'Water Witching'. A retired City Water Manager showed me how. 10 gauge copper wire pulled from a 3 foot section of 10-3 romex bent into a right angle at the upper end to hang on to 'loosely'. I angle them down at about a 45 degrees from horizontal and when you walk across the water lines they cross hard and fast. You can feel them tug pretty hard for water lines about 10 foot down. The water doesn't even have to be running. I'm not sure why it works, but it does. I showed my mother how to do it because she was sceptical. I had to call it 'Dowsing' because she wouldn't have tried if I called it 'Witching'. I had to dig up my own old water lines. My water lines were 10' down with a wicked dogleg and ran for a couple hundred feet. I marked the ground with orange spray paint and used a backhoe. I was dead on never veering even an inch off to either side for the entire distance. I'd never attempt to find water lines without 'Dowsing' first. Everybody needs to try it to see for themselves, it works as surely as magnets pick up iron nails.
@@asleepinthealley i use L shape cote hangers when they move back and forth their is water moving below moving water has lots of minerals that is y some people in Russia live over 100 in a area
I know for a fact you can find water lines gas lines and sewer lines. I have done it for years as a plumber. now I have not tried to find gold or silver with it but I will go out in the backyard and put one of my silver bars down to see if it picks it up. it will pick up pvc and abs plastic pipes also. not only will it show you where they are it will also show what direction it is running by the way they cross. so if you get it to cross and it just crossing like a x. then try moving around till the two rods turn towards each other. the two rods will point in the direction it is running. the girls in the plumbing office did not believe me. so I made them do it. and they were shocked it worked. I don't know how it works but it does. I just know its not magic. there must be some kind of scientific reason. thanks Jeff
for me it works, I have found water pipes on a friends property, septic lines on another property, shallow water that was confirmed later (a construction company was digging a hole and they hit water, it ruined their day
Interesting blog and topic. I am still pretty new to dowsing. I am in Africa and there is a lot of gold around. I just made my rods from wardrobe wire coat hangers. And started dowsing. I would ask people to hide things and I would look for the stuff with my rods. Then I was refining the process and then wen off to my gold claim on admission to look for the gold veins. The main thing I would do was simply to talk to the rods (after observing some religious practice) and ask it questions and the rods would respond strongly as I would be walking. For example, I would ask, I am looking for a gold bearing being that has a grade of about 20 grams per tonne and the nearest to the surface within this area. Then the rods would point But the thing is when I would ask for the depth, it would say around 25 metres deep and the being about 2 metres wide, going 45 degrees etc. So it was my first time and you know the process and expenses of digging 25 deep and blasting is quite costly. So I just need assurances and testimonies from others that it works. I would be left with an egg in my face if i try it then find nothing! Has anyone ever got that deep?
My grandfather used to hand dig wells and I watched him as a young man douse for water veins . I use to be so amazed when every time he was correct. After the vein of water was found he would take one of the rods and turn it around where the bent part was forward then stand over the vein of water and pretty soon it would start bouncing . He would count the bounces and at a foot per bounce was right at least eighty percent of the time for depth. It was amazing . Just wanted to share my story with you all. I have also seen a forked willow limb used also and was extremely accurate as well. Life is truly amazing . Thank you for your videos. You have some awesome information and are quite the character and I enjoy your videos very much. Happy new year to you and l look forward to more videos. Thanks again . PS the dousing was always the easy part the digging SUCKED
Steve Hatfield Thanks Steve for sharing that with us. Glad you liked the vids and happy to hear you enjoy watching them. We have more on the way . Take Care Jeff and Slim
Desertphile I know what I SAW WITH MY OWN EYES on more than just one occasion. And I have also seen other dousers do amazing things . How does it work I don't know but I know what I saw
wow the trolls come out of the woodwork for the record I don't give a rats ass what any of you people have as an opinion. You have to be so pathetic and well stupid to troll a recreational gold prospecting channel. The words bunch of pathetic lame fucks just doesn't do what you seem to be justice. So trolls go fuck yourselves with a dowsing rod. with glass glued to it. That's all the air time I am going to give your loser asses. Take care bye bye now.
your a funny person I have a different opinion than you get over it already go educate someone else with your boundless wisdom and infinite knowledge. lmfao at you
You should ask how, though. The answer is known as the 'ideomotor phenomenon'. Essentially you make slight subconscious movements while holding the rods, same thing that makes a ouiji board feel like it's moving. James Randi proved conclusively dowsing has no more accuracy to it than throwing a dart at a map and saying "dig there". But if you really are convinced of your ability, maybe you should think about taking up the $1,000,000 standing offer that's up for proving it works?
When I was a teen one of my neighbors hired a dowser to plan a new well location. After the dowser was finished he asked if any of us kids would like to try. I and a few others tried but nothing happened. Then one other youngster tried and after walking 20 feet yelled and dropped the rods. With a look of terror on his face he claimed the rods twisted in his hands. He calmed down and retraced his path and again the rods moved. He swore he never thought anything would happen. Decades later he still says he was shocked and surprised.
your neighbours hired a snake oil salesman. You move the rods yourself through subconscious 'ideomotor' movements, exact same thing behind a ouiji board
@@HingleMcCringleberryPSU na man I didn’t believe it and literally today I made a pair and had my wife hide gold without me watching and I was able to find it no problem
@@alexyahardwick7442 McDingleberry doesn't know shit does he? Go look at Terry Carter's channel. Dousing the right way and ancient underground civilizations. Robert Shrewsbury has it figured out.
Learn how to dowse with a pendulum, you'll find what you're looking for, I've never been able to get the rods to work, but years ago I worked with a plumber that could always find the water and sewer lines with rods and he could also tell if it was an underground electric line. Incidentally, when you're pendulum dowsing, the pendulum will swing in a circle when you find what you're looking for. Get a ceiling fan chain pull from Lowe's or Home Depot and just let it hang still and ask yes or no questions, "is there any gold close to where I'm standing", if it indicates yes, ask it to point to where it's at, after a little practice you can get good at it.
Interesting. Me grandfather would locate fresh water wells using nothing but a forked peach tree branch. He often located water where well drillers couldn't locate. He also was raising a family of four kids and a wife in a one-bedroom house where he added a bedroom shack and a 30 gallon drum that he put on the roof to collect the suns heat (for hot water) and connected to his own water well. As poor as he was he NEVER ASKED ANYONE for money to locate water wells. I use dowsing but not for locating water well.
I've used dowsing rods for years to find underground water lines and never though to use it for gold but i went to Quartzsite AZ on a claim there and ran into an old timer who was dowsing and showed me the basic fundamentals and asked it questions that only i knew. He put them in my hands and these rods actually went against the wind to the direction i was asking questions. The treasure net forum has a dowsing section down bottom which i have been studying..... they do work but you have to think of what it is you want and it will only look for that..... no i didn't try it for gold yet but it did find coins others planted for me
The most important thing you said in the video was that the wires were made of COPPER. Often times the dowsing rods sold in stores are made of brass...and they are not precise AT ALL with crossing when they're supposed to cross and uncrossing once you've moved away from the target...nor are iron based coat hangers nor rods made of aluminum. I've tried all these...and they pretty much suck ! Copper wire...I use 10 awg copper wire which is about the same diameter as a coat hanger...and strip the plastic coating off the wire....and put a plastic straw handle around where you grab the rods...so the rods swivel freely inside the handles. Yes, the rods will detect gold, silver, and ALL other types of metal since they don't have a discriminator button on them like some other metal detectors do. The will also detect "hot rocks", magnetite, and other iron based non desirable targets...which can be frustrating. I think their best uses are for holding over crevices to see if they're worth digging out or prying apart...and for areas where metal detectors can't reach such as over a rock or shrub or even underwater. My rods have detected minute targets 3 feet below ground...which is deeper than I care to dig...especially if it's just a construction nail in my front yard...not likely to be a treasure. This tool should be taken more seriously, though, many in the prospecting field disregard it for all kinds of reasons....like saying it's a sham since no one could prove it worked in order to claim a million dollar prize (James Randi Education Foundation)...which was a test to see if a dowser could detect water in plastic pipes that were underground. It had nothing to do with detecting metal. Anyway, the contest was terminated 5 years ago according to wikipedia. This pretty much summarized what I put in the video I posted on my channel yesterday...and gave you a shout out as a reference to the fact that it works. Albert Einstein also felt there was something to it when he was quoted saying "I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time." I'm pretty sure he was thinking of dowsing for metal when he made that quote...as the other forms of dowsing may be less exact or duplicatable by most people...especially if it's map dowsing, dowsing for ghosts, missing people, or other such things that border the paranormal / telepathic sorts of fields. Nor did Einstein separate divining rods from water witching...which one might best use a forked Willow tree branch for finding underground water. It's a big field...this dowsing topic. A lot of perceived loonies do tend to pop up and try to invoke spiritual help or have intense focus or attach certain metals to the rods to direct the rods to search for just that type of metal. I can't speak for them...I just want to find gold !! So, come on, lets go !! Jeff, you're the best !
