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I love this

little "grubbing hoe":

I'm getting pretty good at throwing and sticking it in trees. Good balance.

Oh, you mean something like that. I was thinking of my favorite "dumbbutt".

I'm kind of a "give me a bigger hammer and stand back" kind of guy.

> I'm kind of a "give me a bigger hammer and stand back" kind of guy.

The hammer is my second favorite tool; there is such a wide variety. It is my go to tool; the bigger the better.

Once it was a racing axe I bought from an axeman (professional wood chopper here).
It was my pride and I would fall trees but more importantly cut out the reference trees we were required to create when doing rural surveys and there were trees about.
There was just something about swinging the thing and seeing great flitches fall from the tree and then turn it to paring and trimming the references like a chisel.
That's now not so environmentally friendly, plus we don't have trees left in areas where surveys are conducted.
Nowadays? The trusty garden spade. Proper steel one, not modern pressed metal.
Great for digging, chipping bitumen, disposing of unwanted vermin.
Current one been active for about 25 years and the corners are worn round from digging at bitumen.

I love this

I like these as well. I also keep a little garden calw "cultivator". You can pull some ground away pretty quickly with one, and they're good at not disturbing loose monuments.

When in Cedar or Mountain Laurel a Fiskars lopper will save hours!

By default I always have a machete on me.

> What is your favorite tool?
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> Mine's the machete; nothing better than swinging a good sharp machete

Leverage

Fixes everything.....

> What is your favorite tool?
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My helpers.
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Favorite Tool????

That's easy. But a bit direct.

My favorite is very hard working!

I guess it Deep Ends on what I'm doing. If I need a new crew member....nevermind!

If I am digging out an old corner, in the middle of a county road, I like a backhoe.

If I am cutting line, I like a chain saw.

If I am trying to fish, I like a pole. But, sometimes a cast net.

If I am trying to get to a job, I like a Dodge Diesel.

If I am trying to get around in a swamp, I like muck boots.

If I am trying to find an old corner, I like a Shonstedt.

If I am trying to find a real old corner, maybe a pick and shovel.

If it is lunch, I like canned, smoked herring. Packed with pepper.

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solves so many problems, concrete, rock, doesn't matter anymore, almost never need to set WC's, usually cause of water or structures. Can't imagine surveying without one.

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I love my Schonstedt!B-)

+1. Defiantly my favorite tool for surveying.

Favorite of all however:

edit: Wow that image came out big?

Nothing to do with surveying....

18oz K&E with a gammon reel, or not. Proof of vertical anywhere, anytime. PGun right behind that. Machete and spade and you just might find something.

Not the sexiest choice but a ball peen hammer handed to me by the surveyor I took over for when he retired here eight years ago right after I got my license. Think I'm on the third handle. Wish I had a nickel for every lath and spike that thing has pounded in the ground.

Not the coolest, but when you need it, you really need it

Is that some kind of a resuscitation tool? :whistle: