WATER WITCHING:WHATS YOUR STORY?

[J_J]

The only problem with the magnetic field disruption theory is that a handheld gauss meter would be much more efficient and accurate, but I don't think that's in the arsenal of professional well drillers even though it would pay for itself by correcting a single mistake. Most of the studies I've seen show dowsers have no greater chance at finding water than random drilling, including one where the water was clearly marked (flowing through large plastic pipes 1.5' below the surface) and they just had to guess which pipe had the water. We tend to remember the hits and forget the misses with things like this. Science is great in that it doesn't have to explain WHY something happens, but if it really works it would be predictable and repeatable and therefore able to be scientifically tested. Of course, I'm a born skeptic so I fall into the same trap a lot of other people do - I pay a lot more attention to the studies that I agree with and I'm also exposed to those studies a lot more than ones that have to be qualified with "known to the state of California"

I tend to agree. If this principle depends on a magnetic field, then how does the forked WOOD stick work. You can twist the handles of the wood sticks, and make it point up or down. I also checked this little trick out, and you can make the coat hangers turn when ever you want. What do you think will happen to those coat hangers here in Florida. You dig down 10 feet, and you will hit water just about anywhere. If this principle works, it should work every time. Beliefs are just that, they don't have to be true.

 

[texasjohn]

As a youngster, a friend introduced me to the use of coat hangers bent into an L shape... the short end went down into the neck of a glass coke bottle while the long ends were held straight out in front of you... I would walk across the yard holdig the coke bottle with the ends level toward where I knew a galvanized pipe was burried... the ends would begin to swing apart as I neared the pipe. When I was directly over the pipe, the ends would point in both directions along the path of the pipe. This worked for several pipes that I knew were burried. Walking past the pipe the ends would continue to rotate utill the pointed to behind me.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it... I have never tried to witch water for a well, or locate a burried plastic pipe... thus can't comment on that

 

[Spiveyman]

You won't find a bigger skeptic than me. I'm a skeptic to the extreem, but there are some things that work even when we don't beleive it or know how it works. Us not beleiving it or not being able to explain it doesn't stop it from working. I guess it helps if you've seen it for real and done it for real. Outside of that I would think it was all a hoax too.

 

[Kendall69]

Yep, it works for me, the bent hangers. I never did trust it looking for a buried PVC 2" water pipe, that I knew was somewhere where I was.

The hangers reacted ina ceratin area, but I would not believe it since my "memory" said it was several yards further.

With the help of of my wife I blindfolded myself so as not to taint the results, sure enough it reacted again. OK, I'll bite, and dug. It was spot on center of teh 2" pipe. So rather than digging many test holes I dug one hole and found what I was looking for.

I don't get either, I sorta don't believe it, but it sure as heck works.

 

[hockeypuck]

I tend to agree. If this principle depends on a magnetic field, then how does the forked WOOD stick work. You can twist the handles of the wood sticks, and make it point up or down. I also checked this little trick out, and you can make the coat hangers turn when ever you want. What do you think will happen to those coat hangers here in Florida. You dig down 10 feet, and you will hit water just about anywhere. If this principle works, it should work every time. Beliefs are just that, they don't have to be true.

My sentiments exactly, although the stories are great, keep em coming.

A friend sent a witcher over to my new home after we drilled a 500 foot dry hole in the ground. He almost had me until he started talking to it and making specific requests. He was using a v shaped branch. Anyways I hydrofracked and go 7 gpm.

 

[alan40]

After 20 years in P-3's and operating the Mad system it really worked. Oil companies use it and it is also a course in college for geologists. I can also make the coat hangers work but not a apple y switch work. My neighbors Dad showed me how to use them. I've trace septic systems and had good results. Just one of those things that work and make people look at you weird. Watching the Navy/rutgers game right now and am not happy. I'm enlisted (E-6) but support all Navy programs.

 

[BizDoc]

I have not, since I was a boy, wondered if witching worked. I watched a man peform this with a Y shaped willow stick that would bend toward the earth when he was over water. So after he finished, a friend of mine and I retrieved willow Y sticks and tried it out. We tried it over places where there was no quesion of water first, small streams and such, and the sticks bent to the ground, we held the sticks to tight the bark twisted off the branches, we could not hold the stick from bending. Having seen and done this first hand I have never understood the unbelievers. So, as for me, I believe. Can't explain how it works, never one of my fields of study, but i've seen it work and done it, that's enough for me.

 

[J_J]

I forgot to ask if the water finder works with still water or running water, and will it be able to find metal caskets, because I am sure that they disturb the EMF surrounding our planet

If interested, please read.

dowsing (a.k.a. water witching)

 

[jdbower]

The problem with dowsing is that it's too easy to test scientifically, it's not like psychics who can be vague enough to allow for interpretation. If it's electromagnetic fields we can measure them very precisely. If it's something else we can measure the forces on the rods. If it requires the use of a person as a conduit for whatever the force is we just use ground penetrating radar or something to map out an underground flow and see if a bunch of dowsers can locate it. Note that science doesn't need to explain HOW it works to test if it actually does work - there's plenty of weird stuff out there that we have no idea why it happens but we can observe that it does. Even something as fundamental as gravity is remarkably poorly understood but we can at least measure it and predict it.

If you're a good dowser there's a million dollars at stake as found on this site, you just need an 80% success rate. Again, the information above is very friendly to my way of thinking so it's not very balanced - but to me extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. As mentioned above, dowsing has a great success rate for well drilling mostly because if you dig deep enough you'll hit water just about anywhere - I'd need a dowser to find a spot on my land where there ISN'T water

 

[BizDoc]

Point well taken. When I had our house built a few years ago we had the well driller come over and he said, where to you want the well? I was dumbfounded, wasn't he going to do some scientific search for water to determine where it was, shouldn't we check geological maps for where the water runs? Nope, just show me where you want the well. That was it, I said put it there, he drilled, and we have water, so I guess if you drill deep enough there's water most places, within reason that is.