Almost all well diggers in these parts claim dowsing ability....and of
course you drill where there's a water table...that's the point of
dowsing..to find the best place to drill...

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
I hope you did not pay for the witchcraft of dowsing.

As an intelligent person, if you paid you got ripped off.

Wells are drilled into a water table. Where you place your well
is of little concern because the water in the water table will
be within a foot or two of being lever.

CN

"katysails" wrote in message
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Oue well was dowsed...

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
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Oh Jeez,

What's next? A discussion of dowsing?

CN


"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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John,

It is rather simple, stick the thumb into the folded fingers to the
first knuckle and hold it at arms length. That will give you a 10
degree
spread. Each knuckle is two degrees. Top of the knuckle to the hollow
between 1 degree, half way up or down is a 1/2 degree. If your
sighting
is between I say plus or minus. ( When voyaging, a 1/2 degree will get
you to 30 miles. A minus gets you inside 30, a plus over 30.

To Calib. your fist and arm, stand in the corner of a room and count
how
many fist it takes to get 90 degrees. Ten should do it for most people
but it will let you know what your fist represents

Kind of a fun and easy way to check out things that are happening
around
you.

So as of tomorrow the Sun will be 23 1/2 degrees below the Equator.
Subtract that from your local GMT Noon reading and you should have
your
local Latitude.

Not sure where your located but St John is about 45 degrees (4&1/2
fists) minus
2 fists and 1 & 1/2 knuckles should be the local sighting (2 Fists and
1
knckle)
Give it a try and a laugh at Ole Thom

"Scott Vernon" wrote:
5°, wind chill -8° here.
Blew like stink all night.
Supposed to get up to 21° today.
Maybe it will be warmer in upstate NY?

At midnight the temp got down to a chilling 50 deg. Farenheit. But it's
supposed to turn cold tomorrow with the highs in the 50's.

On Wednesday morning we are supposed to get snow in most of the state. My
boys are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about Florida. :-)

LP

"Jeff Morris" wrote:
Scott Vernon wrote:
"Jeff Morris" wrote

Taking Neal his present?

Ya know, I would really love to meet Neal, even at the risk of providing
him with great fodder for future posts!

That's what I've been thinking! hehee

I'm not sure we'll make it, but if Neal would like to put us up for a few
days, we could be tempted!

Hmmm....

LP

katysails wrote:
Don't be such a wuss, Doug....you only get that kind of weather a few times
a decade...it's normal here...

Yep. That's one reason why I live here instead of there. OTOH we will
finally get rid of the mosquitoes in the back yard, which managed to
hang on through the last near-freeze.

DSK

Duh! Like I said, there is a water table. It does not vary more than a foot or
so in its level. No matter where you drill you will hit it. A dowser is unnecessary.

CN


"katysails" wrote in message ...
Almost all well diggers in these parts claim dowsing ability....and of
course you drill where there's a water table...that's the point of
dowsing..to find the best place to drill...

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
I hope you did not pay for the witchcraft of dowsing.

As an intelligent person, if you paid you got ripped off.

Wells are drilled into a water table. Where you place your well
is of little concern because the water in the water table will
be within a foot or two of being lever.

CN

"katysails" wrote in message
...
Oue well was dowsed...

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
Oh Jeez,

What's next? A discussion of dowsing?

CN


"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
John,

It is rather simple, stick the thumb into the folded fingers to the
first knuckle and hold it at arms length. That will give you a 10
degree
spread. Each knuckle is two degrees. Top of the knuckle to the hollow
between 1 degree, half way up or down is a 1/2 degree. If your
sighting
is between I say plus or minus. ( When voyaging, a 1/2 degree will get
you to 30 miles. A minus gets you inside 30, a plus over 30.

To Calib. your fist and arm, stand in the corner of a room and count
how
many fist it takes to get 90 degrees. Ten should do it for most people
but it will let you know what your fist represents

Kind of a fun and easy way to check out things that are happening
around
you.

So as of tomorrow the Sun will be 23 1/2 degrees below the Equator.
Subtract that from your local GMT Noon reading and you should have
your
local Latitude.

