[temu]

Anybody else done it with success? I saw my pond level dropping with this prolonged heat (seep fed) and decided I need a better, steady source to keep it full. I've used coathangers to find pipes before, but never an underground source. The forked stick never worked for me, but I've seen it work for another fellow who was very profound with it. So, I bent me some coat hangers and had at it. I sure don't understand how this works, but I'll be darned if I will call it "witching!".

Found this spot where the wires crossed repeatedy and dug. This is about 200 yards above the pond because I want gravity flow. I've got a good spring below the pond for drinking and such, so that's not my concern. Water began to seep at about 7', but I went to about 12'. It filled (approx. 1300 gal. hole) in three days. So, I pumped it all out and let it refill--just to try and determine if it was a constant flow, or if it was just "cappilaries" draining off.

Three more days, it filled again. Hopefully this will do it, but am not fully convinced yet that it will be constant, so I will again pump it out before I continue to dig and develop.

We'll see.

 

[pudding7]

Assuming it holds, what will you do with that hole? ie., how will you make it a permanent water supply? I'm looking for BOL and one of my requirements is access to water, so I'm always interested in the actual process of turning a hole filled with water into a supply.

Do you put in a concrete pit and cap it or something?

 

[GENT]

I have had great sucsess with dowsing, and so have many poeole i know.
I dont know what causes the effect, but it is definately real.
I have never heard of if being referd to as "witching" perhaps that is an american thing?

 

[Blaik]

the problem is it has always failed double blind scientific tests of the "ability". I'm not saying it doesn't work, but when trying to document it, its only been anecdotally effective, and never repeatably accurate.

 

[temu]

Assuming it holds, what will you do with that hole? ie., how will you make it a permanent water supply? I'm looking for BOL and one of my requirements is access to water, so I'm always interested in the actual process of turning a hole filled with water into a supply.

Do you put in a concrete pit and cap it or something?

The soil (clay, alluvial decomposed granite, hard packed glacial) is now severed from it's previous flow down the hill (water takes the easiest course), so it will always have some water accumulate now. If it is enough (constant), I will continue to dig it farther along as well as deeper.

Then, I will buy a 3' round x 8' long piece of perforated plastic pipe (galvanized or aluminum is OK too) that I will lay on a bed of rocks...place the pipe in and fill with more rocks (water will freely travel within the rock layer). After this, and about 5' down from the top of the surface, I will lay plastic, etc., over the rocks and backfill with the dirt. Tap out from that pipe below where the level fills and you have your source.

There are many other ways, but that's the way i will proceed.

Hope that helps?

:thumb:

 

[thewolfman456]

The scientific evidence for Dowsing is next to none, and I have been fooled by a dowser before. I don't trust them, but that's just my opinion.

 

[temu]

The scientific evidence for Dowsing is next to none, and I have been fooled by a dowser before. I don't trust them, but that's just my opinion.

I don't care a hoot what science says. Means nothing to me. I just care about results. It has ALWAYS proved 100% accurate for me in the past for locating buried pipes.

If science can't explain it, too bad for them. They got some catching up to do!

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[GENT]

The scientific evidence for Dowsing is next to none, and I have been fooled by a dowser before. I don't trust them, but that's just my opinion.

I know my own sucsess.
Its a shame that you had a bad experience, and i concede that it does have some faliures.

 

[vicdotcom]

I have had great sucsess with dowsing, and so have many poeole i know.
I dont know what causes the effect, but it is definately real.
I have never heard of if being referd to as "witching" perhaps that is an american thing?

I have used dowsing rods as well as with a map and bobber and I have to say that I am about 75% accurate with it. Tried it about 20 times to locate water sources. I have no clue how it works either but I am fine with 75% lol

 

[Hick Industries]

I am thinking that dowsers actually see the terrain and "see" the underground flow of water. Perhaps they are doing this uncontiously or perhaps not. Good luck to you with your new seep.

 

[HotPrepper]

Considering there is water almost anywhere in large parts of the country, it's no surprise they can do this for well drilling.

