Does it REALLY work??? Millennials try dowsing for a well

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Dowsing for water, divining rods, or water witching--it goes by many names, but is one way to find water to dig a well. Does dowsing for a well work? Watch millennials explore how to find water underground with our ancestors' method.↓↓CLICK “SHOW MORE” FOR RESOURCES ↓↓
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@unbroken4290 24 күн бұрын

I have tried this on my Dad's land. I could feel the pull and whenever I would walk around I would get drawn back to that spot.

@carolinakudzu6284 2 жыл бұрын

My husband swears by this! He's even found waterlines for the plumber trying to find a leak on our property.

@cottagefarmstead 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool! We're very curious to see if we do hit water in that spot!

@chucksteffan6127 10 ай бұрын

ŵe ãre trying to find a leak in a water line, how do you do that?

@spec24 8 ай бұрын

@@chucksteffan6127 First you have to be completely re7@rded. Then hold a stick, and voila!

@ThatThing1675 6 ай бұрын

@@spec24 Ahh yes, because they were utter idiots and morons in all of human history, all those billions and billions of people, while today they are such a spark of sunshine, all geniusses no doubt.

@rodvandamme927 6 ай бұрын

Your hands are moving

@freytiger1 Жыл бұрын

The history and explanation at 1:10 was the absolute best that has ever been shared. Very informative video and fun to watch

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

So glad you found it helpful! :-)

@general-yy4yv Ай бұрын

❤ شكرا

@andyolsensovereignbeing.6211 Жыл бұрын

This is so cool!

@lanceromance6793 3 ай бұрын

A sensitive douser can use his rods to find depth. The dousing rod is held by the end of the rod over the water source. It will "nod" up and down, counting out depth footage and will stop, to start moving back and forth when the stongest water channel is reached. There can be more than one channel of water at a location at different depth and the douser will find them all. Good luck!

@tracybrowner5121 Жыл бұрын

Great video, I have land & I will b doing the same thing, thank you for video it,

@thoeunhor8655 Жыл бұрын

Am going to try this myself

@tariqmk9177 11 ай бұрын

Nice video

@balamusadanso7074 3 ай бұрын

Is amazing but how did you know the depth of the well?

@xfirefox07 Ай бұрын

Asked one old man known to use dowsing rods to check my property for underground water flow. He had no time so he asked me why i don't do it by myself.. What? How? He gave me 2 wires, just like some salvaged some, different size and materials alu and copper i think. It doesnt matter he told and demonstrated on house water connection. It worked the same for me and my wife. Its so freakin easy, just mindblowing that people doesnt use it more.

@debrapaulino918 10 ай бұрын

It predated everything we know as history. It was the only way to find water until 20th century.

@ExiliaN42 7 ай бұрын

Lmao

@chucksteffan6127 10 ай бұрын

it works on water lines and power lines

@kykids101 Ай бұрын

I couldn't find a follow up video. How did it work out?

@cottagefarmstead Ай бұрын

Did dowsing for water ACTUALLY work? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9F2o8-jyq_Fgqc.html

@kykids101 Ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm clicking the link now to see.

@522sunpaz Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great video! I’ve had some amazing artifact finds using dowsing rods made with copper rods and wooden handles. Best of luck💚

@CWHolleman 7 ай бұрын

ITS 1000% BS.🤣

@4321grp 2 ай бұрын

@@CWHolleman No it's not.

@csakzozo Жыл бұрын

How accurate were they without dowsing? If you dig to the local water level you will fimd water all the time.

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

Turns out we are sitting on a 500 ft deep bed of granite, so we had to dig WAY deeper to hit water than most folk around.

@csakzozo 11 ай бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead sorry to hear that. Sounds expensive...

@maxbrundle1599 11 ай бұрын

I have 100% accuracy in Venice 😊

@CWHolleman 7 ай бұрын

Dowsing is con work at its finest.

@jennyjohnson5428 4 ай бұрын

Lol @@maxbrundle1599

@nathanlichti 10 ай бұрын

Hi, we are very curious as to the outcome after you drilled the well? Was the dowsing accurate? I cannot find a video afterwards letting folks know how it went?

