Floyd Carrington, post: 362026, member: 474 wrote: Harold and A Harris, gentlemen, orange flagging is nose candy to Yankee whitetail deer. If they can smell they will dig it up and your nail and eat the flagging. We make should nail and flagging are well buried. Another thing to teach the newbies.
Critters have been responsible for tearing out my 60d mag hubs. I quit flagging traverse nails a long time ago.
Adam, post: 362100, member: 8900 wrote: Critters have been responsible for tearing out my 60d mag hubs.
A good enough reason to be setting something more substantial than a spike for control, IMO.
Aloha, Harold:
Thank you so much! Very educational!
When the critters are disturbing your hubs and markers, there must be something about them that makes them attractive.
Maybe they smell like cheeseburgers & fries or something edible or needy for the critters.
When you get a new box of nails sprinkle the whole batch with hot sauce, black pepper or cayenne pepper or talcum powder and close the box.
When the critters are getting totally out of control, carry a small tin of cayenne with you and sprinkle on each point.
:gammon:
Mark Mayer, post: 362103, member: 424 wrote: A good enough reason to be setting something more substantial than a spike for control, IMO.
I use 10" dock spikes for traverse sometimes, but i usually prefer a hub and tack. When i hear nail I think of a mag nail in pavement.
JTLAPOINTE, post: 362028, member: 11401 wrote: Fold a length of flagging in half then fold the end opposite of the loose ends a few times and push the nail through that end.
I will occasionally do it like the original post, but when I expect to have any chance of coming back to it then I will do it the way described above with the exception being that I fold over the loose ends twice and push the nail through the folds. The reason I do it this way as opposed to the OP's way is invariably something (see below) is going to wipe out the tag ends and if it's merely wrapped it will come loose.
Floyd Carrington, post: 362026, member: 474 wrote: Harold and A Harris, gentlemen, orange flagging is nose candy to Yankee whitetail deer. If they can smell they will dig it up and your nail and eat the flagging. We make should nail and flagging are well buried. Another thing to teach the newbies.
Same here. I'm convinced there's cellulose in the flagging that's making it attractive to the deer. I was working on a rural road project about 15 years ago where the county was going to pave a bunch of dirt roads. I had spent sun up to sun down by myself with a robot setting stakes along the proposed R/W. The next morning I show up and the first mile had stakes, but no flagging. The second mile had flagging laying on the ground, but no stakes.......hmmmmmm. That's when I learned that cows eat flagging and horses eat stakes. I was not happy about either discovery, lol.
I have thought of carrying insect repellant, and spraying my hubs, for those ones prone to get eaten by cows etc.
But, I don't do much const staking these days, so I don't think about it much.
Holy Cow, post: 362024, member: 50 wrote: It's much like tying one's shoes. We may do it differently or we may do it the same but getting it done is the only thing that counts.
When wearing lace-up boots I grab both laces in one hand, do a sort of Zorro move a few times and voila both laces are equally tight and ready for the pretty knot to be made. Most people don't do it that way.
Don't your fingers get stuck in the lace holes???
Ah. I see I was not clear. All of my boots have several pairs of hooks. The Zorro move gets the hook part done in a flash. Can't tell you the last time I had a pair of boots without them.
I pledge allegiance to the flagging
of SurveyorConnect.com
and to the nail to which it's tied,
one control point, undisturbed,
with measurements and adjustments for all.
HC,
Yep. Grab the inside lace with the first hook, then pair em up till the top hook.
Peter Ehlert, post: 362045, member: 60 wrote: knew a guy that insisted that they be tied up in a chain (still connected with flagging)... that way was more handy and he stuffed a wad of them in the back of his vest.
The chain method is what I have used for years, but I cut/pull them apart immediately.
This board has officially run out of topics to discuss at this point. 🙂
Jim in AZ, post: 362217, member: 249 wrote: The chain method is what I have used for years, but I cut/pull them apart immediately.
I didn't realize there was any different way, till I saw this thread.......
I like the 6" mag-spikes with the dimples. good for the sand soil around here. tear off a chunk of flagging, fold it a few times and stab the spike through the middle of it. 3 seconds tops.
Is there really a "wrong" way to put flagging on a nail???
