62 years later I still recall the weird experience of the willow branch twisting the bark as it pulled down. Thats underground. A case in point was when a person tried to drill a well within 30 feet of the river that ran past their property. For instance, trying to find an existing modern line when somebody else put in a clay tile in almost the same spot in 1910 and there's no record of it can be frustrating. He is pretty skeptical that I can find them with wires, and I was curious what Agtalk thought about it. I know that not everyone can. George Casely uses a hazel branch to find water on his farm, 1942. I havent tried finding pipes and cables but think it would be fun to try. Many took him up on his challenges but none were ever able to prove their mystical claims. All this information allows the hydrogeologist to develop a three-dimensional model of the property that might define locations that are promising or those that should be avoided. Although some dowsers have a record of regularly producing good results, the United States Geological Survey reports that most geologists and hydrogeologists do not endorse the practice of dowsing [1]. I've never heard that one, might have to try it sometime. It worked every time. Also taught somebbiy scouts how to do it. Define water witching. The twist started to take the bark off my willow branch but did not break it like the ones in my teens. They both found water in different places. But I do know that God can take all things and turn them for good. Almanac Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved. Some of the neighbors have been told that. In these areas, wells that do not intersect a fracture or a cavern might not yield abundant water. Some call it the gift. Others refer to it as dowsing, doodlebugging, or water witchingthe practice of locating water underground using a forked stick. I honestly didnt believe until that rod practically jumped out of my hand to point downward. If it pulls hard, you know theres a lot of water. Dig somewhere between the flags. He kept on looking and found another one that was perpendicular to the first. This gives more chance to find adequate water, at two levels. Serviced 4 inside taps, dishwasher and laundry as well as yard irrigation without ever running low. Been doing a lot of reading on the subject and the only thing I can say to the non believers its not a hoax or that miniscule muscle is causing the stick to move. Subject Headings. Hes into genealogy. Fortunately, no matter where you stand on the dowsing debate, this is one bit of ancient wisdom that you can easily put to the test! It is not easy for adults to do, apparently, because they tense up. If it stops going side-to-side and starts bobbing again, this indicates another vein of water below that one and you can count the bobs to see how deep it is (when it stops and goes side-to-side again), he says. Also known as divining, water witching, doodlebugging, and other names, dowsing is an ancient practice whose origins are lost in long-forgotten history. Eventually got mad when Im starting to laugh some and him yelling at me to do something to help and go flush a d%#n toilet! Ive only had to sit down to laugh and catch my breath like that a couple times in my life. . He had a standing challenge offering a million dollar cash prize to anyone who pass his tests on any of the above. Its possible to find water sometimes at high elevations, while some attempts to drill wells near rivers have failed. I have no idea as to the reason why, but I seem to be more adept at finding lost graves than water. Water-witching for Wanderers (and Wonderers) invited the public to engage with Calgary's community of Quarry Park, the site of a former gravel pit, through dowsing. By the way two rods are not necessary. Sure enough, the second stream really has good flow. The depth of impermeable rock units can sometimes be determined, and these can serve as a lower limit for drilling. Some more anecdotal evidence for those who hang their hats on such:One of my old friends who lived on a farm in Montana had a very nice farmstead but had the misfortune to live atop a very deep formation of Bear Paw Shale. I could actually feel the pull inside me. Subsequently Ive located running water multiple times. If you'd like to try dowsing for yourself, it's really quite simple. No problem. I am now retired but I still work 2 to 3 days a week Water-witching for clients. senior writer. To tie into a tile line we had put in 1970 I remembered close to where it was so I witched it and pointed out where it should be. Farmers have used water-witching for generations, to determine the best place to dig their wells, and to find a source of drinking water for their cattle in a pasture. What Is Dowsing? He used his wires and said probe here. My Gramma, who passed earlier this year, witched the well for her and Grampas house when it was built. They know they are not doing something to make those rods move.. My cousin showed me how. The wires did move/ cross. and water witching. I do not have the ability but was told my Grandmother witched a lot