Whoa! Wait a minute! You have to dig right there and SHOW us the buried water line. If you can't SHOW the water line, then you just are waving coat hangers in the air.
Last year I needed to find my water line to trace out a leak. The excavator I hired does this all the time. He walked around with his rods and figured out some weird direction changes in the line and marked them, then he started digging. His marks were within a couple feet across the entire yard.
This works. To test I located: a buried sewer line that I knew its location, a garden hose on the surface and a pocket knife on the floor. It indicated the area I thought the buried water line runs. I have enough faith in the method to where the rods indicate. I used 16 gage galvenized wire 20 inches long with a 6 inch wire "handle". My wife did not have as much success. Guess you have to relax and believe.
Well dang, I’ve heard that soil minerals can also cause the wires to cross, but I cannot attest to that for sure. I hope you strike oil & make it rich! 👍🏼
It does work but it's not used because it takes skill, you have to hold them so you are not influencing the rods in any way. However we put them in a 'jig" so to eliminate human error. Also this only works on water lines with water flowing in them. At the end of the day, regulations require you to hydrovac an expose the line, so locating the line is just one step, hydrovacs are expensive.
@@ha-jd7wl Wow, gas lines! Really? Lol. Certainly wouldn’t try that! Nor would we recommend using this method in exclusion of a major dig for construction. What we can say is that it did indeed work for us personally (and a neighbor) as well as a friend in utility work. We may be fun-loving but nope, not quacks. Thanks for watching!
As I understand, it’s done all over the world but I cannot really explain the science of the copper wires. There are a couple of comments on this post that did explain it better than I.
I used to do this during parties at my place in the backyard. Most people didn't believe me and thought I was tricking them but they just didn't have the touch.
Nope, not bogus. The purpose was NOT to dig up our yard. Lol. Folks from our area use this method frequently - including power crews! I didn’t believe it myself to start with either, but it worked!
You can believe it or not but it Absolutely 100% WORKS and will also find buried gas lines and electrical lines. The only bad thing is you won't know exactly what your finding till you dig down and figure out exactly what it is.
We had somebody come and "witch" (thats the term we use in my area) our well to see were the best place to drill was. I had never seen someone do it till then.
Can’t speak for this Randy person, but for us (and others we know) it’s worked every time. Many linemen in our area even still use this old science trick too.
Dr. R. Martin - It's called Dowsing Rods & they do work. People still use them today to locate water wells & they can find water pipes & gas lines easy.
So i had a friend bury a quarter in my yard. Then i took the wires and walked all over the yard from a grid i drew out on some drafting paper i bought at office depot. Not sure if any other kind of paper will work. Also used super small sharpie to draw the lines on the drafting paper. I used black, not sure if blue will work. Then i highlighted the lines with a yellow highlighter so it would be easy to assimilate as i progressed around the yard. It only took me three days to complete the process. I can tell you without a doubt that this is total bs just like this video.