It’s very common and accepted here in NC, too. Every house I’ve ever built and every house I’ve ever known to have a well dug, was “witched” beforehand. River Birch or Willow, here. Watery trees.
What’s even more interesting is to see often the same old guys witch a lost, buried power line with a copper coathanger.
“What’s even more interesting is to see often the same old guys witch a lost, buried power line with a copper coathanger.”
Some surveyers witch to find old survey pins. I thought it was a dumb idea till an old county surveyer found a pin we’d been looking for for an hour. When the rods crossed, we lowered a plumbob and it hit the lost pin dead center. May not work everytime, but that time convinced me.
I made a believer out of my wife when I fashioned two pieces of copper wiring and asked her to walk across the property.
Every time the wires crossed she was standing directly over a water or electrical line.
I knew where they were located, she did not.