How long has it been since you've used a pencil? I pulled one out of my vest pocket today and couldn't remember how long it has been since I've used one. The data collector, smart phone, sharpie and favorite pen are utilized hourly or daily...the Pentel or Ticonderoga not so much.
Every day and I have a hard time seeing an end to it. At the very least just for me to keep track of what I have done, to tell the story of my day.
Pens don't work very well marking a cut on a 2x4.
Elias Glover, post: 427930, member: 1494 wrote: How long has it been since you've used a pencil? I pulled one out of my vest pocket today and couldn't remember how long it has been since I've used one. The data collector, smart phone, sharpie and favorite pen are utilized hourly or daily...the Pentel or Ticonderoga not so much.
A few hours. I use one every day. More often in the field but quite often in the office too.
I still use my pens (blue, red or green ink-never black) sharpies and highlighters but I only use pencils in field books and for office calc notes.
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I have an endless supply of Dixon Ticonderoga 2H wooden pencils at my fingertips (they also make Keel lumber crayons) .
Wood pencils, every day
Colored pencils, this morning
Mechanical/wood graphite pencil, sometime in the late 70s (ink since then for all Field Notes, desk doodling, calc. pads, etc.)
Loyal
0.5 mm Pentel and Col-Erase carmine just this morning. The Pentel is used to note point numbers and HIs, manhole dips, and miscellaneous sketches and notes. The Col-Erase is used to highlight scribed or sawcut cross control points, and for marking stakeout points on concrete prior to drilling.
0.5 mm - everyday
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Rat's, I thought this post was about something else......:scream:
Wood pencils every day
.5 mm Pentel with F lead daily. I also use .7 mm for general work and .9 mm for sketching.
.7 mm Pentel red and blue lead in red and blue bodies for plan markups and for reading/studying underlining.
Everyday, and I still carry a field book and draw pretty pictures.
Daily; trusty Pentel P209. I write heavy-handed as all hell, 0.9 lead saves me a lot of headache. Plus, you can accomplish more than you'd think with the sharp edge of the lead.
I use Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils for field notes.
I have two Panasonic electric pencil sharpeners, one at home, and one in the truck. The office has one too. I also have one of those German pocket sharpeners.
FL/GA PLS., post: 427966, member: 379 wrote: Rat's, I thought this post was about something else......:scream:
(Time for an old joke)
Two old men sitting on a park bench. One asks the other if he "had gotten any on the side lately".
He thought for a moment and replied, "It's been so long I didn't know they moved it".
I think it was a case of needing something in a hurry and I had to ask someone else to give me something to write with and that's what they gave me. Otherwise, an ink pen is never far from my reach. I do sudokus and crossword puzzles nearly every day. Always with a pen. Those of us who are perfect need not worry about making misteaks.
Holy Cow, post: 428145, member: 50 wrote: I think it was a case of needing something in a hurry and I had to ask someone else to give me something to write with and that's what they gave me. Otherwise, an ink pen is never far from my reach. I do sudokus and crossword puzzles nearly every day. Always with a pen. Those of us who are perfect need not worry about making misteaks.
Sudoku and crosswords are always done in ink. I couldn't read pencil on newspaper even before my eyes got old.
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I always have an HB 0.7 handy. I love wood too, I like sharpening them with a pocket knife. Got to have a Rapidigraph imbibed eraser. Eraser shields get some funny questions. Timely template - a must have.
But, I ink more often than not these days.
This might bring me back to lead:
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Yeah, I assumed every surveyor uses pencils every day. In survey school we were taught to only use pencil in our field books, even though you weren't supposed to ever erase anything either. I suppose the pencil won't run if it gets wet, and is more durable?