26th June 2013, 12:27 PM
A good tip for those ever-accumulating pairs of 1m ranging rods that people seem to like jamming together with grit-lubricant - cut 50cm off one with a hacksaw and you've got a 1.5m skelly-scale, looks sooo much better (and of course you get a free 0.5m 'leftover')...or is that being un-archaeological?
Actually discovered that on a job where we were doing 100s of metres of exactly 1.5m deep trenches, so rods were customised for endless section pics.
Never be shy of customising the equipment to fit the task (as long as it's not something that might get deducted from your wages, or that you might need for its original purpose later...has Jack done the 'emergency sampling' lesson yet?)
KITE/PLANE PHOTOS TIP - have a set of what are actually the end-flaps off cardboard boxes (banana-box size or up) sprayed white and with grid-peg sized central square holes - slip a couple over a few grid pegs, particularly around the periphery of any kite-views, and bobs-yer-uncle, nice clear fixed points (white X-es at known locations that are clear even from several hundred feet) for rectifying your pics later. Quick, simple and can be put out in 2mins if your pilot/kite operator shows up early/unexpectedly - and costs nothing apart from the 'borrowed' can of white spray-mark. Have a set of white circles too for marking pits/postholes
Actually discovered that on a job where we were doing 100s of metres of exactly 1.5m deep trenches, so rods were customised for endless section pics.
Never be shy of customising the equipment to fit the task (as long as it's not something that might get deducted from your wages, or that you might need for its original purpose later...has Jack done the 'emergency sampling' lesson yet?)
KITE/PLANE PHOTOS TIP - have a set of what are actually the end-flaps off cardboard boxes (banana-box size or up) sprayed white and with grid-peg sized central square holes - slip a couple over a few grid pegs, particularly around the periphery of any kite-views, and bobs-yer-uncle, nice clear fixed points (white X-es at known locations that are clear even from several hundred feet) for rectifying your pics later. Quick, simple and can be put out in 2mins if your pilot/kite operator shows up early/unexpectedly - and costs nothing apart from the 'borrowed' can of white spray-mark. Have a set of white circles too for marking pits/postholes