Un furgone della De Watergroep si è fermato nella mia strada e ne sono usciti 2 ragazzi. Stavo dando un’occhiata a quello che stavano facendo e sono rimasto scioccato quando ho visto il ragazzo con il giubbotto arancione ad alta visibilità tirare fuori queste 2 canne e iniziare questa divertente passeggiata con entrambe le canne tese davanti a lui. (Puoi vederlo mentre li tiene dietro la schiena nella foto che ho scattato).
Mi sbaglio o sta usando il "rabdomanzia" o il metodo wichelroede per trovare l’acqua nel sottosuolo? Pensavo fosse già risaputo che questo era un metodo smentito da molto tempo. Fondamentalmente un po’ di magia.
Sono così sconcertato che esistano questi maghi con giubbotti dai colori vivaci assunti da De Watergroep. 🤯
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Aren’t they using that to open the manhole covers.
Found it
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Why not go there and ask?
Must be a joker, or at least let’s hope so…
I worked for a company for a while that worked in onderaanneming for Pidpa and De Watergroep.
One of the workers was doing the same thing so i asked him what the point was.
He told me the following:
We know people in their home are watching us. So just to prank them, i take 2 sticks and pretend i do the wichelroede method.
Its the same with one man working and 3 others just stand and watch. We want people to think only one man works and the rest is lazy.
When they are not looking anymore, everybody starts working again…
After he told me i noticed a man that was taking a look at us from out his window turned around. The guy put his sticks away and then took the plans out of his van.
We had to remove the main water pipe of a house we destroyed some months ago and the guy used the same sticks to find the pipe. There was no blueprint, and the pipe was not located at the normal place.
The pipe was in plastic at nearly 1m deep but his sticks reacted just on top of it, which helped to find the exact spot to dig to cut the water.
By discussing with them, it seems that it’s more effective than electronic detectors. Only a few workers at SWDE can use the sticks. (From what they explained).
But indeed I can’t believe it either…
When our house was connected to the water supply, the SWDE used this method to locate the pipes under the street. There was only one older guy and me, so I don’t think he was playing a prank on me, and his information turned out to be correct.
I’ve seen it before with sewer repair people.
Instead of them saying: we’re going to start digging here, but please go to the municipality to get a print of the sewer plan.