I have a job in the marsh and I need about 700 to 800 16'-18' bamboo poles beginning July 8. My sources are out until the last week in July. We use the ones from China. I am in south Louisiana and willing to drive to east Texas or central south Miss/Ala.
We are working out of air boats where space is a premium so pvc pipe or similar will not do. Anyone have any or a source for them.
I can buy or replace them.
I hope you find what you need. Sounds like a project worthy of photos posted later?
Tomorrow's project, sink hole
Just a typical job for us. Tomorrow we will be measuring the area and depth of a sink hole then calculate the volume.
The guy that I know is out of town to Monday on vacation over at Pcola.
I know that is squeeze for you time frame.
No guarantee, because I remember that he was saying that it was getting difficult to find at times. I will find his number and pass it along to you in an email.
oops you need to email me through the forum here
Tomorrow's project, sink hole
> Just a typical job for us. Tomorrow we will be measuring the area and depth of a sink hole then calculate the volume.
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Holy crap! I have never seen anything like that before in this lifetime.
How much cable was on that reel?
Tomorrow's project, sink hole
A couple of the comments below the video say the reel held 750' of cable.
We have been dealing with the video for a year. The operator of the reel is the head of homeland security for the parish. Our max depths are much less than what he is reporting. We use a depth sounder and check it with a cable line with enough weight to know when it reached bottom.
The reel has 750' of line with a one or 1.5# weight and reported that we were hiding info because he couldn't touch bottom. We rented the same model reel and demonstrated that after a certain depth the weight of the cable exceeds the bottom weight and the cable is coiling on the bottom.
>We rented the same model reel and demonstrated that after a certain depth the weight of the cable exceeds the bottom weight and the cable is coiling on the bottom.
Reminds me of Thoreau sounding the reputed 'bottomless' Walden Pond.
> We have been dealing with the video for a year. The operator of the reel is the head of homeland security for the parish. Our max depths are much less than what he is reporting. We use a depth sounder and check it with a cable line with enough weight to know when it reached bottom.
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> The reel has 750' of line with a one or 1.5# weight and reported that we were hiding info because he couldn't touch bottom. We rented the same model reel and demonstrated that after a certain depth the weight of the cable exceeds the bottom weight and the cable is coiling on the bottom.
Bureaucrats.
So how deep is it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
James
POLES
5-10 foot poles
<2 inch diameter: $3.00
>2 inch diameter: $5.00
10-15 foot poles
<2 inch diameter: $6.00
>2 inch diameter: $10.00
(wholesale pricing for larger orders available)
So how deep is it?
During the same period in time if I remember correctly 350'. Now from month to month plus or minus 200'
Richard those are way too big. The one's we use are 3/4" to 1" base.
They didn't time warp to that size. I would guess that they also have smaller ones.
Lamon,
Our main office is in Houma and we purchase our cane poles from
Mike Ezel: nine eight five-209-1302.
We use a lot of poles. I do not know what his lead time is, but he is pretty good at getting use what we need (doesn't help that he has been our supplier for many years).
Joe that is where we get them from. two weeks ago he had thousands, now he is out and won't have any for a few weeks.
I found some in Alabama that I will pick up on Monday.
What do you use them for?
We use them for just about anything Oil & Gas related in the marsh and inland bays/lakes in Louisiana. Well locations, dredge limits for access routes, existing pipeline and proposed pipelines, etc. I have personally gone thru 300+ in one day staking out a pipeline c/l and tws limits across the marsh and lakes. That was about 3 1/2 miles of proposed route. We use them for everything you would use a wood stake for on dry ground.
I am glad we took our delivery a few weeks ago. Guess it is our fault :-$
As Joe said..
I use to use them for oyster lease surveys to mark the limits of the lease and buffer between leases.
Use to get them from a classic New Orleans bait shop called Flynn's Bait shop out on Chef Menteur Hwy. (ain't dere no mo')
Crabbers would use them to mark traps in open water instead of floats. You could also get some rebar at Flynn's because they would use rebar to weight crab traps.
Even back then they were getting hard to find and Flynn's had a source in Belize that he used to have a supply. But I think he did that as an excuse to travel to Belize for fun and other stuff.
