Pacific bell also passed out to there workers “standardized plugs” that workers would take home and put in there wives asses since they were technically enough in length and girth to be butt plugs. But hey i guess that rod was probably an anal plug retriever if it gets too deep.

Still are for a lot of companies.

We still use them on occasion to find underground power lines before the locator comes out to mark them just to see how close we can get.

I dont believe you can dowse for water but i wave also seen ibew linemen dowse lines out of the ground with scary accuracy

Also a lineman here. Very common. Wish I could explain how it worked. Would be the key.

Can you be more specific? Copper hangers? How long?

Yeah, it's definitely one of those things that sounds insane but once you see it you just can't deny it

@@alyasfukename3355 It's not real. there is ground water everywhere. And if you could get a magnetic field from water in a pipe standing still, we would have free energy across the entire globe.

They found water because groundwater is everywhere and aquifers can be a mile wide.

Right!? I have the same experience you can't hold hard enough to stop it pointing down even when holding like that! So odd there is very few places with explanation on how this happens

What if it did it anyway even if you were standing still, because of the internal stress, like a spring for example

@@krzysztof6123 No idea if that could happen. I just know from my own experience that this is a real phenomenon of the twig twisting itself when walking over certain areas. I can't prove what causes it, if it is or isn't moving water I don't know.

I always heard to hold the rods LOOSELY in your hands.

Luck. Just luck.

My father was the same way he could hold the stick so tight it would twist the bark off... He dug in an area where everyone else was drilling dry wells.. not only that he ran the well solid for 4 days straight to fill the swimming pool... He figured that if that didn't dry up the well nothing would.

dowsing is a scam dude.

@@michaelcohen9363 idk man, my coworker doused a 50gpm well at 140ft recently. I'm not fully convinced it's legit, but I'm also not convinced it's a scam. Some people just do weird shit consistently without any scientific evidence to back it up.

@@TrueBolt18 There's always tell-tale signs of underground water. Anywhere near a large tree, areas where there's lots of vegetation but not much else surrounding it, low-points in the ground, etc... He would've found water if he spun around 3 times and pointed somewhere at the ground too... There's a reason why every single scientific test debunks dousing/water witching... it's because it's a guessing game. If you dig deep enough there's literally water under any ground lol

dowsing is a scam, that's why.

THis is exactly it. Aquifers are huge and basically everywhere. There are very few places where u won't find water by digging a reasonable depth. The depth u have to dig only changes by centimeters if you move a kilometer.

The only thing that gets me is some people call in a water witch to find leaks in pipes and they seem to be more accurate than not. I just can't explain that.

​@@MagnificentXXBastardobviously your nether a well driller nor a geologist. On other hand I'm a third generation driller retired now. Geology changes greatly depending on the area your talking about. The area mentioned at top of this thread your statement would be correct. However that pretty much is isolated to the Florida peninsula. As it's limestone mostly covered with sand from ancient sea. Where I am in the mountains geology is as up and down as the mountains are with volcanic dykes and geothermal springs that have caused uplifting. Water can be very hit or miss and dowsing has proven to be a cheap asset to find water. Technology offers a solution that is more accurate but also expensive where underground radar can be used to find water. I been dowsing since a teenager I can count finger on one hand the times missed and that was only because they were very dry areas where water was hard to get. The land owners chose to take the risk .

lol yeah its total BS. drill anywhere you will hit water just a matter of how deep. buddy works for Arcadia drilling and they dont use witches at all and have never not hit water

I think a better 'real test' would be to have a dowser come in AFTER they find 'no water', dowse a spot, drill and find water. It's a test that I have seen conducted...and passed. The dowser put the driller into water within 60' of the surface after the driller had drilled three other spots to as much as 200'; the driller didn't pass through water at 60' on the way down either.

:}} that's funny drill two wells, one where they say it's the best spot and one where they say there is very little or no water. both wells will produce the same amount of water because science :}

But considering wells were hand dug do you think there is something to the depth of the water to be had?

@@duroxkilo a total lack of understanding of underground geologic formations. Science does NOT back you up.

basically there's water everywhere and dowsers get lucky. you could have drilled 200 feet away and still got results.

@@coreymagin But how much would it have cost to Drill at that spot 200 Feet Away??

@@coreymagin Not true - as a hydrogeologist I can tell you it works and your explanation is untrue and wrong.

@@eielson1978 he is saying you can drill anywhere basically. The depth you have to drill won't change much in a few hundred foot distance because groundwater, like normal water, tends to level out.

3 things - your supervisor may very well have installed that previously. - any electrician can quickly identify where a conduit or conductors travel using a tracer - I can look at most jobs I do and guess exactly where the conduit will run by looking at sources, fixtures, poles ... there are too many context clues.

