, I noticed a plastic lid land in the mound of soil.
We both looked at the jar lid, and then I quickly hopped onto my knees with started digging with my hands.
I felt something plastic, the jar, (the jar he told me was glass) and inside the jar, I felt the aluminum foil and I yelled out “I GOT IT!” and then I pulled out the money like a little excited kid, show John and we literally ran around the yard in excitement!
John was screaming out, “WE GOT IT, WE GOT IT! YOUR A CHAMPION BILLY!” and he ran inside to tell his girlfriend, she was excited too.
Wow, I was really excited and so satisifed that I found the huge cache of hidden money.
We went inside John’s house, I had a glass of water, and John laid out all of the money on his dining table. And that’s when I took a photo of the cache.
I asked John if I could take a photo of him holding the money, but he declined, saying he did not want his face on the internet for fear of family and friends seeing his photo. So instead John took a photo of me holding his wad a cash … a cool $10,000 dollars.
John gave me a huge reward for finding his money, my best reward to date, so thanks heaps John!
John’s a really nice bloke, very genuine and trustworthy, I suppose you must be trustworthy when you ask a stranger to help find ten thousand dollars buried in your backyard!
Billy ... Happy after finding the Buried Money Cache
Buried Money and a Lost Diamond and Gold Earring
Next Metal Detecting Mission - to find buried stash of money!
The title says it all!
I am heading up to Perth on Thursday to do a couple of Metal Detecting searches for two clients.
Client One informs me that they have buried a stash of money wrapped in foil and enclosed in a jar sealed with a metal lid, thats gotta be one of the strangest phonecalls I have had to date. I asked a few questions, and wondered why the money was buried, but that’s their business and not mine.
I have been told, that all up three jars were buried, two have been successfully recovered by the owner and the person is unable to find the third jar that they have buried. It could be a hard job, as I have been told that the jars were buried in three foot of soil, so I am hoping my Minelab Metal Detectors will get a signal. I have been informed the person has already done a fair bit of digging around, so that could make the mission …. impossible! Of course I am hoping to find the hidden cache, because I have been promised anywhere between $250 and $500 for a reward to find the buried treasure of cold hard cash! I’ll keep you informed.
You’d be surprised the amount of people who bury money!
People hide their money!
Since the beginning of time and still to this day people have hidden their valuables for safekeeping’s. If you ask yourself why… Here are a few reasons.
War Time
War time has caused many people throughout history to rush and hide their most valuable possessions (Gold, Silver, Cash, Jewellery & Paintings) in their homes and on their property, for safe keeping. After the war some were able to recover their valuables, many were not as fortunate.
Banks or financial institutions
Many individuals who grew up during the depression are hiding their money. They fear they may experience what their family went through before them. So they hide money as a way to feel secure. And obviously many people do not trust banks, so they hide or bury their lifesavings.
Sickness
Unfortunatelty, Dementia and Alzheimers Disease affects many people, and obviously this can make people do strange things, such as burying their money and valuables in the backyard. Same goes for people who suffer from gambling problems.
Save it for A Rainy Day
People also hide their money for that rainy day, they think that one day when I retire or get sick, I’ll be okay, because I have this money hidden away … then what happens? BANG … they die suddenly, and no one knows about their hidden stash.
We’ve all hidden our money
Let’s face it, we all hide our money, and most of us, including myself have hidden our money and even forgotten that we’ve hidden our money, then maybe a year or three down the track, we are reading one of our old books, and all of a sudden we turn a page, and there is a couple hundred dollars sitting in between the pages, and we remember … “that’s were I hid it!”
If you feel a close relative may have buried their money, lifesavings, jewels, contact me and I may be able to help you recover it!
Read More About People Burying and Hiding their money, jewellery, and much more (Business operated by good Canadian friend Chris Turner)
Client two, a husband of a lady informs me, his wife who has lost her diamond and gold studded earring, whilst walking on a path in one of the metro suburbs of Perth. So far I have done three metal detecting hire jobs in Perth for lost earrings and I have yet to have any luck on retrieving them. Lost earrings are very hard to find with a metal detector, but I have found earrings on beaches before. So if you have lost a valued piece of jewellery, such as a ring, watch or bracelet, even buried money or jewels and you are thinking of hiring a metal detector to find it, call me first and I’ll be happy to help!
