Patent ID: 8776715

Claim:
A whisker marker system for marking a ground surface comprising: an installation apparatus for installing a marker, the installation apparatus comprising: a housing; an elongate driver shaft for operative connection to a power driver for rotation thereby and defining a longitudinal axis, the driver shaft and the housing coupled together for movement together parallel to the axis of the drive shaft, and the driver shaft having the forward end a driver bit; a slide body coupled to the housing for displacement relative to the housing and drive shaft parallel to the axis of the driver shaft between an extended position and a retracted position, the slide body having a guide channel for a marker strip extending through the slide body transverse to the driver and intersecting with the driver and the guide channel having an entrance for inserting the marker strip and an exit for a used marker strip to exit; and a marker to be driven into a ground surface by the installation apparatus, the marker comprising: a whisker marker for visually marking a location on a surface, the whisker marker comprising a bunch of flexible strands which form an indicator flag; the flexible strand bunch having a bunching device permanently attached to the flexible strand bunch at a connection point located in the longitudinal center of the flexible strand bunch; and a pair of apertures located opposite each other in the bunching device to receive a whisker fastener and be positioned about a frustro-conical top portion of the whisker fastener; and a marker strip comprising threaded fasteners which are joined together in a strip; and the whisker fastener for receiving the whisker marker, the whisker fastener comprising: the threaded fastener, the threaded fastener having a pointed bottom portion, a threaded middle portion, and a frustro-conical top portion; and the threaded fastener being attached to the marker strip such that the threaded fastener is released from the marker strip when the threaded fastener is rotated.