@cottagefarmstead 10 ай бұрын

Hello! We were both at our day jobs when the well digging truck and crew came so we were unable to film that day. They ended up having to drill through 400ft of granite which neither we nor the well drillers expected, but we did find water to supply our house and homestead eventually. We have a video of our water filtration system when we got that installed: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fL2egbV6zJfSn30.html With all the other homestead building projects going on, we haven't had a chance to revisit filming about the well. We hope to film a follow up soon!

@spec24 8 ай бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead Yes, because ground water is literally everywhere in most locations. Dowsing is, has always been, and will always be a con.

@CWHolleman 7 ай бұрын

Dowsing does not work.

@michaelwalsh9145 5 ай бұрын

@@CWHollemanhave you tried it? Obviously not.

@toddstewart4404 Ай бұрын

Can you ask for the next lotto numbers please! :)

@wilanderk.syiemlieh6467 2 ай бұрын

What type of rod? What size and what length? Please tell me.

@cottagefarmstead 2 ай бұрын

Just needs to be something conductive. Ours are a bit of leftover scrap copper grounding rod. Precise size/length doesn't really matter.

@ensandost8410 9 ай бұрын

@Cottage Farmstead How deep under ground it is possible to detective water with this method/tool?

@cottagefarmstead 9 ай бұрын

I don't have a precise number as dowsing is more art than science. But I'd assume quite deep as this study in an arid region showed at 96% success rate of hitting water: www.popularmechanics.com/science/a3199/1281661/

@ninjaneerk5601 2 ай бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead You will hit water regardless. Ground water is everywhere. It just depends on how far you dig before you give up. Once you start digging confirmation bias and the sunk cost fallacy will keep you going until you hit water since the you "know that it's there because of the diving rods."

@maxbrundle1599 11 ай бұрын

I think it's magnetic field that makes them move. Live wires also make them cross

@davidgumm8054 8 ай бұрын

Magnetic field that answers yes and no questions ?

@joewalker8358 Ай бұрын

But cupper is not magnetic and it can't be moved by a magnetic field. Unless there's current inside them

@psidvicious 28 күн бұрын

Or maybe their hands?

@billclarke48 Жыл бұрын

Hey guys, I'm determined to watch all of your videos, they're really informative and fantastic to watch and not too long so they're very watchable! I'm very interested in whether this method of dowsing actually worked or not. Is this where you found the water? I'm asking because I live in Spain and there's a lot of drought and I want to live off-grid so water is obviously the most important thing to keep in mind when looking for the perfect plot of land. Please can you let me know how you drilled for it and secured the water source? I can't find a video on that anywhere...

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

@billclarke48 Жыл бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead Thanks for the update. 400ft of granite! That must've been expensive... 😬

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

@@billclarke48 Definitely more than we bargained for, but there's always something when building a house that is unexpected! Got to have water though!

@billclarke48 Жыл бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead Absolutely, I just showed your video to my wife and I saw your brother asked the rods if it's 400 feet deep and then they went straight. So there seems to have been an accurate prediction there. Thank you so much for your videos, they're brilliant. Have you guys thought of doing a video on earthbag house construction? Also known as 'rammed earth construction method'?

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

@@billclarke48 wood is plentiful here and we have access to a sawmill, so we’re focusing on mostly traditional building methods for our area when we get started on outbuildings. We have a whole playlist of when we built our house last year: kzfaq.info/sun/PLsO6IJVvhdGPGV2L_UTwm7QzMcjn5jhc8

@ibrahimjamilu3574 Жыл бұрын

Please is it thesame with the German stick or brass we use

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

We can’t personally speak to it, as we have not tried any other materiel.

@leahperry1154 Жыл бұрын

So should I be looking for them to Cross or to point on another.

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

They cross (make an X) when you're on top of something

@robertserrato3596 Жыл бұрын

My father used dowsing rods to find water in our 10 acre ranch. The water was 455 feet deep

@csakzozo Жыл бұрын

At 455 feet he probably would have found water wherever he would dig tbh.

@CWHolleman 7 ай бұрын

Your father got lucky.

