The latest comic from Your Other Left:
We, as everyone else, have had problems with guys driving over our stakes in construction layout.
The funniest one I ever saw was on a job where the general contractor followed our advise and put form pins next to all of the stakes.
We were fortunate enough to watch a sub back over one of these in his brand-new pickup truck...which then needed a new right rear panel!
Morons....
That brings back memories of the extremes we would go to protect our control points on a few construction sites.
Flat tires have a way of getting the message "RUN OVER SURVEY STAKES AT YOUR OWN RISK" to those that think they can just drive at will across your staked project.
B-)
Reminds me of a project on which I worked nearly 40 years ago. We staked the back of curb along a street one afternoon and were coming back the next morning to run levels and mark the cuts. When we showed up ALL our stakes had been pulled and the neighborhood kids had made a slalom course of a bunch of them for their bicycles. Unfortunately one of them had left his bike on the graded street. The crew chief (after a bit of cussing and fussing) calmly got the tool box out of the truck, COMPLETELY disassembled the bike, and scattered the pieces all over woods nearby. I never heard what happened later but I bet there was one young man who had a tough time explaining why his bike was scattered around.
Andy
Wow! Flashback to 1972 Orange County, California.
A hot-tempered chief I worked for reached a boiling point, after collecting and repositioning about 2,500 feet of traffic cones numerous times one morning.
Seems a bottom dump truck driver at this dirt import job thought it real fun to mow them all down during each trip to the site.
Ol' Jimmy put a three pound coffee can we had, full of 16d chaining nails with various colored flagging, under one of the cones.
Sure enough, bottom dump guy comes back and hits the cone and ends up with a minimum of half a dozen nails in each of his tires, most of them flat. Wish I had had a camera.
Jimmy got yelled at real good.
JA, PLS SoCal
> Wow! Flashback to 1972 Orange County, California.
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> A hot-tempered chief I worked for reached a boiling point, after collecting and repositioning about 2,500 feet of traffic cones numerous times one morning.
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> Seems a bottom dump truck driver at this dirt import job thought it real fun to mow them all down during each trip to the site.
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> Ol' Jimmy put a three pound coffee can we had, full of 16d chaining nails with various colored flagging, under one of the cones.
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> Sure enough, bottom dump guy comes back and hits the cone and ends up with a minimum of half a dozen nails in each of his tires, most of them flat. Wish I had had a camera.
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> Jimmy got yelled at real good.
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> JA, PLS SoCal
I would have yelled at him for not using bigger nails. And if the dump truck driver tried to give me guff he would be introduced to something to scare him to fill his drawers.B-)
Staking C&G, a****les kept running over the hubs. Drove a 16d nail thru all 4 sides. Didn't stop anybody from running them over, but the tire guy was happy for the business.
Setting PI control for a pipeline on the slope and the points were constantly getting run over by loaders. Started setting the rebar 6" above grade, after a few big $$$$ flats, they quit running over the points!
Setting subgrade stakes on a road in Nome, end dump drivers kept hitting them, so the superintendent told the drivers that they would get sent home if it happened again. It did and he sent the guy home, point made! After that, those drivers were VERY careful .... so I set out a bunch of "dummy" stakes and got a great deal of entertainment watching these guys weave their way thru. End of the day, I drove thru them with the chariot and wiped them out myself! :clap:
Get the point?
GOOD!
