From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxm!pyuxjj!pyuxcc!kxn Newsgroups: net.misc Title: re: dowsing Article-I.D.: pyuxcc.436 Posted: Mon Feb 21 13:21:39 1983 Received: Tue Feb 22 05:59:34 1983 I have had some experience with dowsing. One summer when I was still in High school, I worked for a builder on new houses. One day, it came to the attention of the builder that a leak had developed in a buried pipe that led to the septic tank. The backhoe operator that was called out had never worked there before so he didn't know where the pipe was. Well the builder only had a vague idea of its whereabouts. The operator went to his truck, pulled out some metal L shaped sticks he made up, and started walking around with them. We all laughed at him when he stopped at one spot and said he found the pipe. Sure enough, when he dug at that spot the pipe was there. Later we all tried using the sticks and they certainly do work - they actually turn in you hands. The operator says that it works because an undergound object, like a pipe, concentrates the earths magnetic field and that the stronger field acts on the metal rods. I have no idea whether he can locate a good spot to dig a well. When the well driller was on the same job, he used the old hunt-and-peck method. (he gets paid by the foot) Ken Korona