Most of you have probably never encountered what happened yesterday. While wrapping up preliminary work for a 3-acre tract being cut from an 80-acre cattle pasture on Wednesday we saw the current landowner dropping off a new load of cattle. Fortunately I had the forethought to double flag each control point we would be returning to on Friday (with one different co-worker) and tie a bit of flagging in a nearby tree for each to help guide us back through the hundreds of scrubby hedge and cedar trees. Returned on Friday. Every flag was gone. The flagging tied to each turning point nail had been chewed to two inches or less and all that was left of the flagging tied in the trees was the knots. Going to ask the owner why his cattle had such a hankering for anything orange.
He will be suing you... if any of those cows generate vet bills, from ingesting flagging.
I am surprised that you have never had that urge to jump pasture and eat all the flagging in the newly surveyed neighboring fields.
Have been using water based glo-orange paint for all that recognition marking when cows are present. They tend to seek out anything that is waving in the breeze and then trample over it.
Cows tend to leave it alone and glo-orange grass is not so appealing and won't mess with threading their stomachs together like a long streamer of flagging.
I would never leave any equipment unattended around any livestock.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 323453, member: 291 wrote: He will be suing you... if any of those cows generate vet bills, from ingesting flagging.
I can just imagine a fluorescent orange pile of poo...Truthfully I worked for many years tying flagging on cattle fences and never gave it a thought.
Has an example of a cow getting sick from flagging been presented here yet? Just curious - I do know that bailing twine has been a problem before.
I'm not sure what they do to resolve that problem.
Some discussion of cows' stomachs here. One surveyor said he had to pay a vet bill, and another bought a dead cow.
https://surveyorconnect.com/threads/i-had-to-deal-with-this-cow-of-a-client-today.278271/
I was taught early on to tie the flagging around a barb in the fence, using multiple knots- that way some remnant of flagging will remain visible after your girlfriends get done with their snack...
Deer like flagging too. Although there was one color they'd never touch, blue, perhaps?
