Lost watch found after 1 1/2 years & still running!
Well Folks, I was able to do my good deed for the day today. Long story short..........
I have been detecting at an old farm site for years now. Well, a few months ago I met a young gentleman Ray that deer hunts on the same property. We've run into each other a few times, shot the breeze, and exchanged contact info.
About a week ago he asked me if I would mind looking for his bosses watch that he had lost while planting azalea bushes and laying out pine straw at their place of employment. It had been lost for about a year and a half now. They had previously borrowed a detector and tried to find it, but had no luck in doing so.
Today we met at his work and he showed me the general vicinity where he thought it may be. I had three strikes against me going in: (1) I was getting electrical interference from something around the buildings, (2) Azalea branches are not too easy to get a web type coil around
, and (3) there was a good 5"-6" of pine straw on top of the ground as mulch.
Fortunately I like a challenge, and have been pretty lucky in the past finding lost items for people.
After about 15 minutes of working my way around these shrubs I was starting to lose hope. Then that "BEEP" that we all know and love appeared! After digging through the pine straw I saw the round face of the watch.
I'm not sure if Ray or I had the biggest grin, but we were both happy to see the watch. Sure enough the band had come apart at one of the pins.
After a closer look Ray noticed the watch was STILL RUNNING!!! I couldn't believe it.
Ray is going to surprise his boss with the watch tomorrow. I'm glad I was able to help.
Sorry for the long-winded short story.
-MM-
Well Folks, I was able to do my good deed for the day today. Long story short..........
I have been detecting at an old farm site for years now. Well, a few months ago I met a young gentleman Ray that deer hunts on the same property. We've run into each other a few times, shot the breeze, and exchanged contact info.
About a week ago he asked me if I would mind looking for his bosses watch that he had lost while planting azalea bushes and laying out pine straw at their place of employment. It had been lost for about a year and a half now. They had previously borrowed a detector and tried to find it, but had no luck in doing so.
Today we met at his work and he showed me the general vicinity where he thought it may be. I had three strikes against me going in: (1) I was getting electrical interference from something around the buildings, (2) Azalea branches are not too easy to get a web type coil around
, and (3) there was a good 5"-6" of pine straw on top of the ground as mulch.Fortunately I like a challenge, and have been pretty lucky in the past finding lost items for people.
After about 15 minutes of working my way around these shrubs I was starting to lose hope. Then that "BEEP" that we all know and love appeared! After digging through the pine straw I saw the round face of the watch.
I'm not sure if Ray or I had the biggest grin, but we were both happy to see the watch. Sure enough the band had come apart at one of the pins.After a closer look Ray noticed the watch was STILL RUNNING!!! I couldn't believe it.
Ray is going to surprise his boss with the watch tomorrow. I'm glad I was able to help.
Sorry for the long-winded short story.
-MM-
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You did good! Maybe.....the boss will be so thrilled to have it back that he'll invite you to come over and detect that 500 acre CW camp! 
