Thread: Divining for water. It works, apparently.

Bloody oath it works, I do it all the time to find water pipes. My plumber taught me and swears by it. Always works within a foot of them, its one of things it works with you or dosnt. Theirs bugger all science on it, must have something to do magnetic energy through the body.

Over the years, going back to at least the 1940s, there have been a number of scientific tests of divining for water, and none have been able to show any better results than chance. It helps that in most places you will get water just about anywhere. Hydrologists have a slightly better success rate than diviners - something like 92% compared to 85% in a paper covering about 3,600 bores, published by the NSW Water Resources Commission about thirty years ago.

For a number of years there was a large sum of money offered for anyone who could divine the location of water pipes in a test setup in Sydney. Although several people tried it, the money was never claimed.

People like the driller in this article, with very wide experience have developed a depth of knowledge of where the best spots are, and very likely this unconsciously affects their divining.

I was hugely sceptical when i first saw my boss divining for water But when i learn't how to actually do it all that went away, It WORKS.
I did a couple of years operating a vacuum drill rig drilling exploration holes Just out of Boddington in WA quite a few years ago and the very Last thing you want with these rigs is to hit water as it bogs the drill rods up and is a bastard of a job getting the mud out of them.
By Knowing where the water is you can move the rig (we were allowed to move the hole 5m away from the peg if we had to) or you can superheat the drill bit before you punch through the hardcap to prevent bogging the rods.
KNOWING where the water was made my work so much easier and by "Divining" around a suspect hole I know Exactly where the water was.
I have absolutely NO idea how it works But it DOES work and that was all I was concerned about

Originally Posted by bob10

Drought-hit winemaker has 'eureka moment' finding water as tanks and dams run dry - ABC Rural - ABC News

I have more faith in getting my D1 Tdi300 leak proof than I do in divining 4 good water...

Next door neighbor had his bore divined and ended up with mud for days. I took water resources advice and pumped clean water from the start.

Hydrologist said you'll hit water on a random basis 80% of the time...hmmm, so I must have a better than 80% chance of getting the D1 leak proof?...hate getting tangled in my own logic!

67% of the time it works 58% of the time...

Old boys digging holes in UK used to do it (sometimes even worked)

I have 100% success at water , gas pipe , power cable & phone cable divining .

I have one of these

Pipehorn 800-HL - Pipehorn Locating Technology

Originally Posted by trout1105

I was hugely sceptical when i first saw my boss divining for water But when i learn't how to actually do it all that went away, It WORKS.
I did a couple of years operating a vacuum drill rig drilling exploration holes Just out of Boddington in WA quite a few years ago and the very Last thing you want with these rigs is to hit water as it bogs the drill rods up and is a bastard of a job getting the mud out of them.
By Knowing where the water is you can move the rig (we were allowed to move the hole 5m away from the peg if we had to) or you can superheat the drill bit before you punch through the hardcap to prevent bogging the rods.
KNOWING where the water was made my work so much easier and by "Divining" around a suspect hole I know Exactly where the water was.
I have absolutely NO idea how it works But it DOES work and that was all I was concerned about

I've seen stuff like that and more done. How it gets explained I dunno. Finding pipes, etc.

I like to keep an open mind until someone can really drive a B double through it.

DL