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Adam, post: 419218, member: 8900 wrote: Firearm, the region or area of work often determines the caliber.
My Glock 17 fits the bill nicely. Good for snakes, larger reptiles and once even a rabid raccoon.
And to this day, I always seem to find a use for my plum bob.
Holy Cow, post: 419446, member: 50 wrote: Apparently most of you can’t drive to where you are going. Geez. Who would want to walk that much?
Driving and GPS…what else do you need? 😉
T. Nelson – SAM, LLCTP
I like Shop towels, as TP. These kind: http://www.kcprofessional.com/products/wipers/general/scott-shop-towels.
John Wayne toilet paper.
Rough.
Tough.
Doesn’t take $H!t off no one. (hope that doesn’t get me banned :()T. Nelson – SAM, LLCChainsaw Wrench. And, you won’t forget it twice, if you are walking back to the truck through a mile of heavy bush. Kept mine heavily flagged as well. What is worse then walking back to the truck for it, is finding out you dropped it in the snow somewhere along a mile of cut bush and can’t find it.
My little stihl uses “wrenchless adjuster”.
[MEDIA=youtube]DrFM-8C-qV0[/MEDIA]If you keep it clean, the wrenchless adjuster, works well.
NNate The Surveyor, post: 419494, member: 291 wrote: My little stihl uses “wrenchless adjuster”.
If you keep it clean, the wrenchless adjuster, works well.
NThat is nice. But. Have you every accidentally touched a plastic shopping bag with your saw while revving? Problem with snow, and shopping bags, are both are white. And, both accumulate in willows. Requires full disassembly to clean the gears.
On a related note, I have told everyone I know, if ever being attacked by a killer with a chainsaw, throw a grocery bag at them. Watched one show where the guy cut through a shower curtain. I laughed at that one.Same show (think chainsaw massacre remake), guy had about a 5 foot bar with a 30 cc motor too.
MitchPTD, post: 419491, member: 10124 wrote: Chainsaw Wrench.
As an added bonus, it can tighten tripod leg clamps too.
And not a single person has said lunch!!! I’m thinking about my dinner right now…
When I did timberline’s…Vest with 10-20 hubs, tacks, finish nails, 60D nails, aluminum section corner tags, aluminum nails, plumb bomb, compass, inclinometer, 4 or more roles of flagging, paint that usually swapped the hubs depending on the day, ax, machete, pistol, peg book, for the life of me I can’t remember the calculator anyways the brick of an HP that took the cards in the back. 75 foot loggers tape. No lunch forage the woods.
Now I’m a lazy city surveyor and drive the truck everywhere. I might wear a vest once a month. So it’s keys, wallet cellphone and whatever fits in my hand…. Maybe a tape clipped to me.
Construction days almost everything goes in a bucket, lath bag and my trusty 12lb hammer.
Plats and/or prints with calculated point numbers, GPS rover, shovel, metal detector, phone, tape measure and/or electronic distance meter.
Nails for TPs, Flagging, Marker, Note book, Mechanical pencil, Brass tags and aluminium wire for tagging unidentified monuments, Pliers or wire cutters, Small straight claw hammer, for setting TPs or digging, A few Concrete or PK nails, Monument caps if needed, Plumb bob if needed, Tack ball w/tacks if needed, Lath or 1/2″ PVCs and rebars when needed
Doggie treats to make peace with Fido. Keep a bag of beef jerkey along with TP in the back of the vest for those occasions when it’s either sh*t or get bit.
WillyWilliwaw, post: 419680, member: 7066 wrote: Doggie treats to make peace with Fido. Keep a bag of beef jerkey along with TP in the back of the vest for those occasions when it’s either sh*t or get bit.
We have a winner.
The usual stuff as everyone else plus >> Benchmade pocket knife, right angle prism & Leica Disto Laser (with camera and tilt sensor).
I used to carry around a ton of stuff. That ended up damaging a nerve in my hip. Ended up with MP and can’t feel my thigh hardly. Stop carrying a bunch of stuff. It isn’t worth it. That said I still carry a few c nails, a bit of flagging, something to write in and hat and vest. No more belts for me. Just make trips back to the truck.
I use a dove hunting game belt bag, it has two side pockets for shells and a deep back pocket for game and I will put my machete and plumb bob on it and let it out full length and carry over my shoulder.
If all my stuff does not fit in those bags, it goes on the ATV.
When there is no way to get my ATV there, I carry a folding dove hunting chair with me.Not really essentials but lately I have on my person the following.
On the belt: pencil sharpener, radio, water bottle, pink spray paint, hand pruners, pocket rod, plumb bob, scratch awl, channel locks, 4mm allen t tool, wisk broom, brush, key ring, weather station.
In the vest: white paint stick, teal paint stick, black marker, white marker, micro fiber cloth, lens wipes, ear plugs, gloves, field book, zip ties, rag, mule tape, sight card, plastic triangle.
Front pouch of overalls: 2 red pencils, black marker, pocket knife, electric eraser, back up pencil.In the gun bag: pouch with wrenches for tribrachs and legs, sticky targets, plumb bob string, 2 mini prisms with adapter, one point, on 5/8th inch bolt, leica measure up tape, 90 eyepiece, back up battery.
party chef, post: 420735, member: 98 wrote: electric eraser
Wow.
I have two Panasonic electric pencil sharpeners that I found in thrift stores ($3).
I keep one in the truck so I can sharpen pencils in the hotel room at night.
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