I've done just about everything I can think of to stamp corners.
Do them in the office beforehand, do them as I'm setting them, wrap them inbetween stakes and stamp them on a fence post, built a thick iron block with a hole in it to drop them into and stamp them on the tailgate, but all the different techniques have drawbacks.
Stamping a cap in the office, then you get to the field and it's already set with a good or maybe better monument (I've ended up with lots of prestamped caps to be grinded off), as you are setting them is very awkward, the iron block isn't the best thing either, so I stumbled on my favorite way:
it's not perfect, but it sure does make a nice cap and you can move it around so you can stamp right along the edges.
That's the device I used a few months ago to split my scalp open. What a bloody mess that was!
Use with caution:bored:
I did have one rather messy morning with a different but similar device, ended up in the emergency room that time
I did too; got a nice scar above my left eye, out of it.
There was a little boy, crying, on the other side of a curtain, next to me. They consoled him by saying he would have a cool scar, later. He stopped crying! :excruciating:
There was a little boy, crying, on the other side of a curtain, next to me. They consoled him by saying he would have a cool scar, later. He stopped crying!
Did the same strategy work on you?:-D
Yes; and I DO have a cool scar! B-)
MightyMoe, post: 344530, member: 700 wrote: ended up in the emergency room that time
I avoided the ER with the scalp thing, though I did pay a visit to it on Saturday night. I got hit by a baseball and thought my foot was broken. It turned out to be just a bad contusion, so I'm just ace bandaged and limping today. The crutches are in the truck, though.
I was lucky, just a broken palm and thumb, couldn't play golf for a few years, otherwise not as bad as it could have been
I prefer to stamp mine after they are set in the ground. Pre-stamped caps tend to get the stamping beat out of them in the rocky ground I'm usually working on. The only problem is old fat guys don't squat as well as they used to.
Jim Frame, post: 344529, member: 10 wrote: That's the device I used a few months ago to split my scalp open. What a bloody mess that was!
Hey what is it with those things. I was setting some posts a home several years ago and ended up bleeding profusely from the head. I never hit the ground but I saw stars for a long while. A couple of days later I noticed one chipped and one cracked tooth. It did not dawn on me until I was sitting in the dentists chair what had caused them.
Lesson learned, Hard Hat.
I'm a bit surprised that the cap in the photo doesn't appear to have any factory stamping on it. Is it really the case that one couldn't use caps with some fill-in-the-blank stamping already on them?
It is hard getting down anymore
Sometimes it's on the ground, this job isn't rocky, but if my rod hits refusal then it's the saw, as long as I have enough water then the aluminum rod cuts fairly quick.....
I don't always set section corners, but when I do I prefer my caps to be blank
I have a walking boot on my left foot because I strained my left calf according to the Doc. Hopefully get it off in four weeks. Meanwhile no field until I'm cleared for unrestricted duty. 🙁
Jim Frame, post: 344529, member: 10 wrote: That's the device I used a few months ago to split my scalp open. What a bloody mess that was!
Owww! I haven't done that yet, but I know of cases when it has happened. I'm trying to learn from others' mistakes.
Dave Karoly, post: 344661, member: 94 wrote: I have a walking boot on my left foot
Be careful with that boot. My wife was put into those after straining her Achilles tendons by overzealous running; they helped the Achilles tendons, but wrecked her hips and back. It's been about 4 years now and she's still trying to fix the hip and back problems.
a short neatly cut section of railway iron/rail makes a nice anvil, but a bit heavy to cart about.
I've a 6" section that fits that bill. Needs to be on something solid for best results.
I gather you are using what we drive star fencing droppers here. A post driver.
If that's so not sure how you'd clout yourself on the head? Lift it too high in the air?
They're very common here and every farm would have at least one. Just curious as we don't hear of issues here.
Richard, post: 344677, member: 833 wrote: If that's so not sure how you'd clout yourself on the head? Lift it too high in the air?
Driving a post into very hard ground, I was watching the post anchor plate to judge progress as I pounded. Progress was slow but steady; however, with my eyes on the anchor plate I failed to adjust the length of stroke, and when the driver finally slipped off the top of the post it immediately rotated backward and bonked me solidly on the head.
You've got some ready made red flagging there....
I have never hurt myself with a T-Post driver, but I have came close a few times. Usually from grabbing the driver and trying to put it on the T-Post, then realizing I had the closed end down on the T-Post when the driver slips off, if you dont have a good grip on it who knows when it will end up. I think I would more likely get a broken foot. That is a reason I like to use 6 foot T-Post and not the 6.5 foot T-Post.
