I had the most original excuse a teacher had ever heard for not getting an assignment done: Our well went dry! We had to move a fence, bushes, decorative wall made out of flat (heavy) stones so that they could get the rig in and drill. They finished kind of late and my dad wanted everything put back. Wranglestar is right about this being a specialized and valuable skill.

I'm a well driller, I've done wells from 15ft up to 250 and I appreciate how highly you speak of us drillers, it takes lots of skill to get to where we are at. I use a half of million machine to get this wells done, definetely not an easy job and well all I can say is thank you!

"You do not have free speech here, this is MY channel" True, and well said.

I used to be counsel for a state well drilling agency (as part of the geological survey), and I have a lot of respect for drillers. Not only are there substantial skill requirements, but every single driller I met was concerned with protecting water resources and the quality of the environment. I really enjoyed working with them.

My parents spent $18k for a well and pump, well worth paying for the expertise. 5 years of drought and no water within miles, these guys found water at about 120 feet. Now they can grow food and provide water for livestock.

I'm trying to wrap my mind about people getting angry over someone drilling a well. Insane.

One who doesn’t tolerate bullshit generally has their life in order. I’m with you brother. Cheers 🍻

I am from Poland, currently living in the Netherlands, I have met hundreds of people and I know that you will never please everyone, always someone will have a problem with something, regardless of whether they are from Europe, the USA or any other part of the world. a little advice from a lot of younger viewers do what you do because you do it brilliantly. god bless you and all your family

Came for the e-drama, stayed for the witchcraft.

When I was a kid and started a statement with “well...” my uncle would quickly interrupt with “thats a deep thought for a shallow mind.” 😄

This is a man who knows the value of good workers. When I saw the title I thought I was going to disagree (don't ask why lol) but after the first minute I couldn't agree more. Good for you for sticking up for your contractor, don't see enough of this these days, almost no more loyalty. Keep up the great videos sir

Glad you brought up the “thousands of dollars for a days work scam”..im not a well driller but am a carpenter who catches questions all the time about my prices..you pay for what they know as much as the equipment they use

If you had drilled a metric sized hole, you would have avoided all the negative European comments.

Hey man, Wranglestar is one of my favorite channels, and I can't stand when you get hatred for doing what you love to do. Just keep doing what you do with this in mind, you are adored by thousands who respect, and enjoy your videos. This channel promotes leadership, skillsets, responsibility, honesty, friendship, and most importantly how to be a good human. You are in my eyes, a great man.

I worked for a small City in Idaho for 34 years. They could not afford any electronic locators for us to use to find our water, sewer, irrigation, phone, gas and power cables when we needed to dig for repairs or installing services. This was the first time I seen this done by the old timer that worked for the City. I thought the guy was nuts and snickered under my breath along with rolling my eyes thinking it was a joke. Time after time he found the lines we were looking for on the money. He was nice enough to teach me the skill on how to do it before he retired in 1978. I used this skill alone for 20 years before we was able to purchase something that was electronic. I still used the witching rods when there wasn't a good signal with the electronics. A doubted then but a believer once taught.

I was heading home form a job site one day and realized I left something behind, so I turned around and went back. When I got back to the job everyone was gone accept the GC and some guy holding those rods out back. I walked over and asked what they were doing. The GC said Hes looking for the water line, and then I watched the guy find the line. Even he said he didn't understand it, but his father taught him and so on. It is real and its crazy.

Id bet that the people whining that you're out of touch for spending 20k on a well (and that they never could) have no problem going out and paying twice that much plus interest for another car that they don't need. Different priorities.

"You do everything wrong." Says the person who can't do anything right.

I read tea leaves to find water. It’s usually in the nearby kettle.

For under one wondering why you can find spots to drill a well with a dowsing rod, it's because water tables are huge. You have a pretty good chance of just finding one by drilling randomly

This entire video is like a fever dream.