I found out that it works when a water pipe burst underground here on the farm. City came out and the man took out the copper rods but said he didn't have the gift and had to wait for the boss. I asked if I could give it a try and sure enough I had the gift and found the pipe in a few seconds! Great video
Hey Jeff. I seen my dad use them to find electrical pipes in concrete no one else could. I think it works with gravity. The targets interrupt the gravity lines or change it some way.
Hey Jeff, some time back you made a video on Metal detecting in a dry wash and placing small red flags at each target (just like I do) but after that is where we differ, I don't go back with a shovel, instead I use a gas powered "Earth Auger" or one man power post hole digger with an 8" bit. I drill down three feet and pan out the sand checking first to be sure the target is there. I also check up and down the inside of the hole for a larger target, before using my boots to fill the hole back in so nobody breaks a leg. The Auger is made by Powermate and sells at Home Depot for $249. Veterans showing a Veterans I.D. or Military card get a 10% discount (which covers tax) and comes to $244.00 which at my age is better than digging all day. L8R, Rally P.S. The photo of me was 45 years ago.
Jeff.....all these naysayers and youtubers who want to blame you as if it were a bad thing, or wrong to talk about dousing and to show its basic principles...are obviously not informed even as to the most rudimentary and basic principles of science and electromagnetism.Of course it works...just not for all people.If some users aren't openminded enough to even give it a try...well...thats their loss. Happy New Year.....keep up the entertaining and informative work.I appreciate it.
I have dowsed before with success for many types of things,not sure why i never thought of dowsing for gold? or quartz mineral? just to add a little info for you to try the next time your dowsing. try this have your assistant slim bury the target at a predetermined depth. now when you cross over the target and your rods cross,(centered) stop. then to determine how deep your target is in the earth,in feet,walk backwards slowly and count the steps backwards until the rods open back up to the starting position,stop. the number of steps counted going backward until the rods open to the start position,is approximately how deep your target is buried in the earth in feet.
There's a time that I worked in the underground utilities business back in the 80s. Sure they had machines to find the underground cables and such, but nine times out of 10 they just didn't work right. I would pull my copper rods out and find the electric wire or whatever I'm looking for in the ground. Sometimes these rods will go outward, or they would go inward. The understanding I have it depends on the electrical charges you have in your own body, I don't really know exactly why some separate and why some cross that for me they always crossed. I was always 100% finding the cable I was looking for. Always
that's great. Maybe it is electrical charges in your body. You can also ask the rods questions. I have someone else hold the rods and they can answer yes, no, maybe/IDK. You also don't have to vocalize your questions. So you can ask math questions or T/F questions, or even questions you only know the answer to. The rods will still move. Now it's getting spooky... Anyhow, I would subvocalize questions (ask questions only in my head) like: is my name questionablysourcedlunchcart? am I [my gender]? does my name end with a q? does it start with a q? that sort of thing. 100% correct every time. So, at least in our case, there's something else going on besides an electrical charge. Try it some time.
I have a lode mine in Nevada, and generally I use a metal detector for metals location. But dowsing most certainly works--for larger magnetic fields: iron especially. Also, there is what is called the "bishops rule," and that will help you determine the depth of your find; and that is something that is very well explained on other videos here on You-tube. Thanks Jeff for your presentation here (!!), and I encourage all to give dowsing an objective try: it does work at finding larger deposits of mineralization (I would not look for small gold nuggets, flakes with it . . .).
Jeff won't give you bad information. And, I use dowsing all the time to locate heavily mineralized areas and then follow with a metal detector (a Falcon: so it's focus is very specific). Yes, Desertphile, it DOES work! And, the the Bishop's rule also works--because I use that as well (and have tested it with a metal detector).
I will not enter into an earnest discussion with someone with a handle such as yours. I have gold and you probably do not. End of discussion--go elsewhere.
Melina, when you begin a question with "you refuse to be educated," you already assume a certain type outcome in a response (called "begging the question" in rhetoric), so your question by definition is an unfair one. You have already made a decision by the nature of your question, so why ask? I hope that makes sense. For you, Melina, I answer: anyone who cannot pick an appropriate handle (without such terms as "bitch") is not worth consideration in real thought and time. Me: if you view my channel you will see I put great time and effort into getting the facts right (I do have a college emphasis in organic chemistry--and my degrees are in the Health Sciences), and I will not post information I have not personally tested and do not have substantive information on. You will find Jeff is very much the same way (just a different discipline, and much more funny). So in a nutshell; if you can dowse, eliminate all variables, and then metal detect to verify the dowsing results, like it or not, dowsing works (if done properly for the proper materials). And, sure enough, it does. Thanks for raising your concerns, Melina!
thanks Jeff for taking care of the 8th graders, this page on your youtube site is supposed to be about sharing and having a good time watching your great videos (even slim gets to take credit for the show LOL) thanks again for taking care of that little problem and let the rest of us remember we are guests on this site, it belongs to everyone and all prospectors that write a comment should be given the same courtesy they deserve, thanks again Jeff, ray lowery
isn't the real courtesy to tell the king he's actually naked, not wearing a robe made of invisible thread? protect your feelings and beliefs from all scrutiny if you really want, but it'll have you walking around a field with some sticks thinking you can pick up magnetic fields (or is it spirits?)
I used to use dowsing rods all the time working for the park service. we had so many old water, power, and crap in the ground every time we had to dig a hole, I dowsed the area. it will pick up about anything in the ground. some people don't believe it, but it works. it picks up any disturbance in the ground is the problem so you gotta do a lot of digging. no wonder I feel so old.
Jeff n slim got all the gold somehow. These gentlemen seem to know what works . I go dousin when I go fishing. Catch fish every time.dousin can find moles n ground hogs too. I read it on the internet. Thanks again men .All your hard work n effort is appreciated again. Happy new year!
I can't get over how much useful info I am receiving, I live up in Ontario Canada just 50mins North East of Toronto and back in the last 1800's this area was a very prosperous gold mining area, along with other precious quartz, you may have heard of Bancroft...that is basically in my backyard :) This is going to be an exciting spring thanks to you!!
I was shown how to do this mainly for water 25 years ago using a willow stick/switch,(green and fresh off the tree) using my right hand holding the thicker end of the willow stick against the centre of of my chest pointing forward and horizontal, the thinner end curled downward when passing over a spot that was later drilled and water found
It works , I'm a plumber from Australia and can walk a street with sticks of silver solder in my hands and can mark where every single copper water lead in comes to each house, I always thought it was picking up the water? But maybe it's picking up the copper 🤷♂️
Yes the art of dowsing works for people who believe in it and not only believe in it but practice the art of dowsing as well !!! Dowsing has been also used in the bible days known as divining !!! I dowse creeks for gold deposits every time and find gold every time I get a positive reading or reaction with my Anderson L-Rod !!!!
