backhoeboogie
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dcara":tw9vl964 said:I've seen it tried twice. But as to whether or not it worked would depend on your definition of "worked". First time I saw it was a guy from the water company used a piece of 1/4 inch rebar about 3 feet long with a handle bent onto one end. He used it to mark the location of the 2 inch water line at the front of our property close to where I wanted to put a pond. I found the water line when I dug the pond. It was about 30 feet from where he marked it.
Second time was when a neighbor was going to put in a new entrance gate. Same water company, different guy, same technique. Neighbor found water line with the post hole digger about 20 feet from where they had marked it.
Those folks needed to retire.
My great uncle would take a willow branch, hold the forks, and when he crossed water the straight end would bend straight down. I took the same branch and tried it. Nothing. He told me I wasn't a water witcher. My cousin tried it and he wasn't either.