Survey Stakes and Markers

I was a little unclear at 2:47 when I say this is 'about' 5 ft away from the wall. No - that pin is EXACTLY 5ft. from where the face of the wall should be.

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[andrewv]

If your a surveyor and ever get lost doing a survey. Just pound some lath in the ground and a contractor will show up to knock them over.

[huggy]

Have a dozer that wont run?
Drive a grade stake within 10ft of it and I guarantee it will fire right up just to be able to get the chance to run that stake over!

[Dan]

Wow, is this man well spoken. You don't find a guy like that every day in the field. And knowledgeable. Really appreciated this video. Very helpful. Thank you.

[SchmackyJoel]

We do our offset symbols a little differently at my survey company in Kansas, but otherwise it's all just about the same. Also, 0.75' is 9 inches, so going 9 inches off of F +0.72 will put you 3 eighths of an inch too high. Hundredths to eighths is close, but I recommend counting from quarters of a foot. I mean, 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 are respectively 3, 6, and 9 inches then go up or down from there based on the hundredths shown on the survey stake.

[maxkonta]

You helped me to solve a problem when I'm marking the center of the plumbing fitting with the whiskers, really appreciated Sir.

[jakeconrad]

Hello Scott and Nate.
I just entered the world of industrial carpentry a year and a half in SW Louisiana. Im 33 years old and had little experience in the trade. Thanks to your videos i was able to have the basic knowledge to at least gain the respect of my co workers right off the bat. I stared as a labor and last week i passed my nccer certifications test. I give a lot of the credit to what u guys do. So from the bottom of my heart thank you.

[fastback]

They just surveyed my job for curbs and intersections to be poured. There must of been 30 stakes I had to navigate with 57' trusses hanging off my forklift. After two days I did not hit ONE! This morning the concrete company showed up to start setting curb forms and plowed 4 of them down just driving into the job.

[suckerfree]

I can say that I'm as excited if not more to see this series. I'm a law student, so studying land law was a bit of an abstract subject. It's great to be given a chance to follow real issues in construction, explained by an expert.

[RealLuckless]

A worse mistake than being a little off side from a property line that you can make as a contractor: Getting started on the entirely wrong lot...
One of my father's friends hired a contractor in New Brunswick more than a decade ago to put up a pre-fab cabin kit for him. Customer comes back from being out of the country to go to their new vacation home, and find it was accidentally built on the wrong side of the road in a new lake front sub division. Needless to say there were some awkward conversations on how to fix things.

[frostcb]

I’m a Carpender and I set up survey for excavators and I use a linker survey rod. It’s great for getting compound slopes and it really easy once you have your laser set up. That Rod you also use tenths.

[travisjicorcoran]

Had a surveyor in a week ago - first time I've ever employed one. Had him drive both pins and offset pins, then had an excavator pull some boulders from various places on my farm and drop them right atop the pins...then had surveyor come back (yesterday!) and use offset pins to locate and create final pins atop the boulders. Next step: rent a mini excavator to build a stone wall between the boulders that mark the inflection points in the zig zagging property lines.

The whole process has been fascinating...and, yes each step looked IDENTICAL to the bits in this video.

Excellent as always, thanks!

[kengamble]

"Going" to get hot !?
This must have been made a few months ago, I live here and it was 110 today! 😊
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍

[pangsbricks]

Fantastic video! Always ready to see what you show next! Thank you for your awesome content!

[herbertreano]

Cant stop watching this man.. Hes great.. I love it..

[marcogaray-chavez]

this man is helping me become a real man

[OldBrownDog]

Same with planting trees and bushes it's good to be able to walk around them and still be on your property

[ibarbarian]

When I was a little kid those stakes made great swords. Adult me wants to smack kids that were like me growing up.

[thoi]

I wish this video existed 7 years ago...
A trick I learned while flagging proposed gas lines, if the ground if too hard/frozen for your flag's wire to slide in, lay your flag on the ground so that an inch or so if the end of the wire is where you want the flag to end up. Then, using a dull large flat-head screwdriver and a mallet, pound the flag in striking the wire where you want the flag to stick up at. Do this enough times and your screwdriver will develop a divit in the center that helps with repeatability.
Sincerely a former gas company engineer

[rwkayser]

Initially I guessed you were in your old stomping ground of Las Vegas.. Then, thought Palm Springs? But, alas... you were in Mesa. You do get around Obi Wan Scotty. Thanks again for the quick and educational brief.

[michaelroberson]

Welcome back to Arizona!!! June/July is likely not the most welcoming weather to visit, but things gotta be built. Stay safe and hydrated my friend.