Carol wrote:
>I've seen some 2-person crews take nearly 30 min. to get a unit set up!!

I used to do a lot of work in meters, so invented this nifty little folding
jug that would fold out to two sides of a meter square.  Set three nails,
flip it and set the fourth.

For a while I also carried a piece of plywood (luan) 5 foot square, folded
in the middle with a clasp and handles for easy carrying.  I had a three
footer also.  The 5 footer had a grid of holes at 1 foot intervals and
notches in the corners for easy setting of nails in just the right
place.  It worked great for slopes, also as you just leveled it with a
torpedo and hung the plumb bob at the corners   For a while I had a slotted
piece of wood that kept the jig from folding up on uneven ground.

Then again, none of that would be accurate enough had I not known how to
set out the proper site grid first.  I had one person who I could not let
use the jig as they insisted in just flipping it along the ground to extend
the grid.  (building out adds error, always build the larger grid with the
proper tools and then work inward)

I visited a site in PA once in which the students had been taught to set
their stakes out from the corner, which in some instances is necessary (as
a builder would do with a foundation) but they did all their units this way
and there were literally hundreds of stakes clogging up the units and
ground and interfering with strings, etc.

         Dan W.