Dowsing

[BIGNASTY]

Do you believe in Dowsing or Divining Rods to locate underground water for a shallow irrigation well for our garden. I don't believe the ground water is very deep, when the footings of our pole barn were dug I asked the contractor if he needed me to fetch the garden hose to mix up the concrete? he pointed to the 5' deep hole and it was filling with water.

 

[jgillott]

My father could find water anywhere with nothing but a branch off of an apple tree. Absolutely amazing with it and has found the location for the wells of practically everyone that lIves around us.

I don't have that talent however.

 

[TFucili]

I have not witnessed it, but enough people who I trust have said they did, so I believe there is something to it.

 

[Larry Willard]

I have been amazed to be with someone who I watched do that several times. He seemed to do it too many times to be just luck, so I do believe it.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

My father could do it and when he encouraged me to give it a try I was amazed in that no matter how tight your grip it's going to respond. Peach or willow seems to work the best.

 

[Ozymandias]

Dowsing, another thing that Germany invented.

 

[Shiner]

Dowsing, another thing that Germany invented.

Today, they call it "waterboarding." LOL! Seriously, I have watched it, I don't understand it, but the guy found water.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Today, they call it "waterboarding." LOL! .

Drowning BY ANY HUMAN STANDARDS, some of the family members that remained in Germany make no bones about the methods used to extract information. When the two families immigrated to the U.S LEGALLY my Grandfather said speak our new language English OR GET OUT. MY GRANDMOTHERS SIDE was the opposite if you couldn't speak German at the dinner table YOU WENT HUNGRY. My Dad being a bigger smart xxx than I am was looking behind pictures on the wall at my Grandmothers families house when my Mother asked him what he was doing? he said looking for pictures of ADOLF!!

 

[Dan_69GTX]

Yes, I believe in it. I was shown how to do it and it works.. Don't understand it, but it works.

 

[Ozymandias]

MY GRANDMOTHERS SIDE was the opposite if you couldn't speak German at the dinner table YOU WENT HUNGRY.

So you still speak your ancestors tongue?

 

[BIGNASTY]

So you still speak your ancestors tongue?

I hadn't spoke German in a very very long time, 2 years ago my wife & I and a friend went to Germany to vacation. My Sister had been playing around on a website " Ancestry " she found some distant relatives on the Spooler (Grandmothers side) of the family. I went to Ulm Germany to see the area that our family was from and met my cousin that is so distant to me that our family relationship is almost negligible in Stuttgart where she lived. Germany is a Beautiful country my cousin toured Germany with us for the three weeks I started to re-learn the German then and found it very easy to remember sentences that got me by.

Since then my cousin came to the U.S. and has become employed by a major oil company who helped her speed the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. We enjoy speaking German I think I do pretty well.

Im proud of my German heritage, history shows that many truly great people & inventions have came about from Germany & its people, its also a shame that some of the Greatest Attrocities known to mankind happend there.

 

[BIGNASTY]

My Amish friend is going to bring his "Divining Rods" to the house and locate a well site. He uses what looks to be two L shaped Stainless wire rods with wooden handles that one end of the rods spin freely within a hole in the wood. holds his elbows to his stomach and walks until the two rods cross or Both turn in the same direction to show the direction of the underground water. Don't ask ME I have know idea what the Science is behind this but the other Amish people say he has the touch.

 

[12LaramieHO]

Do you believe in Dowsing or Divining Rods to locate underground water for a shallow irrigation well for our garden. I don't believe the ground water is very deep, when the footings of our pole barn were dug I asked the contractor if he needed me to fetch the garden hose to mix up the concrete? he pointed to the 5' deep hole and it was filling with water.

Big,
Yes I do believe in Dowsing, Divining Rods and Water Witching to locate underground water sources as one that can do just that. Do not ask me the exact science behind it. I tried to read up on how it works and why, still coming away confused and no definitive answers. Scientists, geologists, hydrologists are of mixed camps as far as whether it actually works, why or why not it works and how it works.
This I do know, it doesn't work for all people. And for those it does work, it doesn't work the same way. Some people it doesn't work at all for.
Some or maybe most people use a forked sapling branch, usually off something like a apple tree, willow tree or other like softwood. Some use divining rods usually something like 1/16" diameter brazing rod. And some people can and do use both.

