Surveyor's Crew Truck Equipment Box

[Dadio]

7 hours ago, John Morris said:

I think I found a useful spot for the one left over sheet of crappy plywood, a sacraficial layer for the top of my workbench!

I never worked with such crap in my life.  

John, I think you are going to have to put a wood edge band on that or you might end up with slivers in your belly or hands.

just saying,

Herb

[Stick486]

short cut...

paint (size) it w/ thinned wood glue...

in fact.. size the whole sheet...

Edited May 6, 2017 by Stick486

[John Morris]

@Dadio and @Stick486, you both are absolutely right, I already got belly slivers working on it while building the boxes, it's a combination of a bigger belly and crappy plywood. Thanks for the knock on the head, I'll definitely do something like you all are suggesting.

[John Morris]

On 5/4/2017 at 7:09 AM, Chips N Dust said:

 

I remember a story the surveyor for Roseburg Forest Products told me one time. He was researching the survey notes and legal descriptions for some property the company had recently purchased in Northern CA. He found in the fields notes, "Sent 'Joe' back to re-set corner yesterday. He has not come back yet, either Indians or bears got him." This, if I remember correctly, was one of the first surveys in this area setting the section lines.

Precisely why I love Land Survey history, it's great reading the old field notes! Thanks Kelly!

[Gene Howe]

Good thought, Herb. 

Stick, that trick is also good for the end grain to keep it from soaking up glue and starving the joint in a butt joint application. 

Sizing the whole sheet is not overkill, either. 

 

[HARO50]

16 hours ago, John Morris said:

I never worked with such crap in my life.  

You know, John, I'm starting to get the impression that you really aren't all that fond of this plywood!

John

[John Morris]

16 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

You know, John, I'm starting to get the impression that you really aren't all that fond of this plywood!

John

Never seen stuff like this Haro, been awhile since I worked with ply, my memory of good ply is way different than this crap.

[Kelso Chris]

Cool post. One of my great great grandfathers was Francis Hodgeman. He was a member of the first graduating class of what is now the university of Michigan. He was a surveyor they worked for the Denver Rio Grande RR. He did the surveying for the first railroads in Colorado and Utah and did some surveying along the Mississippi River for early flood control and drainage projects. He wrote several manuals on surveying as well as poetry and was a prolific painter. He would paint landscapes of various areas his crew would set up camp in. We have one of Castle Valley Utah that he painted as well as a copy of one if his poetry books. To my understanding student at the University are still required to study his manuals and they have a full archive of all his work.