Can Copper Dousing Rods Find a Water Well below the Ground? New Tech Vs. Old

[@esunetdude]

Where I live here in north-east PA, wells run deep and low return. My neighbors have wells as deep as 1000 feet and low return. On my property, I and my mother each walked the property and we both hit the same spot. I printed up a big WELL GOES HERE with an arrow and that's where the well driller setup. The contractor was totally on board with it and said he liked the idea because it had worked for him in the past. My well came in at 445 feet, fills to 75 feet from the top, and produces 7 gallons a minute. For these parts, that's golden!! I've filled my whirlpool tub without an issue. I regularly take long showers. And no problem with other things like the dishwasher and the washing machine. My next house, I won't hesitate to do this.

[@esunetdude]

I get enough water from my well for everything I need. I've had just washers twice with no issues. Some of the neighbors can't do that.

[@click411]

yes but how often do you shower@@esunetdude

[@esunetdude]

@@click411Daily, and a long shower. My well can easily supply two houses. So many of the wells in my area are not so generous.

[@lrpett]

The US Army used dowsing rods in Viet Nam to detect land mines in the roads. 14:55

[@ryszardbyczyk6938]

I've heard of people using welding rods and copper rods, but I've been told small willow branches work best for finding water. I have never had a need to try it myself, but it was interesting to watch.

[@Fitter562lu]

I'm a man of science. we were on a job where we needed to tie into an existing plumbing Line. we had a man come out with his locator and he failed to locate it 6 times. the oldtimer I was working with bent some welding rods and pinpointed every line within minutes. I went from a nonbeliever to the opinion that there are a lot of things we just don't fully understand. great Videos by the way.

[@Tb0n3]

It's still not real. Every test done on it has failed. Dowsing at best let's you trust your experience. There's only so many places pipes will get put by installers.

[@portnuefflyer]

I had a lady friend who was over here in the US from Italy on some kind of scientific research program, something to do with micro biology I think, she had TWO graduate degrees and was smart as hell, at least very highly educated! Somehow dowsing came up...., and she scoffed at the concept, I took two gas welding rods (copper, bronze? not sure) bent a handle in them both, and told her to start walking. She located the underground line from my well, but didn't believe it until I proved it to her, to say she was amazed is putting it mildly.

[@Tb0n3]

@@portnuefflyer Anecdotes are not evidence. It's been disproven in studies over and over.

[@portnuefflyer]

@@Tb0n3 I was as stunned as she was I should mention, as I watched her walk towards where only I knew the underground line was located. When they reacted, she did also, as did I! It may not be "evidence" but that's what happened.

[@bobbydee1187]

Works every time.

[@michaelrocher5649]

I am 80 yrs old and have found wells for people I learned that from my Uncle when I was 6 yrs old, motor grader operators on paving crews use that to find water lines under the road, I have used brass, copper, and Willow tree limb you get the biggest stream of water with them and the direction of underground flow. Great video.

[@KC-nd7nt]

What county or city approved the use of dousing rods ? Please include that

[@earlrissel4454]

​@@KC-nd7nt/ Why does a country or city have to approve anything that is just used to locate anything? They don't have any jurisdiction over location equipment.

[@silentepsilon888]

I have been using dowsing rods for more than 40 years and they work perfectly fine and accurate to locate any underground utility, not just water related. I use plain simple welding rods, bent like yours, but mine are about 2 feet long to make them more sensitive. I locate city utilities such as gas lines, sewer lines, water supply lines, pvc sprinkler lines, electrical conduit or storm drain lines from gutters. I usually walk in a checker pattern across a property and when the lines cross I know I got something. Set a flag and connect the dots. By the way, the method works in 'reverse' too. If you start out with crossed rods then they will open up when you get over a void in the ground.

[@michaelrocher5649]

Good as you, I always flag, and speaking of depth when you feel them tugging and strong you got the mainstream, I used brass brazing rods a lot of people I spotted wells for as a hobby quit challenging me about metal magnetic, etc., I like the brass 90-degree handle bend and keep them perfectly level you won't miss and find the biggest stream with brass rods. In 1948 Ga. people dug their wells so that was a must to find the closest groundwater.

[@donbearden1953]

@@michaelrocher5649I’ve used one brass brazing rod and I’ve used one straight limb from a fruit bearing tree to find water lines. I learned it from my Dad. He owned a well drilling company. He also used a fruit bearing limb to witch wells. He would put the small end of the limb in a soda bottle and hold the bottle to let you see how it would move.

[@worldsails2000]

My Dad used to use the same method with the long welding rods and he was always able to find his lines that way.

[@jmalone2758]

Decades ago my stepfather hired Burner Well Drilling to find us a well. The man who completed the survey was an older gentleman who, after a brief chat with my pappy cut a forked limb off one of our fruit trees and casually walked thru our yard. When he got to the place where the well would eventually be, the bark literally twisted off into his hands when it pointed straight down. 10gpm @ 110 feet. He told us before he left not to tell anyone what we saw.

[@edwardschultz2339]

My dad told of a time when his younger brother did this with a "Y" stick. The bark peeled off in his hands that same way.

[@Natty183]

How did he hold the stick?

[@jmalone2758]

@@Natty183in both hands out from his body. it was shaped like a Y and he had one branch in each hand. He told pap to never tell anyone what he saw.

[@jmalone2758]

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[@Natty183]

@@jmalone2758 I can't wait to try this! Thank you for describing it! I can't imagine the amount technology that's just been lost throughout our evolution. So fascinating!!!

