Today's Agenda

I'll work till about dinner, then I'm going to pick up 1000' of 2 3/8" tubing for the pipe fence I'm building across the front of my farm. Monday, I had to come to work to relax and re-coup. Pipe fence is like nothing I've ever built and my body is really feeling it. I got a load of 2 7/8" tubing on Wednesday and had some help loading it, but I unloaded it all myself (35' joints). Holy crap my muscles are screaming. Where is my muscle recovery from when I was 18!?!?!?

Kris

Kris

One of the boundarys I mentioned looks like the landscape in your profile pic...

Gotta love the Survey Profession!!!

surv8r

That was me going after the last job on 3000 acres in the Sabine River Bottom. It was about 30 days of work and most of them I stayed wet. I rotated about 3 pairs of boots on that job. That part was the best as it was over 100° every day by about 10 a.m.

I love the pic, but hated the job.

🙂

Kris

The Romance of Surveying

> That was me going after the last job on 3000 acres in the Sabine River Bottom. It was about 30 days of work and most of them I stayed wet. I rotated about 3 pairs of boots on that job. That part was the best as it was over 100° every day by about 10 a.m.

That would be what a colleague of mine with a good sense of humor calls "the romance of surveying".

Kent

I'd say your buddy has a good sense of humor, as if that's his idea of "romance" then he needs another honey. 🙂 FWIW, I don't mind being wet when it's hot, but I hate it when it's cold.

Kris

don't let the Oregon and Washington surveyors know you don't survey in the rain; they'll ask, "what, do you melt?"

I still laugh at the "10 drop rule" they had in Tucson. Ten drops on the windshield and it's time to go home. We'd never work up here with that rule in place.

See? Dave was right. 😉

The first drop to hit you is God's fault

the second drop is your fault.

That was SOP until moving to Oregon.

The first drop to hit you is God's fault

my boss has funny stories about working in the Oregon coastal range. wet all the time, stuff growing in your boots, etc.

rain

I don't mind the rain, but I am old school in that I won't take my equipment out in the rain....

The first drop to hit you is God's fault

Dave,

That is where I spent much of the past 20 years, but I can't think of very much funny about it 🙂

I was just visiting there last weekend and was thinking to myself that I didn't miss the rain forest at all.

The first drop to hit you is God's fault

he said it was pretty miserable.

rain

I would imagine if you took your total station that has lived its life in the dry southern california desert up to the pacific northwest rain forest, the seals would not necessarily keep the moisture out.

rain

When I was into construction staking, it was 3 drops on a brick and we pack it up and wait until the white hats call it a day.

Before electronic instruments and data collectors, the only reason to put up the instrument was lack of visibility. We could still chain until the notes were too wet.

Now, a dark cloud comes along and the young crew wants to pack it in.

rain

We used "weather proofed" Topcons and had good luck with them in the rain.
We usually boxed it when when the rain would start blowing sideways as the guns
weren't so weather proof in those conditions.

We had a contractor/client come in one day wondering how to dry out an auto level.
This was after having put it in a heated oven. woops.

Working in the rain itself isn't so bad,getting wet wise, just put on your gear and go. The rain just made other things more difficult, reading maps, writing on lath,gripping a machete etc.

rain - Topcons

My last non-robotic gun was a 211D.

I believe I could have used it for a boat anchor, and it would have started up...

Now I'm using the 9005 robotic setup, I just don't have that same "warm & fuzzy" gut instinct about it, especially the data collector (fc-2200)... 😐