aemeijers wrote:

"readandpostrosie" wrote in message
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if that is all you found in the cavities between the wall, you are lucky!
i am use to finding all sorts of crap....................ie: beer cans
nailed to the 2x4 etc.




Now THAT is an old construction-site tradition, related to the name and year
written on the back side of a rafter or something. A hammer-swinger's Kilroy
Was Here. I've found name and year notes from as long ago as 1915. (I always
favored name and year scratched into the freshly poured footers, in a spot
like the crawlspace where they might be found.)

aem sends....



What we do is leave something in the walls for people to find.
We always try to leave a series of coins (penny, nickel,
dime, quarter) that are the current year. That should give
whoever finds it a clue as to when the work was done. If we
come up with anything cool or unusual, we will leave that in
there too. We will write our names and how much we are making
per hour on a board and leave it in the wall, too. This comes
from finding evidence of this in walls, written on studs and
such. My favorite was from an old house here in Austin where
a carpenter had figured his hours for the week. He had 37
hours at 32 cents per hour. Paycheck for the week was $11.84
before taxes, although that may have been before income tax
was started.

This last project we left a bent tri-square and a couple of
matchbox cars that we found in the street by the jobsite.

--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX