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The lake was in plain view, but drinkable water was something that typically required drilling. We used a sand point and drove the galvanized pipe into the ground with a weighted ram made from a larger diameter pipe.

The well I "witched" delivered pure clear water and was only 25 feet down. The neighbors, whose cabin was only 50 feet away from ours had to drill down 125 feet. My mom and dad tried "witching" but they could not do it. Apparently they did not have enough devil in them, so they said. Children are free from a lot of the biases that adults have, so it worked for me.