Jeff, are your dowsing rods just surplus weld rods? I like this episode (however it would be good to test dowsing against your metal detector, to see how good it is.).
Hey Jeff can you make a video about different types of gold. Like the flower gold, fine. Gold and etc. I would really like to know how different gold. Forms and looks in different places
I always find this stuff interesting, people like Desertpile, and Molina, would be the ones standing in front of their caves saying, " Rubbing sticks together will NOT make fire " , " Things heaver than water will NOT float". and man will never figure a way to fly !!! Thank goodness people stick with things like Dowsing. till science figures out why it does work.. Saw a thing on Quantum theory, that Dowsing may be the real deal..So science is catching up with what people have known forever.. Wonder how long people made fire with sticks, before science figured out why it worked..
I am with you Jim, science still can't figure out how the bumble bee flies???? They have determined that it is too stupid to know that it can't. what does science know anyway???
I found a lost Cemetary with over 125 people buried there, in a town of 36,000 people. To this Day, I cannot figure how they lost it because it was in the center of town. However, after finding the location I used dowsing to verify burials. The Cemetary was Rail employees on the first Train tracks from Galveston to Brownwood, Texas. Later years would see People for many other reasons buried there, such as influenza, segregation, poverty. However, the process does really have merit.
the best dowsing is done by people that learn when they were kids most you started looking for water with willow sticks , then you move on to Oak and metal needles ..a long time ago my dad had a set of 4 types of sticks in a hard wood box passed down threw the family one was willow ,copper ,silver and gold . that was the only full set i have ever seen of these ...the set dated to about the 1500's
It works with whatever you decide in your mind to look for. If you wanna find gold just think of gold or keys, wallet, paper money..... Do not have to be metal. But as everything else, practice.. practice..practice
I always thought dowsing was a crock, so today I made dowsing rods out of copper wire with 6" handles for hands and 20" parts extended outwards. I went out in the yard walking around and they crossed. I marked location and checked with garrett at pro it rang there. I dug up 2 small pieces of wire. Did other locations to prove. They do react to metals in ground. I am a believer now of dowsing rods. I believe its magnetic fields and not concentrating or other garbage like that. Copper was from romex wire.
Indeed it does work, it's quite wild actually. I'm a locator for gas and electric...and compared the signal that I was getting using my equipment and tried it with the dowsing rods and my mind was blown.
So the rods react magnetically to any piece of wire or loose nail you find buried in the soil, but don't react to your watch, phone, or belt? You could achieve the same results by closing your eyes and throwing a dart into your backyard, then digging there. Chances are you'll find something, and if you don't, just try again until you do (ignore the times it didn't work) and presto! Look up 'ideomotor movements' if you really want to know why dowsing sticks move, the answer is, of course, actually pretty simple.
@@Askjeffwilliams yknow people have no problem believing metal detectors work, or that washing machines work, or that cooking works.. Maybe because those things all work.
My father could Dowse with two copper rods and find - with 99% accuracy - buried water lines, electrical lines and the like... It is not magic, it is simple physics.. Thanks Jeff, as always for the great video...
Grand dad taught me how he found where to drill for the best water well by witching with a forked fruit tree branch. He got fresh water for many in the tri- state, for years. Municipalities don't care for that much. Hahahaha. They are fake doubters, I bet. Love your videos, Jeff and Slim!
yes it does work and we have found out that to get metals and specific areas that you have a piece of metal and one rod facing down ...really interesting to play with.
In my opinion Dowsing does work. A simple test is just take a piece of pvc pipe and lay it across your path and walk very slowly toward it with both rods facing forward ....as you approach the pipe the rods will turn out to show the direction of the pipe...... just try it before you discount it. This is a link on the treasurenet forum about dowsing. www.treasurenet.com/forums/dowsing/ If your unsure to click on my link just go to treasurenet.com then forums then down bottom find the link for dowsing Jeff/Slim your spot on as i've seen it work for underground pipe etc
I had a prospector friend years ago that made his rods out of copper and then had 2 small quarts crystals wrapped in gold wire one on each side and soldered to the copper rods,,They worked pretty good...you can also find water i have done that. Interesting stuff. great video Jeff n Slim Thx
if you think this is working you're experiencing the ideomotor phenomenon, try looking it up. James Randi conclusively proved dowsing is a trick, search it up on youtube
@@HingleMcCringleberryPSU i seen my dad help find p Electrical pipes in cement floor. The had plans from blue prints. They dug holes but couldnt find them. Every spot my father marked were accurate. How it works is beside the point. Personally i think its gravity differences.
@@johnramirez5032 How it works is not beside the point at all, because if you can't explain why it works - you're not sure that it works! The fact is, there are lots of explanations for people not finding the electrical pipes in the floor before your dad got the dowsing sticks out, and a lot of explanations for why they found them after. Look up 'James Randi dowsing' and if you're still not convinced I'll eat a hat. He creates a foolproof test and says that if anyone can show that dowsing has any reliability he would give them $50,000. Lots and lots of blokes turned up to his challenge and not a single one can take the money. The test requires them to stand over 10 different trenches and say which one has water, or gold, in it. It's important to note they weren't wrong every single time! Some of them correctly guessed which trench was right - but nobody could do it at any more than about a ~10% accuracy. Any random person without any dowsing sticks could point at the ground and tell you there's water or metal underneath and be right 10% of the time, just like your dad did with the electrical pipes. Seriously go look it up, it's a swindler's trick whether your dad knew it or not.
@@HingleMcCringleberryPSU i found neighbors sewer pipe 4 feet down first try. The pipe came from the house and turned towards street. There aee lots of things i dont kniw how they work. I just know they do. Esp is real. Like electricity i dont understand it but i can use it. Its not something i would bet my life on. I like to use science and logic. I also know there is quantum physics that seems to break the laws of physics. We only see a small bandwidth. The same with our other sences. There is more to life than we can possible know.
@@johnramirez5032 You may have found the sewer pipe, and your dad might have found the electrical pipe, it doesn't matter, it's not impressive when a broken clock is correct twice a day either. Electricity can be explained to a 4th grader, just because you don't know how it works doesn't mean it's unknowable, in fact if you really applied yourself I'm sure you'd be able to understand electricity just fine. But nobody could ever explain how dowsing sticks work, and also nobody could ever prove that they do work. Instead, there's lots of examples of it being proven the same as any other kind of hocus pocus. I can tell by your response you didn't search youtube for James Randi's experiment, I found it for you and will send the link in the next comment (just in case youtube feels like blocking the comment because it has a link in it)
Jeff, can you dowse over water to maybe pick out a nugget or fifty hiding in a crevice or between rocks, just wondering, thanks for another great video, keep em coming, ray lowery
what is this anger thing going on, this youtube page is for prospectors to have a good time talking about stuff, not swearing at eachother and calling each other names like a bunch of 8th graders, grow up and get a life, happy new year Jeff and keep those videos coming our way. ray lowery
ray lowery Thanks Ray you too and don't worry about the " 8th Graders " . They will be systematically removed from this channel along with there comments and it will be as if they never existed. Jeff and Slim
I am going to try later when i get a day off, Rey the trick is that you have to ask the right questions and disregard all the other signals that you are not looking for as an example. If you are looking for underground water and an electric over head will mess with your rods so disregard the power lines and keep looking. the rods will pick up rebar in concrete water mains, pipes, lost wallets (mine) electric lines, and be sure to ask how deep because if you are digging a well and the rods point there it could be 800 to a thousand feet to water so be sure to ask how deep.