It's also known as gravity

@@craigandrew6409 I would lean more toward magnetism of some sort. Gravity is theory that applies to heavy objects but leaves a butterfly to flutter...he's referring to a strong forceful pull..

Yeah! So crazy! Almost fake it's so crazy! Stop guys a stick won't find water 160' deep in the ground. It's silly, it's preposterous. I know so many of you have completely and totally bought into it but the reality it ground water is everywhere. They don't know how much or how deep.... hmmm... so pretty much yeah you can just slap a spot anywhere and start drilling. You might hit water at 15' you might hit it at 2000' we don't know. But we definitely know there is at least 3 gallons of water right here in this spot. Lol I can't believe the crazy shit some of yall fall for!

@@craigandrew6409 if gravity all of a sudden started PULLING something down when it didn't just a secondary ago.....what would that mean?? Extra gravity lol

@@AngieCee1 A subtle twist of the wrist, gravity does the rest

There's not a single state where adverse possession allows someone to claim a piece of your property just because of a buried pipe.

@@shawnsg That is not correct. No adverse possession law in any state gets into any specifics except for NY's modified law which does thankfully for the citizens of NY specifies that many specific activities are permissive in nature which makes them non-threatening. But for the rest of the states you have to read the case law to see how the circuit and appeals courts see certain actions and there have been cases in my state where title was determined by the placement and maintenance of a buried drain pipe. Jus google drainage pipe and adverse possession and you'll find articles and some case law that shows this.

He was really good at holding a stick? wow. What an amazing idiot. What an amazing family of idiots.

No need for a branch, just look at the groundwater table map. this is the dumbest shit ever, the groundwater level only changes by a couple centimeters over a hundred meter overland distance.

My grandpa did too! He was born in 1903.

Some folks are simply lucky, and some areas have water literally everywhere. But I promise you that your way won't work in lots of places.

@@alaskaeyes3571 I promise you that dowsing doesn't work any better than just guessing. There are VERY few places in the world where there is no groundwater. If there is a groundwater table, it will be pretty even and digging 100ft left or right of a spot wont change much, because water always finds its level.

Not sure about the area you're referring to but in a lot of areas, especially in the hills where I live there can be great water in one spot and bone dry at twice the depth a few yards away. Know of a specific situation where they used a driller that always just went for the lowest spot on the property, in this case a substantial ravine. After about 400' they ended up with a trickle. A couple years later they decided to try again. Same driller with the same philosophy, just a 100 yards or so further up the ravine - same nearly dead result. They lived on that land for several years using holding tanks that they'd pump their trickle into until they finally got sick of that situation so they tried one more time. Different driller who strongly encouraged them to let them bring their dowser guy out and walk their entire 20 acres. He located a spot at the very highest point - a hill - on their property. They were very skeptical, but the guy felt very strongly about it. Whereas in the ravine - he got no readings. So they bit the bullet and drilled where he pin pointed on top of the hill. They hit nearly 20 gal/min at only about 200'. There definitely was not a large aquifer flowing underground all at the same level. They hit a vein thanks to their dowser. I've asked drilling crew members and they told me they've seen crazy spots where their dowser has pointed out that you'd never guess by looking at the terrain would hit, but they do.

@@admjlw Yup, Same experience for me. My Uncle taught me how to do this plus tell how much water and how deep using wire. I had located my well and another for a co worker and hit depth and GPM on both. I did one for another friend and heard they didnt find any water. Years later I asked him about it and he said that they had in fact got water where I said. His first driller wouldn't drill where I said the water was so they got a dry hole, then he went to a different spot and got dry hole. He then hired a different driller and he made him drill where I said and Bingo! I dont believe its witch craft, just a gift from God to help mankind. Not claiming I have any special connection, Its just something thats there.

So because consciousness can't be explained by science, that makes this pseudoscience of magic water sticks believable to you? How many Trump voters are on this thing? Jesus Christ! Humanity is doomed with this many idiots wandering around.

How do you manage to successfully breathe when you are this dumb?

🙄

80% of all statistics are made up

I found water for a guy and the driller he hired missed on two holes cause he wouldn't drill where I said, he hired another driller and not only found the water but the depth and GPM I predicted. Certainly not scientific but in my experience Im 3 for 3, and a random driller was 0 for 2.

@@bryanturner683 by expérience or by magic tho

No you didn't. Shut up.

It has been proven to be substantially more than 50% accurate when drilling water holes. You obviously don't come from the countryside.

dowsing is a scam.

