...or is is it just more than luck....
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Back in the mid 90’s I had just moved to Colorado. We were doing some monitoring at the climax mine. I was cranking angles and was my 2nd day working at that company. The crew chief was across the valley and i could see the side of a 4” aspen blocking my line os sight. So what does a guy from Mississippi do. Grabs the brush axe and takes it down. That crew chief when he arrived back to me and i had finished wrapping angles had a heart attack. Talking about geographic differences. Well a week later we we’re running down a line on a boundary next to a creek. Commercial shopping center on one side creek separating another property . Chief was setting a point for me to traverse to me grab brush axe and start clearing line to him he said what are you doing i said cutting line he said we can’t cut trees here people will get highly upset i said they are in the way i can’t see through this mess he said well let’s only cut exactly what we need. I cost the company some money before i truly learned when and where i could clear line. See i had started with a company and we had done a lot of USACE work in bottom lands the requirements was when cutting line no stubs could be up above the surface so everything cut flush all traverse points had to have a 12 ft diameter circle cleared around the traverse point so when I first learned to clear line I cleared it lol that was a good lucky moment as you might have had to go back and raise or lower the site to get out of that branches way or a nice pruning job could be in order
Have axe........Will travel
Sounds like a title for a great surveying TV show.
not an option. the church property in which this scraggly tree was slowly dying was just not a good place to invoke the hackathon maximus that is always fun to inflict.
I did cheat and seek the line with my binocs before mounting the BasckSight and TS, and boy howdy was it close.
You need Brush Sissors.
That's a fine example of top o' the line surveying right there!
@jitterboogie well here is where sometimes i have learned that a 12 ft gammon real and 32 oz plumb bob can pull a limb down just enough to let you squeak by.
@jitterboogie thats what i used starting in the 90’s. Anything smaller would cause you to lose your man card. Well thats what the old folks that were teaching me early on said. It just became part of me. My grandfather died and left the exact amount for. 32 oz plumb bob in a envelope for me had written on the envelope what i was to buy. I had been surviving for a few months when he passed. He was not a surveyor but was an estimator for whitichens brick company. He knew many builders and contractors and surveyors. So i bought it and used it for then on. Still have it. I could light a cigarette with one hand and give a site with it and have no worries. Tap tap and it was stable. A few weeks ago i had to meet my crew chief on site as he was struggling getting some anchor bolts layed out. This was a no cad job existing building and a architectural drawing. I went down and he was wanting coordinates etc. contractor was standing by. I said lets look at what we have. Of course all the distances were inches so he had never dealt with that much. I was at home and we set ourselves parallel to the existing building figured the distance perpendicular at the existing steps and space called out and i started rattling of distances and converting and we layed it all out then started setting diagonal checks etc. i yanked the 100 ft tape and I needed to use a plumb bob. He had. 24 oz one never been used they sent up. I was shaking like a squirrel shi$$ ng persimmon seeds. The old contractor asked if i had to much coffee lol. It took a bit to get steady as i havent had to do that in a while lol.
32oz plumb bob!?!?
It eliminates the hammer.
@flga-2-2 i may have used it for that a time or two. It had many uses that would not go over these days as appropriate. But once you have been bitten once and half your britches leg is go e you tend to adapt and become a ninja with many tools. I always had a extra tip and a tack hid in it as well. Always prepared back then.
