Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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Hate to be the devil's advocate but have seen water withching fail. I have also seen it work. I have never done it myself, so I'm on the fence. I believe in God but have never tried to find Him with a witching stick
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Re: Witching water
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My water company guy used a metal rod that had a plastic Handel at 90° that alowed the rid to spin freely and it had a magnet on the other end similar to those sold on the extending rods at part stores for getting stoped bolts.
He was marking the lines before I put in my outdoor wood boiler. He let me try and it worked very well. He said some people can't do it? A guy at work let me use his, it had copper tubing for handle. It works for me also. It's amazing!
Let's go Brandon!
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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08/01/21 05:57 PM
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My uncle and an old man that lived two miles west of me both used a steel bar. It was balanced on four fingers and they walked along and when they went over water it would bob. The old man told me that each bob equaled 10 feet. I was going to have a well drilled and he came and witched. When the driller showed up he checked for water with two steel rods bent in a L. He found water in the same location and I never told him the old man checked. I tried it with the bar and got nothing. It worked for my wife.
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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08/01/21 05:59 PM
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To equate finding the essence of life - water - as something other than what it is, a blessing, is to park on weird ground. I've watched witchers but they are not the same as witches who I've met. Big dif.
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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08/01/21 07:26 PM
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Men have tried to explain God's creations and the gifts he can give to us since the beginning of time and we obviously are not all that good at it.
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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I heard of a guy who had his dog run away and a local witcher pointed his dousing sticks up in the air and proclaimed his dog was off to the northwest in a big field. Turned out to be right,
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Re: Witching water
[Re: beaverpeeler]
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08/02/21 10:09 PM
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I heard of a guy who had his dog run away and a local witcher pointed his dousing sticks up in the air and proclaimed his dog was off to the northwest in a big field. Turned out to be right, Well if that don't clinch it, what do?
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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08/02/21 10:14 PM
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All right, suppose you go dousing for water, and your sticks twitch, or whatever they do... and you turn up an old piece of iron or long-dead corpse?
It seems these sticks or bent wires twitch for whatever it is you're looking for. Why doesn't it work for gold? You could make millions in a few days.
This is just magic we're talking about, guys.
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Re: Witching water
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All right, suppose you go dousing for water, and your sticks twitch, or whatever they do... and you turn up an old piece of iron or long-dead corpse?
It seems these sticks or bent wires twitch for whatever it is you're looking for. Why doesn't it work for gold? You could make millions in a few days.
This is just magic we're talking about, guys.
Jim Some people do use them for hunting gold.
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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08/02/21 10:33 PM
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James FWIW, there are some "specialized Divining Rods" made for precious metals, and some can cost $1000's. I personally know several experienced professional metal detectorists that have tried using various systems of these "rods" and have determined they're "snake oil" companies / salesman and I agree, but please don't correlate with water witching. One works, the other does not. :-)
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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08/02/21 10:39 PM
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SJA, if it really worked, don't you think every well-driller would use one?
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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No, not necessarily, many well drillers would prefer to "search" at with an hourly fee . . . meaning by drilling.
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Re: Witching water
[Re: Vinke]
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08/02/21 10:47 PM
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A well-driller with an accurate douser would have a competitive advantage, I would think. Charge more for less work.
Jim
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