Just watched this one, sorry. first time i saw this work i was in Nevada and this old timer had three inch gold rods soldered on the end of his brass rods. He had a claim with a quartz vein running thru it and had dug down about six foot in solid rock to expose it. So you could see the vein and direction of travel. When u walked across the vein on undisturbed ground the rods would cross. If u looking for oil he said hang a gallon jug with some oil in it around ur neck (not full of course) and use just plain rods without the gold. Water the same way.
B Winford I heard the same thing from an Old Timer, he called it a sampling jar. They say that you should attach whatever it is you are searching for to the rods or your self. Jeff and Slim
Gday jeff was wondering if you have tried different types of rods and if so can you tell me what works best for you ps about to go on a treasure hunt, looking for any information that may help
Would love to see this proven with undug up holes. Since that's what most of us are interested in finding. Anybody know if there's a YT like this that exists?
this is true, the crews i work with use dowsing rods all the time, they believe in them, i myself have seen the crews locate pipe in the ground, they dig in that spot and there is the pipe.
Done the dowsing before with a little success . Have you done in of the long range detecting? I knew a old timer years ago that did it claimed he could locate buried catches of coins and the like.He had a massive collection of coins,rings and civil war artifacts. He also claimed to have been abducted by aliens ! LOL Like to see you do a video about that ! Keep em coming always enjoy you and Slim on your adventures.
Dowsing is an interesting and little known subject that works in the right hands - it takes practice! Jeff, I think you have the gift. I like the map you got for Christmas too, wish I had one. Anyways,you and Slim are now ready for the Big Search. Tell Nevada Jack and Slim we'll be there for your Meet & Greet next Sat. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing. See you soon!
***** Hi Steve and Celcilia, that's what we thought too, never knew it would be such a controversial subject. We are planning on going out here soon for the BIG one and will film it so hopefully Slims map is right on. See ya this Sat and hope you both like the show. Jeff and Slim
I use brass rods to locate pipes underground. Will they work for gold? I live in the Mother lode in a town called Jackson. Any ideas come to mind regarding hot pockets of gold locations? Been metal detecting all around town and along the Mokelumne river and found nothing but clad coins, bullets and fishing weights. My wife says I need to pay for my detector before getting any more gold finding equipment. Any help will be much appreciated. Say hello to Slim for me. Thanks, GARY
It does work but you have to tune them and if you use metal or copper nobody should handle them but the owners. I had a well site dowsed by 2 different well companies and the second company confirmed the site. I've also know for a fact that certain municipalities in Northern CA use dowser's to locate pipes and underground utilities.
Joe Z Me either. I suppose having a talking skeleton for a friend is insulting also? Jeff is one of the most fun people on You Tube and no matter what you say about his practices, he finds more gold in more places than anyone I have seen to date. How much gold have YOU found? You want to find gold, this is the channel to come to. You want entertainment, this is the channel to come to. You want to be negative and spew crap about people and their ideas? Go somewhere else.
@@Askjeffwilliams I used a pair of copper wire dowsing rods along a creek bed...and had to dig a hole in the sand 3 feet deep in order to reach the target. It was a rock about 1 inch in size. I took it home and pulverized it and found a tiny speck of something silver. A typical metal detector would not have picked up a speck that small...nor that deep. My two battery powered detectors go down maybe 6 inches to a foot deep...depending on the size and conductivity of the metal target. I'd like to make my dowsing rods less sensitive...as that was a lot of digging for something so little in value. I'm not an electronics genius...not sure what kind of insulators to connect to my rods to make them less sensitive.
Don’t trust others. You should test it out yourself. Go outside away from pipes and metal and put a gold ring on the ground and use two rods to see how they react as you walk around it and over it.
'Water Witching'. A retired City Water Manager showed me how. 10 gauge copper wire pulled from a 3 foot section of 10-3 romex bent into a right angle at the upper end to hang on to 'loosely'. I angle them down at about a 45 degrees from horizontal and when you walk across the water lines they cross hard and fast. You can feel them tug pretty hard for water lines about 10 foot down. The water doesn't even have to be running. I'm not sure why it works, but it does. I showed my mother how to do it because she was sceptical. I had to call it 'Dowsing' because she wouldn't have tried if I called it 'Witching'. I had to dig up my own old water lines. My water lines were 10' down with a wicked dogleg and ran for a couple hundred feet. I marked the ground with orange spray paint and used a backhoe. I was dead on never veering even an inch off to either side for the entire distance. I'd never attempt to find water lines without 'Dowsing' first. Everybody needs to try it to see for themselves, it works as surely as magnets pick up iron nails.
@@asleepinthealley i use L shape cote hangers when they move back and forth their is water moving below moving water has lots of minerals that is y some people in Russia live over 100 in a area
I know for a fact you can find water lines gas lines and sewer lines. I have done it for years as a plumber. now I have not tried to find gold or silver with it but I will go out in the backyard and put one of my silver bars down to see if it picks it up. it will pick up pvc and abs plastic pipes also. not only will it show you where they are it will also show what direction it is running by the way they cross. so if you get it to cross and it just crossing like a x. then try moving around till the two rods turn towards each other. the two rods will point in the direction it is running. the girls in the plumbing office did not believe me. so I made them do it. and they were shocked it worked. I don't know how it works but it does. I just know its not magic. there must be some kind of scientific reason. thanks Jeff
LOL. Bullshit.
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NOT B.S. IT WORKS
for me it works, I have found water pipes on a friends property, septic lines on another property, shallow water that was confirmed later (a construction company was digging a hole and they hit water, it ruined their day
I imagine it has to do with disruptions in Earth's magnetic field. Metal detectors use the same principal.
Interesting blog and topic. I am still pretty new to dowsing. I am in Africa and there is a lot of gold around. I just made my rods from wardrobe wire coat hangers. And started dowsing. I would ask people to hide things and I would look for the stuff with my rods. Then I was refining the process and then wen off to my gold claim on admission to look for the gold veins. The main thing I would do was simply to talk to the rods (after observing some religious practice) and ask it questions and the rods would respond strongly as I would be walking. For example, I would ask, I am looking for a gold bearing being that has a grade of about 20 grams per tonne and the nearest to the surface within this area. Then the rods would point
But the thing is when I would ask for the depth, it would say around 25 metres deep and the being about 2 metres wide, going 45 degrees etc. So it was my first time and you know the process and expenses of digging 25 deep and blasting is quite costly. So I just need assurances and testimonies from others that it works. I would be left with an egg in my face if i try it then find nothing! Has anyone ever got that deep?
Try a TFR rod Geoff I use one and probably have more gold and silver now than my city museum lol
Dowsing with a dowsing Rod is a gift. I can do that too but haven't done it lately. Thank for the fun!
