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I was thinking
I know that’s dangerous.
What if the Temtations were my Survey Crew. That lead guy would be dancing around the instrument singing “get the sho ooo ot BABY! I ain’t to proud to beg” and the other four guys would each have a prism pole (maybe one or two with a GPS rover) and they would be dancing around the site. The map sure would look all synchronized but it wouldn’t be worth a spit accuracy wise 😉
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As a young PLS, I used to hire Lynyrd Skynyrd as my crew.
Those guys could cut some line, man, but woe to me if I ever ran out of beer.
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Many people don’t know this, but in the 60’s it was customary for singing/and or rock groups to hire themselves out as survey crews in-between gigs.
Dave, I understand you frustration with the Temptations. David just couldn’t hold the rod still. Fired them after one job.
Let John Lennon head chain, as he was pretty still and steady.
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Yeah I worked on a crew with the Bee Gees in the late 70s. Those white suits were pretty destroyed by the end of the day, you know. Besides the high pitched “LEFT A TENTH – GOOD!” all day long got on my nerves after a while.
It was pretty funny when John Travolta helped us one day. Barry sent him over to get a rebar, of course he didn’t just walk over there. Barry yelled at him, “G-dammit John, just walk to the rebar, we aren’t in a movie here!”
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Dave you are so right about them BeeGees and their high-pitched calls to each other.
But they were good at keeping each other working.
I remember one day, Maurice stopped along a line we were running to have a smoke, and Barry sees him, and right in my ear “You should be cut-tin yaaahh, you should be cuut-tttin YAAAAHHHHHH!”
Cracked one of my triple prisms.
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I hired Jimi Hendrix for a summer – give that guy a machete and stand back!
Excuse me while i kiss the sky!
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