Not sure where your located but St John is about 45 degrees (4&1/2
fists) minus
2 fists and 1 & 1/2 knuckles should be the local sighting (2 Fists and
1
knckle)
Give it a try and a laugh at Ole Thom

Capt. Neal® wrote:
Duh! Like I said, there is a water table. It does not vary more than a foot or
so in its level. No matter where you drill you will hit it. A dowser is unnecessary.

Gotta agree with you there Cappy; when we had our well drilled the drillers asked us where we would like our well and I pointed out a location about
10' out from the house. The guy gets out his dowsing tools (two pieces of coathanger wire) and proceeds to wander around eventully stopping right over
the spot I wanted, the wires suddenly cross and he tells me I'm really lucky, there is water right where I wanted it. My nightbors had the same guy
do their well, same story, funny thing though, the water in both wells was found at 65'! Uri Geller couldn't have done better.

Cheers
Marty, a great fan of the Amazing Randi

Have to agree CN,

The Dowsers usually find the spot where they want to drill.

I was first shown it with a man and two bent brass rods. Then I had a
welder in the maintenance shop bend two pieces of brazing rods and ask
me were I wanted to find water. He could make those tips come together
anytime and any place he wanted. He could make them come together right
where he was standing in the weld shop by just shuffling his feet
without changing his physical location. Then he held out his hand for
his Dowsing fee.
He taught me how to do it, for free.

Ole Thom
P/S The believers still believed, saying there was water under the
maintenance shop

"katysails" wrote in message ...
Don't be such a wuss, Doug....you only get that kind of weather a few times
a decade...it's normal here...


Mr. King cannot help being a wuss. It's just the way all those
over-the-hill trawler people are. If he were anything but a
wuss he'd still be sailing.

CN

Thom Stewart wrote:
Have to agree CN,

The Dowsers usually find the spot where they want to drill.

I was first shown it with a man and two bent brass rods. Then I had a
welder in the maintenance shop bend two pieces of brazing rods and ask
me were I wanted to find water. He could make those tips come together
anytime and any place he wanted. He could make them come together right
where he was standing in the weld shop by just shuffling his feet
without changing his physical location. Then he held out his hand for
his Dowsing fee.
He taught me how to do it, for free.

Ole Thom
P/S The believers still believed, saying there was water under the
maintenance shop


It's not much of a trick to make the brass, or hickory, or whatever,
appear to dip at the spot you want the well. The trick is to be able to
locate the spot where water will be found closest to the surface, and
where it will flow the easiest.

Probably out of everybody who claims to be a dowser, maybe one out of
fifty or a hundred will actually have some perception of where to drill
the best well. I've seen it done here in NC and a few spots in New England.

Regards
Doug King

Sorry, Mr. king but NOBODY has been able to demonstrate
scientifically that dowsing is anything but a crock of hock.

The amazing Randi has a longstanding million dollar prize to
be claimed by anybody who, under controlled scientific
conditions that they can do anything paranormal. Dowsing
is included. Nobody has claimed the prize for over a dozen
years now.

What does that tell you?

CN

"DSK" wrote in message ...
Thom Stewart wrote:
Have to agree CN,

The Dowsers usually find the spot where they want to drill.

I was first shown it with a man and two bent brass rods. Then I had a
welder in the maintenance shop bend two pieces of brazing rods and ask
me were I wanted to find water. He could make those tips come together
anytime and any place he wanted. He could make them come together right
where he was standing in the weld shop by just shuffling his feet
without changing his physical location. Then he held out his hand for
his Dowsing fee.
He taught me how to do it, for free.

Ole Thom
P/S The believers still believed, saying there was water under the
maintenance shop


It's not much of a trick to make the brass, or hickory, or whatever,
appear to dip at the spot you want the well. The trick is to be able to
locate the spot where water will be found closest to the surface, and
where it will flow the easiest.

Probably out of everybody who claims to be a dowser, maybe one out of
fifty or a hundred will actually have some perception of where to drill
the best well. I've seen it done here in NC and a few spots in New England.

Regards
Doug King