The quickie Dickie surveyors use 1liter soda bottles.
I worked one day with an Engineer, who as we pulled away from a job said,"Stop the truck, but very slowly" He left the gun on the top of the truck.
Crew Chief working with a new I-man years ago, before we used data collectors for trav. He had a nice new tool belt he'd slide the field book into between every setup while walking to the next point. I told him in rough terrain like we were going into he'd be better off slipping the field book into the back off his pants, it would ride better and he'd know the minute he lost it. He laughed and said he'd been doing it this way (at college) for "years". Being one who'd only suggest once I let it go and we started on our 7 miles of trav.
We were half way through with the trav. and calling it a day. We were only two legs from the truck when I stopped to re-tie ribbon on a trav. point when the I-man walked by me and I noticed no yellow field book in his tool belt. I said something to him and he went into panic mode. It was 8 pm in June, still penty of time to walk back and find the book so I told him to relax, calm down, we'd go up to the truck, stow our gear, get something to drink and have a nice casual walk back to get the book. I start back up the line, not worried just enjoying the day. Then we get to his last set up and I start worring, a whole day shot to hell with a couple of other jobs that hadn't been copied yet. I get p****d (I was a hot head then)he gets worried I'm going to tell our boss it's all his fault (it was but couldn't do that) and sits down he's wiped out. When he sits he feels something in his back. It was the field book. He had decided with all the brush we were going thru maybe I was right then forgot it because he usually didn't do it that way. I laughed all the way back to the truck.
Fenix lights are good stuff! So are FourSevens and Stremlight...and Surefire too...Surefire is big $$$$ but great quality.
I have some from all of them.
I found a fenix pd30 at a job site. I assume someone like Kent left it so I asked a few folks and nobody knew who was the owner and nobody came forward to claim it.
I was very impressed of the high quality of the light but it did go kaput after several months. It sure got hot so the boards may have fried. I don't know how to fix it.
Speaking of leaving things..
I was on my way out to do a el. cert one morning and was running late.
when I got to the job, I didn't have my work clipboard and a old field book that I did all my certs in for that area. I thought I had taken them but maybe not.
I did the job but later in the afternoon the client called and said she got a call from a barber around the corner from my office who had my yellow book and papers.
Well, I left them on the back of the truck lid and got a block before they fell off in the main street in town. The barber was standing in front of his shop witnessed it and then he gathered them up from the street and called the lady's # was on the work order.