@bryanturner683 Жыл бұрын

Ok, a little critique from a long time Witcher. Never seen anyone talk to the rods, doesnt mean it cant work, but being so far off on your depth does not lend to effectiveness. What is the rate of dry wells in that area???? Many places it doesnt matter where you drill there's water. Good luck on your project and life!

@benjaminlawrence2719 Жыл бұрын

Why does the willow branch detect it? Or will any branch work?

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

The anecdotal theory is that willow is water loving tree that thrives in wetter soil, and therefore the willow branch seeks water…but I don’t think I have ever seen any science to back that up.

@mrsmith3260 11 ай бұрын

no branch detects it, because it's total BS.

@michaelbrock6222 3 ай бұрын

how long do these need to be

@cottagefarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Don’t think there is a precise length required. Ours are just some bent copper wire about 18” or so.

@truthjoypeace Жыл бұрын

You just try it with a coconut with a bit of husk on it .look it up how its done in India

@gdotone1 Жыл бұрын

oh please! ok I'm not going for it, no way. lol, lol, lol get the moonshine out of here.🤣

@amir3545 Жыл бұрын

I want to buy such skewers, I did not find them

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

These were just scrap copper wire we bent to serve the purpose, nothing fancy or manufactured.

@user-em1sj5ph6h 7 ай бұрын

Get a couple of plastic straws to hold the copper rods.

@hasinurrahman1670 7 ай бұрын

does it understand distance in meters?? 😅

@deesh9507 2 ай бұрын

And..which unit of measurement..in cms?in inches? In meters..what exactly?😃🤪😃

@mayragonzalez5767 Жыл бұрын

What is the reason when the rods go all crazy turning ?

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

Theory is they cross when their is a disturbance in the earth’s magnetic pull. (Significant water, buried power lines, etc). But there is little to no science behind any of it. It just seems to have worked for thousands of years.

@mayragonzalez5767 Жыл бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead yes I used them the other day and they were going at a fast speed on certain areas going clockwise I was thinking that’s where there is more water just wasn’t sure

@ninjaneerk5601 2 ай бұрын

The guy holding them moves his hands. That's why they move.

@Helix_22 10 ай бұрын

The whole "x" marks the spot exactly over your well... The water table would have been in a larger area so its not like ONLY where your well was is the ONLY spot. Seems more like people just thumbing the rods.

@unbroken4290 24 күн бұрын

But that would be the closest since it is being pulled up from the ground.

@jessekatie8985 9 ай бұрын

the thing i have never figured out is how people got accurate with depth

@cottagefarmstead 9 ай бұрын

We have no idea either and obviously weren’t correct on our method as our well was 10x the depth we dowsed! 😜

@CWHolleman 7 ай бұрын

Because if you dig deep enough in many places...you'll hit water.

@lanceromance6793 3 ай бұрын

Explained above. The dousing rod is held differently.

@Cheyenne-kl2jw 4 ай бұрын

Not bs my parents made me find water by dowsing in the 90s before fast reliable internet to get us kids to look for fun different techniques used you can even use a clothes hanger like a willow branch

@davidgumm8054 8 ай бұрын

Is it a talking with spirits thing ?? It speaks English or is it multilingual

@user-jl4dl9vl8n 4 ай бұрын

I used to believe in this for the most part until an 85 year old, second generation, well driller told me it was all BS. He said years ago when well digging was a lot more labor intensive well diggers would "find water" in areas that would be in the shade in the hot afternoon. An experienced well person can pretty well guess how deep the water is in a geographical area by other wells they have worked on in the area and the elevation compared to area lakes.

@wilfetv8786 3 ай бұрын

thats copper or mettal?

@cottagefarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Our are copper, but any reactive/magnetic metal works

@chain173 Жыл бұрын

Ask questions, move rod with your thumbs. 🤣

@bisdakpinoy3428 2 ай бұрын

It's like a ouija board, dangerous

@kadalora Жыл бұрын

Great stuff. I see you did dig and indeed find a well, well done! Can you make a video as an update to this showing all that and what happened exactly? Cheers from NZ

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

@kadalora Жыл бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead Ahhh gotcha, all good! Thanks for the reply. Phwoar... that must be really hard getting through granite at all let alone 400 ft!! Glad you found water. So, million dollar question, was the water found where your divining rods indicated??

