[SOC] Re: [fpqrp] Amish Weather Stick

[Bruce Shaw AG4NY]

Never thought too much about 'dousing' but a friend who is in the
underground utility location business taught me how to find buried pipe with
two bent coat hangers.  It is amazingly accurate.  Don't think it is
magnetic because it works for plastic pipe and works with stainless steel
'hangers'.
He uses his electronic locator because people don't like to think they are
paying his hourly rate for a guy with two bent coat hangers.  He does use
the wires on occasion to verify the electronics.
Now, don't you feel better knowing that?
72
Bruce
ag4ny

----- Original Message -----
From: George, W5YR <w5yr@att.net>
To: Rob Matherly <kc0bom@arrl.net>
Cc: Flying Pigs <fpqrp-L@mpna.com>; SOC List <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [fpqrp] Amish Weather Stick


> Sounds a lot like the used by "water witchers" who claimed to be able to
> find underground water by "dowsing." Some used wire rods or even bent coat
> hangars . . .
>
> 73/72/oo, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
> Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
> Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 56th year and it just keeps getting better!
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> Rob Matherly wrote:
> >
> > Hi All;
> >
> > In the midst of the first storm 'o the year, and was trying to remember
> > something my Earth Science teacher used to have outside his window.  It
was
> > a green stick (no, not the color green) that had all it's bark removed.
> > About 2 feet long, 1/4 at the base and 1/8 at the tip.  Basically a
longish
> > twig freshly snapped from an unsuspecting tree...
> >
> > Anyway, you stuck the thing outside, parallel to the ground.  If it
pointed
> > up, it meant one thing, and if it pointed down it meant another (no
> > perverted jokes... ;^)).  Something in the weather changing caused one
side
> > of the stick to shrink, thus you could use it to indicate the weather.
> > When the system passed, the stick returned to normal.  Something the
Amish
> > came up with.
> >
> > Here's the point of all this... what in the %#$^ was it the stick was
> > supposed to point out?  Anyone know?  I think up meant rain if I
remember
> > correctly...
> >
> > And no, this isn't a crock of bs :^)  We observed the stick once a day
for
> > a month and graphed it compared to the weather.  It was never wrong.
>
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