of wells in the early 1900's. My father was really good at finding water for people he used wires i prefer a forked stick dowsing doesnt have to be proven to me i know without a shadow of a doubt it works i havent figured out how to scientifically prove it but i can make anyone feel what i feel as long as im touching the stick you will feel it to there has to be a way you could measure the force being put on my stick its so strong if i try to hold the stick and keep walking the stick will break. My religion says that if we are doing something for a good purpose then its alright. It can be very difficult to drill successful wells in some areas underlain by thick cavernous limestone. I live in Western N.C.Haywood Co. My address is Clyde, which is between Waynesville and Asheville . I go out with my #9 piece of wire and hop in their pickup. I witched my well on my 40 place in the mountains. I have seen his fingerprints on something in a few minutes. 3 of 8 4 of 8 Marc Mondavi, vice president of Charles Krug Winery and a water witch, holds his copper diving rods on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 in St. Helena, Calif. Russell Yip/The Chronicle Show More . Old old boy told me years ago that "some people are wired for it, some arent". As a practice dating back to the ancient Egyptians and . On the spirtual side of this however Grandpa was descended from a Scotsman. If this true please explain why I have had the bark peel off in my hands trying to stop the movement! I never pushed it in more than twice to hit clay tile. English/Irish, now living in Limerick Ireland. It led me right to them! He passed in 2020 or maybe you too could have become a millionaire. Some water witchers use a forked willow branch and by gripping the two forks firmly, the willow rod will move up and down when placed over and underground current of water. As I walked passed the pipe, they kept crossing. I personally use a dowser to decide where to put plants. Funny thing that none of the witchers ever told him there was no water on his place, nor did they offer to pay the driller who drilled the dry hole at the chosen site.Have you ever known a witcher who wandered a place and then proclaimed there was no water to be found?Long story short; he finally dug in a cistern and hauled city water from about 15 miles away. It was critical to get the communication cable working quickly. I know it works I use it nearly everyday. Hold the rods steady in your hands. A neighbor was accomplished in this and thought I might be able to do it as well. My dad would swear by the witching sticks. He cut a branch cut Y and when he found a stream we marked it. Even willows cut in the winter work fine. Lynn counts each time it bobs, and each bob represents about a foot of depth. I have seen it work. Not sure how to determine the quality of the water and its flow rate but apparently some people can determine that too. When I was 7 we had a neighbor locate the buried water lines on a new farm. But I think he was good at finding anything ? You didnt tell him that theres always charlatans that impersonate the real thing. I have never tried the Y stick. "Experts in the old days held a forked willow branch in both hands, and the single part of the stick would turn as they crossed over water. Water-witching, 1907. The way I became interested in water witching and understanding how it works was a TV show called Off the Grid. It has drastically reduced the number of landscape losses. The blue line marks the subsurface location of the water table. They believe that this type of information is more useful for siting a well than how a stick, a wire, or a pendulum responds to an unknown force [3] [4]. It he was never wrong and the water was always good. I am the only one of six kids that can do it too. I acquired the skill and it workssometimes. You may have to ask around to find out methods that work for you. 3) have kids walk with rod in each hand over hose/cord starting about 6 feet back from it. Find an under ground vein. One of the most comical things Ive ever witnessed, him shuffling around my yard and whenever his wires got crossed, stomping one foot on the ground and with absolute confidence Dig HERE!10 minutes later with a probeno luck. Cindy, just reading this looking for a witcher or dowser. My dad wit hed for water for over 50 years. You can also use apple or peach branches for water dowsing. Dowsing as it is more commonly called has often been used to find water underground before time and. Start by holding the dowsing or divining rods steady and straight in your hands, at an arm's length from your body. I did this at a neighbors well site and got 56 strong side to sides and only then asked him his gallons per minute. Why? Read more: You can also collect rainwater and store it in IBC containers for farm use. Over the last century, several studies have shown that the average dowser is no better at predicting the location of water than anyone else. These rocks do not contain pore spaces through which water can flow. Said Id try. I can get you in touch with dowsers. About like going by the