You don't realize how expensive it is to do a job until you do it. That's why I don't ask questions

Most of the time I just watch your shorts but I just stumble upon your long format videos and found this video, and from it I have garnered tremendous respect for you. This is what people are too afraid to say now. It is very clear you know what your doing

I was a rig mechanic drilling in the Denver Castle Rock area ,was in charge of the shale shaker, a type of vibrating screen that filters the drilling fluid for reuse downhole, when a bunch of cuttings, bouncing very differently came down the screen. I snagged a few, and was shocked to find that I had a handful of WOOD! Thought I was nuts! I asked the old driller what it was, he said "Probably some old cowboys campfire", with a twinkle. I later asked the owner,and he said that geologists call that wet leaves. It's organic stuff, basically immature coal, needing a few more million years, and a few more million lbs of pressure.

Boy, cody. You really wasted your money drilling that second well. If your first one runs dry, just use your garden hose to fill it back up!

Well drilling is what set them off?! How many of them have ever owned or drilled a well? I'll bet none.

I love how real you are, I honestly appreciate how you speak your mind and just keep everything black and white no matter the video.

I don't know why people behave that way, you are slowly becoming one of my favorite content creators. You are well spoken, seem to be very knowledgeable, and wanting to inform people in a simple, but kind of man on man talking. Keep being you man.

This is why I could never be a public figure, it's too discouraging. Take the perfect idea, or even the perfect man, and in no time at all the masses tear them up and crucify them.

I have a channel in the U.K and it is a two way street. We get loads of comments from Americans telling us we are backward and stupid. It is a sport that is all and if it keeps them off the streets that is a good thing.

Yes, you will find wood in perfect condition where there is ZERO oxygen.. For example, this is why the wooden stilts holding up Venice are still going strong after hundreds of years because the mud encapsulates it.

Well said, brother. Standing with you, Wranglerstar

People get jealous so easily. It’s HIS money. He can do whatever he wants with HIS money. It’s his projects. It’s his business lol.

Im actually suprised it was only 20k for that well. A 300' well from start to water ready to be pumped in my neck of the woods runs about 30k. Im always amazed at people going ape over nada in random videos. Keep doing you, Cody. We'll keep watching.

Way to go. Keep up the good work and being man enough to take charge of your channel. So many now days are afraid to do what's necessary.

I used to work for the city 30 something years ago and I used those copper wires to find sewer lines and gas lines and water lines…I know there’s stuff that can’t be explained… but it works…

I can say the back in the 80' in West Virginia (I know, East Coast), A friend was building a home. The well drilling was at $100.00 a foot. The drilling went to close to 300 ft. To me, a small price for water. Pure, untreated. Rock on my friend. Thank you for allowing us a window into your life. Be well my friend

“Yeah bro, I got these divine rods that detect water. We just gotta dig hella deep until we hit water. Trust me man, it works! (You just gotta dig deep (until you hit water).)”

1:11 as a european i couldnt agree more. Sometimes the arrogance over here is a pain. P.s. love your videos

"Let's step away from pseudoscience", says the man holding wires, looking for water. You got to admit that's funny lol

You're a free man brother. Do your thing. All the real fans are with you.

Well driller work is brutal. I’m a geologist and I’ve worked around Drill rigs years and believe me those are the hardest working people in the world and that is backbreaking work. Most of your best drillers have missing digits on hands. So much respect for drillers.

It seems like the only thing people can legitimately complain about it the divining rods considering those things are objectively scams.

Why does anyone care what this man does with his own money on his own property? I wish I was able to do it but it doesn't upset me that he can.

"Free speech protects you from the government, not from me."

You have for many years provided a priceless service to our community. We are immensely great full for your dedication and devotion to your community, your family and our world as a whole. We will continue to support your hard work. May the powers that be look over your family. You bring a smile to my heart every time I see your channel. God Speed Brother.

"You aren't just paying for how long it takes me to do a job, you are paying for why I can do it in that time frame properly."

"Why I'm banning subscribers." "Anyway, here's a metaphysical method to finding water and also I am a sorcerer."

“The Europeans” don’t put us all in the same bracket..

I respect wrangler for the most part. His lay line sticks might work for him, but every double blind study has shown it’s entirely random.

