For those surveyors who feel timid about using spray paint on public streets and sidewalks, take heart. This is what real excessive use of paint looks like:
The edges of the painted area are not particularly neatly done, though. You might want to use a bit more craft if you like this effect and try to duplicate it.
Don't have the time to use spray cans? Why not rent a truck with a high-capacity spray rig?
Wow! I'm guess an explosion as it was rolling past? Hope anyway!
I blame the biking faction and their demand for safe bicycling lanes. Wah. :'(
Know what is Orange and smells like Yellow paint?
Orange Paint.
Painted one of my first boss lake cabin sunset yellow (real close to safety yellow).
Had to wear sunshades to be in that yard on a cloudy day.
I wonder if the homeowner was standing at the end of his driveway asking what they were doing!
That must be one BIG gas line.
Andy
What else can you expect, the operator sits in the back?
jud
Sorta reminds me of this one time, my dad and I just got done setting a pin he gets out the can to paint the pin and stake, fumbles it around in the air and PING right off the pin!! All I saw in the scope was an orange cloud. The lot corner looked like that except orange, and not quite as bad. Poor dad had an orange leg the rest of the day though. 😀
A surveyor friend decided to paint some lath preparatory to an upcoming job. It was winter, cold outside and the paint, which he kept in his truck, wouldn’t spray. He decided to try to warm it up by putting it in a pan of water on the kitchen stove.
Annnnd… you know the rest of that story.
Get out the black paint (for the driveway) and the white paint (for the apron).
How much did you get on you ?
YOS
TNAI
Looks like a case of trespassing and destruction of property to me.
The bike lane stripes we can see look terrible. I'm thinking that might have a connection to the explosion that occurred.
> A surveyor friend decided to paint some lath preparatory to an upcoming job. It was winter, cold outside and the paint, which he kept in his truck, wouldn’t spray. He decided to try to warm it up by putting it in a pan of water on the kitchen stove.
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> Annnnd… you know the rest of that story.
:pinch:
I threw a can in the back of my truck a couple of days ago. It landed on a nail...
Saved the three photos and passed them along in an e-mail to a neighbor who works for the DOT. I'm hoping she will pass them along to a friend of mine who drives the paint truck for this portion of the State.
Favorite of mine on the jobsite is to toss the nearly empty can of orange paint under the roller as they go by. The look on the operator's face (usually a newbie) when they hear the pop and then start seeing orange spots behind them!
-JD-
A former co-worker came into the office one afternoon wearing one hot pink work boot. He had intentionally dropped a full can of paint on the ground beside him to lighten his load as he plumbed the rod. Unfortunately for him the clay was full of chert and put a good sized hole in the side of the can turning it into an instant paint grenade. Lucky for him most of the "blast" went down and out instead of up.:-D
