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 Whittiker Owens
   
Location: Denver CO
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 20 on 7/17/2007 2:45 AM >
|  | | | Posted by micro
And that's one craggy looking drain. Did you explore the entire thing yet?
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no, actually, that shot is as far as we got. that pool there was too wide to jump, and too murky to tell the depth or what might lay with in. we will be going back though, and we'll be prepared for it next time - with a bridge of some sort
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Lord Awesome
 
Location: Valparaiso IN
Gender: Male
Arbiter
| |  |  | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 21 on 7/19/2007 4:39 PM >
| | | | You were repelled by a pool? Slap yourself on the wrist and get back down there.
Hey yeah you, fat ass. Not interested. |
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Brind
Location: Kitchener, ON
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 23 on 7/19/2007 7:55 PM >
| | | | I've got a Stanley FatMax laser measure that I use since I map out locations for video game levels. Make sure you get a laser measure and not a sonar measure though. It's a bit more expensive, but a hell of a lot more accurate. The FatMax cost me about $100.
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hatsumi
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 24 on 7/22/2007 11:20 PM >
| | | | lol that drain sure did get hit with the ugly stick...have u named it yet ?
drainasaurus maximus |
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Neo
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
I have to return some videotapes
| | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 26 on 8/19/2007 7:22 PM >
| | | | Is this thing in the rochester area? I'd love to check it out
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| |  | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 28 on 9/8/2007 4:56 PM >
| | | | I'd suggest just going to Sears and checking out their assortment of tape measures. I just recently bought a 100ft steel tape measure with a hand crank for unde $20's. I bought the hand crank model because I also measure and photograph large tree's and need a flexible measure for recording circumference and diameter...the retractable ones don't bend enough. The only down side is that it takes a while to rewind the tape: I can spool it back at about 45 ft per minute, so it takes a little over two minutes to wind it back in.
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Pravus
Location: Chicago Area
Gender: Male
Now the two key words for tonight - "caution" and "flammable"...
| |  | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 29 on 9/16/2007 6:57 AM >
| | | | most hunting stores or places like sears will have some kind of laser range finder.. easy and effective.. except it the tunnel turns.. Then you gotta use mirrors, Lots and lots of mirrors.... *grin*
Live to Serve, Serve to Live.. |
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hatsumi
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 30 on 9/16/2007 11:57 AM >
| | | | we took a tape measure into a drain the other day, actually came in very handy, not for measuring length of drain but depth of gpt, over 7ft deep..... very handy
drainasaurus maximus |
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Cavannus
Location: Saint-Michel, Montréal
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 31 on 9/16/2007 12:22 PM >
| | | | Laser meters such as Leica Disto work, work very well, and are used by many cavers to draw cave maps.
As they are built for cavers, you can use them in drains and wet places.
I've already used one: I recommend it!
The con is that such devices are quite expensive. If you can't rent one, ask a caver club...
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T-mac
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 32 on 9/17/2007 6:51 PM >
| | | | This would have been use full last night. I was in a drain and i didn't know how far it went to i didn't want to venture on.
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mastershakes
Location: sioux falls, SD
Gender: Male
For only in the grip of darkness will we shine amidst the brightest stars
| | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 33 on 5/31/2008 5:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by T-mac
This would have been use full last night. I was in a drain and i didn't know how far it went to i didn't want to venture on.
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what kinda explorer doesnt want to go where they dont know where it goes? personally thats my favorite kind going somewhere I know, is more of a tour than an explore
"for only in the grip of darkness, will we shine amidst the brightest stars." -cradle of filth |
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Narcolepsomnia
Location: Raleigh, NC
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 34 on 7/11/2008 5:32 PM >
| | | | It doesn't look like your drain has much in the way of manholes, but if it did, you could get a GPS device and check where you are at each manhole/grate and then plot the points on Google Earth or something to see the general layout of the drain
and for a bridge, you could bring a ladder and lay it across the pool...or swim 
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 35 on 7/11/2008 5:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by Narcolepsomnia
It doesn't look like your drain has much in the way of manholes, but if it did, you could get a GPS device and check where you are at each manhole/grate and then plot the points on Google Earth or something to see the general layout of the drain
and for a bridge, you could bring a ladder and lay it across the pool...or swim
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I've been taking to Whittiker and we're going out there the 20th of this month. From what he was saying he has some kind of bridge he's bringing. I'm curious to see what it is. (please be a very light ladder, please be a very light ladder)
Good idea with the Google usage too. The only thing is, we're in a area with many manholes. There's a few different tunnels in this area and almost any intersection seems to have them. So I'd be afraid we'd be looking at the wrong manhole covers on Google. Though, we could bring some kind of bright cloth and from inside the tunnel, stuck it through the hole in the manhole cover. Then immediately after the trip, go driving around looking for cloth sticking out of manholes. Then we know which ones to measure in Google.
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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Narcolepsomnia
Location: Raleigh, NC
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 36 on 7/11/2008 7:18 PM >
| | | | what I mean is to find the coordinates on your GPS, then you can type those into Google Earth to find them on the map, and then calculate the distance between the two points that you found (manholes) to see how long the connecting pipes are
if that makes sense 
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 37 on 7/11/2008 7:41 PM >
| | | | Oh, sorry I missed that GPS part. Yah, thats much better than my 'rag through the manhole' solution. Though I don't have a GPS, so it's rag time!
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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Narcolepsomnia
Location: Raleigh, NC
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Tape Measures for drains
<Reply # 39 on 7/12/2008 8:19 AM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun_mario
GPS doesn't work in drains I bet... it doesn't even work in my house.
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Well, that's why you wait till you reach a manhole or other close-to-surface-and-not-separated-by-a-block-of-concrete area, ie manhole/grate
It works the same with cell phones and such
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