Caps are for city slickers!
Seriously, I'd like aluminum foil caps, built on top of plastic caps. The foil being pretty thick, so as to block uv rays.
Go from 20 yr life span, to a lot more, real fast.
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Nate, aluminum caps if you want something to last longer than plastic ones, going to cost a couple bucks a cap, but hey...
If I'm using plastic caps, I often spray paint them. This adds some years to their lives.
Love the aluminum caps... but be sure to order them with the plastic sleeve insert or the rebar and alum. react and degrade pretty fast.?ÿ ?ÿAlso makes for a tight fit!?ÿ?ÿ
.... New found irons and they are uncapped.
That sounds like litter.
Any responsible citizen would pick up that litter and recycle it.?ÿ
Might cut down on your cost of supplies.?ÿ
If you accept the pins - cap them with an aluminum cap with your LS# on it - file a ROS (if your jurisdiction allows them). You'll probably get a survey or two over the years when people look them up. I'm thinking of having our URL stamped on the caps - cheap, durable advertising.?ÿ
I just found a half dozen capped pins on a line through the woods and all but one of them was chewed by and animal, so they were unreadable about 2 years after being set. Caps are not required in NY and only a few surveyors use them.?ÿ
I have found if I bury my rebar with a plastic cap an inch or so, the cap stays readable for a long time.?ÿ yeah, makes it harder to find, but a guard stake and lath give a lay person a clue where to look.?ÿ If a surveyor following me doesn't find it due to his not looking, the rebar will still be there when I go back and dig it up.
My pet peeve: surveyors who ignore previous surveys, because they measure better.