Wranglerstar has some of the best, most rational, product reviews I've ever seen, but when he gets to talking about things he believes in...ho boy. Dowsing rods "work" by amplifying tiny changes in a person's posture as their body compensates for walking over uneven ground. Things like buried pipes leave small indentations in the ground, even decades after the work was done; you might not consciously notice those when stepping on them, but your posture will change to maintain your balance, and the long dowsing rods will swing around as a result. Add in a bit of confirmation bias (noticing when the results are helpful and ignoring when they aren't), and you've got yourself some bona-fide "magic".

I am watching your channel from quite a some time. Here is what I think of you: 1- You are a very hard working person. 2- Trying to keep up your family and trying hard to earn honest money (which is quite difficult now a days) 3- Trying to educate people via sharing your knowledge and experience (knowledge and experience differs from person to person) 4- Seems to be quite an honest person (That is why you feel offended by negative comments) My suggestions if you don't mind: 1- Keep it up, you are doing a great job. 2- Let them speak as every one speaks of his mental state, upbringing and knowledge.

As a European I really laughed at the comment about us, good stuff. 🤣

My dad told me that my grandparents hired a guy to find water with divining rods, and he found a spot they drilled a well and got alot of really clean water, and my dad has showed me this and it really does work

Here in the United States we were going to switch to metric in the 1970's, but they added a clause to the law that 10 minutes would be added to the switch over, every time a European complains about the US not being metric. The current projection is August third, 3224.

My man went from “please be nice in the comments” to “evolution isn’t real” in 19 minutes flat

It’s like never flying a plane and giving advice to a professional jet pilot.

Love it. I had a well on my 80 acres that was drying up. Hired a driller to come out to see if lowering the well would work. This elderly man of 80 yrs ( I’m 70 ) said let’s find a better location and witched the area and found two good areas he said would be the best spots for a new well. We talked about the mystery of witching and encourage to try it and left me some wires. After he left I tried and tried without luck. But you know what I wasn’t thinking about water!! Heck you know what I’m going to try as soon as the chores are done!! Love it. God bless

All the well drillers I have met in Colorado, are extremely knowledgeable and skilled. There are maybe three or four in a quarter of the state. Without well drillers, we would have huge areas of the country, with no people or even farmers or ranchers.

Free speech? Nope, you get none of that here, this is my channel! I love it!

My family has been installing and servicing wells for 70 years. We watched the video. And did not feel any need to put in my two cents. Great job Cody.

OK. You had me until the divining rods came out. 😆

Dowsing is a pseudoscience, and the scientific evidence is that it is no more effective than random chance. Dowsers often achieve good results because random chance has a high probability of finding water in favourable terrain. The motion of dowsing rods is now generally attributed to the ideomotor response. The ideomotor phenomenon is a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. In less complex terms, dowsing rods only move due to accidental or involuntary movements of the user. -wikipedia

"they can buy the land and put a well on it and sell it for $100,000 more. Why? Well..."

“You have no free speech here” 😂😂

Those “witch sticks” are a pretty cool concept. I have used them cause I used to work for 811. It’s all about electric magnetic fields. I would hookup a transmitter to a power line and use 2 flag markers to get an idea as to where the line is. Then I would switch back to the locating equipment because that is more accurate. But yeah that whole concept is about electric magnetic fields that move the rods.

I grew up on a homestead with no running water. My Father tried to hire 2 different outfits to come in and get us a well. But, the first on drove all his heavy equipment out and they got stuck for about a year before they could retrieve it. The second one tried to drill for a couple of days and gave up and left, he was smart. Our property had a lot of clay and drilling was difficult. It broke their bits, it got their vehicles stuck in the mud. It was impossible. So, I had to wash my body, my hair, and my clothes in rain water for pretty much my whole life as a kid. My brother and I used to joke that we were the last Americans to have and use an outhouse. Try growing a garden without a hose. Try politely asking your neighbor if you can please fill up some containers for drinking water every week for years. Try raising hogs, a horse, several rabbits, chickens, turkeys, dogs, some goats, and a family without running water and tell me what a well is worth. One year, I discovered that the water that I had been washing my clothes and body in had a dead bird in it for quite a long time before I discovered it. Talk about the heeby jeebies. LOL.

I'm almost positive he's sincere about the divining rods, but he's become such a masterful troll that it's hard to be sure.