Remember, I don’t charge by the hour, I do my metal detecting hire service based on a reward only if I find your lost item, if I don’t find it, well you don’t have to give me anything!
Carlos’s Lost Gold Wedding Ring Found by Tony
Carlos very happy after being reunited with his lost wedding ring!
Sometimes I get a phonecall for a Metal Detecting job, which unfortunately I cannot do due to myself being too busy with other commitments, such as house renovations I am currently doing, but I have some great contacts in Perth who can do the jobs for me.
Last night I received a phonecall from Carlos who is from Brazil and currently living in Perth with his wife. Carlos told me that he lost his ring at Mosman Park near the Swan River, and obviously was pretty distressed about losing his ring. I told him I could not do the job, but if he emailed me his contact details, and description of the ring and how he lost it, I would forward the details to a few friends in Perth who also do Metal Detecting.
So anyway I got his email and emailed my mates, and asked if any of them could help out.
First in first served, and my friend Tony was the first to reply and said he could do the job today.
Thanks Tony!
Carlos's Lost Ring Found!
He is an email I received from Tony today about the search!
Billy,
What an amazing find….yeah, I found it alright.
I picked up Carlos from his house and we drove down to the river beach area.
When we got to the spot, I realised that Carlos had been digging and sifting for his ring. There were big mounds of sand and a trench area where he had been digging. He told me he had spent 5 hours digging and sifting for it.
He’d actually bought a “metal detector” from Cash Converters and has been sifting through a section of flyscreen.Not good I thought.
I powered up the Sovereign (max everything) and spent an hour going over and over the area, trying to flatten his huge piles of sand.
I tried the water’s edge to about 1 foot deep…nothing but crap. I dug every signal…pulltabs, sinkers, coins but no gold ring.I could see his eyes light up every time I dug something but no gold.
I had covered the area and then some. I realised the ring wasn’t going to be found, probably buried under his mounds of sand.
I’d pretty much given up.I told him I’d try for 5 more minutes down again at the water’s edge.
I’d really only gone there to wash the sand of the coil. Well, can you believe it….another nice tone and there in the bottom of my hand scoop was a bloody huge two tone 18k gold ring.
I washed it off and then turned around to face Carlos……the look on his face was fantastic.
We were both totally stunned….I think he was trying hard to not cry but it was very emotional for him.
His wife will be very happy.
Carlos is here working whilst his wife studies. Carlos is an Olympic K1 kayaker…might be representing Australia or Brazil in coming Olympics.
All of my services were totally free…I insisted. We are going to have a few beers next week to celebrate.
I took some pics. The close up wasn’t the best but the other two show a very happy Carlos.
Carlos wanted to also personally thank you for your website service.
Talk soon,
Tony
Just like to personally say thanks Tony for helping Carlos find his ring today! Well done mate!
Huge Needle in a Haystack Found!
Not exactly a Needle in a Haystack - But a Broken Steel Forklift Prong in a haystack!
These may sound a bit weird but today I found a needle in a haystack! But the needle was about three feet long!
Yesterday I received a phone from Eddie in Great Southern region of West Australia. Eddie informed me that when moving some huge hay bales with their forklift one of the needle like prongs snapped off the forklift and he knew that the prong was somewhere inside one of eighteen bales of hay they were sorting and moving with their haystack forklift.
I put one of my Perth Metal Detector Hire flyers at the Coles shopping centre in Narrogin, about a week ago and just by chance Eddie saw the flyer on the classifieds board, so he decided to give me a call to see if I could help him out.
Of course I said yes and today I drove a couple of hours to Narrogin to help find the huge needle in the haystack. I had eighteen bales to search, and by the third bale I got a good signal and presumed that was the bale where the prong was embedded.
Just to make certain, I checked all the rest of the hay bales and the third bale was the only one to send off a beep with my detector.
So Eddie ripped the bale apart, and there it was. He found it in the centre of the bale, he was happy and so was I.
That is definitely one of my unusual metal detecting stories. But it opens my eyes to all the different jobs I could do in helping people, such as farmers who may lose a valuable metal item on their farm and much more.
