Yesterday, set a property corner that landed a few feet in the gravel county road. Today, the lath is long gone. Do not see it anywhere, so someone pulled it out and took it away.
Notice my 1 year old Australian Shepherd, 'Nash, checking out a nearby pond. Sure enough, that's where the perpetrator threw my stake.
Retrieving a stake from a pond shows real good potential for this young boy.
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Now THAT'S a great dog!
That is fantastic!
I Don't Believe It
We need photos of the dog holding that mini sledge.
I'll trust you that he tied the ribbon and marked the lath.
What is a bummer is when you get back to the truck after laying out four corners, that there are still three marked laths laying there.
I can here it now, "Bark, bark, bark, well you didn't say you wanted a new lath every time, did you?"
Paul in PA
obviously knows what the stakes are for.
More so than the dogs that were present at a recent survey.
My chainman was across the creek in a small cleared area of a back yard.
He put in a spike for me to setup on and wanting to mark it placed a few logs around the spike.
Crossed the creek and no logs! There were 2 very lively and friendly dogs grinning at me.
I guessed that explained the lost logs!
You can't go wrong with an aussie. Here are three of mine.
That sent me down memory lane back to my first PC job. Didn't have the heart to leave my Golden, Maggie home alone all day so I just started taking her to work with me. Crew loved her. Boss tolerated her. One day out doing topo on a big site, this foreman gruffly asks me 'whose dog is this and what's it doing here'. 'Mine', I told him, 'she's a specially trained survey service dog, watch this'. Called up my rodman on the radio, 'Jake, got someone here wants to see what Mags can do, you're out of flagging'. 'Roger that'. Gave Mags a roll of flagging and told her to run it out to Jake a couple hundred yards out. Off like a shot she takes off and drops the roll at Jakes feet then bee-lines it back. Foreman just shook his head and muttered something or another and walked away. Had Mags a vest and all. Miss that old girl. Have her granddaughter. She's pushing 13. I'll be a basket case when she goes. That's her in the avatar photo.
