My old boss was great at it and I was like you I could never get it to work for me. Maybe we tried to hard.
Dowsing is considered a pseudoscience, and there is no scientific evidence that it is any more effective than random chance.
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Heck, I use a coat hanger to find water…
I go to the kitchen sink…
I guess the guys up north and in Calif can not read I never said I was looking for water what I said I was witching for **buried water lines, gas lines, sewer lines. **
One would think that someone in the inspection business would know the difference???
I was responding to Gratton, which is why I quoted him. One would think that one would follow the thread…LOL
I’ve won a few bets using divining rods and found that not everyone can do it. Ad I can witch out just about any underground pipe. I’ve even found them under concrete. My grandfather did it for a living in Kentucky and he could tell you how deep the pipe was and how deep the water source was. Nice idea to carry a few rods when I start doing this for a living in May.
Used to use them eons ago when I was a turd herder’s helper to locate sewer lines. They had a fancy set in the truck but coat hangers would work too
Well if you have something you better answer this Million $$ challenge.
The last guy did’t do so well.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/debunking-dowsing-5028261/?no-ist
Only for another year or two before SoCal goes dry. Then you can drink seawater… 
Typical city boy answer…What if you’re in the middle of nowhere and want to know where to dig for your well, it worked for me.
My days of being in the middle of nowhere are about ten years in my past, and if I go outside of the city limits, I take a gallon of water with me, from the kitchen sink…LOL
I was simply adding to your comment that it also works for finding underground water (e.g. where to dig a well). I didn’t know that it works for gas lines as I never tried it…
Typical old man answer…I am mostly older or as old as you are but surely, I must feel younger as I only take a bottle of water with me when I leave the city limits…
Getting older, too! Just had my 60th on March 11! Next year I start taking two gallons!
Your still a kid I turn 70 this month and I don’t take any water with me because I am already in the country. My middle name is Camel, contrary to what Larz calls me.
You must be one of those guys that like in 2000 thought the world was going to end and the turn of the century was going to mess up the computers. I was inspecting a house in December of 1999 it had a crawl space with 75 one gallon plastic milk jugs full of water stored. I actually took the time to count them :shock:!!!
Thats funny. People are amazing. I lived near a creek and had 5 horses hmmm I didn’t need to store anything.
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Nope, but I made a lot of money reprogramming everyone’s computers!
I love that you took time to count 75 jugs. Your customers must have thought you were doing a real thorough inspection of that crawl space…LOL
I always do a through inspection. I counted the jugs because Idiots always amaze me;-)