[@joemundorff6392]

52 years ago my father on an old farm needed a well dug, used cut and bent coat hangers to find water. 100% successful. That well is still being used today. Littlestown, Pennsylvania

[@Tb0n3]

Water is not in small underground rivers. It's literally everywhere. It's a water table not a water string.

[@ocendo1]

@@Tb0n3No it is not.All depends of how high you are.Sometimes down hill it is flowing

[@josephmitchell3507]

Not how water works

[@Tb0n3]

@@josephmitchell3507 Are you a geologist?

[@zerofox7347]

Of course it can flow. It depends on the shape of the bedrock and how porous the ground is. That’s why in a mine you can have water flowing out of the wall in a single point as if a tap is turned on.

[@DCS026]

At one time I called BS on those dowsing rods too until I tried them for myself. We were having a water well dug in Central Texas, all the water well guy promised was a hole in the ground, no guarantee of water. The hole cost around $2500. I asked him how he knows where to drill; he told me a lot of people hire a dowser, just happens his "Brother in law" does it for $100. I rolled my eyes and agreed. This guy came out with his rods, walked around until the rods crossed and said, "right here is a good stream". My wife said, oh come on, he gave the rods to her and they crossed at the same spot. I said, "bull shit" I got those rods and KMA if they didn't cross at the same spot. I held them loose, held them firm, etc. and they still crossed. Sure enough he hit water, that was 15 or 20 years ago and it has been a great water well, we have pumped thousands of gallons of water out of it.

[@noyopacific]

I don't really have faith in dowsing rods either. I have had them cross in a way I am convinced that they were reacting to some kind of force but I'm not entirely sure what it was. They do seem to be effected by underground pipes and metal cable. As for locating water consider me very skeptical. I worked for a well driller when I was younger. We were happy to have a dowser point to a spot to drill so that we weren't responsible if there was no water. I think if you'd have drilled in a different spot on your property you'd have probably found water at about the same depth. My advice to anyone drilling a well is to sink it wherever is convenient for you, just don't drill in low spots because depressions can accumulate clay which slows down water flow into a well.

[@OneTequilaTwoTequila]

OMG, people are so gullible. The rods are susceptible to ideomotor response - slight subconscious movements in your hands because of a mental bias. Of course, all three of you got the same result because your subconscious knew where it was supposed to occur. It's entirely a mental thing and has nothing to do with physical science. Studies have proved that the odds of finding water with them is no greater than random chance.

[@SOLAR-cr5dp]

Love it!

[@creeper8647]

Exactly my experience. I saw it done and still didn't believe it. The guy handed me the rods and said, "Do it yourself." Then I believed it.

[@DW-bj5wr]

The earth is a large magnet. Any conductor --- copper, iron etc --- will create a current through itself. Water has conductive minerals in it which will cause electric charge to exist. How strong a charge is dependent on how much water/minerals are in an area. The dowsing rods are picking up this charge and creating current through themselves and also a magnetic field of opposite polarity causing the rods to be attracted magnetically to each other.

[@thommartin309]

I am pretty pld and back in the day we called them devining rods. They don't have to be copper, we even did it with willow branches. I have had some luck with coat hangers. It was neat to see the copper ones work so well. Thanks for the memories.

[@cerberus50caldawg]

My grandad used an old willow witching stick is what he called it. He also called it a divining rod. A willow branch that split equally into a Y the smaller branches about 6-8 inches apart and about the same in length. The thick branch about 4-5 inches long the whole thing not much bigger then a foot long complete and the branches not much thicker then an index finger. He'd just find one to use where he was at and cut it to shape on the spot if there were any willow near by. He had a few old trusty ones he collected also. Always a few around the clutter in his workshop. Showed me how to make one and how to use it but I used to just play with it. While we were out and about walking the woods or in the backyard. I think it did work for me a time or two but it was all fun and games for me. He knew exactly how to use it to get results.

[@richardspees841]

About 45 years ago (yes I'm old), I was down at a friend's and his dad was a petroleum pumping station manager. They had a lot of abandoned lines below grade that needed to be taken out for environmental reasons, and there were no drawings. He was using dowsing rods and finding the pipes. He asked me to give it a try, and I worked with him for a few hours, finding the pipes with the dowsing rods and he followed along and marked the ground with spray paint. When I left he gave me a set of rods, which I have kept and used to find piping in a good number of situations. They work.

[@billl7551]

Yep my Dad showed me and I mapped the front yard 60 yrs ago!! Found things he did not know were there. Young feller . . . . keep it going.

[@dr.decalin5565]

5 years ago, after reading about dowsing I made my own rods which look exactly like those this guy used. Miraculously, they worked. I could find water lines, electrical lines, gas lines and also water aquifers. Over the years I've tried them hundreds of times, just to prove to myself that they work. They never fail. I am a retired scientist, I worked for many years in Silicon Valley and I'm mystified as to what makes them work. After getting family members to try it I found that out of ten of us, only six could make them work. Body chemistry seems to somehow interact with the rods. My guess is that the earth's magnetic field is involved. $10 rods vs $5,000 proton magnetometer.

[@thebarntender5530]

It doesn’t locate water, it locates fractures in rock and water flows easily thru fractures. Break a magnet in two and each half forms new opposite poles. Fractures in rock do the same, the earth is magnetic.

[@thebarntender5530]

We used to joke that you have to be oversexed for it to work.

[@tonypace2009]

Here is a thought water has water tencion and every action has a reaction so probable the reaction to tencion excites molecules that agree has some reaction to magnatisim. Also some substances are able to wick water even upward like plants or even substances like vermiculite. There is defitnly more to water than we see. Actualy curious if electrolyte water has stronger signal that well water.

[@paulstaney325]

I was told to ask the rods for what you want. Found water lines, buried electrical lines, corners of septic tanks, leach lines, even the best spot for a TV antennae. Have used copper wires, brazing rods and in a pinch coat hangers, they have always worked. Freaked out a friend years ago, needed to dig a ditch to his barn for power, but he thought the septic tank might have been in the way. So I told him not a problem I could locate the septic tank, so I spotted all 4 corners and we dug down and there they were. He just shook his head and asked how I could do this, all I told him was you have to ask the rods for what you want and believe in it their power. He still thanks me for that almost 50 years later. Bless you brother Dave.

[@magicponyrides]

What kind of scientist were you, exactly? Because believing in dowsing is really embarrassing.

[@pappy69pappy]

I’m a old timer 73. My father in law prove it over and over again. First time I tried it in my yard using a bent coat hanger, one for each hand and the stupid things almost jumped out of my hands. Of course you hold them loosely. I am a believer!!!

[@pakbilljazz]

We use 3mm thick copper wire and it works all the time. No fancy tools :)

[@robwaterfiled6168]

we used fencing wire about 3mm and held the wire really tight and they still moved

[@c.m.303]

My dad showed me this years ago as we walked the property looking for the water line... it worked! I even cut straws to hold the rods so that I knew I wasn't doing it... still worked. He made the rods from wire hangers.

[@davidsawyer1599]

Wire hangers work great. Essentially, any metal wire. Cooper electrical wire. The solid type. Never tried aluminum, though. For the doubtful. Take a garden hose. Lay it out on the ground. It doesn't need to have water in it. Walk toward as shown in the video. The wire will cross.

[@jonathanlodge4117]

and that is the point - it doesn't have to be water - you find what you are looking for. It works for an empty drain and for a buried electrical cables - or, as one program showed, the points of missng or misplaced stones at Avebury. @@davidsawyer1599

[@SuperHaptics]

Ot doesn't need to have water in it. You guys are sprayed with the good stuff 😂😂😂😂

[@jimcozine4945]

It’s not magic, it’s static electricity. It does find the water it finds the metal pipe It also shouldn’t cost you anything! Coat hanger’s work as well as anything.

[@user-ob7eo7dn6m]

I don’t use metal wire. I cut a maple branch that is shaped like a “Y” and hold it a particular way at the “V” crotch of the Y and I’m able to know the strength of vein and roughly how deep by how the stick twists in my hand. My father taught me this at a very young age. I’ve switched for water for family and friend and always got them 20+g/m. It also works well for finding hidden septic systems as well.

[@jerryschauss4123]

My Dad taught/showed me how to do Dousing and how to tell how deep the water was. The well he dug by hand and dynamite is a very good well. Well was dug about 75 years ago and is still producing a lot of water. A few years ago my cousins water line for city water had a leak. The line is very long through a pasture. Using the Dousing method I was able to find the line as it is not a straight run. Marked the pasture found location of turns and located the leak. Leak was at a turn, which happen to be a fitting.

[@JLFamilySong]

My greatgrandfather during a severe drought took a set of dousing rods and found water that saved the farm. My grandfather used these to find water for shallow point wells all his life. I always watched in disbeliefe as they worked. Although my grandfather used bent welding rods they worked.

[@JesusTorres-qr1gz]

Gentleman, I am a 71 years old man, im the past they used a wooden dry "y" and I personally tried it and it works, my most expressive thanks for sharing it with us, blessings to you and your love ones, from the endless summer paradise Puerto Rico Jesus Torres.

[@stevegabrielsr.3453]

I'm retired and 70, I worked for the water co. In Pa. For 35 years. I was a locator and used the do users a lot. It worked for me during my yrs. Of service. I used my locating machine most of the time but the douser came in handy a few times. Not everyone can use them. But they do work. It was good to see someone else do what I did for yrs. Hey thanks for the memories. Steve k

[@user-hi5xe1ok6r]

With a blindfold how would you know when the wires crossed, DA !!!

[@davidelliott5843]

You can feel them swing.

[@ritashubert9150]

❤

[@ruben_balea]

Perhaps Google Earth or another maps app has satellite images from previous years to see if there were other buildings on the property. Older images usually have lower resolutions but if there weren't tall trees around it's still enough to spot buildings.

[@DigitalIP]

+1

[@hazendismukesjr.8319]

Dad had a man witch a well he used a forked stick and found water marked the spot and said there was water and it was not deep dad and uncle Albert dug a 50 iñch round hole 25 feet deep and hit water dad put brick iñ the bottom and 48 inch tiles by 24 inch high poured concrete around them and a cap on it and built a pump house laid pipe

[@cerberus50caldawg]

@@hazendismukesjr.8319 That's the way they did it back then. My grandpa grew up on a farm in North Dakota and he used a witching stick to find and dig wells all the time for family, friends and neighbors.

[@RichardParker-gw6se]

My dad used a choke cherry branch to find water . It never worked for city water as far as I know . I do it now with the same tree branch he showed me with . I can find water, but I don’t know how deep or how much it will produce. I found a well for a friend , and marked it with a rock , the well digger came in and surveyed the land and did tests to determine where to dig . Now my friend has a pipe in the back yard that does nothing. . He told the guy to try at my rock . 175 ‘ down real good water . The first pipe was down 250’

[@granthartley394]

I have been doing this for 70 years. I'm glad you got a positive response

[@louisjuarez3232]

As an electrician I used just plain pieces of wire to find pipes and wire using this method many times . I have also shown helpers and apprentices this trick . Most were skeptical at first . It did not work for very few .

[@user-zk4oo7kx1i]

I would have never thought well drilling would be so entertaining but I have enjoyed all your videos. When someone really knows their trade it makes any subject interesting, and you obviously know your trade very well. And I appreciate that you were skeptical of the dousing rods too.

[@DMIINC2013]

When drilling company showed up at my property do drill the well the guy used dowsing to select the spot where to drill. I was skeptical as hell about it. To my surprise 😮 after drilling 337 feet my well is producing 60 gallons per minute. Needless to say I became believer.

[@rickdiego5]

Did it occur to you that maybe anywhere you drilled on your property you would have hit a big cavern of water underneath?

[@DMIINC2013]

@@rickdiego5 That might be true. Gentlemen that was running the drilling rig was around 65 years old and I have asked him about dowsing rods and what he told me is that he always had great success with them. Go figure.

[@seetheworldfrommyharley]

​@rickdiego5 I'm beginning to think that some people will question even oxygen even after holding their breath

[@earlestes8649]

@@rickdiego5 yes but I wired a new house about twenty years ago and a well driller made a dry hole the first time around then got out a geological map showing underground gravel. And picked another spot north of that one about hundred feet he hit water but it wasn’t a good vein and went dry about five years later so they came out again and drilled west of the house and finally got one that they are still using. And my uncle used a devining rod when they did the last one

[@lindafoxwood78]

great video. I learned how to dousing in 20 minutes at a friends house. He said: "Hold these two wires in your hands and walk that way to my back yard." I started walking and the wires crossed about 20 feet away. I asked what that means? He asked me to walk some more with the wires crossed. I walked a few feet and the wires started to uncross; I looked confused and he said to turn a bit until the wires crossed again. I did that and walked about 100 feet until the wires could not cross again. I asked him what that means? He answered: "You walked past my well. Turn around and find my well." I started to walk back and the wires crossed again. Bingo! I was standing on his old well. He has county water installed 5 years ago. WOW.

[@Paulman50]

I've used them to find steel pipe, pvc pipe, clay sewer pipe, 240v power cables. I was trenching with a 65hp chain trencher, so also cut through hundreds of services that were not found first. Used them for 45 years.

[@jaggededge7155]

I am a 64 year old plumber. I carry a pair of dowsing rods in my truck. My uncle walked all over Alabama locating water for wells using a willow dowsing rod. Not everyone can use them. I have a plumber friend that after a heart attack and stroke could not use dowsing rods again.

[@fyithisisnotrocketscience5150]

I’m a retired residential remodeling contractor over 40 years experience and over the years I’ve successfully used dousing rods with 100% accuracy they are for real.

[@johnbaskett2309]

I'm a miner and a prospector in Alaska. Dowsing is one of our "go to" methods for a quick and dirty method of locating mineralized vein structures and faults. There is scientific principal behind it. Anything that interrupts the magnetic field of the earth(including wires and water pipes) will affect the rods. Buried high voltage lines will really snap the rods. Almost spooky. This is also done on a big scale by flying a monitoring torpedo from a helicopter. Called geomagnetic mapping. It's not Voo-doo. I might add that some people have better performance with dowsing rods than others. I happen to be very successful with them. A geologist friend believes it's due to the continuity of a person's body. I'm also very sensitive to electric current.

[@dusmangi]

amazing👍

[@scottwidrick1835]

I use the dowsing rods to located water and any other type of underground piping. You could use the rods to locate the septic laterals as well.

[@scottscontracting]

I was taught dowsing using Copper Rods while in the air force as a backup for electronic devices -locates wire, cables, or water lines

[@SuperFunny65]

CE's Red Horse? They hooked us up at tent city in Turkey.

[@scottscontracting]

Texas, AF training.

[@davidshay4773]

I didn’t believe in dowsing rods until I tried it and it really worked, anybody can do it !

[@needsaride15126]

Not true. Not everyone can do it. Plus. Some cannot use metal rods but can use a fruit tree limb and vice versa.

[@robwaterfiled6168]

doesnt work for everyone, tree limbs work also

[@needsaride15126]

@@robwaterfiled6168 cherry,peach,any tree that bears fruit. Cherry seems to work the best. A person can also find oil using a fruit tree limb.

[@alasdairhamilton1574]

Hi, my mum bought a property in the north east of Scotland and had a guy come out to find water to supply the house. He came out and used dousing rods and gave mum a location and depth of a good water supply. They then drilled down and found a fresh water supply exactly where and how deep he said it would be. Can’t argue with that. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@user-pl4qu7cp1e]

How can they tell the depth?

[@alasdairhamilton1574]

@@user-pl4qu7cp1e Sorry can’t help you there, am not a Douser. But they can tell the depth somehow, maybe to do the the strength of the response of the rods!

[@danleep1185]

In W. Central PA, a neighbor, long gone, could 'witch' for water, tell the flow and the depth of the water. As to how he knew these things...he said he just knew it! I guess it was like telepathy from mother earth talking to him as I don't know. I, though, have experienced witching for water using a "Y" stick that I broke off an oak tree that located the flow. The first time I did this, I was a total non-believer, but this stick literally pulled my hand down to the ground and I could not stop it from doing so! I never had any depth or flow perceptions, though. The sister of the neighbor that I originally mentioned could do as her brother did. Both are now gone and I don't expect to be around too much longer either, now being 80 Yrs. old...can't wait!

[@bryanturner683]

@@user-pl4qu7cp1e My uncle taught me to do it with a piece of bailing wire. He shaped into a pig tail or spring on the end about 2 2.5 feet long. Had me find a water source he knew about with rods . Then he had me stand over that spot with the bailing wire. Said to hold it very still and watch. It quivered a bit and then started bouncing up and down. He told me to count. When I got to 365 the dumb thing stopped bouncing. Quivered again and then started going side to side. He told me to count. He stopped me after 100. Then he told me there was a known aquifer there. They knew it was around 360 feet or so but it had many thousands of gallons of flow and I would been there all after noon. Up and down is feet, left and right is gpm. Why it is not liters and meters I dont know. It is far more strange than just the Rods crossing. I have located 3 wells and accurately predicted GPM and depth. One of them for a friend the well driller refused to drill where I told him. He got two dry holes. Friend hired another guy and he drilled where I said. Right on the money. I should do a video with the pig tail, it will blow your mind!!! I dont think it's magic or sorcery. I think its juts another gift god gave mankind to help him out. I dont believe in it, I just know it works!

[@bryanturner683]

@@user-Q- Yes, side to side is 1 gem. why its not in the metric system I don't know????

[@larrynelson734]

I used dousing rods back in Wisconsin in my 20s. Found water every time. Back then we pounded wells with pointed pipe. That seems like so many years ago lol. Keep up the good work. 👍👍❤...

[@bain5872]

My dad taught me to use dousing rods when I was a child and as you have saw, they indeed do work. The reason this method has been handed down is because it works. My dad also taught me to use a Y tree branch that works just as well.

[@jdelbrid]

The first time I tried the rods was when a pipe-fitter came into my office and challenged me to find a below grade drain line. He knew where it was because he installed it many years ago. The rods he gave me had a sleeve, made of tubing over the rods, so you could not in any way influence the movement of the rods. He showed me how to hold them and instructed me to walk across the office complex. As I walked the rods starting pointing forward and then suddenly came together and then as I continued in the same direction they spread apart, towards my biceps. As I continued walking they pushed against my biceps. He said that they spread apart at the exact location of the drain line. He told me that not everyone can use them and then gave them to me so I could test my two boys with them. I went home and showed them how to hold them and to walk over an area that I had installed a water line to our house. One of them could find the line and the other could not. I am a believer.

[@shakespeer1677]

I have 6 gold claims and I use them exclusively for locating gold deposits. They constantly get me great results.

[@bpaul1110]

My brother-in -law does water dowsing with rods and with willow sticks. He can tell you how much and how deep it is . I asked him how he can tell that- you gotta talk to them, he says. He also will dowse for spirits , karma, energy(??) He went to an old school in a small town near where he lives. The teacher told him the young students in her class were all 'Off the Wall" and very difficult to deal with. He dowsed the area and told her there was a negative energy going right through her classroom. He followed it out of the building to a point where was away from the building and drove a metal rod in the ground. He claimed it would disperse the negative energy. About a month later the teacher contacted him and told him she thought she had an entirely different class. All was calm and normal. (As normal as young children can be)

[@davidshepherd-sj2tj]

Lol .... Idk bout all that .... Certainly a possibility... But I will second the dousing rods working however, in I'm sure ppl do all the other things as well but I'd just asoon stay away from all that

[@arfamortis1]

I've always been able to dowse, but I use Hazel twigs. I find it really helpful to picture in my mind what I'm searching for, whether it be water, a cable or a pipe etc. I've even found a lost gold watch in a neighbours field.

[@josephjanak7764]

Worked for me in 1977. Friend lost his brand new college ring in a pasture of 1 foot tall grass. I found it at night with 2 bent wires.

[@sparky178]

My Grandpa was a well driller and I recall him telling me about this using I believe willow sticks. Great video!

[@KenSilvers]

I've used coat hangers and got results... willow, fruit trees... anything but conifer. something in the pitch of the conifers doesn't allow for dousing, maybe... I don't know.

[@tonypace2009]

Willow is greatly attracted to water the roots of a willow tree will grow toward a source of water.

[@jeffrowlan9877]

I made my own Dousing Rods they do work .. i am a retired commercial building superintendent and have used my rods to locate water lines on job sites the have never let me down

[@sloughshrew9987]

When I was 17 years old I used a crowbar to locate water in the ground. My father laughed at me telling me it couldn't have worked. He went and got himself a willow branch that had a good crotch in it. That was how he would locate underground water. His willow branch took him to the exact same spot that my crowbar had found. He grabbed the crowbar and walked all over the yard until he reached the spot that I had originally found. Still nothing! I took the same crowbar, walked 20 feet away and then balanced the crow bar on my thumb and middle finger so that the crowbar was perfectly horizontal to the ground. My father followed me every step of the way to make sure I didn't cheat. The crowbar stayed perfectly level until I got near the spot previously indicated. One more step toward the spot and the front end of the crowbar plunged to the ground. The willow branch worked for him but never did for me! Go figure!

[@lindsaylittle6535]

I think those dousing rods do work. We know a plumber who uses one and also a driller whose dad used on all the time. Also a friend of ours and his dad were trying to find a water line and his mother came out and doused and found the water line right away. Some guys say you have to have a feel for it, but obviously it has worked for a lot of people. Love your videos! Greetings from balmy NE MN.

[@terrymaine4121]

We called it witching and it does work!

[@Tb0n3]

Just like witches, it's not real.

[@jimmydire8607]

I worked as a carpenter my last summer in Tucson AZ, in 1978. We were building triplexes on desert land kind of in the center of the metropolitan area. One afternoon a technician from the municipal Water Department came out using a dowser almost exactly like the one in this video. I laughed to myself but didn't say anything. And I nearly fell out of my britches because it worked. I saw the copper wires cross and the water pipe was found in that exact place. So dowsing does work even though it seems like complete nonsense when you look at it scientifically.

[@alittleofthisandalittleofthat]

I live in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 my late father could use a water stick and the rods. And he found many wells for people that bought a property and didn’t know. He would tell them to get the pump running and he would start at the foundation and with the divining stick he would mark the location of the pipe every 2-3 feet. Once there was no more pull of the stick he would say did there and every time there is where the well was. Also his copper rods moved outward pointing left/right when he found a water vein or pipe. Every video I see on you tube they cross. Difference between Canada and the US. lol not sure.

[@FreeFinca]

The pointing left and right shows the flow direction of the water.

[@absolutetinker1267]

Have to say that they do work. Some people can't make them work because they seem to damp the electric field that moves the rods. Back in the late 80's when I was doing contract APCO underground power work in the Roanoke area, we didn't have ready access to locator tools, too expensive to keep with every crew and dousing rods got me out of trouble multiple times when trying to find buried utility lines I really didn't want to hit.

[@user-ll4vn7nx5p]

I,VE used them for years and they and they do work well. JBR from Clear Lake SD

[@ramonbennett8416]

They absolutely work! I have been doing it for 30 plus years. Always carry a pair in my van.

[@randygreene5977]

I learned to use dowsing rods when I was about 10 years old. I am over 70 now and they have never let me down. I used them to locate pipes in concrete floors on one of my jobs. It was dead on every time.

[@royzplace9854]

I truly beleive in dowsing rods. As a teenager this old guy got me intetested in them. The city where i lived. Needed to drill new wells. They drilled four test wells. All were duds. They hired this gentleman to dowse a well fir them. Low and behold,he found them a water source. It could supply enough water to run the biggest pump made 24/7 with no depleation of source. He found an underground aquifer. It was approximately 50' wide. He even told them how deep it was,and type of soil and rock they'd encounter. Needless to say,that was @50 years ago. And the well is still in service today. No problems. SO......

[@mcn111]

meet a subscriber in a middle of nowhere is really epic 🤩🤩

[@h2omechanic]

It's probably the 5th time it's happened in the last few months. It's always a wholesome encounter

[@lzed223]

Yes dousing with copper rods does work. I do not have the steady hands so other guys in our water department did the dousing and located a ductile iron pipe at 6 feet below grade. However my daughters water line froze up here in the North East. I used a pipe locater with a transmitter system. I traced the copper pipe through the neighbors yard next to his empty in ground pool. The empty pool caused the water line to freeze up. The line was over 300 feet long. I also located a 6" pipe leak by testing for fluoride. Did the Town a favor. Solve my daughters frozen pipe. It was a good day.

[@mofbombay6290]

Pull your ground rod out and pour some water down there from your water bottle and put the ground rod back in, you should get a much better signal we have to do that when checking cathodic protection

[@johnd.8224]

I have always been a skeptic about dowsing rod, but my dad used them just as you did, found spots to drill, & have seen him & well drillers successful many times.

[@jeffrowlan9877]

they do work I have used them on commercial job sites

[@OlJarhead]

My old man showed me how to do it when I was a kid using clothes hanger wire. We could find electrical lines, water lines, even drain lines. He was a plumber and was the guy everyone in the area called to fix their well problems.

[@user-dn4iv2ne6r]

Please keep making the videos. I will watch them. One thing that I would have done is check the electric panel to see if there was evidence of service to that other line. It might give you insight to a possible structure.

[@royesmith1828]

i do believe in dousing rods. i used them when i worked as an electrician to find conduit to sleeve power lines to house. conduit will always have water in them. enjoyed your vedio retired electrician.

[@jg6142]

Good question on Dozing rods , some people swear by them.

[@freepilot7732]

I have used the rods and found they do work. I tested them against known pipage multiple times. It's amazing.

[@transmitterguy478]

Philip, my grandfather could take 2 birch branches(back in the 60s), cut them to equal lengths, and walk with them straight out. When he found water the branches would bend down and point to the ground with him holding them level, sometimes they would break at his hands. It was amazing to watch.

[@Essence1123]

And Santa Claus comes down my chimney ever year to give me presents! Grow up, quit believing in fairy tales. Your grandpa was at best telling you stories but more likely he was an excellent scammer.

[@kylekelly1167]

@@Essence1123 Ye don't have to spread your brainwashing misery to others.

[@davidshepherd-sj2tj]

Ohh don't mind him .... He just hasn't lived much life yet ..... Lol a little sheltered I'd say bt the sounds of it ... I believe ur story , I've nvr seen branches used but I don't doubt it .... There's many unexplained mysteries this world has yet to uncover.... At least to those of us n this go round anyways...

[@deanperry3407]

A little more than 40 years ago, a well driller dowsed a well location for a friend's family. I was positive dowsing was an "old wives tale". He used a coat hanger cut the way your rods were cut, so I cut a set for myself and tried to recreate his method. holding his rods horizontally,, but using a grip with his hands horizontal and the rods able to move vertically, saying it was more "accurate" and the rods would cross just as yours did, but on the opposite plane. When I did it, the rods ROSE upwards, rather than downwards. The well guy told me that it happens for some, but for most, they crossed downwards. I'm left-handed, so maybe that has something to do with it. Either method, it's still weird to actually see that dowsing works.

[@kat2641]

I’m a lefty too but for me they cross downwards. Me personally? I think it has something to do with the minerals in side us. We all have different minerals and in my older years? They do not work as good as when I was a teen..🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Old-bold-pilot]

Have seen them in action before so I believe. Cheers 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@charleswelch249]

My grandpa found dozens of wells for families in my area until his health gave out. His reputation as a water Witcher was appreciated by many. Back then, he was paid with animals and other stuff. During the depression barbering was the only way to survive.

[@klatt4057]

I've seen people using dousing rods to find water on my own property, and it works.