I'm a 3rd generation well driller. And I've been watching your videos for a while now. I really appreciate that you actually understand how much overhead this type buisness has and how hard of a job it actually is. Thank you for that.

I can attest to the diving rods working. I have no idea how they work, but they do.I was skeptical until I tried it myself at the advice of an old Uncle. I'm also glad you mentioned the need to be thinking about the item you are in search of, because that makes a difference.

Super interesting! My man worked for the biggest phone company in the province in the 80’s-90’s and this is how they located all the utilities out while working rurally. It’s a totally legit thing. He did it every day.

"Some people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

I'm trying to figure out why you are even explaining your self to these people ?forget them

People spend 20k putting a swimming pool in that gives nothing back but a little recreation and lots of maintenance costs.

I don’t understand “water witching” either, but my grandpa - a very Christian man - was the guy with the gift and went around the community and found the best water locations for the communities. I’ve never tried it, but he uses birch sticks (I think). I honestly find it so weird.

I feel like I just watched Cody say: "Boy, that last video sure was controversial... HOLD MY BEER." God Bless.

In this world you could be standing in a street corner giving people $100 each, and someone will complain about it. In any type of forum, you can be nice as pie, and you'll end up with someone wanting to argue. In your case, you produce content, instead of people just enjoying it, they'll try and bring you down. No matter how you cut it, you'll never please everyone. I honestly can see the day I leave all social media, and get a dumb phone.

when I was a kid my grandmother showed me how to water witch with a couple willow branches. she said willow works well because it seeks water strongly. She walked around and the sticks would start bouncing gently where the water was.

The crews that drill the wells have to be skilled in many areas. They have to be mechanically capable, they have to be plumbers, electricians, geologists. The well on my farm is over 800 feet deep. I certainly hope that I never have to drill a new one.

My mother used to swear by devining rods. The only thing I ever found with them was a crazy lady walking around the field muttering to herself. 🤣

A tree can be buried 1000' deep in seconds - it's called a landslide

My grandfather was a well driller in the Hermiston, OR area for years. Good people. Thank you for honoring well drillers like him and many others by your words here.

My brother drills wells professionally and he has done it for 50 years. He learned under a second-generation well driller. I appreciate your words defending these guys. They work hard every day and do have plenty of knowledge that us DIY people should actually learn from and not condemn. Are you going to go to a carpenter ,plumber or electrician and scream you are doing it wrong??? Anyway, thanks Wranglerstar.

I like how he he said: well first... THE EUROPEANS 😂 That escalated so quickly. And also... WHO THE HELL GETS ANGRY OVER A WELL

I’m sorry, don’t understand others losing their mind over you drilling a well on your property. Color me confused why it’s even their business what you do . Could understand if it was their property or their money. Since it isn’t, why does it matter to anyone else???

I'm an atheist, the flood thing is legit. We had continents shift and go underwater and rise out of the seas with tectonic shifting in the infancy of our species, damn near wiped us out and the flood story is common in hundreds of different religions and creation stories. It's not proof of God, (at least not to me) it's proof of old knowledge being passed down and surviving through untold generations as we spread across the globe. Just that in itself is beautiful.

I'm 48 yrs old and everytime I see someone doing this I roll my eyes and think flat earther. I freaking believe this guy.

I can't tell if he's being serious or not with those "divining rods". At first I thought he was joking around, but it went on for so long...

It's almost like Jack's compass, you need to be thinking about what you want...