almanac to know when to lay down gravel..But a couple of years ago, we were building a new pipe fence in an area with a suspected water line. 2) put garden hose or electical extension cord on ground. At the big end. Cant even understand why anyone would vote Democrat. I had the opportunity to test them at our 40 acre farm when the pipe between the 2 ponds stopped flowing. When professional consultations are required or preferred, the landowner must make a decision. It can and does work. I decided to let him try his spot. Thank you. Go mellow out and when you are at peace go try it again. He has located numerous water lines on my farm since I bought it when I wanted to install hydrants or cattle drinks. People laugh at me but if the pipe has water in it ill find it. Found many underground veins with it. Water Science School HOME Groundwater topics . The pull is very obvious. A federal publication entitled The Divining Rod : a . Some wells have been less than 100 feet. Yes, it does. I did Alot of exploring over time. My buddy spent money hiring them and even worse, he spent money drilling dry hole after dry hole that would hit the shale. There is an article in our newspaper re: a man finding an ancient cemetary by dousing. Allow to steep overnight, strain the next day. Branch size and thickness dont matterwhatever feels right. In Sri Lanka alone, drill teams drilled 691 wells under the supervision of dowsers and found water 96% of the time. If youd like to try dowsing for yourself, its really quite simple. It is a unique talent that I also have I generally use one rod in my receiving hand. Later, my husband, Lynn, became really good at this He first witnessed water witching, commonly called water dowsing, in 1955 on the ranch where he grew up. Silvery green male and female catkins appear on separate trees in April to May, but are not showy. Dowsing tools include a variety of things, such as pendulums, car keys, wire rods, coat hangers and pliers. My mother's uncle could do it. My dad could as well. I worked for the USDA-NRCS for over 28 years. Yes, I can witch water. You should also make sure the rods are 9 inches (22.9 cm) from each other. Dowsing for water is 100% BS. He had a standing challenge offering a million dollar cash prize to anyone who pass his tests on any of the above. I am an engineer so did not understand how this works but grew up on farm and often had to dig 6ft down to find filed tiles. Date: October 17, 2021 Author: Bishop Bill 22 Comments. Fill a jar half full with branches and pour boiling water over the branches to fill the jar. Yes he dosed and found and also claimed underground rivers! . This tree, and its root system, seeks water. I was a golf course irrigation foreman for many years and whenever we couldnt find a system or branch of the main line, I would think pull out 2 metal pieces of wire and locate the missing irrigation line before the other guys even got their high tech (expensive) locators out of the box and powered on. If a hydrogeologist is called to determine a suitable drilling site, he or she will start by examining a geologic map. Thank you, Clarence Inman of Bonny Doon . They drilled 100 feet and got 3 gallons per minute and went down another 100 feet and got 9 more gallons per minute. They also know areas where locating an adequate water supply can be challenging. As years went by I found out to be more successful at it I needed to find a vein. Personally, I dont believe in things I cant verify! Some of my kids can do it some cant. It works! Whenever he went over an area that he had already tested having water the stick would forceably turn down, peeling bark off the stick in my hand and even making marks in my skin. The hydrogeologist will also seek information about previous wells drilled in the local area. I have a place in Pigeon Mi. Figure 3: A drawing from De Re Metallica, by Georgius Agricola, published in 1556. It will go left and right when I get over a line. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of Hobby Farms magazine. In 1970, we decided to put in a deeper well. Could find water. I dont care if it is a plastic pipe, a 24, a stream of water or whatever I can find it, even with a dowsing rod made of wooden dowel rods. In fact, when California was in the middle of their worst drought, they turned to local dowsers to uncover hidden sources of water. Your dowsing rod should also be relatively flatno branches sticking out in odd directions. Do you Rember how he did the depth. I use the same approach to find wells, water lines, and power lines. A well must intersect enough of these tiny fractures to produce useful amounts of water. Why does the weeping willow root system expand so widely? As a young teen,my neighbor friend showed me how to do it with a forked apple branch.I was a doubter.We would hide a cup of water behind or under objects in his house.Then we would do a contest on who could find the water.One particular couch we could hide it beneath on ends or middle.I was astounded and we trained ourselves and we were nearly I would say 95 % accurate.Once we had an issue with the branch