Can you really find water underground with a stick???

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[quote]Can you really find water underground with a stick???[/quote]

It depends on how far down you can dig with a stick.

[quote]It depends on how far down you can dig with a stick.[/quote]

Thats a good stab at the question. nyuk nyuk.

Good point.

I think this is a very good myth for mythbusters to bust! I have heard many stories about people finding their water with a stick, or with two metal sticks.

A wooden stick has to made from a specific type of tree and it should be shaped correctly. I'm sure people can find more information about this from the internet.

I have been doing some research. My dad found the place where to dig our well by using a wooden stick when we were building the house. Our neighbour is building a house at the moment and he told me that he had found the place for his well by using those metal sticks.. We are not crazy, I think... I know I'm not crazy, nevertheless I'm not sure it's possible for I haven't seen anyone do it..

There has been a lot deabait about whether this works or not, so this really is a good myth to bust!!!

Just so you know, crazy people go around telling people they're not crazy

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Originally posted by confuzer:
I think this is a very good myth for mythbusters to bust! I have heard many stories about people finding their water with a stick, or with two metal sticks.

Yes. In places where digging a well is a good way of getting water, you’ll find water virtually wherever you dig. In other words, you don’t have to bother trying to find the water.

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A wooden stick has to made from a specific type of tree and it should be shaped correctly.

BS.

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I'm sure people can find more information about this from the internet.

And you’re also sure that everything on the internet is true.…

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I have been doing some research. My dad found the place where to dig our well by using a wooden stick when we were building the house. Our neighbour is building a house at the moment and he told me that he had found the place for his well by using those metal sticks.

See my first point (finding water wherever you dig).

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There has been a lot deabait about whether this works or not, so this really is a good myth to bust!!!

It was already busted 27 years ago by James Randi.

Sure I can find water 100% of the time I use a long flat stick divided up into 3 equal parts and each of those parts is divided into 12 parts with small black lines I know if I lay this stick 18 small marks from the wall in my living room I can find a source of not sure water but "SALTWATER" that flows over 6000 Gallons an hour if I follow that down the wall 96 Small divisions I can find an even larger source nearly 10000 GPH of salt water of course I didn't need the magic stick because I put those sources there after all where else could I have put a 540 Gallon reef tank or its bigger 1300G FOWLR tank (so its true now have Jamies give me my million bucks I want to lift my home 3 foot replace the fundation so I can put in even larger aquariums.

This is not a myth, it is true, I have seen it done, I have seen the pull actually snap a stick out of the holders hands. My Gransfater would only use a stick in the shape of a Y, from an apple tree. I was able to do it using brazing rod. We "witched" many wells when I was a kid. You will not find water just anywhere, you need to find the vein, or under water stream. My uncle found water on a piece of property, where engineers told the owner not to build on the site since there was no water there. That house has now been standing for over 25 yrs, with no water problems.

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Originally posted by tim9:
This is not a myth, it is true, I have seen it done, I have seen the pull actually snap a stick out of the holders hands. My Gransfater would only use a stick in the shape of a Y, from an apple tree. I was able to do it using brazing rod. We "witched" many wells when I was a kid. You will not find water just anywhere, you need to find the vein, or under water stream. My uncle found water on a piece of property, where engineers told the owner not to build on the site since there was no water there. That house has now been standing for over 25 yrs, with no water problems.

All worthless anecdotal evidence.

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This is not a myth, it is true, I have seen it done

“Seeing is believing,” not knowing.

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I have seen the pull actually snap a stick out of the holders hands.

No. You saw the holder either let go of, throw, or snap the stick. Whether it was a nervous tick or deliberate theatrics, who knows.

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My Gransfater would only use a stick in the shape of a Y, from an apple tree. I was able to do it using brazing rod.

And you could do it with anything, because it’s all a joke. Where there’s groundwater, there’s plenty of it. You don’t have to search to find it.

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We "witched" many wells when I was a kid. You will not find water just anywhere, you need to find the vein, or under water stream.

No. Where there’s groundwater, there’s plenty of it.

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My uncle found water on a piece of property, where engineers told the owner not to build on the site since there was no water there. That house has now been standing for over 25 yrs, with no water problems.

So the engineers were wrong. Gee, that never happens.

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This is not a myth, it is true, I have seen it done, I have seen the pull actually snap a stick out of the holders hands. My Gransfater would only use a stick in the shape of a Y, from an apple tree. I was able to do it using brazing rod. We "witched" many wells when I was a kid. You will not find water just anywhere, you need to find the vein, or under water stream. My uncle found water on a piece of property, where engineers told the owner not to build on the site since there was no water there. That house has now been standing for over 25 yrs, with no water problems.

