WATER WITCHING:WHATS YOUR STORY?

[RonMar]

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.

Well considering he probably got paid by the foot wether your chosen position struck water or not, I don't suppose he really would care. If it was a dry hole, well you picked the spot not him. If it had been a dry hole, I am sure he would have been glad to punch another one or two down for you. In fact, the less likley your decision, the more he probably liked it Or you have a broad predictable water table in your area and he knew that so it didn't really matter where you picked.

 

[MikeD74T]

In the 70's & 80's when I was working in residential construction I saw several dowsers in action. All predicted water somewhere on the sites. Some were drillers, some not. When the drillers that were not dowsers came to a job they were always careful to set up exactly where the homeowner's dowser said water was as not to be blamed for a dry hole. In one area a driller with a pounder predicted lots of water at 400' where the neighboring wells were 600+' and very low producers. Some had 2 holes to get enough water. He actually got the job based on his prediction as he couldn't drill to 600'. He hit 50+ gpm at very close to 400'. That was also the time period when rotary drills were showing up & pounders going away.
One dowser that really impressed me was a water company employee. He was using the coat hanger method to locate a water main and found another water line where he had no reason to know one existed. He located the line in multiple spots along it's route to an obscurred spigott. MikeD74t

 

[zeuspaul]

I was on a consruction site. All surface land marks had been removed...no more street and gutters. Pipelines are generally located from street center or sidelines.

A dowser showed up to locate some oil pipelines prior to excavation. He was there a couple of minutes and located several lines. I asked him what his success rate was...his response 100%.

The guy was a full time employee of a major international oil company.

Zeuspaul

 

[tommu56]

escavader

this looks like a good mythbusters show theme you aught to call them

tom

 

[escavader]

escavader

this looks like a good mythbusters show theme you aught to call them

tom

TOM,
Ijust find this subject fasinating ,but i still dont understand how it works.Ididnt know about the coethanger thing and magnetic fields til reading the replys.How the heck does a piece of wood work then?Does it have iron propertys in it?The guy who witched for me used white maple,but he claimed apple wood was the best.Igot to try it to see if i have the ability.
ALAN

 

[N80]

I don't believe in it. I did. But not now.

First, where I currently live, water is everywhere. You tell the well guy where you want the well and he digs it. Then he hits water. So dowsing around here is kind of like throwing rocks of a pier to tell you where the ocean is.

Second, there's pipes, etc. I work 3 summers on a telephone line crew. The crew chief was an old guy from Appalachia with a 5th grade education. He was a tough old sob and I liked him. When it was time for us to put in anchor holes we were required to wait for the city or co-op folks to mark water, gas and buried electrical before we dug. Each time he'd bend two copper ground wires into an l shape and he'd mark the spot before the guys got there with the real marking equipment. He was always right on or very close.

Then there was this Friday afternoon. Almost quiting time and we were supposed to wait for a city employee to i.d. a water main. Well, getting a city guy on Friday at 4:30 was really going to slow us down. So, he gets the rods out, i.d.s the watermain, puts the augur way away from where he located the water main. And dead centers the water main with the augur. What a mess. I'm no longer a believer. This was a huge water main.

Someone really should contact Myth Busters. Just like Dirty Jobs, (another favorite show) they are running out of material fast.

 

[wjoerob]

I saw this work with a 95 year old man holding the bent coat hangers. Found not only a septic tank but the finger line from it at a really weird angle from the house. I just took a course in electricity at work, and tend to agree with the magnetic lines of flux idea. Hey, a lot of science comes from discovering that the old-timers knew something worked, they just didn't know why.

 

[Spiveyman]

I checked out the myth busters web site to submit this as an idea, but you have to register and then they have a forum kind of like this where you submit ideas. It was took much of a pain though at the time so I didn't get it submitted.

I still can't explain it, but I have done it. I was out at my business partner's farm this morning trying to load up a half crazed cow. I'm also helping him build a corral system, so he had a bundle of those little flags you can stick in the ground to mark stuff. He grabbed two of them, yanked the flag part off, then bent both of the remaining wires into an "L" shape. He showed me how to do it. I held one in each hand loosely and pointed them slightly down so that they would be parallel. He demo'd it to me by walking across the kitchen, and when he got above the sink they crossed. No joke, he wasn't doing it, it just happens. Did the same thing for me, then we went out side. He'd just had waterers put in on his farm so he knew exactly where the water lines were, and there a meter cap in his yard, so he knew where the main was. You can walk all over the yard with those wires parallel, as soon as you walk over the water lines or the main they cross like crazy. It is freaky, but it works non-the-less. I don't know about ground water, or how sensitive they are, but it does work. It may not be perfect at marking the exact spot, but it works for sure.

 

[J_J]

At the flea market the other day, there was this guy selling these Divining Rods for $5.00. I was talking to him, and he said it is the person and what he believes that makes the system work. If that is true, then he believed that I would buy a set of the rods, but I fought against it and continued shopping. There are many unexplained things in this world, and those rods are just one of these, although some people explain it away. I am thinking that a scientific principle can be accomplished over and over with the same results. If you take those rods out over the ocean, they will probably spin around like a fan, or maybe they don't work with salt water Skeptical I am, no doubt about it. I don't think anyone has won all that money for proving that it works with a good CERTAINTY, which means, that it is a state or mind of which one is free from doubt.

 

[art]

I've used the apple as well as the rods. I actually keep a set of rods available in case I need them. I've had good luck with them although there are times it is a little to confusing when you are near to much water. Where I live is only forty foot over a huge aquifer and it is hard to find pipes but far from impossible.