I did a water witching today!!!

[Deberosa]

I've read posts about this and thought - oh yeah... Well, I have a great co-worker who is in his 70's. He has hunting property up in the mountains and the septic got plugged. He needed to find it so he was going to go water witch it. That started the discusion and this morning he had made me some witching wires!!! Right outside his door is the water cooler and on a whim I suggested we witch the cooler. ;-)

IT WORKED!!!! Don't ask me how but I went down the all with the wires and walked toward the cooler and they crossed! I was wooping so loud the whole office came over. ;-) Each one tried it and only two women could not make it work - everyone else it worked for! Sure enough I came home and "found" my cistern, septic tank, and most of the water pipe from clear across the property, but my garden hose and vehicles were in the way to determine a clear patch.

The wires are 18 inches long and have a 90 degree bend about four inches from the end. You old them loosely in your hands, balanced on your fingers and walk around - that's it! They cross when they find water!

Seeing is believing and as amazing as it is we sure know where the water cooler is now at work. HEHE

[flatwater]

Done it myself with a willow fork and wires. I like the willow fork best because when you find the water it goes down so hard that it actually takes a little effort to pull it up

[randallhilton]

Sure enough I came home and "found" my cistern, septic tank, and most of the water pipe from clear across the property, but my garden hose and vehicles were in the way to determine a clear patch.

The wires are 18 inches long and have a 90 degree bend about four inches from the end. You old them loosely in your hands, balanced on your fingers and walk around - that's it! They cross when they find water!


From my experience, it's not actually the water that the wires find, it is something to do with the pipe or void that the tank makes. The reason I know is that I have used it to find empty pipes, gas pipes and stuff like that.

I've used coat hangers, brass brazing rods, steel welding rods, baling wire and even a store bought'n gizmo with a telescoping antenna. Don't know how it works. It just does. :blink:

[MooseToo]

witchcraft bad -

[gregabob]

We did this at the airport at our EAA hangar. Took 2 steel rods and had a sceptic hold em while walkin over a buried water pipe that he didn't know was there--sure enough, rods crossed when passing over the pipe. Aluminum rods don't work. Prolly a magnetic field thing goin on.

[mlbfanatic0317]

My dad used metal coat hangers one time to find the pipes at my aunts house. She had a sewer leak and we had to put a clamp on it. he showed me how it works, and i was pretty terrified from the things. I was a little kid when we did this, and to this day i'm still skeptic about them, but they do work, somehow!:eek:

[bookwormom]

my cousin worked for the phone company. In Europe most lines are under ground. He used wires to find buried lines. The plumber did too when he had to find our water lines. When my Dad built our house he had a dowser go over the site, there were two water veines, so Dad built in between. My undle did not bother and built his house right over one vein, sure enough, when he dug the basement he uncovered a spring.