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To: Viking2002

She not only found it, she rendered it inert.

Did she render anything else inert? :-)


52 posted on 07/01/2011 7:12:30 PM PDT by Rannug
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To: Rannug

“Humans are a gullible bunch.”

If you’re ever in the Dallas area, drop by and I’ll shown you how it’s done. I learned dowsing (I don’t like the connotation of “witching”) 25 years ago as a young engineer.

I’ve never used it to did a well but for years I used rods weekly to find buried water and other utility lines. Even though I changed careers to the software field years ago, I still keep several pair in my trunk, including some thin wires that i used to use to find rebar so that I could tell drilling crews where to install groundwater monitoring wells and not have the drillslowed down by rebar.

Now I mainly use them when planting a shrub or tree and want to avoid hitting anything underground, including old tree roots.

The best I can tell, the rods somehow detect changes in density or electrical conductivity. I have no idea why some people can do it while others can’t. Also, some people mark the pipe or utility ith their heels and others with their toes. I’m a heel man myself.

I walk with the rods to find the rough location then usually get close to the ground to find the exact location. When I do that, the rods swing over the location of the object.

Don’t knock it till you’ve seen it. The odds are about 50-50 that you can do it yourself.


56 posted on 07/02/2011 1:00:08 AM PDT by DallasMike
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To: Rannug

“Humans are a gullible bunch.”

If you’re ever in the Dallas area, drop by and I’ll shown you how it’s done. I learned dowsing (I don’t like the connotation of “witching”) 25 years ago as a young engineer.

I’ve never used it to did a well but for years I used rods weekly to find buried water and other utility lines. Even though I changed careers to the software field years ago, I still keep several pair in my trunk, including some thin wires that i used to use to find rebar so that I could tell drilling crews where to install groundwater monitoring wells and not have the drillslowed down by rebar.

Now I mainly use them when planting a shrub or tree and want to avoid hitting anything underground, including old tree roots.

The best I can tell, the rods somehow detect changes in density or electrical conductivity. I have no idea why some people can do it while others can’t. Also, some people mark the pipe or utility ith their heels and others with their toes. I’m a heel man myself.

I walk with the rods to find the rough location then usually get close to the ground to find the exact location. When I do that, the rods swing over the location of the object.

Don’t knock it till you’ve seen it. The odds are about 50-50 that you can do it yourself.


57 posted on 07/02/2011 1:00:11 AM PDT by DallasMike
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