When the going gets tough I put my companies $2000 dollar locator back in the truck and get out my trusty copper rods and do it the old fashion way! Yes I am talken Witching or dousing! Has any one tried this time tested method of finding hard to find things?
Hi folks,
I've always been too sceptical to try dowsing personally, but a few years ago my neighbour found the long-lost buried water pipe in our back garden within about 3 minutes of searching for it with his diving rods. Before then, I'd spent 2 weeks looking for it by digging numerous test holes without success.
Maybe he just remembered where the pipe was buried when our house was built, but either way, 3 minutes to pin-point a 1" pipe in an acre of garden isn't too shabby!
I was in London for 5 days last week.....I met up with Brighton's meteorite man Dave Harris for a good natter on Wednesday evening, then spent most of Friday at the Natural History Museum arranging some more meteorite exchanges. Staying loosely on the "divining for meteorites" theme, I spent Thursday afternoon visiting "spoon bender" Uri Geller at his mansion near London.....we shot the breeze, bent a few pieces of cutlery and I gave him an introduction to meteorites :-)
There's a few links to some pictures below, showing what happens to metal objects when Uri Geller puts his mind to it.
The last 2 images show a thinly cut square rod of etched Gibeon meteorite in a before-and-after sequence......I tested it and tried to bend it by force (and also in the jam of a door!) before I took it to London, but I couldn't get any leverage on such a small piece, and didn't manage to put even the slightest bend in it.
Uri Geller with 4kg Gibeon individual
http://fernlea.tripod.com/geller1.jpg
Bending a spoon - it curled up on the floor without being touched
http://fernlea.tripod.com/geller2.jpg
My Mrs. with the spoons
http://fernlea.tripod.com/geller3.jpg
Irene again
http://fernlea.tripod.com/geller4.jpg
Etched Gibeon rod "before"
http://fernlea.tripod.com/geller5.jpg
Etched Gibeon rod "after"
http://fernlea.tripod.com/geller6.jpg
There's definitely something weird going on here!
Ha!....people will start claiming that rocks fall from the skies next ;-)
Cheers,
Rob Elliott.
www.meteorites.uk.com
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