Anybody dowse for their well?

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I challenge you to find a spot that is NOT a good spot to dig a well. Since there is water under the ground everywhere you drill in the two States that I have lived and Drilled in. Dowsing is an interesting topic and will bring up lots of controversy from both sides of the fence. But you will find that many professional Well Drillers have a very low respect for it.

I'm curious; what method do you use? This is another topic that brings up many different answers.

Don't get me wrong on this, but even though I don't believe in Dowsing, I do use the coat hangers to find buried pipes. This is not a trick or a hoax, it is simply magnetism and it works well.

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I do use the coat hangers to find buried pipes. This is not a trick or a hoax, it is simply magnetism and it works well.

I assume you are talking about metal pipes then. A few years ago we needed to find a little 4" PVC water main to put in a new meter and service. There was a guy who had come to mark the underground phone line and he said he could use two pieces of copper rod to find that water main. So he marked where he was sure it was. I found it on the other side of the borrow ditch 10-15' from where he was "sure" it was.

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The fact that they were copper may have been the problem. Metal coat hangers are mild steel and do react to a magnetic field when held loosely in your hands. I have found plastic and concrete piping with them.

I have a Schoenstadt Magnetic locator that is used by Surveyors to find property pins etc. I use it to find buried wells. It will also find electric wires if there is an amp draw in the wires. It will also find metal pipe and tell you where each joint is. I don't understand this, but each piece of pipe has it's own North and South pole even though it's coupled to another pipe with a metal coupling.