Pumper and dowser Gene Wiehr and his wife, Barb, pose with their company’s recently refurbished Ford F-700 vacuum truck. Wiehr uses divining rods to locate buried tanks and lines for customers. (Photo courtesy of Wiehr’s Septic Services)
Finding septic tanks is all in a day’s work for many pumpers. They use everything from sophisticated cameras with sondes to shovels, probes and backhoes. Gene Wiehr of Wiehr’s Septic Service in Arlington, S.D., however, prefers a less conventional tool – divining rods.
Wiehr, 55,...
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