The guys I work with painted up a traverse so "good", I can read the point numbers in Google streetview.
I personally do not advertise my control, unless earthwork is happening and it can be saved for future (necessary) site visits. I use a small amount of blue flagging for control points instead of a day glow color
Brad Ott, post: 364033, member: 197 wrote:
Bradly: These dayÛªs I think IÛªd be careful painting a ÛÏsmiley bombÛ in the middle of a street. Homeland Security will be on you like flyÛªs on tater salad. 😉
Forego the paint dots @ topo shots & you'll have the 2nd crew do the same as the 1st. When redundancy not a good thing.... Lol
Well now, you fellers that don't like flagging and paint would've had a coronary if you'd seen the way I left a job in Atlanta, lol.
A turd that I worked with shot only the corners deemed necessary for control on a 15 acre apartment complex so I was asked to swing by on my way through and locate or set the remainder. Which I did and it took quite a bit of time which pissed me off because I felt the turd should have been sent to do it. Anyway, a couple of weeks later and I get a call asking why I didn't set the corners. Pissed again. It seems an Atlanta surveyor was now coming in to do some construction staking and he didn't find any corners.....
I was on the road, but in GA, so I asked for them to have him call me. When he did I assured him all the corners called for on our plat were in place and he assured me they were not. I stopped work and headed that way. Starting with a fresh roll of tape at each corner I tied several wraps around the rebars and tossed the the roll into the nearest trees until the entire roll was spent then moved to the next corner. On the 7 or 8 chiseled "X's" in the sidewalk (all of which I had previously dug back into the bank to find and my dug out channels were still there.....) I used entire can of paint for each by painting the hell out of the "X" then making a gigantic arrow pointing to the "X" and extending the "shaft" of the arrow to the centerline of a 4 lane road, lol.
THEN......the next damn day he calls me again right before lunch saying they still weren't marked and I lost my $%^& on him. I assured him HE needed to ride out there, take a look around and then fire the crew that he's been sending out there......
He called me the next morning and offered me a job, lol.
Dave Karoly, post: 363948, member: 94 wrote: I set a magnail in my client's AC driveway in a million dollar neighborhood, very nice neighborhood. No paint, just a little keel.
I come back a few days later, giant orange paint circle around my magnail with giant orange numbers you could read from space, GEEZ! Another surveyor used my magnail, I'm okay with that, he was subdividing the large lot across the street, but use some common sense IN MY CLIENT'S DRIVEWAY IN FRONT OF THEIR BEAUTIFUL HOME!!!
Two words, Chalk Paint. Great temporary solution if you need to paint anything. It will actually last a month or so in traffic.