Do you remember

That is a blast from the past- but I doubt many remember it. We never had the bolt actually in the rig because we were using ribbon, but there was a bolt of red flagging cloth in a storage closet in the back of one of the old construction trailers. No one would throw it out because ƒ??you just never knowƒ?. It was still in there when they scrapped the trailer in 1993.

Ok, I've been around for a bit, but never heard of this. What is the bolt of red?

Flagging before rolls of plastic. But when did plastic come in and when did cloth use die out?

@bill93,  my first job surveying was in 1969, there was plastic flagging then.

The red cloth was mainly for putting in centerline nails - the chunk of red cloth was under your nail and washer or nail and bottle cap thus the name red-head,which is how it would be annotated in the transit notes... ?ÿIt was a bolt of coarse red linen just like youƒ??d see in the fabric shop. Get a square, make a 1 inch cut and rip it into long strips and cut it up. (Rain day activity) probably about 1985 or so Iƒ??d guess from the notes Iƒ??d see or line Iƒ??d run... Maybe it was more of a DOT thing.

Never used it but have found it in the distant past.

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when did plastic come in..?

In the movie "In the Heat of the Night"?ÿ(1967) there is a scene at a construction site. The area is covered in lath with plastic flagging tied to it. The burnt orange kind.?ÿ?ÿ

I can remember digging up the pipes wrapped in red cloth, in the woods behind our house when I was a kid.?ÿ No idea then why someone put that stuff there.