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same here, carried a pocket watch in high school.

I'm with STX on this one. I also have a problem with nice mechanical wrist watches. Typically last about 3 months and crap out. Cheap LCD watches, no issue. Had an Asian woman tell me one time that it was because I had a high level of "Chi energy". What ever that is...

@OP Around here they call 'em water witches. Typically use a green "Y" forked limb. Have not seen it myself. Cannot do it myself (that I know of). Have zero clue how it works. However, too many friends and acquaintances with good wells with good water to beleive otherwise. I'm in the believer camp.

One dick joke in a four page thread titled "dowser rod?"

"Campfire" full of fugking nuns. JFC.

If the electrical line is near the surface, you will get a stronger reaction. Like having the rods swing in toward each other hard enough that they hit you in the chest with a little thump.

Hence Bigfoot, Santa Claus and UFO's...........

apples and oranges.

"I was looking for one around here...its 75.00 a foot to drill....and im on a ridge at 1000'....i run around the ridge where i can,and have yet to fine where the water comes out...."

What? Mine cost $7.00 a foot. Is this a typo?





When I got my well drilled down in Georgia, they could do what was called a "shallow well." I had the company come out, the guy said he would try two shallow wells. If no water, he would go ahead and drill a "deep well."
He bored the first shallow well, went down about 35 feet hit solid rock, had to stop.
And he said now, he would do the deep well. See, deep wells are much more expensive.
And I said "You told me you would try two shallow wells." He said "No I never said no such thing."
So I said "Goodbye." I guess he thought I was really dumb.

So I had a dowser guy come out and he called himself a "water witch." Just a country guy about 50 years old, white guy, looked like a normal guy.
He used some freshly cut peach branches.
He walked all around my yard. In about five minutes his branches twitched a little, didn't exactly cross but bent inwards some. He had a funny look on his face. I got down on my knees and looked and there under some leaves was my Swiss Army knife I had lost six months earlier.
He said water witching could do all kinds of good stuff.

He walked around for five more minutes, and he said to drill right there, I would get water at 29 feet and would get 4 gallons a minute.

These shallow wells are about 30 inch diameter. I had another well company come out and he bored that well right at that spot, hit water at 29 feet and it was 4 gallons a minute. I was impressed.

I can't wear cheap watches. The only ones that last are expensive Swiss made watches.

Ever since I was a kid.

All joking aside........ I do NOT think I'm too smart for my own good. But, things that have no semi-reasonable explanation, based in some kind of fact or principle......... they make me go "hmmmm" .

All I want is for someone to explain to me the magnetic properties of brazing rods, peach limbs and H2O.

It's pretty entertaining to watch. There's guys around here who can supposedly witch water wells. One of them drilled a 1/2 gal/min hole for my dad. Then came back and for half price, drilled him a dry hole.

Now, here's what I have a hard time getting. In this area, EVERYTHING has an abandoned underground coal mine under it. All the mines filled with water 100 years ago when the last pumps were pulled out. So, EVERYONE for square miles is standing +/- 250 feet above BILLIONS of gallons of water. How is it that the "magnetic field" of such a vast quantity of subterranean water doesn't interfere with the picking up of a drain pipe or an aquifer that's seeping 5 gal/min ??? Sorta like trying to listen to AM radio under 500KV transmission lines ........

My wife can find water or a grave with them, fact.

With your dowser rod?

In a cemetery with sprinklers.

We had a well drilled in an "iffy" area many years ago. Driller refused to drill until it had been witched, gave us the names of a half-dozen or so people who could do it. We hired one, he witched it as we watched. Driller came out and drilled on the marked spot, hit good water and plenty of it. I believe. If you choose not to, good for you.

The fact that modern science cannot explain exactly why something works is absolutely no reason to deny it exists. We still cannot explain how ancient people built huge cities out of blocks of stone weighing tons without ever inventing n the wheel. Yet, there are the cities , pyramids and temples.

The Earth used to be flat, remember?

My Grandfather from Tenn. could do it! lots of Farmer would come and ask him to find water. he likes a green Peach forked stick best My dad could do it sometimes, he liked the metal rods. Iv tried both and nothing worked!

note to self....If you need to find water on your place, don't bother calling that Yoder guy......

Not everyone that claims they have that gift really does have it.

The well driller that drilled for us didn't claim it. He would let you know who to call that did witch a good well though.

It works...I can find water in the middle of a concrete parking lot....right. All a bunch of hocus pocus if you ask me..

If you hold it in your hands, you control it--

I mentioned in my post that he showed ME how to do it, not just me watching him. I got the same response after he physically instructed how much pressure and stability I should use holding the wires.

We brought in some more guys and "pot holed" the places that I logged into our gps unit as I shot them. He got a spin on his rods, I took a gps shot.

I made a map of all those shots and the field crew had no problem confirming them. After determining depth with the pot holing, we dug up spots for our tapping crews to cut the coupons and make the tie-ins.

I was a big time scoffer for a long time and used to give the ole boy a lot of ribbing until I done it myself. I'm not claiming it's for water. I know it worked for any thing buried in a trench. Used it several times since that first time.

Still finding a wet spot.