@@michaelcohen9363 Might be for sure. I wonder if anyone has ever done a really good, well-controlled experiment to see if water is found more frequently than by simple chance? Some people say the rod or the branch moves for them and other people say it doesn’t do a thing in their hands. Two science degrees later and I haven’t the foggiest idea how a wooden twig produced a force against my hand but it did. Whether it was moving over something deposited in the ground or water, or some kind of other field, is a whole different question but I have no idea on that either because we were kids and dig anything. Just walked around the yard amazed that the stick was curling down on its own sometimes. But no doubt there have been people who used it to scam others.

@@centerice It's psychosomatic. There is no force produced, or otherwise it would be incredibly simple to measure.

@@centerice I have no idea why it works other than we do have metals in our body and there is a thing such as grounding when we walk barefoot on the ground so I could see there being some magnetics working there. But anyways my friend during a major drought here in South Carolina had their well dry up everyone's well was drying up this was probably about 14 years ago maybe. Anyway they had some Amish people come out that do the water dosing. They walked all over the yard I believe they were using a metal rods and they found a spot right next to the well almost that had dried up and said this is the main area of water. You're well just needed to be moved over a little bit from where it was placed. They dug that well that day hit water and it's never dried up in these 14 years whereas the other one has remained dry. It's no wonder that things work for some people and not others we are different chemical compositions a little more of this a little more of that for each person. That's why some things are toxic to some people and not to others

I use L-rods I made from spring steel. No copper handles. I’ve not only found water for wells but found lost septic systems. I set 3-5 flags in a row, not just one. That way I find running water. I personally believe it is electromagnetic fields where water passes through the earth through the channels of water.

Hope you get to do it! Bon courage!😊

I've accurately discovered and determined the path of water lines underneath concrete floors. With no prior knowledge or guidance, I've marked a path and then had a plumber come in to confirm that my marks were consistent with where he had installed the line.

same; i dont believe it at all... yet couple copper rods bent; can find water, have done multiple times. I still dont believe it.

Hi Doc, I was a a drain cleaner for 20 years then plumber. I liked cleaning drains. Professionally when you have the proper tools its really not bad. I've cleaned over 40,000. Had a farmer call me out to the boonies one day. He met me at the edge of what looked like Lake Erie, I was located in central Ohio. He told me, looking out over this never ending body of water, that a group of trees every bit a mile out had 6 feet of water under them. Then we drove down the road about a half mile and pulled into a farm house driveway. He had a track hoe and a hole 15 to 20 feet deep. He said, "if you run your cable about 50 feet up that pipe you should hit something and get that water moving." Well I'm thinking I can run a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet up the 6 inch field tile but it was 3 thousand feet to the water. Okay, lets give it a try. I set up some 2" pvc pipes to run the cable thru and started up the tile. 50 feet I hit a spot and before long water started flowing. "Damn," a few more minutes and the stoppage was cleaned up. (Probably roots) The guy was so happy as he slapped me on the back and said the water should be gone by next week. I thought maybe 6 months but kept my opinion to myself. Anyway, he had said he and his Dad put the drain in 35 years ago so he knew where it the tile was. Well I wondered for years how he knew where the stoppage was and only dug one hole in a mile long drain 50 feet below the clog. He witched it. My old boss, I remembered, showed me years earlier using welding sticks with the flux knocked off how to locate pipes that DO NOT have fluid in them. The bigger the pipe the deeper it works. Freaking amazing. I told another story of mine at apple drains video. Look down about 25 comments to read it if you don't have anything better to do. Yea, right. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5mShZaGupy5d3U.html Good luck........I think it is just some help from upstairs.

It works from witch craft bout 1500 to 2000 years ago you can watch sam and colby if u want if u dont like scary stuff dont watch them or u could watch TFIL

Glad to see I'm not the only one. You can walk over ground where the rods don't move and then trow pvc pipe down on top of same ground and walk back over and they will move. Also I've found if you hold hands close together they push apart from each other and if you hold your hands shoulder width apart they pull to center.

You’re an embarrassment to the scientific community.

@@Moz29 that's uncalled for wtf?

if you know where an underground pipe is you could try doing it yourself i remember distinctly my grand father doing showing me how to do it when he was trying to find an underground sprinkler line

You HAD doubts? So you're saying you believe in magic bullshit where before you did not? That makes me sad.

More than $20.

Lisa Kukla no. The well is on the highest ridgeline.

superstitious nonsense. Why do you need a witch if you literally know the different aquifer depths? Just drill to the required distance...

Because that's where he wanted to drill the well before he decided to make a shit stupid dowsing video.

Ahahahaha right. This day and age, this much internet access, and we have a comment section like this.....

Google limestone karst.

Well said. I love science. I love mystery. Both can be true.

There are no water lines. Water collects in aquifers, not lines. no one has magic water detecting powers using magic wands.

@@MagnificentXXBastard I think he means he believes they find water pipes. Either way, it seems like bull to me.

