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Posted by jitterboogie on April 9, 2022 at 3:37 am..you wonder WITHJCOAPS is going through people’s minds to try to get this close to make a turn by occupying the bicycle lane to do this….
before…
after
The nerve.
But to end the day,I didn’t get killed (or but definitely almost by a stop sign running MFPOS)..
And found a great surprise in my package delivery box for the day.
Sometimes life has balance.I had a bad taste in my mouth for the work I was doing.Simple change of attitude and then the joy of unexpected with expected things arrived.Like the I C e Cube says… today it was a good day….jitterboogie replied 2 years ago 10 Members · 26 Replies- 26 Replies
I understand your frustration with cars, people continually baffle me. I have had people hop the curb while turning and get really close to the gun. Heck, about a month ago I was doing a static occupation of a benchmark in a median on a wide, arrow straight road yet somehow a person hopped the curb right next to the tripod.
It seems like you have a good attitude, sometimes things get you down but you have to find things to get you back up. Also, it is nice to see the level arrived intact.
Just for fun you should have poured out a quantity of roofing nails in a swath about three feet wide outward from the ring of cones. Roofing nails love tires.
High gas prices have people trying to reduce miles driven.
unfortunately that shows intent, and I like my keister safe and sound as God made it not like the way the local jailhouse has plans for it.
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you’re implying a lot from that brain stem, but it could have been an engineer or something…never a surveyor. ????
That’s the traffic you’re complaining about .. ? ???? It’s like a movie set out there. There’s not a soul in any of those photos.
that was at 745pm between lights cycles to the west
traffic count from 0900 until 1845 varied between lights at 45- <100 per minute because I couldn’t count fast enough.
it’s ok.
I went out and got it done.
I’m over it. my life if worth more than 1500 dollars.
I prove that every single day.
You can’t set your instrument up in that location and complain about others making you do unsafe things. There is too much incongruity in those actions.
it’s an ada cross walk adjacent to a drop inlet behind the bike lane. It’s becoming a signalized intersection because of the width of the ROW.
no one made me do anything. they just don’t feel or think our lives are worth 1500 dollars.
the Instrument is inanimate, and replaceable.
a tool in the tool box. without an operator,it just sits there.
I Walk the walk. I’ve never tolerated the gross safety misconduct of anyone, and have never asked or expected anyone to do something I know isn’t safe, nor allow or approve of it.
either way. That jackwaggon scuffed my cone.
wondering how they didnt clip more.
Worked to finish up two survey projects this morning. Not one vehicle passed us at either site. The surprising thing is that no train came by the first site. There are something like 20 trains per day every day headed southerly. Zero going northerly.
Told the brother of the owner of the first site to ask his sister how much she would be willing to sell it for. 3.6 acres in desperate need of a chain saw. It would come with the farm house that hasn’t been occupied for at least 50 years, probably longer than that.
working septic and a well?
Start from scratch. Dirt, trees, weeds, remnants of things that once had a value, but no more. Raw. No way to make it worth less. Next to the railroad. Once in a great while a stopped train would deny exit due to it blocking the closest crossing plus the one half a mile west and 3/4 mile south. No other way in or out. Only one other house along the route between the two crossings. Surveyed it off for the ex-husband of the client. Might make an offer on that 5+ acres as well. It will be for sale as soon as the owner loses his drivers license permanently from excessively frequent inebriation.
How busy is that rail line?
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About 20 or so trains per day. Some are what I call double trains with an engine or two on the front, a couple in the middle and at least one at the end and on the order of 200 total cars. Three of the trains are coal only, headed to power plants in Oklahoma, that return to Wyoming to be reloaded.
reminds me of the Pilot Hotel in Montello NV, trying to get sleep 150 yards from high speed freight trains. I never got used to the seismic undulation and general noise that created. Luckily, they didn’t blast the horns as there were no signal intersections that side of the highway.
I had a city transit bus in Atlanta run over some cones and clip me with his mirror back in ’96. Glad that experience wasn’t worse that it was.
You get so accustomed to it, you rarely notice them.
- Posted by: @holy-cow
an engine or two on the front
I think I’ve been told that a train has one engine, perhaps consisting of multiple locomotive units.
There are two reasons for distributing the locomotives throughout the train. One is to reduce the force on the coupling knuckles. Broken knuckles are not a rare occurrence. Engineers have to be careful how much throttle they apply in various situations.
Al Krug has a story on line about broken knuckles.
The other reason for distributing them is to reduce the sideways component of pull on the curves. This can increase wear and in extreme cases pull a car off the rails.
. that’s pretty much your lottery ticket right there.
Glad you didn’t fair worse, and you’re still here.
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