Am I the only one who finds magnets in strange places. I wish I had a dollar for ever magnet if found while looking for pins. I just found one the other day in an area that was at least a 1/2 mile from a road.
Not so much magnets but I've sure found a lot of used batteries (d,c,aa). They make the Shoney sing like a canary also. It is odd where you sometimes find them. Maybe some is from fill material but I've found these things a long ways from civilization. Maybe campers or hikers.
I want to know why every survey vehicle I've ever been in has a golf ball collection. That I, for some reason, wind up contributing to. No magnets though.
I have found the "Singing Rocks" also, but more amazingly is finding golf balls where a rabbit wouldn't go.
Yeah in the trees next to the fairway, look down and hey there is hundreds of golf balls in here, then you hear a leave rustling noise in the leaves above your head and pretty soon a golf ball drops down near you. Hackers can't keep it on the fairway 😉
I found a hacky sack at least a mile from the nearest road yesterday.
WTF?
> I want to know why every survey vehicle I've ever been in has a golf ball collection. That I, for some reason, wind up contributing to. No magnets though.
my former company, there would always be an old beater driver or other club kept in the vehicle among the range poles & the lath. the collection of golf balls found would inevitably be redistributed, and often times the end of day beverage buying would be dependent on some kind of hitting contest
Finding golf balls on a jobsite is a running joke for the crew.
We don't consider the job "complete" until we find a golf ball.
Literally, we find a golf ball on over 75% of the jobs. (And like most others, we do work on some rather remote places).
We used to put magnets next to stones to help the next person.
Those little refrigerator magnets will make a Schonstedt sing like a bird. Magnetic rocks are the worse -- especially if they are in the vicinity of a corner and buried a foot or two....
Over the last 32 years of surveying, I have found at least 2 dozen old U-shaped or V-shaped magnets from old hand crank telephones, always one at a time and always a long way from any old house sites. I guess that country kids would salvage them and carry them around and play with them (and then lose them).
Golf club
BB gun
ultralight fishing pole
ALL standard equipment.
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