[@butchkallem801]

I'm also an old timer, 71. I learned when I was about 10 or 11. When I was taught to dowse for water, we were given a crow-bar. Just lay it in your hand and hold loosely, down by your side and walk. When you get to water, the crow-bar tips quickly. If you ever walked a fencing line or field with a crow-bar, and the dang thing keeps tipping, you may have doused for water. He also showed me how to use welding rods, just like your copper rods. It works. Don't know why, but it worked. I got calls from a few farmers after that to find water. There seemed to be water where I dowsed, but who knows if they couldn't go several feet over and find the same pool. Most of those wells were 75 to 150 feet deep. Strange feeling when it works.

[@jaredgray7872]

Very cool. The younger me used to be a skeptic of old technology. The older me realizes people used methods of doing things for generations not to waste their time but because those methods worked. Neat to see you try that out

[@leopoldpoppenberger8692]

why invent a wheel.

[@OneTequilaTwoTequila]

Your younger self was smarter. They only appear to work "sometimes" because the rods are susceptible to ideomotor response - slight subconscious movements in your hands because of a mental bias. If you think you're going to find something somewhere, your subconscious mind is going to cause your hands to prove it. It's entirely a mental thing and has nothing to do with physical science. Studies have proved that the odds of finding water with them is no greater than random chance.

[@williamroberts4758]

I would still keep the old well and have you test it. You could use it down the road if it came out clear and clean. Like a above ground pool.

[@BryonBarros-zu2bk]

I’ve learned so much about well’s watching your channel. Thanks.

[@GaryFeltman]

You just reinforced the old methods. I'm a believer now of the dousing methods.

[@Jmeinema1]

Should have used the sticks before the locator

[@jacksak]

Yup !!

[@DD-DD-DD]

If it was going to be a valid test. Digging at the midpoint between the two locations is a total no brainer and proves nothing. Dowsing is fake. It's been tested over and over, with as much as $10,000 on the line - not one person could do it. Search for the 'bomb dection dowser' to see how evil some people can be.

[@DD-DD-DD]

Digging the midpoint between two points 20 ft away isn't a real test. Yes, the rods alone should have been used and we'd have seen they don't work. Dousing has been debunked many times over.

[@miked602]

You and the debunkers are wrong. Dousing does work. I used to say the same thing until I tried it myself with a fresh cut Y-shaped branch. I was with a group and we were all amazed. We also found that it does not work with some people - whether or not they believe makes no difference. I did not believe until the stick pulled down hard. There was nothing subtle about it, it was a very clear heavy downward pull. No tricks. No explanation. You will never believe it until you do it yourself - if it works for you. @@DD-DD-DD

[@redjohnson4859]

Randi is a hoax.@@DD-DD-DD

[@happysaylar8263]

At 77 yrs old I can say my first experience with dousing was from a friend who doused with Willow Branches....drilled and hit great water..that was when I was 32.....I started fooling around with Willow branches and then Coat Hangers I bent and held very loosely ...I found water pipes underground for a friend...found my next well...found a under ground spring I didn't even know ran thru my property....so I would say.yes it works...........I didn't believe in it when I first saw it done eiher...but wanted to prove it was poo-poo.........BUT IT WORKED!! Cheers good video!

[@daveb7999]

Glad you brought the dousing rods, made this quite interesting. Thanks for the video.

[@Waupaca715]

Dousing rods are awesome!

[@James0u812]

I have used dousing rods and they worked. I was amazed with disbelief, but they worked and were actually very accurate.

[@jacksak]

Probably no matter where you use dousing rods you will get water because the well is drilled until it finds water most of the time. I bet if I had a ten acre lot you would find water by drilling most times without rods. Wherever rods might point to water there will be water not because the rods found it, but because there's water at some depth all over the place. This time in this video maybe you got lucky with the rods. Anyway and as a subscriber, I love your videos... thanks...

[@MrRobertjparsons]

Ummm, OK you're totally not getting it. You can find pipes that ONLY are where they are. It's not a luck or chance thing. Water is not evenly distributed in the ground either. I've done this myself when I was 14, taught by and old times who was taught by a prior old timer. Then my little brother did the same. It's not about faith, it just works.

[@shawnie2027]

WOW! What an amazing educational video! I really enjoyed your video! I’m 55yrs old and a Grandma lol so ya know I ain’t watching cuz I’m trolling ya or flirting Bahaha 😂 I was just curious about the copper rod thing. 🤷‍♀️I had seen something about this subject about a year ago; I kinda thought it was a lil woo woo or strange so left it at that. But your video was very clearly not sketchy! You were not trying to sell the viewer on this technique. It was a very honest and genuine test. I appreciate that! Your knowledge on the subject matter is top notch as well. Now let me just say here that I don’t know if the codes are such here in Oregon but I can’t imagine that they vary all that much when it comes to wells and septic lines. So that being said I think your knowledge on this subject is applicable to any person working on projects of their own. That is so helpful now days because so many people are moving off grid and trying to become more self sufficient and still maintain a level of excellence with their health and others always in mind. I hope this isn’t coming off as the crazy rambles of an old lady?! 😂 I was just very impressed with your clarity and ease of relaying the message and camera work. These are not easy things to accomplish and it seems to be second nature to you young man, so be encouraged today and know that as for this ol lady lol I think your on the path of great things! Keep it up! I subscribed and look forward to learning more cool things from ya in the future! God Bless you and yours! ❤

[@mnolan1490]

I don’t know how it works either but I use them before I dig.

[@mtyhntr49]

I had to re-subscribe to your channel. I was already a sub but for some reason, I was deleted. The rods really do work. Weve used them over the years with 100% accuracy. Love your channel and have learned tons from you. Be safe and grounded always 😊

[@thadaylsworth6648]

I have used dousing rods for years and I have become a true believer.