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

@@kadalora Yep! Water was eventually found at that spot underneath all that granite!

@michaelwalsh9145 5 ай бұрын

But you already know where the well and the proposed wells are so your subconscious will obviously take you there. It does work but demonstrating the way you are will just bring out the doubters.

@robertserrato3596 Жыл бұрын

I can actually see your hand moving manipulating the rods keep your hands as still as you can

@sunriseboy4837 11 ай бұрын

Have someone bury an object in the ground, and see if you can find it. You won't!

@JohnSmith-fj3uf 10 ай бұрын

Thanks one sane response in a sea of ignorant ones. I just mansplained an essay about their perpetuation of fraud and superstition.

@lunarrn 9 ай бұрын

Have you tried this?

@JohnSmith-fj3uf 9 ай бұрын

@@lunarrn no i have not tried it because it has been tried hundreds of times.. people sick of the proliferation of absurd claims contrary to scienntific observation and common sense offer prizes for believers to prove their claim. The misguided and gullible try and fail. If wood or metal was attracted to water it would require redesign of wood and metal structure next water storage tanks. The center for inquiry offers a $500,000 prize for proof of any paranormal ability like dowsing water. So far dowsers who beleived strongly enough to drive out there cannot find the box hiding a water bottle in a room where the other 9 boxes hid no water.

@lunarrn 8 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-fj3uf just because you can’t do this doesn’t mean it’s fraud or superstition

@JohnSmith-fj3uf 8 ай бұрын

@@lunarrn Ya you are right my not trying it is not proof that it is fraud or superstition. I did not say my not trying it is proof of anything. I said with $500,000 offered to anyone who can actually dowse a, many trying and all failing that is proof it is fraud or superstition. See wikipedia prize for paranormal for multiple organizations offering cash if you can prove dowsing or any other proof of the paranormal. Simple test just tell which cardboard box in a room hides a gallon of water.

@jahdian 7 ай бұрын

Used his hands to move it. Unreal

@CWHolleman 7 ай бұрын

Dowsing has been debunked numerous times. James Randi has spent his life debunking psychics, magicians, oracles and the like. He proved that dowsing is no better than pure chance. It is certainly possible to become a very savvy outdoorsman that can take many factors into account to make an educated guess. That is the best you can hope for.

@brithealien2702 6 ай бұрын

I woukd do it blind folded to the known well for people who dont believe

@anon7219 7 ай бұрын

when standing still, you could easily see the guy's hands moving ever so slightly as he asked it questions about depth and flow rate... this confirms what every real academic study has ever found... slight manipulation of the rods, based on subconscious muscle movements.

@michaelwalsh9145 5 ай бұрын

It simple to figure that out just put the gods in two bottles with a bottle in each hand where your muscles can’t move them and they will still move disproving your silly notion but of course being a doubter you won’t even try it.

@crimro85 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelwalsh9145so you can bottle gods now? And I thought the video was bull😂😂

@michaelwalsh9145 2 ай бұрын

@@crimro85 bloody predictive text, good one 😀😀😀

@ninjaneerk5601 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelwalsh9145 You can still tip your hands which would cause the rods to move. This actually would make it to where even more subtle movements would get them to turn because there will be less friction.

@michaelwalsh9145 Ай бұрын

@@ninjaneerk5601 try it, you’d want to consciously tilt your hands to make the rods move.

@CannonCountry Жыл бұрын

Did you ever dig the well and find water?

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

We did! It was much deeper, but the rods did find the spot!

@shawnembrey1118 Жыл бұрын

@@cottagefarmstead What was the flow rate

@cottagefarmstead Жыл бұрын

@@shawnembrey1118 We're not entirely sure. The well digger gave us a low flow rate and dug 500 feet before they said we hit water, but the water level today in the wall is about 40ft. We've run it for hours on the garden this summer and never had an issue, so not sure what numbers to believe. Runs 50psi or so after the pressure tank and about 20psi without it, so it will do the job of providing for us.