My grandfather used to hand dig wells and I watched him as a young man douse for water veins . I use to be so amazed when every time he was correct. After the vein of water was found he would take one of the rods and turn it around where the bent part was forward then stand over the vein of water and pretty soon it would start bouncing . He would count the bounces and at a foot per bounce was right at least eighty percent of the time for depth. It was amazing . Just wanted to share my story with you all. I have also seen a forked willow limb used also and was extremely accurate as well. Life is truly amazing . Thank you for your videos. You have some awesome information and are quite the character and I enjoy your videos very much. Happy new year to you and l look forward to more videos. Thanks again . PS the dousing was always the easy part the digging SUCKED
Steve Hatfield Thanks Steve for sharing that with us. Glad you liked the vids and happy to hear you enjoy watching them. We have more on the way . Take Care
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Desertphile I know what I SAW WITH MY OWN EYES on more than just one occasion. And I have also seen other dousers do amazing things . How does it work I don't know but I know what I saw
wow the trolls come out of the woodwork for the record I don't give a rats ass what any of you people have as an opinion. You have to be so pathetic and well stupid to troll a recreational gold prospecting channel. The words bunch of pathetic lame fucks just doesn't do what you seem to be justice. So trolls go fuck yourselves with a dowsing rod. with glass glued to it. That's all the air time I am going to give your loser asses. Take care bye bye now.
your a funny person I have a different opinion than you get over it already go educate someone else with your boundless wisdom and infinite knowledge. lmfao at you
LMFAO AT U GET A LIFE. I didn't say magic you did. you are funny and don't call names you stupid bitch troll on troller
Dowsing works for me.🙂 Don't ask me how. I use it for finding underground pipes and wires. Maybe I'll get a chance to try it out for Gold. 😉
You should ask how, though. The answer is known as the 'ideomotor phenomenon'. Essentially you make slight subconscious movements while holding the rods, same thing that makes a ouiji board feel like it's moving. James Randi proved conclusively dowsing has no more accuracy to it than throwing a dart at a map and saying "dig there". But if you really are convinced of your ability, maybe you should think about taking up the $1,000,000 standing offer that's up for proving it works?
@@HingleMcCringleberryPSU the deboonker
When I was a teen one of my neighbors hired a dowser to plan a new well location. After the dowser was finished he asked if any of us kids would like to try. I and a few others tried but nothing happened. Then one other youngster tried and after walking 20 feet yelled and dropped the rods. With a look of terror on his face he claimed the rods twisted in his hands. He calmed down and retraced his path and again the rods moved. He swore he never thought anything would happen. Decades later he still says he was shocked and surprised.
exactly ......thats how it works
your neighbours hired a snake oil salesman. You move the rods yourself through subconscious 'ideomotor' movements, exact same thing behind a ouiji board
@@HingleMcCringleberryPSU na man I didn’t believe it and literally today I made a pair and had my wife hide gold without me watching and I was able to find it no problem
@@alexyahardwick7442 McDingleberry doesn't know shit does he? Go look at Terry Carter's channel. Dousing the right way and ancient underground civilizations. Robert Shrewsbury has it figured out.
Sorry to say it doesn't work it's impossible even with the earth magnetic field it won't work it's not strong enough to move anything
Yeah I can confirm. Worked for HydroX locating gas and water lines. Worked better than the high price locators sometimes lol
Learn how to dowse with a pendulum, you'll find what you're looking for, I've never been able to get the rods to work, but years ago I worked with a plumber that could always find the water and sewer lines with rods and he could also tell if it was an underground electric line. Incidentally, when you're pendulum dowsing, the pendulum will swing in a circle when you find what you're looking for. Get a ceiling fan chain pull from Lowe's or Home Depot and just let it hang still and ask yes or no questions, "is there any gold close to where I'm standing", if it indicates yes, ask it to point to where it's at, after a little practice you can get good at it.
I use my cock n balls as the pendulum, works just as good, that is not at all.
R u fucking serious!
@@lillyorange3669 he's serious, after you've done asking the rods if there's gold near you, try asking the toilet if you'll need a shit today
Interesting. Me grandfather would locate fresh water wells using nothing but a forked peach tree branch. He often located water where well drillers couldn't locate. He also was raising a family of four kids and a wife in a one-bedroom house where he added a bedroom shack and a 30 gallon drum that he put on the roof to collect the suns heat (for hot water) and connected to his own water well. As poor as he was he NEVER ASKED ANYONE for money to locate water wells. I use dowsing but not for locating water well.
You Can Find Gold by Dowsing ---Yep ...How Deep you gotta determine ,,,and is on a Pay Streak
I've used dowsing rods for years to find underground water lines and never though to use it for gold but i went to Quartzsite AZ on a claim there and ran into an old timer who was dowsing and showed me the basic fundamentals and asked it questions that only i knew. He put them in my hands and these rods actually went against the wind to the direction i was asking questions. The treasure net forum has a dowsing section down bottom which i have been studying..... they do work but you have to think of what it is you want and it will only look for that..... no i didn't try it for gold yet but it did find coins others planted for me
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No You have not? Have not what,you lost me :)
Desertphile ok ....thanks
The most important thing you said in the video was that the wires were made of COPPER. Often times the dowsing rods sold in stores are made of brass...and they are not precise AT ALL with crossing when they're supposed to cross and uncrossing once you've moved away from the target...nor are iron based coat hangers nor rods made of aluminum. I've tried all these...and they pretty much suck ! Copper wire...I use 10 awg copper wire which is about the same diameter as a coat hanger...and strip the plastic coating off the wire....and put a plastic straw handle around where you grab the rods...so the rods swivel freely inside the handles. Yes, the rods will detect gold, silver, and ALL other types of metal since they don't have a discriminator button on them like some other metal detectors do. The will also detect "hot rocks", magnetite, and other iron based non desirable targets...which can be frustrating. I think their best uses are for holding over crevices to see if they're worth digging out or prying apart...and for areas where metal detectors can't reach such as over a rock or shrub or even underwater. My rods have detected minute targets 3 feet below ground...which is deeper than I care to dig...especially if it's just a construction nail in my front yard...not likely to be a treasure. This tool should be taken more seriously, though, many in the prospecting field disregard it for all kinds of reasons....like saying it's a sham since no one could prove it worked in order to claim a million dollar prize (James Randi Education Foundation)...which was a test to see if a dowser could detect water in plastic pipes that were underground. It had nothing to do with detecting metal. Anyway, the contest was terminated 5 years ago according to wikipedia. This pretty much summarized what I put in the video I posted on my channel yesterday...and gave you a shout out as a reference to the fact that it works. Albert Einstein also felt there was something to it when he was quoted saying "I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time." I'm pretty sure he was thinking of dowsing for metal when he made that quote...as the other forms of dowsing may be less exact or duplicatable by most people...especially if it's map dowsing, dowsing for ghosts, missing people, or other such things that border the paranormal / telepathic sorts of fields. Nor did Einstein separate divining rods from water witching...which one might best use a forked Willow tree branch for finding underground water. It's a big field...this dowsing topic. A lot of perceived loonies do tend to pop up and try to invoke spiritual help or have intense focus or attach certain metals to the rods to direct the rods to search for just that type of metal. I can't speak for them...I just want to find gold !! So, come on, lets go !! Jeff, you're the best !
nicely said....thanks
I found out that it works when a water pipe burst underground here on the farm. City came out and the man took out the copper rods but said he didn't have the gift and had to wait for the boss. I asked if I could give it a try and sure enough I had the gift and found the pipe in a few seconds! Great video
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Hey Jeff. I seen my dad use them to find electrical pipes in concrete no one else could. I think it works with gravity. The targets interrupt the gravity lines or change it some way.
Hey Jeff, some time back you made a video on Metal detecting in a dry wash and placing small red flags at each target (just like I do) but after that is where we differ, I don't go back with a shovel, instead I use a gas powered "Earth Auger" or one man power post hole digger with an 8" bit. I drill down three feet and pan out the sand checking first to be sure the target is there. I also check up and down the inside of the hole for a larger target, before using my boots to fill the hole back in so nobody breaks a leg. The Auger is made by Powermate and sells at Home Depot for $249. Veterans showing a Veterans I.D. or Military card get a 10% discount (which covers tax) and comes to $244.00 which at my age is better than digging all day. L8R, Rally
P.S. The photo of me was 45 years ago.
Jeff.....all these naysayers and youtubers who want to blame you as if it were a bad thing, or wrong to talk about dousing and to show its basic principles...are obviously not informed even as to the most rudimentary and basic principles of science and electromagnetism.Of course it works...just not for all people.If some users aren't openminded enough to even give it a try...well...thats their loss.
