We all like research. Well, because we do and if you don't your in the wrong business. If I need a document sometimes I have to visit the fine folks at the King County Archives. They have made available on-line a number of short videos taken by and about WPA activities in the county. No sound that I've been able to detect but nevertheless interesting.?ÿ
From a survey standpoint we are blessed by a small army of surveyors from the WPA that produced what is commonly known as the King County Aerial Survey (KCAS) which recovered section and quarter corners, and produced calculation sheets for each section in much of the county. That information is valuable to much of us and appears as the standard by which we subdivide today.?ÿ
Here is a short video showing surveyors of the day:?ÿ
WOW! That's what surveying was like when I started. Not very much change from 1939 to the late 60's.?ÿ
That is a WAY cool video, thank you for sharing it.
I think it was the WPA who set those oversize Phillips-head brass screws (that's what they look like, anyway) in the concrete roadway panels for monuments in various places of King County...? I have yet to see a screwdriver that fit 'em 🙂
The only superior evidence is that which you haven't yet found.
5 brush cutters, these days?ÿ it is luck to find 1 that their hands fit the tool and won't chop themselves.
Great video - should be shown to all college students pursuing a degree in Surveying or whatever they call a Surveying degree these days.?ÿ?ÿ ??ÿ
5 brush cutters, these days?ÿ it is luck to find 1 that their hands fit the tool and won't chop themselves.
Considering how many brush cutters were smoking they should have, or maybe did, burnt it all down.?ÿ ??ÿ
What is the item strapped to the Chainman's wrist at the 2min mark??ÿ
What is the item strapped to the Chainman's wrist at the 2min mark??ÿ
I'm thinking it is a tack holder, because he's placing a tack. He must be the tack man. I never had one. Always used a small tin, a pill bottle, or a rubber ball that had a belt loop. When I started in the mid 60's there was a steady stream of old, and I mean old chainmen that pasted through the company. I bet they started with the WPA. They were very professional. I learned a great deal from those old chainmen.?ÿ
Chaining between the tops of driven 2x4s is something new to me. But a great idea. The ground must have been very swampy to be able to push it in a couple of feet, then drive it another foot with a few light taps of the hammer.?ÿ And yet nobody seems to have particularly muddy boots.
There is a lot of smoking going on. Which was pretty much still the case when I entered the work force in the late 70's.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
Chaining between the tops of driven 2x4s is something new to me. But a great idea. The ground must have been very swampy to be able to push it in a couple of feet, then drive it another foot with a few light taps of the hammer.?ÿ And yet nobody seems to have particularly muddy boots.
There is a lot of smoking going on. Which was pretty much still the case when I entered the work force in the late 70's.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
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You didn't think the five guys, all cutting line in five different directions, was odd ??
I think they were cutting a wide path. I use to follow a surveyor that cut a 12 ft wide path. I always wondered if he was driving the truck down the path. ?ÿ
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Check out that USC&G parasol. Maybe this was the "A" crew running the geodetic control. Pulling the steel tape across the board tops was procedure for a precise baseline for a base net expansion. One precise baseline in the valley, carefully tensioned and temperature-corrected, then sit at the ends and turn intersections to points on the hills, then go to the intersected points and turn more intersections, all expanded from one baseline.?ÿNAD 27 for the masses.?ÿ
Thanks for posting that. Very interesting!
Other than chaining to the posts that's not a whole lot different from the way I started.?ÿ We just pulled the chain (tape) horizontally and used a plumb bob.?ÿ Thanks for posting.?ÿ I wonder what the least reading on the transit was.
Andy