Friday, April 30, 2010
Mayline Office Products for Engineering and Art
Mayline makes high-quality office products for engineering and art. Products for blueprint storage, office desks and seating, drafting, art storage, map storage, and more.
We're Shooting Grades and Taking Elevation
There are various types of rods used in the land surveying, construction stake-out, and site prep industry available. There are various types of rods are Grade Rods, Survey Elevation Rods, Lenker Rods, Level Rods, Cut/Fill Rods, but they all boil down to being used to figure elevation for various reasons. These reasons could be shooting grades for highway work such as grading a road bed and ditches, or installing storm sewers and drop inlets, or installing sanitary sewer lines and manholes. Other reasons could be setting a septic tank underground at the right elevation so there's enough fall from the sewer that exits a building over to the tank. Any time you need to measure from a known level reference, as when using a transit level, auto level, or laser level, a grade rod can be invaluable. A "Smart Rod" that Agatec makes is one worth looking at as well.
Cut-and-Fill Rods are used to quickly figure out if a dozer needs to cut or fill in a particular area. These are great tools for construction stake-out and grading contractors. One cut-and-fill rod we carry is the Crain One-Shot Grade Rod.
Measuring Rods also double as a grade rod. Measuring Rods are rods you can use in a vertical or horizontal fashion to measure distance. Great examples of uses are a land surveyor that shoots grades and then quickly needing a measurement of a sidewalk width, or the height of a building. Another example would be
Pocket Rods can be handy on any construction site when you're wanting to take a quick measurement for elevation from level.
So there you have it, a quick run-down of the various types of rods used by land surveyors, grading contractors, construction stake-out folks, building contractors, and anyone wanting to find work from elevation.
Cut-and-Fill Rods are used to quickly figure out if a dozer needs to cut or fill in a particular area. These are great tools for construction stake-out and grading contractors. One cut-and-fill rod we carry is the Crain One-Shot Grade Rod.
Measuring Rods also double as a grade rod. Measuring Rods are rods you can use in a vertical or horizontal fashion to measure distance. Great examples of uses are a land surveyor that shoots grades and then quickly needing a measurement of a sidewalk width, or the height of a building. Another example would be
Pocket Rods can be handy on any construction site when you're wanting to take a quick measurement for elevation from level.
So there you have it, a quick run-down of the various types of rods used by land surveyors, grading contractors, construction stake-out folks, building contractors, and anyone wanting to find work from elevation.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Manhole Cover Lid Removal Tool
Anytime you want to safely and quickly remove a manhole lid, try a Manhole Cover Removal Tool. Some folks call it a "Manhole Pick" and some call it a "Manhole Lid Removal Tool", but its all the same. Inspecting manholes, measuring inverts, discovering flow direction, it all requires that you open a manhole and take a look and getting a lid removed is not easy. Sometimes some overlapping asphalt will make a manhole lid difficult to remove, but either way a Manhole Pick will quickly and easily remove a lid.
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