Small intense flashlight (mag light) to see down into manholes and into culverts. They also come in handy when trying to squeeze out that last bit of daylight in the late Fall/early Winter.?ÿ
Selfie Stick - I keep one in the truck to use for photographing the inside of manholes or an obscure culvert opening that I can only reach from above. Mine has a BT remote and converts to a tripod. I use that feature for family photos.?ÿ
Manhole Cover Hook
Loppers - for gentle pruning in landscaped areas. They also come in handy around my yard.
Hard-sided rotomolded cooler- I have a Pelican version. I picked it for its durability and Pelican style latches. Keeping water and food cool in the blazing heat of summer is a must for me. These coolers make it easy by requiring much less ice and therefore more room for what you need. This also has dual use.
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Masonry Hammer - great for reconn and control points. Can dig down a few inches through asphalt and hard ground with ease.?ÿ
Disto are cheap now. Great for building dimensions and distant/distant offsets for GNSS location under obstructions.
I bought a small boat bilge pump, wired it to use my RTK base battery, makes short work of emptying mon wells, then use the turkey baster for the last bit to expose the mon. Scotch Brite pads to remove corrosion and grunge on the cap is useful too. For mon wells, I bought a hay hook, makes it much easier to lift them.
I carry a small limb saw and loppers, rarely use the axe or manchette as I rarely have to clear line, but small pesky branches are sometimes selectively removed, my compound loppers will accommodate up to about a 2" diameter stem.
@bruce-small mirror compass is multi use, use it as much for the mirror as I do for bearings, plus straightedge and ruler on base plate.
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@jim-frame I need to get one of these for the crew when I go out. Do they carry 260ish?
An old-fashioned plumbing wrench (the longest one you can find) will inexpensively pull pins (i.e. the occasional screwup); screw the teeth down on the top of the pin and use the handle and the torque it gives you to rotate the pin. Once you've gone full circle the pin will usually come out with just a bit of wiggling and won't throw your back out.
I have an all steel small one hand pick axe I bought years ago that has been so usefull.?ÿ It can also be used as a hammer to drive in a guard stake.?ÿ ?ÿ for wood handled tools, I use Goop glue on the shaft to the head, and the head never loosens.
The longer the better.
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The problem with the wrench is the diameter of hole you have to dig when you find a rebar a foot down and would like to raise it to, say, 2 inches (5 cm) subsurface.
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Vise grips work remarkably well for that.?ÿ First attach them horizontally to spin the rod, if possible.?ÿ Then attach them vertically, whip some small chain around the rod beneath the vise grips, and pull straight up on the chain.
Had to put on a pair of these this morning to be able to stay where I wanted to be.
@frank-willis Hi, Frank. Do you mean the pink craft stick. With reflectorless you can't shoot the building corner because half the beam will go past the corner, and in any case we know how uneven building "corners" are anyway, so I use masking tape to put a craft stick on the corner, with the black dot being the target point. I usually eyeball down the building line to set the black dot.
Jim, how well would it do on RR ballast.?ÿ I'm (and my knees apparently) getting tired of hauling multiple back site setups down the track.
