101 things survey flagging is good for (It's Friday)

Tying back tree limbs, vines and fancy rose bushes in city folks yards...

Small piece of orange flagging on a hook will land you a nice Jack Crevalle from the depths of the Gulf.

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Nice catch, Jack

Wrapping Christmas presents

Flagging long lumber hanging out of the truck

Substituting for the belt I forgot to put on

A leftover fast food store napkin and orange glo flagging does make a quick and effective field bandage. I have done that countless times! 😀

Tie some around a kid's bicycle handles and tell him to pedal fast to watch it stream, just to get him away from the crew. That backfired, though. By the next day, the rest of the neighborhood kids had removed most of the flagging from my guard stakes and tied it around their bicycle handles to be as cool as the first kid!

Tie barbed wire strands together so you can crawl through a fence.

I made a pin flag carrier out of a bent pin plag wire. Then I tie a piece of flagging around the pin flag wires to hold them together.

Can tie up a rolled set of plans when the rubber band breaks or disappears.

Bind the bottom of pants legs in chigger territory in an attempt to keep the little buggers from making a meal out of me. Did not work.

Tie around the end of full sticks of rebar when driving home to cut them up.

Flagging is wonderful stuff. Sorta like duct tape and baling wire - many uses for an enterprising individual! B-)

I've used it like Teflon tape to help hold threaded stuff together. Say the tip on a prisim pole if the threads are a little worn out, you just wrap a little flagging around the threads tight and put the tip back on. The cheaper non winter grade stuff works better for this.

Funny you should ask. Was fixing and re-routing some PVC drains in the office basement two days ago and forgot to bring some wire to use as hangers. But there was some flagging in the basement, took no time for me to solve that one.

Also tied it around my wrist and on my head like a headband once when I got to a job and remembered it was the opening day of bow season and I had forgot my orange hat. Sorry no pictures.

I've done things with flagging that everyone else has already mentioned. I've also used it to tie my long hair outta my face, and wrap a bit around hammer handles (just below the hammer head) and thread and tie some through the hole at the end of machete handles so I can spot them more easily when they get dropped in the brush.

Nate, 38 years of surveying? You can't possibly be that old!

an emergency belt.

streamers on a hearse. (have done this twice now for RPLSs- last time 3 years ago this week. happy trails 5683.)

I think Nate started wurveying with his dad when he learned to walk.:-D

Killian v. Hill

D'Aryan testified that he did the survey for the Hills. He testified that his sons Nathaniel, who was twenty-three, and Othniel, who was sixteen, did the initial field work. He testified that both boys had been helping him since they were eight years old but that neither was legally a "surveyor-in-training" nor a licensed surveyor. He testified that their ability as to accuracy was "very good" and that "they are just as qualified as the vast majority of people working on field crews in the State of Arkansas." He testified that he checked their work in the office and at the site, but did not go back and redo all of the field work that they had done.

DDSM:beer:

"The facts or data in the particular case upon which an expert bases an opinion or an inference may be those perceived by or made known to him at or before the hearing. If of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in a particular field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject, the facts or data need not be admissible in evidence."

And

"In the language of the court in Dixon, it was not prima facie unreasonable for D'Aryan to rely on field work done by his sons in preparing his survey. D'Aryan's survey was not rendered inadmissible hearsay by such reliance."

> I have some fancy long underwear. (Been cold out) I tied flagging on the end of the underwear, and around my foot, so I could pull my pants on this morning, without the long underwear leg crawling up my leg.
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that wouldn't happen if'n you weren't trying to be a hipster and wearing skinny jeans....:-P

My wife made a grid with it for a life size checkerboard. Her students hopped around and played checkers on a board made from flagging. It was a lot of flagging but my gal's worth it.

My nephew uses it to tie his sleeves up on his shirt when it's really hot and he's working on his tan instead of chopping line.

Tied it between stakes on a complex building layout so the contractor could understand the forest of stakes he inssited on. The building had many angle points and radii and it really helped him and others to imagine the look. Moved and rotated the building 3 times before everyone was happy with the views they would see out of certain windows.

Have also braided flagging for heavier duty tie downs and suspenders.

I always carry a roll with me whenever I'm out moose hunting for marking trails taken and kill sites. I'll take a 15-20' sapling, bend it down and tie a bunch of streamers to the top and let it snap back up to mark the site so I can see it from a distance. Saves a lot of time trying to find it the next day.

Whenever I'm in the woods I like to tie a piece to my glasses so if they get snagged off my face and go flying I have half a chance of finding them again.

I've tied up some to ceiling light's pull chain. Works for us less vertically endowed fellers so we don't have to keep pulling out a chair.

Don't forget to feed the goats. They seem to like to eat it.

Edit: Forgot to mention I've tied up some long pieces to my mailbox so folks can find which place is mine. I live in a neighborhood of townhouses and they all look alike.

I was going to start this same thread the other day after I had made 2 "repairs" on my sawmill. Sealed an air leak on the suction side of the fuel system, then I reattached the blade water lubrication tubing with it. By the way I was milling a nice clear Ponderisa butt cut into 40" survey lathe.
Over the years I've probably made a hundred or so emergency repairs with flagging.

One time I tied it to a tree to mark a property corner so people could find it.

once, or maybe lots of times, I've hung in on branches for that same reason Larry. Gosh, how many uses can there be!