There is a thing about the internet you might want to know, "People on it LIE" so I'll tell you what you have dead old Granddad pop over to jamesrandi.org sign up for and take the test if its as easy as you say he should have no problems passing the pre-lim testing and earning that ONE MILLION DOLLAR prize once he has that check in his hand I'll beleive you until then
Cought COught BS cough troll cough cough.

Think you could pass this test, stick man?
Dowsing tested in Australia

I believe its called a divine rod?? and yes I've seen it done...but I seem to remember Adam doing the 2 metal rod thing sometime ago.

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Originally posted by hbsteve:
yes I've seen it done

And I’ve seen a rabbit pulled out of an empty hat.

I've seen this happen, apparently it all has to do with ohms, if you take an ohm meter and hold both positive and negative wires it actually gives you a reading from your body and the higher the reading the better you should be at water witching. I saw some friends of mine looking for a place to put a new well at their farm. One guy was holding a Y shaped willow branch and when the stick started to bend toward the ground it actually ripped the bark off the branch. You can also do it with 2 L shaped copper wires. Hold one wire in each hand at the short end with the long end facing out in front of you with your elbows at your sides. Hold them so they are loose enough to swivel and when you start to get close to water the wires ends start to come together. There is aslo a way to find underground powerlines with two pieces of coat hanger wire, same as the copper wires for water. Cut the coat hangers and bend them into an L shape. hold them at the short end with the long end facing out in front of you with your elbows at your sides and when you get close to a power line underground the wires should come together. My aunt actually had the electric company come out and mark the power lines so she could start building onto her house and after they left she went out there and did this and found that the guy who marked it was about a foot off.

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Originally posted by spoticai:
I've seen this happen, apparently it all has to do with ohms, if you take an ohm meter and hold both positive and negative wires it actually gives you a reading from your body and the higher the reading the better you should be at water witching.

No, the electrical resistance of your body has nothing to do with water witching. Groundwater is either there or it isn’t. Most of the time, it is.

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I saw some friends of mine looking for a place to put a new well at their farm. One guy was holding a Y shaped willow branch and when the stick started to bend toward the ground it actually ripped the bark off the branch. You can also do it with 2 L shaped copper wires. Hold one wire in each hand at the short end with the long end facing out in front of you with your elbows at your sides. Hold them so they are loose enough to swivel and when you start to get close to water the wires ends start to come together.

This was explained in the Randi movie. So you haven’t watched it yet, have you?

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There is aslo a way to find underground powerlines with two pieces of coat hanger wire, same as the copper wires for water. Cut the coat hangers and bend them into an L shape. hold them at the short end with the long end facing out in front of you with your elbows at your sides and when you get close to a power line underground the wires should come together. My aunt actually had the electric company come out and mark the power lines so she could start building onto her house and after they left she went out there and did this and found that the guy who marked it was about a foot off.

Same as above.

Please, do yourself a favour and watch the movie, or at least read about it.

James Randi determined in a completely fair and clinical trial that witchers are no better than random luck at finding water and objects underground.

My uncle is a Park ranger in the Northern Territory, Australia. This is his experience. On a job on day they needed to find an underground water pipe. A contractor who was there said he could find it with two bent pieces of wire. Everyone was slagging him saying he was an idiot. His technique was to spin them around by his side, then he held them out parallel in front of him, holding them loosely and walked along. At a certain point the wires went crazy and started moving around.
No one believed him, and said he did it by twisting his hands. So my uncle and some others had a go too. It worked for Phil, and he was bloody amazed, but it didn't work for the others.
I'm still sceptical and would love to see it tested. I don't know what the science involved would be.

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I'm still sceptical and would love to see it tested.

Then go to the link posted by ratranger above. I'll post it here again.

It was tested by James Randi in Australia.

That's right. In Australia.

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Originally posted by hardy:
My uncle is a Park ranger in the Northern Territory, Australia. This is his experience. On a job on day they needed to find an underground water pipe. A contractor who was there said he could find it with two bent pieces of wire. Everyone was slagging him saying he was an idiot. His technique was to spin them around by his side, then he held them out parallel in front of him, holding them loosely and walked along. At a certain point the wires went crazy and started moving around.
No one believed him, and said he did it by twisting his hands. So my uncle and some others had a go too. It worked for Phil, and he was bloody amazed, but it didn't work for the others.
I'm still sceptical and would love to see it tested. I don't know what the science involved would be.

Please read the thread. “Witching” “works” via ideomotor effect.

It “worked” for the contractor because he has experience and knows where the pipes OUGHT to be. And when you know where they OUGHT to be, your chances of finding them are pretty good.

It “worked” for everybody else because the contractor had already pointed out the location of the pipe to them.

Please, learn to think critically. Especially about things like this.