It appears that fluorescent lime green has taken over as the popular color for highway work safety. But hunters use orange. Which do you wear when you go into the woods during hunting season?
Orange and make a helluva lot of racket. I'd rather deal with a pissed deer hunter than be a statistic.
Of course you have those idiots that shoot at noise so I don't know what to say.
Just be careful. Watch stepping out in pipeline, powerline, or any other corridor right-of-ways and make noise.
a glock 23
Orange in the woods.
Green on the road.
We have ticked off deer hunters before because we always do like Kris says. If you think they may be close make lots of noise. Most hunter understand.
The same flo- lime green seco vest I wear when it's not hunting season. When Ii'm working, I abide by the regs that cover my work-
Our hunting regs says "hunter orange (fluorescent) material"- so I wear that when I'm hunting.
It's pretty simple reaaly- a person has to really over-think it to screw it up.
Your work regs cover off-road dress?
And are you confident hunters will recognize lime?
If I'm In the ROW I covered by regs and policy, If I step 10 feet into the timber, should I change vests? How about stepping 300 feet into the timber?
I am confident that the lime green with flo-white tape is a lot more readily identifiable as NOT and animal than most of my hunting gear.
As one tree hugger told me 'you surveyors are responsible for developers cutting down all the trees'...
My vest is that flourescent lime green. Kinda yellowish really. I got mine in NC who's DOT make the rule on that. What I was told was the lime green stands out more in the smoke (forest fires) and fog more than the hunter orange.
However in any event like someone told me before when I about got hit in traffic several years ago "Come on E, you know that vest just makes you a better target."
Funny but true.
E
Bill,
we wear the fluorescent lime green, the orange is not alowed around our railways here in Belgium, it makes every train stop.
Chr.
Stealth is important to avoid those hunters who shoot at movement or noise, angry adjoining land owners, pot farmers, meth lab operators, or tree-hugging wannabe eco-terrorists. Stay low, stay quiet, and wear a ghillie suit.
I wear my orange vest in the woods during hunting season, and my lime green vest when in the right of way.
Does not take bit a few minutes to change.
> Stealth is important to avoid those hunters who shoot at movement or noise, angry adjoining land owners, pot farmers, meth lab operators, or tree-hugging wannabe eco-terrorists. Stay low, stay quiet, and wear a ghillie suit.
I've thought about that, but eco-terroists don't exist around my neck of the woods.
Joe
I'd have asked the SOB if his house was built out of sod or not right about that time.
Evan
I like the idea of the ghillie (sp?) suit. However there is too much protocol to make for an effective 1500 shot day. "Shooter ready"... "spotter ready".. "take the shot"... "send it"... "sending it" then both have to confirm the shot. Now move on to the next shot and repeat.
This what we try and do:
The crews wear hunters orange work vest.
In NW LA crews usually meet w/land owner/manager to see if there is hunting activity and what routes we can take plus were we can use or UTVs. Most of work we do is on private land tracts, including large timber tracts.
Most of our crews are hunters so they try to avoid/not disturb hunters. If they suspect the area is being hunted, they usually come back another time.
This is also part of the reason we do not work on these jobs over the weekend.
Well, Eric
I guess for those days that you need to get a lot done, shoot back and clear the area of hostiles, then move in.
Carry a shotgun. From time to time start yelling then fire off a shell or two. We've got work to do.
Don't know if either one really helps, you have an area full of people out in the wilds on a hunt, most have not handled their rifles for months, they get excited sometimes and someone gets shot. When I was 15, I killed a mule deer buck about halfway down the side of a canyon called Hell Hole. That buck rolled and slid about another quarter of the way down. I took care of the meat and climbed out of the canyon before dark. Next day I took the mammoth burro with the pack saddle and tied a cow bell on his neck. This was open ground and after I had got back out of the canyon with the meat a guy came up to me to say that he had almost shot me. It was the bell that make him dig out the binoculars for a better look. Does not matter what you do, there always some dummy around. Yes, I was wearing a red shirt, did not have those bright vests in those days.
jud
Hunters are not idiots.
Rick