Mercutio
25th July 2007, 10:12 AM
A community response in the local paper. (http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070724/FOSTERS05/107240230/-1/NEWS13)
The Big Dig, a 12-foot-long trench by 4 feet wide, utilized a new F250 Ford with utility retrofit, a new backhoe with fully enclosed climate control cab, our director of public work's vehicle and, of course, he and two of our top two people. However, we still lacked one primary piece of invaluable equipment — functional dowsing rods. When I asked Dale Sprague, director of public works, if he had found the line in the almost eight-foot- deep hole, he responded, not yet but, and I quote, "this is where Paul (Cameron) dowsed it."
Mr. Sprague was asked why they were not digging across the street on the same side of the road as the fire hydrant (as all hydrants are placed on the same side of the road as the main water lines). More specifically, asked why they were not digging across the street where no road tar would be excavated and a water shut off access pipe sticks almost a foot out of the ground. Mr. Sprague responded, "It may result in more digging." O-o-o-kay?
Paul is forced to use dowser rods he came by of his own accord. With all of today's technology, why would a community expend such massive man hours and machine hours on such poor dowser equipment when state of the art dowser rods do exist. I mean why don't we just give him an old willow branch?
It is all about the right equipment. I found such a device on the Internet on my first effort, a "Quadro QRS 250G Detector." This was selling between $1,000 and 8,000 (shop around). OK, there was also a 1996 report involving the FBI (statute U.S.C. 1341 and 1343) regarding this particular one.
The Big Dig, a 12-foot-long trench by 4 feet wide, utilized a new F250 Ford with utility retrofit, a new backhoe with fully enclosed climate control cab, our director of public work's vehicle and, of course, he and two of our top two people. However, we still lacked one primary piece of invaluable equipment — functional dowsing rods. When I asked Dale Sprague, director of public works, if he had found the line in the almost eight-foot- deep hole, he responded, not yet but, and I quote, "this is where Paul (Cameron) dowsed it."
Mr. Sprague was asked why they were not digging across the street on the same side of the road as the fire hydrant (as all hydrants are placed on the same side of the road as the main water lines). More specifically, asked why they were not digging across the street where no road tar would be excavated and a water shut off access pipe sticks almost a foot out of the ground. Mr. Sprague responded, "It may result in more digging." O-o-o-kay?
Paul is forced to use dowser rods he came by of his own accord. With all of today's technology, why would a community expend such massive man hours and machine hours on such poor dowser equipment when state of the art dowser rods do exist. I mean why don't we just give him an old willow branch?
It is all about the right equipment. I found such a device on the Internet on my first effort, a "Quadro QRS 250G Detector." This was selling between $1,000 and 8,000 (shop around). OK, there was also a 1996 report involving the FBI (statute U.S.C. 1341 and 1343) regarding this particular one.