best hat for surveying

lots of hats for surveying..

> But make sure they have a stampede strap on them.

”Codder pins"? Really?

I don't know what they are called but they are super popular these days despite making the wearer look like the biggest dork in the world. They are sort of a stocking cap with ear flaps and hangydowny things that appear to be knitted. Most are uglier than sin. This old geezer doesn't own one but I'm sure it would be excellent at protecting the head and neck while not having any kind of protruding bill to hit the instrument.

Idaho has no hunter orange requirement. Flo pink is easier to distinguish for us humans and appears gray to deer and elk...

I use a soft brim hiking hat.

I use one like this (Different Brand):

Bass Pro Soft Brim Hat

In Hunter Orange.

IHM-

I use an adapted plastic key chain coil with two very small "O" rings at the ends to put over the shafts (temples) of my trifocal photochromic lense glasses.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=plastic+coil+key+chain&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LfrsVJ23MYmxggT7qILIAw&ved=0CD8QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=620

Cheers,

Derek

Here's mine

You mean there are areas of the globe that are....i think you used the word "hot"...not sure if I remember the outside being "hot"...can you describe it?

When Mountain Dew was introduced the bottles had little cartoons on them with fellows wearing such skull coverings.

OK I'll join in the fun!!

Seems to have worked for him..

:good:

" When Mountain Dew was introduced the bottles had little cartoons on them with fellows wearing such skull coverings."

Along with the caption "It'll tickle your innards"

Mountain Dew: the early years..

..enjoy!

1st. Mountain Dew TV Commercial

Yea, probably not the best anchor.

That was fantastic

Thanks for finding that. Now I remember why I starting drinking the stuff.

Cutting brush is a ball cap. Running a gun is a boonie hat. Being in the open is a standard bangora straw hat.

Also, if I were anymore pale, I'd be considered an albino being blond haired and blue eyed. WHEN I have to run a gun (and I mega loathe those times), I do have to take my sunglasses off. You better have some on when looking at the white pages of a field book or you'll burn your eyes similar to snow-blind.

The fact that I just look awesome in sunglasses and a straw hat (well, I look awesome anyway) is a bonus to actually protecting myself. 🙂

Paden

> take your pick. They're all good choices.
>
> But make sure they have a stampede strap on them.
>
> A lot of folks sell hats down here and think they're only for wearin' indoors.:pinch:

I learned VERY quickly at an early age (like 5) from my grandfather (he was born in 1909) that hats are only to be worn OUTSIDE and heaven help you if you dared to wear one to the supper table in Polk County, Texas. 🙂 I still maintain this rule in my home and because of my grandfather's influences, note every person wearing a hat indoors. 🙂

Paden

Kris,

I apologize. I just took my baseball cap off.

Please forgive me....:-P

I almost always have a hat of some sort on. Most of the men in my family always have. I guess because we were outside most of the time.

Off to try to set two corners on a small job close to the office before the snow starts in about an hour or so.

Jimmy

Paden

I sadly agree that "hat etiquette" has all but disappeared it seems. My grandfather (a usually mild mannered gent) would simply reach up and flip the hat off of any "youngster" that was dumb enough to not remove it when entering the house. Followed by a gruff, "git your hat off!"

Mine hang on a hook by the front door for a reason.