I retired from my hometown water supply company. My main job was pipeline maintenance and leak detection/repair. I have worked on service lines and water mains from 1/2" to 60" trunk lines fed from huge tunnels large enough to fit a school bus in. These are the lines that draw on water in the Catskills and supply cities and towns all the way down to and including NYC. Anyway, I was the senior mechanic after all the old timers retired. I used a variety of ways to locate the service line, which fed the customer, or water main, which ran down the street at least 3 feet below the legal frost line in my town. We had sound devices, which were the oldest method of hearing below the ground. They were like doctor's stethoscopes with a piece of tubing that went to two hollow brass discs. One for each ear.. First I would locate the line and mark the ground with blue paint. For this, I would use electronic pipe locators. Made for this exact work. Since I retired, they are using plastic pipe so I think these are useless for locating these lines, since a solid connection had to be made from a wide variety of sources. Fire hydrants, house bibs on a house, the water main valves at each intersection, any solid electrical connection that feeds back into the water main or service line. Once the main or service line was located and you had its length mapped with blue paint, you could proceed to use listening devices, one like the one I described above and more sophisticated electronic devices with earphones to pinpoint where the leak on the line was. I could then mark the outline of where to dig. Broken water mains were the easiest because they were the loudest. The old timers taught me well. Using old technology with new, I could get right on top of the leak to less than a foot off 99% of the time. I had old timers show me how to use a long handle square shovel to listen below ground. The wide blade of the shovel acted like an amplifier and you put the handle pressed against your ear near the bony part of your skull. You can hear a broken water main this way. I know I'm rambling off topic so here goes. I had one old timer who claimed they used to "dowse" to find leaks, pipes, etc. He would grab branches hold them or sometimes use this aluminum wire about the gauge used in this video. Never did he ever come close to the accuracy I could get, if at all. Maybe he didn't have the mental connection or concentration. Now I am not discounting the ability that some folks might have to do this dowsing or divining. My father was a poor man who grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. He grew up drinking from wells dug by men he saw using this method to find where to dig. When I was a young boy we used to visit his parents who still lived in the same log cabin he grew up in. There were no power tools to dig like they have today. He had a wind up well behind the house. You throw the bucket in and wind it back up to get a bucket full of water. That's how he grew up and my grandparents were still using it until they passed in the late sixties. My dad said that location was found by the well known man who could dowse where the best source of water was to dig the well. People had to trust him, because digging an old well like that was a great endeavor. So, I guess there is something to this method. Though I'm not sure some people have it in them. Whether its just natural for them not to be able, to have that connection, or they have already made up their minds and are doubters. I was always in favor of combining the old ways with the new ways to double check my work. Oh yea, listen to the old timers that are still around. They can teach you many different ways to do things. So much knowledge has been lost to those generations who have passed on.

A young lady had a problem with the sink not draining.. and she tried everything. She finally gave up and called a plumber to come in and fix it. The plumber shows up, looks at the sink, and opened the cabinet. He took out his big plumbing wrench, reached under the sink and she heard "bang bang bang!" and the water in the sink suddenly drained! She thanked him very much, but then he handed her a bill for $100! She looked at the bill and couldn't believe her eyes... he was only there for 5 minutes! Frustrated, she complained "Why are you so expensive!? It took you no time at all to fix it!" "Well ma'am, I understand your frustration.. but it took me 30 years of blood, sweat, and tears to be able to do a 5 hour job in 5 minutes. You're paying for the 30 years, not the 5 minutes".

"They're very fond of reminding us how backward and stupid we are" *Searches for water with divining rods*

I used to do drilling for a living. I didn't see anything that they did that was not correct.

I worked in the engineering department at an airport and there was an old fella that used witching rods to find cables, they worked just like you demonstrated 👍

A friend in SW Minnesota has a 1000 foot deep well. The water is perfectly clean with perfect pH. His grandfather had it drilled. His dad recently passed. In his late 80's. Worked every day with full mental capacity until shortly before his death. The city water draws from several more shallow wells of much lower quality.

I guess divining rods havent worked for the guy who has serveral empty holes on his land

Next video..."testing the cheapest dowsing rods on Amazon"

Wish I had found this channel years ago. Could the wood have come from pre-historic humans? Like cave men living in small communities? Then when some sort of volcanic eruption happens, it traps them and all the items of their lives under ash that preserves it perfectly like Pompei? Then hundreds or thousands of years of volcanic, geological activity, earthquakes, massive floods (like the flood of Noah), could deposit massive amounts of soil and stone? I just love finding strange things like that in nature and trying to puzzle out how it got there. The Midwest was effectively paved by gargantuan glaciers that gave us the excellent farm land we have today. It's fascinating stuff!

This doesn't work. I've been walking around in my field with some rods for hours thinking about Ana De Armas and I get nothing.

The one well driller got mad when he said "can you do it? No"