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  1. #11
    Join Date: Jul 2014

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    I don't believe in it. It's just chance or an educated guess as far as I'm concerned.
    If I had found a Tannoy you'd have been a believer !!
    I only ride 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work

  2. #12
    Join Date: Jan 2009

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    As it is, you've found a buried pot of gold, so can afford to buy some Tannoys for yourself.
    Barry

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    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oddball View Post
    If I had found a Tannoy you'd have been a believer !!
    Nope. I have other ways of finding Tannoys anyway!

  4. #14
    Join Date: Jul 2014

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    Ha ha , Touche !!
    On an aside , my old milking machine man , told me his father was a proper dowser ,old school.
    All the locals in the early twenties used to get him to come and dowse for a suitable place for a well! He would take his Hazel stick and pronounce to dig there , and how deep too!!
    One person dug down and found water . He thought the well would be too shallow ,so proceeded to make it deeper !
    The water dissappeared
    They asked him what had happened and he duely scolded them but redowsed and instructed then to go down a further ten feet or whatever !
    They found a good supply again !!

    Underground streams and different strata , and all that
    I only ride 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work

  5. #15
    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    My grandad used a dowser to find a suitable place for a well in France before I was born. I've seen the well and could have guessed water was likely to be there, it was at the bottom of a hill almost in a valley formed with another nearby hill and I know there's shale there and a spring a few hundred yards away. Simple.

  6. #16
    Join Date: May 2009

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    I'm no good at dowsing. but getting better at drowsing.

  7. #17
    Join Date: Apr 2009

    Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex

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    One of our neighbours does dowsing and used it to find a couple of long forgotten pipes joining a couple of our ponds and one from a drain. He just used the rods as a tool, not claiming any mystic powers.

  8. #18
    Join Date: Aug 2009

    Location: Staffordshire, England

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    The bloke I knew did not use rods, just a little weight on the end of a bit of string. You could ask it yes or no questions and it would revolve clockwise for 'yes' and anti-clockwise for 'no'

    On the Randi show he was given an OS map with all the legends removed and divided into an 8 by 8 grid and he had to pick the grid that had an ancient monument in it. He had no problem.
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    I’ve used the two bend rods method, and it works for me. I have no idea why. I suspected it has something to do with the moving water in the pipe creating a current? But, the pipe doesn’t need to have water in it, or it could be stopped up? And it can be plastic pipe, so, I’m at a loss. But I’ve used it several times over the years with worthwhile results.

    A similar observation, I’ve noticed that the weather reacts to the river. Rain and snow coming across the map, will change direction when it reaches the river, not far from where I live. It will snow on one side, but not the other, rain too. I suspect the moving water creates some kind of airborne electrical currents?

    Russell

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    Join Date: Aug 2012

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    All sounds very spooky to me...
    Bev


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