@ninjaneerk5601 2 ай бұрын

@@cottagefarmsteadThe rods found a spot where there was water. Pretty much any other spot would have also had water. It is basically impossible to not hit water eventually. I would have called having to dig through 500ft of granite to get to water a failure, but if you want to call it a success, you do you.

@user-bh2yp2pc9i 3 ай бұрын

I am itchy already just watching this… looks like a lot if bugs

@NinjaSushi2 8 ай бұрын

It probably works better if you're barefooted that way you're completely grounded.

@anwarabdullah6723 7 ай бұрын

You guys look related

@johnnymac6242 Жыл бұрын

I've never seen water dowsed, i personally think its bullshit bc if you dig far enough you'll hit water anyways. HOWEVER, i have seen ibew lineman douse for buried power lines on mulitple occasions with startlijg accuracy.

@davidcavaliere1525 Жыл бұрын

What a contradiction

@johnnymac6242 Жыл бұрын

@davidcavaliere1525 one is water and one is an electrical field, where is the contradiction, oh great genius?

@bryanturner683 Жыл бұрын

Actually that is not true. Water isn't everywhere. I live in a water poor area, little ridge south of me about a mile long has at least ten dry wells on. it. We have 5 acre parcels. My neighbor to the east has two wells and still has to have a holding tank, the 3 neighbors to the west all have to haul water starting late summer. I witched my well, hit depth 150' and flow on the head 8gpm. My flow drop to about 3 in august, but I witched it in April. The best one is I witched a well for a friend. I heard later it was dry. Years later I ran Ito him and we got to talking about the well. Turns out his driller refused to drill where I said. they got a dry hole. He drilled another dry hole. My friend fired him and had a guy drill where I said and they got water at depth and flow. I dont believe it works but I know it does!!!

@BrandonAlkero 8 ай бұрын

You won't find water everywhere. At best 8-10 feet apart you'll have water lines! Much love.

@davidgumm8054 8 ай бұрын

Nothing more than the placebo effect in fact if you were to dig in most places you would find water there’s nothing super natural about this

@citysideimprovements8876 10 күн бұрын

There's literally an underground ocean below you. No matter where you walk there will be water there. This is entirely ideamotor reactions. Every single step he took there he would have hit water at the same depth. Asking the rods a question? Get real

@daniel-qh4zq 10 ай бұрын

Your boyfriend looks more like your brother than your brother.

@lewjones7272 8 ай бұрын

Remember- you can go to hell for lying

@KLFaber 9 ай бұрын

Witches! Burn 'em!

@NinjaSushi2 8 ай бұрын

A couple thousand acres is an insane amount of money.

@garyt2185 4 ай бұрын

Not if it's were no wants to live.

@snakejuce 8 ай бұрын

Absolute nonsense.

@4321grp 10 ай бұрын

Any explanation of how dowsing works is just entirely guesswork, science doesn't have a clue why or how it works, but there are many other things in nature that haven't been explained by science yet; I used to be a sceptic until I tried it. I used a brass brazing rod, I bent one end 90 degrees to make a handle then I started walking until the rod suddenly turned by itself, I walked away, then I came back to that spot several times and the rod reacted the same way every time. Dowsing works!

@ninjaneerk5601 2 ай бұрын

It works by you turning the rods subconsciously. They turned once and everytime after that you turned them. They work to find ground water by there being ground water pretty much everywhere, so you can't miss. Just take these folks for example. They had to dig a 500ft well through granite to get to water, but they want to call that a success. I would call that a failure. Any time dowsing has been tested in controlled conditions, it fails.

@4321grp 2 ай бұрын

@@ninjaneerk5601 , Not so, First of all, you hold the rods very loosely so that you won't turn it yourself and it doesn't always reveal underground water, sometimes it reveals underground pipes, etc. Like I said, I was a sceptic before I tried it.

@ninjaneerk5601 Ай бұрын

@@4321grp The more loosely you hold them the easier it will be to get the rods to move because you are reducing the friction that resists the turning of the rods. Slight turning or twisting of your wrists causes gravity to pull the rods so that they rotate.