[@chrismuss6760]

Yes Sir , I Absolutley Trust these copper rods to locate buried Water lines or natural aquifers! It worked well for my Grandfather in Missouri & Fer me out here in Calif. Thankyou for your channel .

[@jasonpatterson8091]

Gotta do the dousing rods first. If they work they'd have found the well. As it stands, you knew that the thing was right there and then dug halfway between... 10 feet between them, you dug a 1.5 foot hole, and it wasn't centered on the well.

[@imzardoz]

Drilled for 30 years, never saw this work with a blind fold on!

[@davidclark3603]

I was blown away a few years ago by a tree hugging hippy !!!! I thought it was just good luck! But no. He was absolutely right. It was me. I could not accept the fact, he was right!!!

[@TheJimJonesKC5DOVChannel]

I stopped and watched a guy in Natchitoches, LA once and was amazed. He gave me the rods to keep along with a detailed lesson. I've used them to locate water lines also - weird but works.

[@bigchew3149]

I Also believe in dousing rods ! They are a Great Tool to Have in the Tool Belt & I have saw them work ! Just Because we cant Explain something Dont mean it wont work ! We Cant Explain a Lot Of Things in Life But That Still Dont Change The Facts ! Cool Video as always !

[@FtnHills38]

A friend of mine’s dad was a civil engineer. He drilled for water, 150ft and Nada. An old cowboy who worked for him witched the same area and about 20ft from the first hole, hit water at 58ft. He made a lot of believers that day.

[@swamprat69er]

YES! I use dousing rods whenever I want to find water. Use metal coat hangers shaped the same way as your copper rods.

[@dburnett3257]

I have used 30" rods for decades to locate sprinkler lines and even mapped out a water drain line that was UNDER 4" OF CONCRETE. They work, Bro.

[@texasranchrocks]

We have had 3 wells drilled on our place over the years. We have used witching for determining where to drill. Never used it to find water lines. The first two wells were witched by an oltdtimer in the area. This was 1996 and he used a forked willow branch, and we found good water on both locations that moved the branch. The third was done 2020, with copper rods and proved to be very good water as well. Thing is, as far as me thinking this is for real, honestly part of me says we would hit water anywhere on the ranch, but I still want any locations witched just for good luck on a new site.

[@cdevpayne]

You are a very wise man. My cousin had aome land he wanted to build a house for his sisters and we wished his place and I told him where to dig, but he said NO I want it right here, So he paid 5000.00 dollars to dig and he went down 176 feet and yup he hit water, Well he hit 12 gal per min, of sulfer water. He thought f he went by where my well was he could also hit part of my well of 4 to 5 hundred gal per Min. It just does not work like that. Stay safe.

[@acecattledog8510]

I've used my coat hanger rods many successful times. Once, to find an underground well, like yours, only I had no idea where it was ( no crawlspace). You could use them to find the septic line also. I have located buried electric lines. Nice job.

[@redneckways1617]

Dousing rods work really well but was used in the old days for shallow wells…I’ve always seen them made from aluminum not copper or a fork from a fruit tree

[@wayneessar7489]

I have used copper clad welding rods.

[@kiesha104]

My grandfather who was legally blind marked many of wells. He had weekends scheduled once a month when he would have my uncle drive him to the outskirts of town to find water on properties.... A man who was one with nature hunting, fishing. Never needlessly took. Considered his loss of sight a obstacle but the ability to provide for his family a blessing.

[@michaelmcdonough7946]

Mr. I am impressed you do know your job.

[@handimanjay6642]

Your “Huh” said it all but your “Oh my gosh” confirmed it. My best rods are #10 bare copper wire with romex jacket handles.

[@frankpage4461]

Hope that you told your Dad what I told you when we talked today! 😄

[@duganashley1337]

I used to do municipal sewer and water line repair. We had various equipment for locating water lines, we always used dousing rods. We would simply making them out of materials for free. You can rip off flags off of flag markers and bend them at 90 degrees, with a long end sticking out, short end in the hand, then hold them very loosely in hand. It works reliably. It can have interference from powerlines overhead, so if you have an area with multiple lines or lines in the ground and powerlines above, it can get confusing. Very reliable technology. Most people dismiss it because they have never learned to use it and have no idea how well it works.

[@rayclark8920]

I would think it would make far more economical sense to first test, that well quality and quantity of water first. Before drilling a new well does not make sense to drill a new well when you may have a really good well right there already I don’t care if there is a drainfield 30, 40,50 feet depth of well would be a good thing to know too you could do all of that. A new well there’s no guarantee that you’ll hit good water bad water worse yet have to go so deep and pay an outrageous amount for it and end up with bad water.😢😢😢

[@wayneessar7489]

He mentioned it is to close to the septic system.

[@rayclark8920]

@@wayneessar7489 that’s why you test the water. The test will tell you whether it’s contaminated or not. Not some government bureaucracy.

[@wayneessar7489]

@@rayclark8920 I thought the code keeps bad companies from saddling innocent buyers with a well that is contaminated with feces. How is that an over reach of government beauracracy?

[@carlpower164]

I have used dousing rods my self from wire to tree branch ,yes they do work.

[@mnolan1490]

Have you ever had someone Douse before you drill?

[@josephshaneferguson6561]

Youngblood ,you just proved it to yourself, you have to be a believer

[@fort147]

One of my friends grew up in the Bronx NY. He married a Gal from the northern part of WI. He told me his father in-law showed him how to use the rods. At the time he said this can't work! But it did! BLEW HIS MIND!