Gallon can, wide brush, long handle, gloves
Oil Based Paint
Barn Red
Highway Yellow
Posting Purple
White
gallon / mile
Yes that's the brand I like best.
We also use another brand which I don't like as well but it works.
Yes, we leave a couple of inches sticking out.
That reminds me; I need to get more nails.
I agree and the Nelson Aero Spot brand you posted above has a powerful force of spray and brighter colors.
I've found old yellow paint that's been there 30 years.
We also use a lot of Rudd Tree and Log Marking paint which I don't like as well (but I'm not buying the paint, others are).
http://www.baileysonline.com/itemdetail.asp?item=17560+DS+RED&catID=
Our Forest Manager at Fort Bragg wants red painted blazes or notches and red flagging with "PROPERTY LINE." Pink is "Timber Harvest Boundary."
That red can be hard to see in a dark, Redwood forest. Pink stands out nicely so sometimes I break the rules and hang some pink flagging just so I can see it back down the line.
We do work for another timber company that wants blue ribbon on line. That stuff is hard to see in the dark timber. I've also had to do blue painted blazes for color blind clients.
Kris
No joking here. I feel it makes the best, and longest lasting paint on the blaze and hacks. It is however, very possible, that we haven't found the right spray paint though. 🙂
We have another Forest that wants blue for the boundary so it isn't standard across the department. Blue seems strange to me since that is what the Foresters use for marking trees.
I would personally prefer yellow.
The other crew posted a third Forest's boundary with Red Carsonite posts.
> Any oil based paint. I've always just picked up RustOleum at the hardware store in safety yellow, but now that we have the new law where purple paint serves as no trespassing signs, I've had to order Nelson or Bark-Mark.
Where are you surveying? Purple has meant "No Trespassing" around here as along as I can remember.
Correction -
I guessed at the small omission in his email:
Our field clothes attest to the fact that it can be a messy job. We can paint anywhere from 3,500 ft to a mile a day depending on the density of trees and the amount of blazes.
Should read" 3,500 ft to a mile PER GALLON, not the "per day" that I inserted.
KS
That's pretty much what I do -- & the Nelson paint someone linked to above is good stuff--thick & durable.