@@markp8295 obviously its bullshit lol but i think he means water lines, not pipes. an old superstition that groundwater exists in subterranean streams or lines.

@@MagnificentXXBastard I've never heard about that theory before. They must not have played with sand at the beach growing up.

Not as much in hilly areas

In Nevada a downer found an underground river. There is a video on it.

No it doesn't. You're just a gullible fool.

Thats a very interesting and insightful explanation that actually makes a lot of sense to me......Ive been dowsing and drilling for over 35 years...see my "water bore drilling tutorial" on my channel......I can dowse water in my sleep but gold lol thats why I'm still drilling after 35 years

@@waterboredrillerswaterbore505 My Uncle Wayne was a water-well-driller and always dowsed his water.

This is the best comment to date. 🏆. I wish I would have thought to do that.

Also where he “finds” water get him to step back two steps where the sticks say “no water” and drill there.

@@hamishsmith6077 Nah because his intent was still to drill a well. He'd be wasting money if he drilled outside of the spot that was found. Plus a few feet probably wouldn't make that much of a difference. I get what you mean though. If you are skeptical you are assuming he probably could have drilled anywhere and found water XD.

CHA0SBLEEDS yep

@@CHA0SBLEEDS you could definitely drill anywhere and find water. That's why dowsing works so often!

So you weren't the people with 0 Rh blood group?

No we aren't and still don't think it's something to do with the blood group though.

Lmfao hire a real expert not these quacks.

@@gahbah274 some real experts with diploma are actually worse than a man in the street LOL. I find it really funny when people constantly say "Pay the experts". they only believe what they want to believe ,and that is why they are always ripped off. Why dont you try this for yourself and test it?. Do the things by yourself and think for yourself, there are so many untalented people with so called "REAL EXPERT" name on it. Any experts could charge you a lot of money to find the water and if they don't find it, you might as well as just say that it was technical problem or bad luck LOL.

@@gahbah274 I see them using L-rods around here to find water lines. A city water employee friend of mine is always using them. They have high tech tools but he says the L-rods work just as good.

Is that ur cat?

@@user-ut3uh8jn5w i have a calico cat but that's not her in the thumbnail.

@@chris432t6 oh

Chris 432T Here is what I found. Dowsing Note: written on Apr 15, 1997 "The practice of dowsing, using divining rods to locate water, is so common as to not be doubted, but no one, including the practitioner, understands how they work. Some humans can douse, but most cannot, so its recognized to be a talent or ability within the practitioner. Dowsing works best when the dowser is allowed to walk about out in the fields and forest by him or herself, uninterrupted. When crowds follow about, they are less likely to find water, and many dowsers come unannounced at odd hours to assure themselves the privacy they require. Dowsers are called upon when all else fails. Well after well has been dug, following the geologists recommendations on the lay of the land, location of local springs, emergence of underground streams or rivers, stratification of rock layers, and success of other wells in the area. In despair, the dowser is brought in, and against all odds and against all reason they point to an unlikely place and chances are that a well placed there will be productive. What is going on during dowsing, and how does this work? An oft quoted phrase is that man is 98% water, as is all plant and animal life. Water carries electric current, if fact so effectively that lightning will race through water as well as metal wires on its way to the ground. The human body senses electrical charges in the vicinity, as the movement of electrons in all their many forms is not isolated to where the current is running. An electric current creates an electrical field around it, just as a river of water causes humidity in the air nearby. Humans are sensitive to electric current, as the higher rate of cancer in those who live near high tension wires attests. The dowser listens to what his body is telling him, a very quiet voice but a voice nonetheless. The electrical current in groundwater is stronger where the water has filled all connected air pockets that might act as insulators. This fact has been noted by geologists monitoring earthquakes, as the electrostatic bursts increase as the ground comes under pressure preceding an earthquake. Geologists recognize that this increase in electrostatic bursts is due to compression of the groundwater. The dowser is locating, with his sensitive body, those places where the groundwater has collected and accumulated, coming under pressure in that it cannot easily leave. The mystery of the divining rods is more easily understood when one understands that the divining rods are in fact the dowser's hands. The rods, extending from the dowser's hands, allow the dowser to note how his hands are reacting. They are a signal flag, helping the dowser note the whispering voice in his body that is saying "here, over here, there is a subtle pull toward an electrical current in the ground". The pull is within the electrical current in the dowser's own body, which seeks to flow in sync with the electrical current in the ground."

@@yesican2012 beautiful explanation! Thank you!!

Long ago comment, my father could dowse and was one of those people whose body just screwed electric watches repeatedly until he gave up on them

... My grandfatter was a good dowser ! He couldn't wear a watch either!

Your granddad was a liar who didn't care if you grew up stupid. Way to go, grandpop.