Dowsing Experiance?

Anyone ever done this?

Did it work for you?

Yup,

Was shown how to do it by some old drillers long ago.

When I worked in the groundwater cleanup world many years ago I would occasionally work with old time drillers who would not trust utility locators. They would go over an area with bent welding rods or coat hanger and double check the locates before and after the service came through. They were often better that the locating service. I even had one guy challenge the locate service in Louisiana. The dowswer was dead on, the locate service, not so much. Let’s just say we did not have to pay for the repair. Just glad no one was hurt.

Never hit a utility when a dowser was around to double check the locating service.

Have seen dowsing done for water well locations also. Not as accurate in my experience.

Are you talking about the use of a forked stick or brass rods to locate things underground? AKA “witching” or “divining”?

I have not done it, but I know a man who makes part of his living doing it. His track record for relocating wells and finding much better sources of water after the original well (usually just a short distance away) went dry is pretty interesting.

The well drillers in the area deny that there’s anything to it. But they pay him to locate the new well location for every well they drill after the original went dry.

Does it work? Well, that’s kind of a slippery slope. The more relevant question is do you believe that it works?

I witnessed a pretty interesting sight when Randy went to work trying to find a location for a new well. He was brought in by the well drilling company and he went to work. The property in question belongs to a Christian religious colony (Hudderites) and I happen to know with one of the colony members.

So the leader of this particular colony comes running in and says “What is that witch doing on our property? We don’t want witchcraft practiced here. Witching for water is invoking the dark powers.” This led to some of the younger men of the commune getting rather agitated and the whole situation was getting kind of ugly.

Randy told the man that he engaged in no such thing and he did not practice witching, but rather divining. The ability to do so is, as everyone knows, a gift from God. Further, as everyone knows, God had bestowed the power on Moses and several others as recorded in the Bible for all to read.

Well, that calmed things down somewhat, but the colony members were still rather unsure about the holiness of the situation, but what they WERE sure of is that their well was dry as a bone. So after some consulting of the Bible, they agreed to let Randy continue with his “divining”, but as insurance all the members of the commune gathered and surrounded him with a large circle of people holding hands and praying.

As Randy moved around the property, this large circle of people moved with him and continued to pray. The well drilling crew looked on like spectators at a sporting event. It was quite a sight.

Weather it was the divining, the praying, or just plain luck, I don’t know, but the Randy drew an X in the dirt and said, “Good water right here.” The drillers did their thing, and the last I was back there the well is still in that same spot 20 years later.

Do you think it works?

Grouse

Dowsing is the use of metal rods (like a coat hanger cut in half) and formed in the shape of an “L”.

By holding these to rods with the short end in your hand loosely, they will cross each other when walking over water that’s in the ground.

I’ve only used them for water and gas pipes.

Divining as I understand it is using a piece of wood that’s the shape of a wishbone used in the location of water.

I can’t explain why it works, but it did for me on a number of occasions.

From Wikipdeia. I completely agree with this statement.

Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites,[1] and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus. Dowsing is considered a pseudoscience, and there is no scientific evidence that it is any more effective than random chance.[2]

-J.

I found three pipes that I didn’t know where they were in the ground. They were right on the money.

Random chance? Not likely. Again, I’ve only used them for pipes.

Can I explain it? Nope. If science can’t explain it, then it must be random chance…that’s more often then not right.

Get your wife or girlfriend that doesn’t know where a gas line or water line is and set them up with the L shaped rods. Take the random chance challenge!

Are you thinking about trying this to find catfish?

If that’s what it takes.

Just make sure your rabbit foot is in your pocket when you divine…

Mike, have you ever tried it?

I’ve always found buried pipes and wires with an AM radio. And there is science to back that up.

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Mike, have you ever tried it?

No. Seems impossible so I cant believe it. I’m glad it “works” for people though.

Ya Brian I devine too. I use two coat hangers bent at a 90 too with the short end resting on my pinkies and the rest is infront of my index fingers. For the guys or gals in doubt it does work. I walked infront of my neighbors houses and mine and Gene next door seen me. He came out of the house and asked me what I was doing and I told him. Hes a detective for the local sheriffs dept. and he walked with me infront of his house and I pointed out where his water line was and his sewer main was. he said ya there right where the coat hangers were showing. It wasn’t a foot or two on either side, they crossed right above both lines. They began to cross a foot or two on either side but they didn’t completely cross until you were right above the lines.

Myself I think its magnetism and the densities or differences of gravity that causes, or the pulling of more gravity when crossing something dense, like metal or water, but its only my hunch. All I know is that it does work and with accuracy. I’ve never used wood like in a willow branch but I do know coat hangers or metal wires do work and without a doubt, I’ve watched them being used, I’ve used them and when you see and feel the wires move and cross on their own, you know it works. Give it a try and don’t try to guide them, let them work and make sure theres as little friction when holding them with your fingers as you can, they will work, just a pivot point ontop of the pinkies and a guide by the index fingers…

An ex co-worker was about 95% on finding irrigation lines. He found a 2″ PVC mainline 4′ down once. By the time I had setup the wire locator (since I wasn’t yet a believer) they had half the hole dug. And wouldn’t you know, that pipe was smack dead in the middle of it.

My dad worked for CG-3M plant and was looking for a water pipe. After blue-prints and digging a half dozen holes. This guy my dad said he would use the dowsing rods. Well a few people started to laugh and my dad said that they dig the hole right were this guy said. Well guess he was right- they found the water pipe they were looking for.

Go figure!!!!

I think the wire coat hangers are a way to detect alignment of magnetic field due to iron in the water in the ground or iron pipes. So it should also be detectable by a compass, hall effect, coil or other field measurement device.

I don’t believe in the divining wishbone sticks.

I have a friend who drills wells but it isn’t water that he can detect with two copper wires. It’s underground wiring or pipes that he can find. I was in disbelief when he showed me it. I thought for sure it was a trick. He then gave me the copper wires and had me attempt it. Much to my surprise it worked for me too!

It is a really weird feeling having those wires cross by themselves with forces unknown.

I don’t know about finding water but I am a believer as far as finding buried wires or pipes. I’ve seen it and done it myself. It’s been a while though and after saying all this I’m doubting it again. lol I may have to go try it again just to reassure myself that my memory is correct.