When staking a corner, use a plastic tent stake. Set it, then, you can metal detect, the exact spot, before setting a new shiney rebar, with a shiney plastic cap!
It also helps hold the location, while digging out extraneous metal, artifacts, and debris. Making it faster, to set the final new rebar, AFTER having appropriately searched.
IF your stake out is 10 ft away, inside a brush pile, or a bunch of privet hedge, you can compass, and estimate the dist, and throw the plastic tent stake at the approximate location, for brush clearing purposes.
Happy Memorial Day for all.
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Nate
Golf tees work good for that, also.
Except for the part about throwing it in a brush pile.
But it's good for a temp point to scan around with the detector.
Or those red reflectors on fiberglass rods that are sold to set by your driveway. Cut the rod down to a manageable length, and you have three or four non-metallic stakes, one with a near-zero offset prism good for up to a hundred yards. (Hillman brand works best for me.)
thanks for posting, good idea.