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