Kace
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When I was a young man working in construction a co worker couldn't locate a water line and didn't want to hit it with the excavator. He pulled out two pieces of copper wire shaped like big L's and held one in each hand walking slowly across a 20 foot area where we knew there was a water line buried. The two wires crossed above the water line. I didn't believe him and thought he was pulling my chain. He then gave me the large L's made of copper and I tried it myself. It's hard to not believe when you have done it yourself. We then got back to digging and sure enough, the water line was right there. This was a 3/4 inch water line running from the street up to the home.
I love to metal detect and have never tried to dowse finding treasure but that doesn't mean someone out there can't.
That's pretty similar to my experience...I've seen and done it with water and it worked (I did it after the old guys did at the same site). I didn't find it on my own in other words.
Later, my Dad was telling me it would work on buried lines...At work while at a building we own and We Knew where a gas line was, he said come on and I'll show you. We went out and the rods crossed for him every time he was getting near and then over the line....from the tie in to the building.
He handed them to me, I did not get one hit! haha! Even at the main... It was the strangest thing.
I didn't know until reading about it on Tnet that folks dowsed for gold or PM's. I've never tried it but a member here did tell me what to buy at HD if I wanted something other than wire coat hangers.
I'll try it sometime and that gas line again.
Kace