Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: amertrac on April 19, 2012, 07:49:35 AM
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nobody over 40 yrs old please try not to reply. hese as were most hand made and these seem to have been made by two individuals bob w.
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I'm (way) over the age limit and I'm going to guess anyway. Are these tools used by a proctologist for examination purposes?
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I only think I know, but I'm over the age limit.
EDIT:
I just googled it and I think I'm right.
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Dowsing \ Divination rods?
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Mac hit it on the nose bob w.
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Very cool! I'm yet to actually see a set in person (or used for that matter).
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Never would of got that answer.
Bob, I think that is a more of a country versus city knowledge thing than an age thing. I am halfway past 50.
I was raised in the suburbs (kinda) and never saw a dowser work. Heard of it from my dad, Ohio farm kid.
Anybody seen this done ?
Brian L.
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As the youngest member here I would guess it to be a lock picking tool(the type you slide between the glass and door)of some sort, but I have a feeling thats not what it is.
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Are they safe to use in thunderstorms?
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Thats neat bob, I have been contemplating putting a second well on my property, one that the county will not know about because I am quite sure they are working on a way to charge me to have access to the water that I am pullin out of the ground with my big well.
Id like to see someone use those that I know wouldnt be pullin my strings
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When I was growing up we had a neighbor who witched wells for quite a few miles around. He used a forked green willow stick. Out of a few dozen wells he located I only knew of 1 that came up dry. Being a kid I had to try it. Most wells in the area were less than 50 feet and a lot were only in the 20/30 ft range. Using a test auger I found the best I could do on 24 footers was about 50/50 I later came to the conclusion that what I could find was bands of gravel or rocks. In this area that sometimes meant water. When I tried it in rockier areas I got good readings all over the placewhen I know there waqs no water. In short I shure wouldn't call the drillers to a site I witched. But I have met a couple people who I would trust. Unfortunately they passed years ago.
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Our old neighbor showed me how to witch for water when I was a kid. Used a green, forked Elm stick, left the bark on. Held it up chin level, bottom of the "Y" pointing straight ahead. I held the other ends in my fists, with thumb over the ends. That is, palms up, and start walking. First I walked back and forth over the two inch water pipe under our front yard, feeling the stick curl down each time. Then walked out from the old well in a circle. Further out from the well each time, on the third circuit, could feel the stick bending in my hands. Walked away and walked back, same thing, as I turned in one spot the old guy gripped the stick near my fingers with his pliers. As we moved over the "strong" spot, the stick moved strong enough the pliers peeled bark loose. We drilled there, I am still using water from that well. Went to a neighbors, just cut a new stick, and dowsed a strong vein, they hit water at 150 feet. In recent years I have showed my wife where the water lines are by dowsing , and still get that feeling. A fellow that worked for one well company used two bent pieces of baling wire, about 15 inches long. Held them in his hands, arms tight to the body, the long part of the wire pointing straight ahead, at a strong spot the wires would turn toward each other and cross. I followed him with my stick and got pretty much the same readings. Had a cousin that would do the same only with copper wire. Not sure about the gravel bit, but I located about five new wells that all pumped.
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Not just good for water, it seems. One of my professors in college was out on an archaeological dig. They'd been looking high and low for quite a while for the burial ground -- no luck. Some old sheepherder came by and asked what they were doing. They told him. He said, "I can take care of that," and cut a forked stick and started to walk around. Finally, it bent right down -- and that proved to be the center of the burial ground.
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I have a set of sticks I use all the time for finding buried pipes and other assorted underground utilities. I got them from my dad. They are nothing special, just two pieces of steel welding rod, bent like a 'L'. Neither one is the same length or diameter. I never leave home without them (when going to work, that is) I've never tried to find a well, but I can find any kind of pipe or wire. I can even find empty plastic conduits. I love it when folks say there's no way it can work, and then I prove them wrong. I don't know how it works, and I do believe it works for some people and not others. I used to think it somehow picked up on disturbed magnetic fields from digging trenches, but then I used them to find ductwork through the floors of multi-story buildings. Just one of those things that can't be explained, I guess.
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Not just good for water, it seems. One of my professors in college was out on an archaeological dig. They'd been looking high and low for quite a while for the burial ground -- no luck. Some old sheepherder came by and asked what they were doing. They told him. He said, "I can take care of that," and cut a forked stick and started to walk around. Finally, it bent right down -- and that proved to be the center of the burial ground.
So I guess he found dead center?
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***THWAP!***
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So I guess he found dead center?
Groan! Well, they had been in a grave situation, and he provided a body of evidence.
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Oh, man it's getting deep in here!
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maybe i ought to bury ths one bob w.
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I agree,,,they've beat this one to death.