Made it into town on 3/6.
Today is my first official day on the job. We just finished putting a 9310 crane on a barge. It had been a point of anxiousness due to the fluctuating water level of the Missouri river. Late this morning the water started rising and increased 1-2 feet in just a couple hours so we took the window of opportunity and went for it. Success!
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A Brave New World.
What is the function of a surveyor in a barge loading operation?
Yo, Travis
Congrats on making it north.?ÿ Spent some time today working on a survey for one your distant cousins.?ÿ Her great-grandmother's maiden name was the same as your grandmother's maiden name.,
Ballast and Emotional support, and then absolutely you tube collection for the rest of us
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Nailed it! I took some nice video for the crane operator which he then shared with me.
What is the function of a surveyor in a barge loading operation?
Same as always; to roll their eyes when an engineer in a shiny new hardhat and tasseled loafers makes an incredibly unpractical suggestion.?ÿ?ÿ
I "backed into" the construction industry as a surveyor.?ÿ Of course OK is non-union so a surveyor can pretty much do anything his boss asks.
I moon-lighted at a couple of outfits doing quantity take-offs for their bidding process for a while. It was all state highway work.?ÿ And being very familiar with their specs and materials I lent a helping hand.
Eventually the state quit staking the projects themselves and had a pay-item for staking.?ÿ We figured out a deal and I went to work for a large asphalt-producing construction company to take care of the project layout.
Since I was familiar with jobs from the ground up I always attended all the pre-work conferences and met with all the local folks about closures, traffic enforcement and project phasing.?ÿ Before long I was also a superintendent.?ÿ I can't list all the fun stuff I did when I wasn't staking.?ÿ Staking took about 20% of my time and the rest was weekly labor and materials reports, periodic estimate submittal and kicking butts on operators, sub-contractors and employees.
Loading a drag-line onto a barge would have fallen into one those "this is fun" days.
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A few years ago we did a job on some remote islands, that involved barges, cranes, excavators, piling, dredging ... There was a full time surveyor, he was a great guy and really was the pivot of the whole operation. He got involved in everything, including multiplying.
