I use welding-rods to find metal pipes ,wire and pvc water pipes (flowing water) underground. I’m a witch ‘er .
I know this is anecdotal, but here is my story. I built a cabin in MT. and had to drill for water. I didn’t believe in “witching” so I told the driller to drill right there. After $6000 was spent and over 500 feet of drilling I managed to get 1.5gpm of dirty water. My next door neighbor used a dowser and got over 250 gpm in less than 150 feet.
According to a farmer friend, it’s legitimate. He hired a water witch to locate water for a new house (on ground in the country, that the water witch was unfamiliar with), and the guy was successful. He used two metal divining rods, bent at right angles at their tips - and held one in each hand, with his arms stretched out straight in front of him. When the right angles turned to face each other (it took a bit of walking), he turned to my friend, and said, “The aquifer (spelling?) is directly below us. I don’t how deep it is, but it’s down there.” And it was.
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!
Fake. Not real. Would have just as much luck getting a witch doctor chanting and doing a rain dance.
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I’ll ask my Ouija board
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.
This past year, we did GPR at a burial ground. We checked that by witching. Fascinating!!
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True story:
I ran a survey crew on Guam during the late 50’s. We were laying out water and sewer lines for a housing complex. Every once in awhile we’d “find” an active water line that wqe had no idea was even there. It seems the Seabees had laid lines during the re-occupation of the island but they hadn’t provided a location for future construction.
After several “instant swimming pools”, one of our crewmembers (a graduate engineer from Oklahoma) picked up two pieces of welding rod and walked the line of each proposed new ditch. He found several water lines and after that we wouldn’t let the excavator start digging until he approved the location.
He saved us a ton of money and headaches in the ensuing weeks and months but even he had no idea how it worked - it just worked. The rest of us tried it with varying results. I can’t find water unless I’m standing waist-deep in it.
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