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
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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

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

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 news
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

Crap'n Neal® wrote:
Sorry, Mr. king but NOBODY has been able to demonstrate
scientifically that dowsing is anything but a crock of hock.

I suppose that depends on your ideas about "scientific proof." Some
people are notoriously hard to convince, just look at the public
convictions about evolution & global warming.

In any event, I know of about a dozen properties which had poor wells,
where several different drillers failed to improve the situation, and a
dowser found a spot where water was much closer and flowed at a greater
rate.


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.

How are you going to have "controlled scientific circumstances" in well
drilling? Build an artificial continent?


... Nobody has claimed the prize for over a dozen
years now.

What does that tell you?

That the Amazing Randi probably doesn't really have a million dollars.

In any event, I would not go so far as to say it can be "scientifically
proven" that dowsing works. Only that some people have a sense for it,
and it's quite rare. Just the same way that some people can
(occasionally) tell what cards are in another person's hand...

DSK

That God exists...

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
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
news
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

"Martin Baxter" wrote:

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.

A 65 foot well?

I don't have much experience in drilling wells, but when I lived in North
Georgia in the Appliancian Mountains near Blue Ridge, they had to re-drill
to 3000 feet. They remarked about having to do this miracle, but I didn't
have a clew (nautical content) about what the average well would be...

I lived on top of a large mountain, and I guess it was par for the course?

LP

Your experience proves dowsing is all a big hoax.

You lived atop a large mountain. Most every mountain
in that part of the country has caves and underground
streams, lakes, etc. along with springs.

If dowsing really worked, the dowser should have been
able to find water existing in sufficient quantity well
above the water table. If dowsing were real, the dowser
should have found an underground lake in a cave into
which to drill. That you had to drill all the way to the
water table proves dowsers are frauds.

CN


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"Martin Baxter" wrote:

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.

A 65 foot well?

I don't have much experience in drilling wells, but when I lived in North
Georgia in the Appliancian Mountains near Blue Ridge, they had to re-drill
to 3000 feet. They remarked about having to do this miracle, but I didn't
have a clew (nautical content) about what the average well would be...

I lived on top of a large mountain, and I guess it was par for the course?

LP