Comments on: BLM Site Inspection: PASSED. http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blm-site-inspection-passed Wed, 22 May 2013 12:17:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Diagonal http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-76305 Diagonal Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:09:04 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-76305 I agree with the writer who said use a pair of vise grips and twist the embedded rebar, rotating it round and round about five times, and it will loosen and make extraction easy. Even a decent pair of channel lock pliers works as well, if not better. Adding water sounds favorable too!

Metal detection doesn’t have to be a “walk along” job. A pulled trailer with detection gear could cover the entire area rather rapidly. It could just “beep” and drop a 2×4 block (well-painted…yellow?? red??) whenever metal was detected, while sweeping

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]]> By: Isotopia http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-74423 Isotopia Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:39:06 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-74423 I’d sure like to pull that BLM inspector’s rebar.

That’s one FINE looking man.

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]]> By: Camp Camper http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-74043 Camp Camper Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:30:08 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-74043 Many campers took many pains on our large piece o the playa to leave it in pristine condition.
Image our shock, horror and sadness to see it rated all yellow AND some red!
We think this is a grievous error OR our site was trashed after we departed.
We WANT to do better but have no idea where to start since no one will give us specifics or even big hints as to what was the nature of the playa be-foulment.
PLEASE, Mr. Hun, how can we get this information so we can improve??

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]]> By: issimo http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-74033 issimo Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:53:26 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-74033 Hail, RESTOCREW!

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]]> By: david Book http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-74000 david Book Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:46:00 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-74000 There’s a reflex to just “blame it on Burning Man.” About the rebar, several years ago I was by the site of the man about Easter showing off the clean-up. There were windsurfers camped right near there. Several months later, I talked to a guy who said he hit a piece of rebar at the BRC site. Well, Burning Man rebar or windsurfer rebar? To him, Burning Man rebar but I did mention the windsurfer camp….at least he walked away unsure of the culprit. I can’t see how the clean-up crew could miss rebar sticking out of the ground!

I have also driven many parts of the city, about year round, and had no problems.

Perhaps the easiest fix is just to suggest, frequently, that if people can’t get their own rebar out, they should just mark it clearly so somebody who’s better equiped can do it.

Blackrockrat

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]]> By: Jason R http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-73733 Jason R Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:54:41 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-73733 My favorite technique for rebar is just to clamp a vice grip on it and twist it. Comes out easy peasy. And yeah, I’d be interested in going up with a group some weekend and hunting down left over rebar with metal detectors, assuming that would work.
JR

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]]> By: G http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-73012 G Sun, 28 Oct 2012 04:37:50 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-73012 I will re-float this idea here on this blog . It is just a guess because I have no involvement with resto crew. Would metal detectors find any hidden rebar?

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]]> By: Dan Fox http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-72895 Dan Fox Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:43:37 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-72895 @Pharmer -Last year when we trenched for the Trojan Horse lighting, the trenching tool yanked two #3 (3/8″) x 12″(ish) rebar corkscrews out of the ground. Remnants from past years. In 2010, I found a nice #4 bar right when I pulled into Hushville. It started raining, I got a mudshoe going, and under one of my “shoes” a straight piece of rebar revealed itself as I attempted to lift my foot with about 1 SF of playa attached to it. It is out there, I have seen it.

The best way I have found to remove rebar is to pour a little water around the bar and smack the bar on the sides with a hammer to encourage the water down the bar. You can usually remove it with one hand (because the other is holding beer/bacon/?), especially if you “stir” it a bit.

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]]> By: waynerd http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-72515 waynerd Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:42:53 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-72515 Thank you so very much guys and girls!! I finally got to BM this year and it would really suck if I couldn’t go back. I want to hug you all.

And being a photographer myself, I really appreciate the great photos Vertumnus took. Thank you for capturing our DPW so awesomely!
W

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]]> By: toolsalesman http://blog.burningman.com/2012/10/news/blm-site-inspection-passed/comment-page-1/#comment-72320 toolsalesman Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:39:41 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23022#comment-72320 I totally littered that! ha jk

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