Personally I am one of those that use brazing rods, about 1/16" diameter and approximately 30" long, bent into a 90 degree 6" long handles that can be held so that the rods protrude out in front of me.
I have tried the forked sapling branches several times, for me they DON'T work and never have. But the rods have worked every time.
I dowsed or witched my own well with accuracy that was spooky, prior to drilling it. I had 3 well drillers come out and each one used a Dowser, plus experience and science. Each did a dowsing and marked a spot. Prior to the drillers dowsing it, I dowsed it. Using graph/mechanical drawing paper and a grid I mapped my location. I removed my markers and then had each driller do the same thing. After each had dowsed, marked it and left, I made a grid map of each and removed their markers prior to the next driller showing up. Two of the 3 drillers were within 3 feet of my dowsing map. The third driller, well that was a different story, and due to his lack of professionalism and unwillingness to get into details of the drilling process, I let him go.
Every driller where I previously lived in the Sierra Nevada's all used a dowser in addition to technology and science.

I know this sounds over the top, but when you are paying for every inch the drill bit goes into the ground, regardless of if the hole produces water or not, you do whatever you can to push the odds in your favor.
I have found water lines, sprinkler systems, sewer and drain lines, etc. It works every time.
Now as far as having a water table like you do, and so close to the surface, I can only guess that the rods reaction would be the strongest in the area where the water table is at it's most volume, closest to the surface.
When I have shown this to friends and relatives alike the reactions range from fear, bewilderment or like I just stepped off another planet.
So there you go, just another odd mystery of the universe.
~C

 

[promisedland]

Come on guys, this stuff is witchcraft! Stay away from it. Dosn't matter if an Amish man can do it, If you cant explain how it works, question it. How can elecltricity travel through a dry twig so strong you cant hold it back??!! Many years ago i was encouraged to renounce this act from my life [yes i could do it & had done it] I did, and this was the beginning of my walk w/God. Give the powers of darkness your finger, your life/soul is next.
Does it work? Yes, for some folks, accurate? Sometimes. This mysterious ability is to distract us from trusting in & praying to God in all things, you have heard the phrase ''child-like faith''.

 

[jhenderson]

Time may prove me wrong but I have a hard time believing God considers dowsing an affront to his existence and authority. I’ll have much more egregious acts to answer for when my time comes. I bet a lot of us will.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

Come on guys, this stuff is witchcraft! Stay away from it. Dosn't matter if an Amish man can do it, If you cant explain how it works, question it. How can elecltricity travel through a dry twig so strong you cant hold it back??!! Many years ago i was encouraged to renounce this act from my life [yes i could do it & had done it] I did, and this was the beginning of my walk w/God. Give the powers of darkness your finger, your life/soul is next.
Does it work? Yes, for some folks, accurate? Sometimes. This mysterious ability is to distract us from trusting in & praying to God in all things, you have heard the phrase ''child-like faith''.

PromiseLand...I see what you're saying and I'll have to give this some serious thought re; Hosea 4:12. It's not my intent to lead this into a discussion on religion but my roots go back to the hills of southern Ohio and a lineage of farmers, coal miners and so on that were God fearing and used this method.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

Time may prove me wrong but I have a hard time believing God considers dowsing an affront to his existence and authority. I’ll have much more egregious acts to answer for when my time comes. I bet a lot of us will.

^^^ X 2

 

[Blu-meanie]

That's how my well was found. The wife and I can do it, but the "real" well drillers went where we said and his rods said dig here. 130 feet later, 50 plus gpm.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I don't think this has anything to do with witchcraft being Amish or anyones belief in God. There's LOTS OF THINGS I CANT EXPLAIN MOSTLY DEMOCRATS

 

[BIGNASTY]

Seeing that the house well is only 35' deep and provides ample water to run the house I can't believe that digging a well just about anyplace, one can't hit water its the GPM. Even that is a requirment thats being calculated with the needs of our Drip Irrigation system.

Using a Seymour post hole digger I HOPE that I don't need to go REAL DEEP to find a good supply of water