Lime Green Flagging

I do that for my random traverse points...

"Point On Lime?"

For easements and other miscellaneous items, I've been known to use red/white polka dot flagging, but never lime green before.

Someone that is colorblind (for real) maybe?

What was nearby? Anything substantial? Traverse point? Boundary marker? Bug Box? Proposed well or drainfield corner? Wetlands?

I would not ever do it, but that doesn't mean that it's useless. It flaps in the wind differently than leaves.

BTW: I have a huge box of red and white striped flagging that I use for traverse points only. I use flo orange for corners and line, but it's easier to tell clients/interested parties that orange is the only important color, but to leave everything with flagging alone.

Carl

That's about as bad as

using white flagging in the woods when the dogwoods are blooming.

Andy

> whose idea was it to use lime green flagging in the middle of the woods?
That flagging may have been hung last winter, when the leaves were off.

You beat me to Colorblind. Two of us in the office can find the green faster than orange. We do hang orange at the corners for the industry standard but have used green for recon and traverse points.

For a change I bought yellow once for the crews. It was Fall in New England, boy did I get grief from the field crews about what dummy bought the yellow flagging!

T.W.

I use it to tie up tomatoes , other than that not much use .

The old surveyor in an adjoining town was color blind and he used yellow flagging. It was terrible for everyone else but him. 🙂

Tom - Yellow Flagging

My mentor was color blind and couldn't see orange flagging, but he could spot a small piece of yellow flagging in the woods among all the foliage, so we used yellow for years...

I happen to be color-blind to shades of red/green, so I would definitely struggle with this in the field. My color-blindness (especially to red) caused many grumblings and upset stomachs from my immediate supervisors, but they were/are nonetheless understanding. In fact, I suggested to one PC to purchase a yellow marking pencil for highlighting control points (similar to the old telescore league bowling pencils) which he happily obliged.

It may well be the color-blindness factor that played a role here.

Reminds me of the time my daddy and granddaddy painted a line with silver paint.

Life was easier when all we had was orange in the bag.

Norman got it!

> > whose idea was it to use lime green flagging in the middle of the woods?
> That flagging may have been hung last winter, when the leaves were off.

Yes, 3 weeks ago it was easy to see. It was used to mark proposed driveway on a large-acreage subdivision (10-50 acre lots).

I didn't realize there were so many color blind surveyors out there. It's a running joke around the office being the only color blind one of the bunch. I can be standing right next to a piece of pink flagging and never see it unless it blows in the wind. The only color I can easily see in the woods is blue, needless to say after a topo the woods look like a sea of blue flagging.

I'm a geezer in lock step with the color blind folks here. Even can't hear as well either, but flagging is likely not the problem.

I can't even see pink flagging unless it's blowing in the wind. Lime green in the woods is just stupid. Orange is giving me problems lately, as do reds in assorted shades.

I like the polka dot or striped scheme, but my best color I can still see is blue. Vivid blue. I generally only use that. If the contractor want's to know what the stake means - read it or check the cut sheet. Landowners are happy with it because it stands out, even if they aren't color blind.

At the end of the day, all flagging tends to fade and/or get blown off the bush. I've even seen cows, birds, & mice eat flagging.

I too am a bit color blind. there are days that I have difficulty seeing red or pink in foliage or grass.

For many years I used red and white together, had to carry and tie from two different rolls at at time.

If we could not see one of them we could see the other.

Then we had glo orange and everything became right in the world.

A few years ago I had a helper that could not glo orange.

He claimed he could see glo pink. Found out he could not see that either.

Could only see flagging if it was moving in the breeze.

😉

Norman got it!

That lime green works fairly well in some situations in the Pacific NW, where the coniferous trees are a much darker green than deciduous leaves.