dragging the tip down in the middle of the living room floor.WTF was wrong? He researched the area and it was a water source. Riana Mondavi explains the mysterious art of water witching, a craft her father Marc Mondavi uses to locate water for vineyards for The Divining Rod wines. The local Purdue farm uses dowsing rods to locate broken drain lines in the fields. Am David Mundia from Kenya I have been dowsing for water from 1999.I have done it for local farmers numerous times and never missed to locate water . It has the ability to flow laterally through these pore spaces and establish a "water table" that is generally horizontal or slightly sloping (see Figure 2). I am a very conservative person. True Story. He made a career with his magic tricks but also devoted many of his later years to debunking spiritualists, magic phenomena, and water witching. You may have seen the water witch in popular culture. Hope that helps you David. What do you charge to come find a spot to drill a well? He said, I have just as good a chance as they do. The article is in The News commercial, Wednesday, June21,2017. Sometimes, the towns are really far away so you're out for eight hours and you make $200 . It doesnt work on a tap. He'd had a new well drilled for the house but wanted to reactivate the old one for watering his garden. After finding a spot, I use a forked willow to see if thered be enough water for a good well. Become an Online Member. It depends on the location and the severity of the drought, but usually it's between $75 and $200. Im in Dillsburg, PA 17019. However, it is thought to date back at least . 100% of wolf cubs could do it after 30minutes training. When you cross the underground stream the rods will swing in toward you. Dowsing is a type of divination specifically for the location of objects, most notably water or treasure of some sort, but any item can be the subject of dowsing. Old style dowsers and water witches in the United States prefer branches from the witch-hazel, willow, or peach tree and often favor rods of freshly cut or green wood because "wet wood recognizes water." The dowser holds the Y-shaped dowsing rod with one short end of the Y in each hand and the long end of the Y pointing forward. Usually look at blue prints to go onto the street and mark what is needed. When the driller gets down to the first layer, the amount of water may be adequate and they dont need to drill any deeper. and the people came in with a drill and drilled another place with no luck . It's a hot day on the Western farm and the farmer is checking the field before harvest. He found out wher they crossed each other then he put the ends in his one hand and held it over where he said they crossed, the end of the Y started bobbing up and down, each bob was a foot. Turn off water or electricity to start I use welding rods first, to see if theres water, and where, or several possible locations on the property, he says. The well driller can keep going, and you can tell him roughly how deep it might be. I did all of a sudden they went down. He has been consistent enough over the years that it does work and it is not witchcraft or anything of the sort. Scary. If its a small willow and you are holding it really tight, it can actually take the bark off the willow where you are gripping it, he says. She specializes in home, garden, environmental, and green living topics. Most fresh groundwater occurs in the pore spaces of sedimentary rocks and sediments. During this studys 10-year research period, researchers paired up experienced geologists and dowsers, sending them to dry regions like Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Yemen. Where are you located DryCreek? I hollered. You need lots of experience to no how far below surface but simple training exercise makes believers out of doubters. Source Collection. Falls apart under controlled testingbut some people are unfazed by that. Be clear with intention. document.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright 2023. I try to stay local. After he finished he had me try it. You hold welding rods loosely, so they can swing freely and not drag on your index finger when they move (the rod free-floats). Read 403 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Downeast Maine. Any advise? It works. just bought some rods for dousing. According to the American Society of Dowsers, divining the location of water dates back many millennia. We drove to my land that weekend and I set him on the same path I had taken, then stood back and watched. If it stops going side-to-side and starts bobbing again, you can count the bobs to see how deep it is (when it stops, There are usually only two levels, because Ive located, where they cross. People who practice dowsing believe that groundwater moves in subsurface seams, veins, or streams that must be intersected by the drill to produce an adequate flow of water. Check out our water witching selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our altars, shrines & tools shops. For the bobber stick (to determine depth of water), Lynn uses a dowsing willow