Happy New Year.....keep up the entertaining and informative work.I appreciate it.
Desertphile It doesn't work for you because of negative input
Desertphile So you like to resort to "Name Calling" you and that 14 year old girl need to forget this video if it annoys you both
I have dowsed before with success for many types of things,not sure why i never thought of dowsing for gold? or quartz mineral? just to add a little info for you to try the next time your dowsing. try this have your assistant slim bury the target at a predetermined depth. now when you cross over the target and your rods cross,(centered) stop. then to determine how deep your target is in the earth,in feet,walk backwards slowly and count the steps backwards until the rods open back up to the starting position,stop. the number of steps counted going backward until the rods open to the start position,is approximately how deep your target is buried in the earth in feet.
+c shackleford FEET ? Think metric ....
There's a time that I worked in the underground utilities business back in the 80s. Sure they had machines to find the underground cables and such, but nine times out of 10 they just didn't work right. I would pull my copper rods out and find the electric wire or whatever I'm looking for in the ground. Sometimes these rods will go outward, or they would go inward. The understanding I have it depends on the electrical charges you have in your own body, I don't really know exactly why some separate and why some cross that for me they always crossed. I was always 100% finding the cable I was looking for. Always
that's great. Maybe it is electrical charges in your body. You can also ask the rods questions. I have someone else hold the rods and they can answer yes, no, maybe/IDK. You also don't have to vocalize your questions. So you can ask math questions or T/F questions, or even questions you only know the answer to. The rods will still move. Now it's getting spooky... Anyhow, I would subvocalize questions (ask questions only in my head) like: is my name questionablysourcedlunchcart? am I [my gender]? does my name end with a q? does it start with a q? that sort of thing. 100% correct every time. So, at least in our case, there's something else going on besides an electrical charge. Try it some time.
Talisman, willpower focusing device. Like a lense.
I have a lode mine in Nevada, and generally I use a metal detector for metals location. But dowsing most certainly works--for larger magnetic fields: iron especially. Also, there is what is called the "bishops rule," and that will help you determine the depth of your find; and that is something that is very well explained on other videos here on You-tube. Thanks Jeff for your presentation here (!!), and I encourage all to give dowsing an objective try: it does work at finding larger deposits of mineralization (I would not look for small gold nuggets, flakes with it . . .).
Jeff won't give you bad information. And, I use dowsing all the time to locate heavily mineralized areas and then follow with a metal detector (a Falcon: so it's focus is very specific). Yes, Desertphile, it DOES work! And, the the Bishop's rule also works--because I use that as well (and have tested it with a metal detector).
I will not enter into an earnest discussion with someone with a handle such as yours. I have gold and you probably do not. End of discussion--go elsewhere.
Melina, when you begin a question with "you refuse to be educated," you already assume a certain type outcome in a response (called "begging the question" in rhetoric), so your question by definition is an unfair one. You have already made a decision by the nature of your question, so why ask? I hope that makes sense. For you, Melina, I answer: anyone who cannot pick an appropriate handle (without such terms as "bitch") is not worth consideration in real thought and time. Me: if you view my channel you will see I put great time and effort into getting the facts right (I do have a college emphasis in organic chemistry--and my degrees are in the Health Sciences), and I will not post information I have not personally tested and do not have substantive information on. You will find Jeff is very much the same way (just a different discipline, and much more funny). So in a nutshell; if you can dowse, eliminate all variables, and then metal detect to verify the dowsing results, like it or not, dowsing works (if done properly for the proper materials). And, sure enough, it does. Thanks for raising your concerns, Melina!
This is some true Jeff Williams Gold !! Thanks for all the years of content and sharing your experiences and knowledge with us...
you betcha
thanks Jeff for taking care of the 8th graders, this page on your youtube site is supposed to be about sharing and having a good time watching your great videos (even slim gets to take credit for the show LOL) thanks again for taking care of that little problem and let the rest of us remember we are guests on this site, it belongs to everyone and all prospectors that write a comment should be given the same courtesy they deserve, thanks again Jeff, ray lowery
ray lowery Our pleasure Ray.
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isn't the real courtesy to tell the king he's actually naked, not wearing a robe made of invisible thread? protect your feelings and beliefs from all scrutiny if you really want, but it'll have you walking around a field with some sticks thinking you can pick up magnetic fields (or is it spirits?)
I used to use dowsing rods all the time working for the park service. we had so many old water, power, and crap in the ground every time we had to dig a hole, I dowsed the area. it will pick up about anything in the ground. some people don't believe it, but it works. it picks up any disturbance in the ground is the problem so you gotta do a lot of digging. no wonder I feel so old.
Jeff n slim got all the gold somehow. These gentlemen seem to know what works . I go dousin when I go fishing. Catch fish every time.dousin can find moles n ground hogs too. I read it on the internet. Thanks again men .All your hard work n effort is appreciated again. Happy new year!
I can't get over how much useful info I am receiving, I live up in Ontario Canada just 50mins North East of Toronto and back in the last 1800's this area was a very prosperous gold mining area, along with other precious quartz, you may have heard of Bancroft...that is basically in my backyard :) This is going to be an exciting spring thanks to you!!
***** It is always our pleasure and we know you will find good Gold up there so don't forget to let us know how you do, ok.
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I noticed at 5.28sec that the rods didn't cross over again when you stepped over the 2nd target you had identified
I was shown how to do this mainly for water 25 years ago using a willow stick/switch,(green and fresh off the tree) using my right hand holding the thicker end of the willow stick against the centre of of my chest pointing forward and horizontal, the thinner end curled downward when passing over a spot that was later drilled and water found
It works , I'm a plumber from Australia and can walk a street with sticks of silver solder in my hands and can mark where every single copper water lead in comes to each house, I always thought it was picking up the water? But maybe it's picking up the copper 🤷♂️
Yes the art of dowsing works for people who believe in it and not only believe in it but practice the art of dowsing as well !!! Dowsing has been also used in the bible days known as divining !!! I dowse creeks for gold deposits every time and find gold every time I get a positive reading or reaction with my Anderson L-Rod !!!!
Jeff, are your dowsing rods just surplus weld rods? I like this episode (however it would be good to test dowsing against your metal detector, to see how good it is.).
we use coat hangers cut up in Australia, we call it divining
I use sticks of silver solder, Aussie as well
Hey Jeff can you make a video about different types of gold. Like the flower gold, fine. Gold and etc. I would really like to know how different gold. Forms and looks in different places
Leroy Martinez Hi Leroy, you bet we can . Will try to put it in the next one.
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The towards the end subtitles are hilarious! Another XLNT Jeff & Slim video! SMKN LZRD
Interesting!!!! I use them all the time for water lines. I'll have to try this out in the spring.
I always find this stuff interesting, people like Desertpile, and Molina, would be the ones standing in front of their caves saying, " Rubbing sticks together will NOT make fire " , " Things heaver than water will NOT float". and man will never figure a way to fly !!! Thank goodness people stick with things like Dowsing. till science figures out why it does work..
Saw a thing on Quantum theory, that Dowsing may be the real deal..So science is catching up with what people have known forever..
Wonder how long people made fire with sticks, before science figured out why it worked..
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You are a great example.
I am with you Jim, science still can't figure out how the bumble bee flies???? They have determined that it is too stupid to know that it can't. what does science know anyway???
That's a cool and lost art to this new generation I'm glad there are still some that share this lost art thanks Jim.
Jason Anderson hahaha its funny to watch trolls like you. never any info or favorite videos ,which just proves to everyone what you are.
The city worker where I live tried using them to find a well pipe. It didn't work.
I laughed my butt off watching the city employee make a fool out of his-self all the while acting very professional.
