@holy-cow true. But the wife has a very good job with NGS so we are in Virginia. I still go back home to visit family and let the kids be with grandma and grandpa. ?ÿStill have good friend go all the way back to middle school. He surveys as well.
@holy-cow well if you we t to Tunica i did a lot of stake out and As-Built for all the casinos. Everything was continuously being done on that job. Literally 24/7 to get it all built.
Incredibly flat, so not too much topo variation, in general.
@holy-cow well the goof courses . I can??t remember who was the main contractor. But they truly had it together. ?ÿVery organized all the way through the process. Every thing every survey company all had identical way to mark stakes and color code them. This was before machine control. All survey equipment was stored in its own trailer. Rain or shine we worked. I personally was behind a sokkia set 3b2 I literally watched 3 fry from rain. You simply went back to trailer turned in broke one and grabbed the new one. If you saw a green stake it was fill. We laid out contours when they got certain contours to grade a new one was done. The casinos were actually not on land because that would be illegal. So the brought land in after casino was built. I worked on the grand and a couple other ones. I moved to colorado before it was all done be we ate good. The casinos were open before asphalt hit the parking lots literally. ?ÿBut all u can eat buffet free for us workers was golden for a young buck like me back then. Working on a Saturday and Sunday i ate like a king. We had one crew we all took turns relieving once in a while he worked 7 days a week 12 plus hours a day. I think if it were me I would have given up surveying. I always loved the boundary more and mapping. I did a lot of stake out and comps but always loved finding corners. I remember setting an instrument up on same nail all day. Never moving just staking and staking points. The as builts of the fiber optic lines was welcomed lol. It was worse than setting bluetops. At least with blue tops we could swap running the gun and pounding hubs. August in Mississippi with 100% humidity and mid to high 90??s and mayflies and mosquitoes. We too centranella candles and lit them. There were times on the river I would be in long sleeves with mosquitoes nets over a hard hat. I bathed in avon skin so soft ate garlic drank deet to try and keep those critters off of me ????
