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In a message dated 8/25/2005 3:50:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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He goes to his truck and bends a 90 degree angle into a blue surveyor’s flag
and spends a half hour teaching me how to use a “dowsing rod”. The internet
suggests that dowsing is folklore, but the water guy say it’s the only way he
can locate water pipes in many areas. I knew fairly precisely where the water
pipe ran, but I didn’t tell him. He located it within 5 minutes to exactly
where I was told it was laid, and then had me retrace his steps holding the rod
so I could experience it “finding” the waterline.
I watched a water dept guy do almost the exact same thing in Folly Beach SC
one morning to spot the branch-off for a new water main they were installing
and a power dept guy use 2 L-shaped peices of ground wire to do the same at the
property where I built my hull.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Boothbay ME
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