I found a lost Cemetary with over 125 people buried there, in a town of 36,000 people. To this Day, I cannot figure how they lost it because it was in the center of town. However, after finding the location I used dowsing to verify burials. The Cemetary was Rail employees on the first Train tracks from Galveston to Brownwood, Texas. Later years would see People for many other reasons buried there, such as influenza, segregation, poverty. However, the process does really have merit.
wow ....what an interesting story David....yes they do work but not many people want to hear that
the best dowsing is done by people that learn when they were kids most you started looking for water with willow sticks , then you move on to Oak and metal needles ..a long time ago my dad had a set of 4 types of sticks in a hard wood box passed down threw the family one was willow ,copper ,silver and gold . that was the only full set i have ever seen of these ...the set dated to about the 1500's
The craziness is as good as ever. I knew you dowsed for water but didnt know you can dows for metal. Thanks for shaing gang. Peace
Bridgette Brown Thanks Bridgette, glad you like the vid. Got more on the way. Take Care.
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It works with whatever you decide in your mind to look for. If you wanna find gold just think of gold or keys, wallet, paper money..... Do not have to be metal. But as everything else, practice.. practice..practice
Thanks for letting me know u always bring a smile to my face in ur videos and tell Slim for me I said hi
William Jellison Thanks and that is what we want to do too. Slim says Howdy as well.
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I always thought dowsing was a crock, so today I made dowsing rods out of copper wire with 6" handles for hands and 20" parts extended outwards. I went out in the yard walking around and they crossed. I marked location and checked with garrett at pro it rang there. I dug up 2 small pieces of wire. Did other locations to prove. They do react to metals in ground. I am a believer now of dowsing rods. I believe its magnetic fields and not concentrating or other garbage like that. Copper was from romex wire.
yep it does work but some people cannot believe it.
i think also that is true. I have found everything exept gold
Indeed it does work, it's quite wild actually. I'm a locator for gas and electric...and compared the signal that I was getting using my equipment and tried it with the dowsing rods and my mind was blown.
So the rods react magnetically to any piece of wire or loose nail you find buried in the soil, but don't react to your watch, phone, or belt? You could achieve the same results by closing your eyes and throwing a dart into your backyard, then digging there. Chances are you'll find something, and if you don't, just try again until you do (ignore the times it didn't work) and presto! Look up 'ideomotor movements' if you really want to know why dowsing sticks move, the answer is, of course, actually pretty simple.
@@Askjeffwilliams yknow people have no problem believing metal detectors work, or that washing machines work, or that cooking works.. Maybe because those things all work.
knowin Slim - that nail mighta been a decoy, best check them holes twice.
Happy New Year Jeff. I've dowsed for water with copper rods but didn't know it worked for gold too, glad to know.
Awesome video, Jeff and Slim!
Great! Bring on the crazy and education. Good to see ya Slim. Peace
Thanks Jeff & Slim, great show as always... And Happy New Years to you and your crew Jeff, Keep up the great work and keep them coming....
My father could Dowse with two copper rods and find - with 99% accuracy - buried water lines, electrical lines and the like... It is not magic, it is simple physics..
Thanks Jeff, as always for the great video...
+Dusty Slim Well you're definitely not a physicist then
Homo Sapiens right lol
Explain the physics
Don't be stupid
I didn't try copper but it makes sense The human body has electrical energy that runs our heart. I can find water and will try for copper wires.
If you watch this with the subtitles, they start messing up towards the end when Jeff's digging the holes up. It's funny.
Wow! Thanks for the demo on magnetics, Jeff 'n Slim!
What "metal" would you recommend as best conducting?
+thomas alexander we use copper with baiting the ends of the rods with Gold...works every time.
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My mind was just blown, man your videos are gangster! Love em!
+C Baker (R) Thanks ....now that is a comment.
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dear Mr Jeff Williams I have 6 kids do you think its cool to go look for gold and start them off like a good family outing
Jeff, I tried dowsing for gold and for some reason all I can find is silver????
Have you checked to see if it's Electrum?
I wonder what was buried in the other holes? Ya know, just in case.
+StarFlower99654 trust me you don't want to know .hahahah
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Grand dad taught me how he found where to drill for the best water well by witching with a forked fruit tree branch. He got fresh water for many in the tri- state, for years. Municipalities don't care for that much. Hahahaha. They are fake doubters, I bet. Love your videos, Jeff and Slim!
yes it does work and we have found out that to get metals and specific areas that you have a piece of metal and one rod facing down ...really interesting to play with.
just found out about the apollo gold dowsing rod. I'm gonna get one, those thigs er just freakin cool lookin.
“Ain’t that right slim?!”
*DATS RIIIIIIGHT!* (x5)
happy new year to you and slim . how long is the rod?
In my opinion Dowsing does work. A simple test is just take a piece of pvc pipe and lay it across your path and walk very slowly toward it with both rods facing forward ....as you approach the pipe the rods will turn out to show the direction of the pipe...... just try it before you discount it.
This is a link on the treasurenet forum about dowsing.
www.treasurenet.com/forums/dowsing/
If your unsure to click on my link just go to treasurenet.com then forums then down bottom find the link for dowsing
Jeff/Slim your spot on as i've seen it work for underground pipe etc
I had a prospector friend years ago that made his rods out of copper and then had 2 small quarts crystals wrapped in gold wire one on each side and soldered to the copper rods,,They worked pretty good...you can also find water i have done that. Interesting stuff. great video Jeff n Slim Thx
if you think this is working you're experiencing the ideomotor phenomenon, try looking it up. James Randi conclusively proved dowsing is a trick, search it up on youtube
@@HingleMcCringleberryPSU i seen my dad help find p
Electrical pipes in cement floor. The had plans from blue prints. They dug holes but couldnt find them. Every spot my father marked were accurate. How it works is beside the point. Personally i think its gravity differences.
@@johnramirez5032 How it works is not beside the point at all, because if you can't explain why it works - you're not sure that it works! The fact is, there are lots of explanations for people not finding the electrical pipes in the floor before your dad got the dowsing sticks out, and a lot of explanations for why they found them after. Look up 'James Randi dowsing' and if you're still not convinced I'll eat a hat. He creates a foolproof test and says that if anyone can show that dowsing has any reliability he would give them $50,000. Lots and lots of blokes turned up to his challenge and not a single one can take the money. The test requires them to stand over 10 different trenches and say which one has water, or gold, in it. It's important to note they weren't wrong every single time! Some of them correctly guessed which trench was right - but nobody could do it at any more than about a ~10% accuracy. Any random person without any dowsing sticks could point at the ground and tell you there's water or metal underneath and be right 10% of the time, just like your dad did with the electrical pipes. Seriously go look it up, it's a swindler's trick whether your dad knew it or not.
@@HingleMcCringleberryPSU i found neighbors sewer pipe 4 feet down first try. The pipe came from the house and turned towards street. There aee lots of things i dont kniw how they work. I just know they do. Esp is real. Like electricity i dont understand it but i can use it. Its not something i would bet my life on. I like to use science and logic. I also know there is quantum physics that seems to break the laws of physics. We only see a small bandwidth. The same with our other sences. There is more to life than we can possible know.
@@johnramirez5032 You may have found the sewer pipe, and your dad might have found the electrical pipe, it doesn't matter, it's not impressive when a broken clock is correct twice a day either. Electricity can be explained to a 4th grader, just because you don't know how it works doesn't mean it's unknowable, in fact if you really applied yourself I'm sure you'd be able to understand electricity just fine. But nobody could ever explain how dowsing sticks work, and also nobody could ever prove that they do work. Instead, there's lots of examples of it being proven the same as any other kind of hocus pocus. I can tell by your response you didn't search youtube for James Randi's experiment, I found it for you and will send the link in the next comment (just in case youtube feels like blocking the comment because it has a link in it)
Love the vid's you all do to explain and illustrate + the humour , job well done , people thats good at it can use a forked stick as well
Thanks Shane
I didn't believe it worked until I tried it. They will cross without any manipulation right over gold.