about 3 feet long but small and light. Hello Brian, Do you know how I would go about finding a Dowser in my area? - Event: Tour of Dennis and Ruby Dickens' Farm. Would you know of any dowsers in the middle TN area? He just counts until it stops bobbing up and down and starts moving side to sidewhich indicates where the water is. Some people use hazel wood, but it doesnt grow where we live. Would be curious if life expectancy or health issues differ from those who can and can't. Location. Our back yard was our an acre and our front was probably around a quarter. Im not near as good as she was. In the sense that it finds underground water, water dowsing does not work. As per usual, I put little to no faith in anecdotal evidence. I dont have much luck finding water veins consistently. He said he knew of those locations and there were others on my land. Also then count the side to side movements to determine the depth of the second vein. Daylight Saving: When Does the Time Change? Thank you! There is something to that. The well hit at 75 foot dept at 6 GPM. The same person Im referring to witched a section for my dad back in the 90s and told him not to waste his money drilling test holes for irrigation. Using a green willow branch Babs Ballard looks for the flow of water near a well she previously discovered on Swauk Prairie Wednesday . David, my wifes uncle witched for water at the place where we build our first house soon after we where married. More for local enjoyment. Some dowsers prefer them to be freshly cut. my wife and i had a water witch find water for us to put a well in at our northern pa cabin,he was spot on and the depth also spot on. I use a steel wire as my tool. Dowse a spot and hit the numbers we need. I cant find septic to save my life. I find lost Septic Tanks and Septic Drain Fields, Leaking Pond Dams, Spring Water for Cattle watering Systems and wet Spring produced wet areas in Lawns and Cropfields. Later I told a highly skeptic friend who insisted I show him. This process hasnt failed me yet. I'm not sure where he was originally from, but he'd lived here for probably at least 50 years. It worked for me using a peach tree fork. Locating and drilling into a good water supply can be difficult in areas underlain by igneous rocks such as granite and basalt. I use one wire, seems to be just as good as two wires. But on occasion there might be more.. Can you do it? Mrs. J. P. Pendergrass, of Raleigh, N.C., does her witching in suburban Laurel Hills. Farmer wipes the sweat off his head after removing a cowboy hat. He counted about 160 bobs. I use a wire bent at a 90 degree angle. I located a spot 20 feet farther away from the river, and the driller hit 40 gallons per min, ute when he went down 30 feet. I just tried it over a running faucet of water, pinpoint straight with perfect 90 degree bends just like every video show online. He was a whiz on that. Well, after they dug at that spot, he was amazed that they found the water they needed pretty close to the projected depth. Witching for wells. He said when you first felt the willow stick move you counted from there to when it went straight down. They want to drill a successful well, close to their house, where the cost of installing water lines and an electrical conduit will be minimal and where a drilling rig can be easily driven. This is widely known.. And yet I know people that can do it. Has to be a forked limb from a willow or fruit tree. My husband cannot. I have only done this to a site on my property and at a well site on my property and was blown away when the bobber stick responded in the way I have described. I used to live on the eastern side of WA state, and when I was 13ish my mother bought some property near my grandparents. It could be a tiny seep or huge underground stream. Dowsing or water-witching is a form of divination used to locate ground water, oil, sites, and information. I've read through this whole thread. Drooping branchlets are typically green or brown. Kind of like some people have success wearing copper bracelets and such. I was probably 5 when he witched it with a peach branch. Remove the innards and caps of two cheap plastic pens, then thread the wire through the pen body. Hi Richard, thanks for sharing your story! "The small end, where you are holding it, is less than 1/4 inch in diameter," he says. I can do it sometimes. I told them to throw their dowsing rods away. After they dug several dry holes. Many took him up on his challenges but none were ever able to prove their mystical claims.Hmmmm, imagine that. Water. But the tip of the stick bends first. Handy having 2 rods. Rods will turn in their hands. For me. For those outside Indiana, Purdue University produces engineers and top notch farmers. These areas often yield abundant water to wells. I think I can do this. And the hole was dry at 520 feet. The wires cross, or separate, when I walk over underground water pipes or electric pipes. Of you use geology and science they will not guarantee anything either. Count the number of bobs until it stops. 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