Posted on 07/02/2014 6:32:17 AM PDT by Abathar
I'm curious, has anyone else seen someone use a stick to find water before, and do you believe it works?
We sold a piece of property and had to move a well that was on it to another older well we drilled years ago but never used. When we couldn't find the cap with a metal detector the well driller who put it in 20 years ago said we were looking in the wrong place, because there was no water there. He went back to his truck, pulled out a stick, and he and his assistant started walking the property and marking where the stick swung down. He told us that there was a gravel vein running N to S and it had to be in that area, that where our memory told us it was was wrong, and he never would have drilled there.
Long story short, he was within 4 ft. of where the old well was found with that stupid stick and its been screwing with my mind ever since. 3 days ago I would have snorted derisively and and used my best Sheldon Cooper "Hokum" imitation, but now I don't know what to think. Has anyone else seen it work or was he just lucky?
When I built my house in Montana the first step was drilling a well. If you ain’t got water you ain’t got anything. I had staked out where I was going to put the house and walked about 250 feet away and told the well driller this is where I want the well.
350 feet later at $28 a foot I had nothing but muck. Driller said to pick another spot, this one was a bust. Neighbor walked over with two pieces of welding rod, bent 90 degrees 1/3 of the way down. Walked around for about 10 minutes until we found a place where they crossed. I tried it ... they crossed.
Spray painted an X on the ground and told the driller to drill there. Hit water at 45 feet!
My girlfriend and I were wondering if there was any connection.
Thanks for the post.
bingo! exact same story. Neighbor got an old geezer who could dowse and could take a shower by his well. My cabin was 7 miles outside of Red Lodge Mt.
I have seen a controlled test where a row of about 50, 5 gallon buckets were put in a row. only 3 buckets, all next to each other, were full of water. the rest were empty
A continuous wood plank path was then sat atop all of the buckets so you could walk on the path, and not see into the buckets.
Then they had a parade of guys with their metal rods , one at a time without seeing what the guy before them found, take their time and walk the path looking for water, not one single person found the water.
Tested?
For water witching ability?
or
Sanity?
In either case, you must have given her reason to suspect....
Fake. Not real. Would have just as much luck getting a witch doctor chanting and doing a rain dance.
Sheldon??? Is that you?
I have a set of gold finding sticks for sale. Only $100,000 + shipping.
It’s Really Fake !!!
I’ll ask my Ouija board
Absolutely correct.
you my friend were the subject of a prank he knew where it was all the time
Read Deuteronomy 18 to see what it says about divination.
It’s harder not to find water than it is, as illustrated in post #15.
I use any metal wire I can get my hands on at a job site, usually a couple of marking flags. Tear off the flags, bend a 90 degree angle on them just enough to hold on to loosely. Hold in front of you at chest level and close enough so that when you hit the spot you’re looking for they will cross and make an x. Hit the x spot from a couple different angles and I am usually within two feet of what I am looking for(buried waterline, electric lines, phone lines or septic runs). For locating water use a water loving tree branch like a willow or any fruit tree limb.
I never believed it. But some friends had me try it with a fresh fruit tree branch that was a perfect “Y” shape.
With slight torsion on the two “Y” pieces and walking slowly over a culvert, you could feel and see the branch bow down.
Not sure why. Maybe same principle as a Ouija board, but it felt like it was doing it on its own.
I am now a believer.
Yes it does really work. Used it many times to find underground pipes.
If it were true, there would be double blind studies demonstrating so.
I’ve done it - it is real.
What worked for me is to take a coat-hanger, and untwist it so you have one long length. Straighten it out - doesn’t have to be perfect. Cut it in half. From each half, make a long, L-shaped piece, with 4 or 5 inches on the short side of each.
Put the short side of each in each of your hands. Hold them in front of you, chest-high or so, with the long ends pointing straight forward and parallel to the ground. Hold them loosely enough so the wires can pivot easily in your hands. Even better if you want, insert the short ends of the wires into a 6 inch or so piece of PVC pipe, so the wires can pivot with less friction.
Walk slowly in the direction where you think there may be water, keeping the wires as still as reasonable. When the wires pivot, likely crossing in front of you, there is your water in the ground.
It’s not magic, but likely physics. The water probably creates some small EM field, and the wires detect it.
Back in ’73, my folks bought 10 acres in southern Oregon for their “dream” home. Dad contacted the well drilling company to come out and bid the job. When the guy came out, dad pointed out where he wanted the company to drill the well.
The guy asked dad if he had the property witched yet? Dad, being a scientific type person just scoffed. The guy gave my dad the name and phone number of a local and said it would only cost dad an afternoon of his time and a fifth of scotch. And he noted it would be “well worth the time and scotch.”
Dad, figuring he had nothing to lose, called the witcher, confirmed the payment of a fifth of scotch, and set up the appointment.
We expected the gut to show up dressed like a bum, but he was dressed in a sport coat and slacks.
Dad pointed out where he thought the well should go, and the only thing the guy said was “We’ll see.”
After about an hour of walking around the property with his wires, (they were copper by the way), the witcher had marked 4 spots with little flags, one of which was the very spot my dad had pointed out. He pointed to the flag marking dad’s spot and confirmed that yes indeed there was water there, however the driller would have to drill down 375 feet, and you would only get 2.5 gallons per minute. He then pointed to each of the other three flags and said “that one would get you 3 gallons a minute at 280 feet, that one gets you 5 gallons at 200 feet, but that one gets you 11 gallons at 120 feet.”
Well, dad paid the guy his scotch, had the driller out, pointed to the last flag and said start drilling. Sure enough, they hit water at 125 feet, and when tested, ended up with 11.75 gallons per minute.
So, yeah, I believe in well witching.
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