My dad swears it works and is very practical/skeptical. He has used it to find buried lines. But there again, you already know about where it is. There was a guy in the store and he swore up and down it worked. He even went so far as to say it could find oil, *IF* and only if you put a drop of oil on the wires. At that point it was all I could do not to bust out laughing. He had me get a quart of oil and put it on the floor and it wouldn't work. Put the grease on it and lo and behold. Only problem is that it takes such minute movements of your hands to cross the wires. It's just another Ouija board as far as I'm concerned. Not saying all witchers are scams, they just don't know it's their subconscious at work.

 

[GENT]

I am thinking that dowsers actually see the terrain and "see" the underground flow of water. Perhaps they are doing this uncontiously or perhaps not. Good luck to you with your new seep.

i have found drainage pipes under concrete, uniform concrete with no breaks or drains etc.
Mabie you are right in some cases, but it doesent explain all of them. Good theory though.

 

[GENT]

Considering there is water almost anywhere in large parts of the country, it's no surprise they can do this for well drilling.

My dad swears it works and is very practical/skeptical. He has used it to find buried lines. But there again, you already know about where it is. There was a guy in the store and he swore up and down it worked. He even went so far as to say it could find oil, *IF* and only if you put a drop of oil on the wires. At that point it was all I could do not to bust out laughing. He had me get a quart of oil and put it on the floor and it wouldn't work. Put the grease on it and lo and behold. Only problem is that it takes such minute movements of your hands to cross the wires. It's just another Ouija board as far as I'm concerned. Not saying all witchers are scams, they just don't know it's their subconscious at work.

Again, good theory but it doesent explain all of the circumstances, mabie it is the subconcious, but it still works! My subconcious doesent find it without the dowsing!
It could be anything. If i knew for sure what it was i'd tell you.

 

[vicdotcom]

Again, good theory but it doesent explain all of the circumstances, mabie it is the subconcious, but it still works! My subconcious doesent find it without the dowsing!
It could be anything. If i knew for sure what it was i'd tell you.

Some things just cant be explained at this point in human development.

 

[TraderBob]

30 years ago I remember my dad calling an old timer to witch us a well. He found 2 spots on the property, and even went so far as to tell my dad what kind of flow could be expected. Both wells were dug and produced, one better than the other, just as he stated.
Don't know how it works, but it does.

 

[HotPrepper]

But that means absolutely nothing. Water is incredibly easy to find in many areas and one well will obviously outproduce the other. This is 50-50 odds, still. In other words- nothing.

 

[temu]

But that means absolutely nothing. Water is incredibly easy to find in many areas and one well will obviously outproduce the other. This is 50-50 odds, still. In other words- nothing.

He may have meant that he was told beforehand which well would produce better.

Before I went dowsing, my girlfriend and I were at our neighbors place. He had some dowsing rods he also used to find buried pipes. My girlfriend wanted to try it, so my neighbor sent her, after instructions on how to hold them properly so as not to "influence" them, across his property...found both his underground pipes within minutes; one from his pond, one from his spring.

She had no idea where they were prior to this.

It works whether you believe it or not.

:upsidedown:

 

[Gen. Ben Raines]

I purchased 5 acres in Ga. and called a well known well driller. He came out and did the dowsing rod thing and sure enough, I had water. He marked one location and said it would be good for 15 gal per minute but thought he could do better. Second location he said would produce 20 gal plus per minute.
When completed he measured 24 gal per minute from well.
I have always heard it called "witchin for water" I think it is a southern thing.
I do not know how, but I watched it with my own eyes.

 

[McLovin]

Lord

the water table under your land is a lake not a stream. Everywhere they drill will be the same. They walk around and when they get to a good spot to back their truck in low and behold the wires cross or point to the ground or what ever. If they offer to take you on a snipe hunt after pass.

McLovin

 

[Texarcana]

Just wanted to say thanks for this thread, temu, this is another one of those old tried-and-true old-timer methods we tend to forget about in our instant-everything world. I have to remember to pack a couple of brass rods in my evac-for-zombie-apocalypse supplies.:thumb: