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Dave Karoly, post: 420805, member: 94 wrote: I keep one in the truck so I can sharpen pencils in the hotel room at night.
Carrying an electric pencil sharpener in your truck is one thing. Carrying one in your vest is quite another.
On Forest Service contracts the favorite accessory was a battery powered Dremel for scribing trees.
Survey Spoon.
A crew chief turned me on to it years ago, fits nicely in the pen pocket and found a 101 uses for it. From minor &/or delicate excavation around a monument; also grind a chisel edge on the handle end for scrapping paint or ice off mag nails, to cleaning road salt out around rims that are packed down or the pockets of those hinged smh lids everyone around here seems to install now. Then wipe her down for some Dinty Moore at lunch time, which also fits nicely in the vest…I carry a heavy duty ice cream scoop that I picked up at the dollar tree many years ago. I use it for cleaning out chisel holes in asphalt, cleaning up around an iron pin to add flagging, etc. Mine is more heavy duty that the picture above, but works the same way. It is very handy. I also keep a small wisk broom, about $2 at Walmart, and it comes with a small dust pan as well. Great for brushing the gravel away from the holes in asphalt as you are digging, and also great for cleaning up the tops of found benchmark disks. The dustpan is helpful when brushing out the floorboards of the truck at the end of the day.
I’m on about the third heavy duty spoon in 23 years. Can’t do without it.
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