As usual a great time out in the dirt with Slim and JW!
I am going to check on claim
The time in the uk is 3:55 so i am so damn exited jeff and tell slim hes a really nice feller
Ive always wanted to ask, what scoop do you use?
There is a fellow in Kentucky who has found 100s of underground water sources while dowsing. Tell him and all his neighbors dowsing does not work!
Desertphile You people are ignorant of the facts. I suggest doing some research.
Jeff, can you dowse over water to maybe pick out a nugget or fifty hiding in a crevice or between rocks, just wondering, thanks for another great video, keep em coming, ray lowery
what is this anger thing going on, this youtube page is for prospectors to have a good time talking about stuff, not swearing at eachother and calling each other names like a bunch of 8th graders, grow up and get a life, happy new year Jeff and keep those videos coming our way. ray lowery
ray lowery Thanks Ray you too and don't worry about the " 8th Graders " . They will be systematically removed from this channel along with there comments and it will be as if they never existed.
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I am going to try later when i get a day off, Rey the trick is that you have to ask the right questions and disregard all the other signals that you are not looking for as an example. If you are looking for underground water and an electric over head will mess with your rods so disregard the power lines and keep looking. the rods will pick up rebar in concrete water mains, pipes, lost wallets (mine) electric lines, and be sure to ask how deep because if you are digging a well and the rods point there it could be 800 to a thousand feet to water so be sure to ask how deep.
Awsome videos Jeff and Slim. I wish i could have same opportunity to find gold like you do. Here in EU where i live is 0 gold
happy new year jeff and slim love the videos
natedoggg0 Thanks. Glad to hear it.
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Just watched this one, sorry. first time i saw this work i was in Nevada and this old timer had three inch gold rods soldered on the end of his brass rods. He had a claim with a quartz vein running thru it and had dug down about six foot in solid rock to expose it. So you could see the vein and direction of travel. When u walked across the vein on undisturbed ground the rods would cross. If u looking for oil he said hang a gallon jug with some oil in it around ur neck (not full of course) and use just plain rods without the gold. Water the same way.
B Winford I heard the same thing from an Old Timer, he called it a sampling jar. They say that you should attach whatever it is you are searching for to the rods or your self.
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I think the only thing better than watching you, would be mining with you , you crazy geniuses. keep up the great work.
Jeff where do you get your dowsing rods?
Gday jeff was wondering if you have tried different types of rods and if so can you tell me what works best for you ps about to go on a treasure hunt, looking for any information that may help
yes and copper
Oh! And Happy New Year to you too Jeff
Joe Z Thanks.
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Would love to see this proven with undug up holes.
Since that's what most of us are interested in finding.
Anybody know if there's a YT like this that exists?
this is true, the crews i work with use dowsing rods all the time, they believe in them, i myself have seen the crews locate pipe in the ground, they dig in that spot and there is the pipe.
Could I use a dowsing bobber to find gold?
Yes it does work, only works on some people. a single rod works too. i find sewer lines when my locator batteries go dead.
Done the dowsing before with a little success . Have you done in of the long range detecting? I knew a old timer years ago that did it claimed he could locate buried catches of coins and the like.He had a massive collection of coins,rings and civil war artifacts. He also claimed to have been abducted by aliens ! LOL Like to see you do a video about that ! Keep em coming always enjoy you and Slim on your adventures.
Dowsing is an interesting and little known subject that works in the right hands - it takes practice! Jeff, I think you have the gift. I like the map you got for Christmas too, wish I had one. Anyways,you and Slim are now ready for the Big Search. Tell Nevada Jack and Slim we'll be there for your Meet & Greet next Sat. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing. See you soon!
***** Hi Steve and Celcilia, that's what we thought too, never knew it would be such a controversial subject. We are planning on going out here soon for the BIG one and will film it so hopefully Slims map is right on. See ya this Sat and hope you both like the show.
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***** We're looking forward to it, and bringing gold from Slim's Paydirt. See ya soon!
I use brass rods to locate pipes underground. Will they work for gold? I live in the Mother lode in a town called Jackson. Any ideas come to mind regarding hot pockets of gold locations? Been metal detecting all around town and along the Mokelumne river and found nothing but clad coins, bullets and fishing weights. My wife says I need to pay for my detector before getting any more gold finding equipment. Any help will be much appreciated. Say hello to Slim for me.
Thanks,
GARY
It does work but you have to tune them and if you use metal or copper nobody should handle them but the owners. I had a well site dowsed by 2 different well companies and the second company confirmed the site. I've also know for a fact that certain municipalities in Northern CA use dowser's to locate pipes and underground utilities.
works for us every time
Once again great entertainment super job guys Big Happy New year to yas from Ireland looking forward to more of your adventures .
Was that a GPX 5 Dowsand Slim ?
One of your best sir!
Wow, thanks!
Great video, You can also dowse for water in pvc pipe :)
It has always worked for me, you only have to hold your rods lower to the ground.
Jeff what kind of pan you use because I wanna find some goold great videos man so C'MON LETS GOOOO
nelson mazariegos its a garrett super sluice pan. If you haven't seen that by now. Good pans
Jeff do you do any tours?
Where did you get your spoon?
happy new year slim and jeff
I have a question on which range locator is the best and have high efficiency
Great stuff,just made my day,thanks again.Tank. P.S. What was cooking for supper ?
Tank Soldier our pleasure and baked beans of course.
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Lot's of fun as always Jeff. You goofy guys will try anything!
mobiltec Thanks and you betcha we will.
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***** Speak for yourself...... he didn't insult me or many on here
Joe Z Me either. I suppose having a talking skeleton for a friend is insulting also? Jeff is one of the most fun people on You Tube and no matter what you say about his practices, he finds more gold in more places than anyone I have seen to date. How much gold have YOU found? You want to find gold, this is the channel to come to. You want entertainment, this is the channel to come to. You want to be negative and spew crap about people and their ideas? Go somewhere else.
TheWiccanBitch I have the funny feeling you are a troll.
Physics Major Good. I'm glad you won't be around to bother us any longer.
Jeff i look forward too all your vids and it is good to see slim talk more. Now go get some gold and have fun.
james matlock Thanks I just hope he doesn't take over and make me work in the mines while he does the show.
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Is it better than using a metal detector Jeff?
it can be sometimes
@@Askjeffwilliams I used a pair of copper wire dowsing rods along a creek bed...and had to dig a hole in the sand 3 feet deep in order to reach the target. It was a rock about 1 inch in size. I took it home and pulverized it and found a tiny speck of something silver. A typical metal detector would not have picked up a speck that small...nor that deep. My two battery powered detectors go down maybe 6 inches to a foot deep...depending on the size and conductivity of the metal target. I'd like to make my dowsing rods less sensitive...as that was a lot of digging for something so little in value. I'm not an electronics genius...not sure what kind of insulators to connect to my rods to make them less sensitive.
G'day Jeff,
Mate a good start to the New Year I'll give it a go and let you know how I go. All the best Noel.
"See how those rods lock right in?" No, but I did see how your hands rotated in. LOL
Don’t trust others. You should test it out yourself. Go outside away from pipes and metal and put a gold ring on the ground and use two rods to see how they react as you walk around it and over it.
I've heard Jeff that when dowsing ya wanna focus mentally on what you're looking for, be it gold, silver, copper, water, ect... any truth to that?
TheMadness51 we heard the same thing too but since I am always thinking of Gold and Silver ( Mostly Gold ) then it is no problem.
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Fun times with Jeff lolI've found wire gold few times with mine
I love ur vids never stop
YugiohTCG Thanks you and we won't as long as people want to watch them.
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