On 8/30/2010 7:35 PM, Gary "Joe" Mayfield wrote:
> The Randi prize is at or over a million dollars now.
>
> http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
>
> If you can really do it, you should collect!
>
> http://www.randi.org/library/dowsing/
Even if it works it's not dowsing.
73
Roger (K8RI)
> 73,
> Joe kk0sd
>
> P.S. Remember, my finder's fee is 10%
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tommy Alderman
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 6:12 PM
> To: 'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] cable locating
>
> Some things in life really don't need to be explained! I just posted how it
> is done, but I do not know how or why it works! I use it frequently because
> the person I bought my QTH from had no drawings or information on wiring or
> deep well water coming from the barn to the house. Where the wires cross is
> where I either dig or mark to stay away from.
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K0DAN
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 4:35 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] cable locating
>
> OK, I can't hold back throwing in my story. It's kind of an X-Files, delete
> now if you can't handle it.
>
> I live in the country, on the edge of the Kansas City metro area. Rural
> water supply district. I'm on a corner lot, so the water district has
> north/south + east/west easements for their lines/valves which run along my
> property line. A lot of the mains are still old metal pipes, the newer stuff
> they're putting in is plastic (with attached signal wires).
>
> About 15 years ago they had to do some utility cuts and were out here
> putting down flags. (This had nothing to do with my tower or antennas, which
> are located well inside the easements). I happened to be around when the
> water guy was marking his lines. He had a L-shaped wire (about 18" per leg)
> in his left hand, and an identical one in his right hand. (Water Witch.) As
> he walked, the wires would align (like a dipole) above his pipes, and that's
> where he put the flags....they later dug, and that's where the water lines
> (old metal pipe) were located.
>
> Now, whether he was moving them himself or not, I can't say; but I did
> witness the wires change as he moved. Pure Voodoo, as far as I was
> concerned, and I felt like I was watching a carney at a county fair.
>
> I was flabbergasted. I've studied engineering, believe in Newtonian physics
> and the Scientific method, and don't believe in Magic, Voodoo, etc., but I
> swear this guy was using a water witch and it worked! I asked him "what's
> this !#$%^&*()" and he basicvally told me "I don't know, but it works!". I
> can't explain it to this day, and I still don't believe it, but I saw it.
> I've told this story to lots of people and many have said they've either
> "done witching" or witnessed it too. Wonder how this would hold up in a
> court of law if a utility marked their lines and then something blew up from
> mis-marked lines.
>
> Wonder how many of 811/DigRight contractors still use this technique?!?
>
> Sorry if this is too far off topic. I couldn't help myself.
>
> 73
>
> Dan
> K0DAN
>
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