I live in the boonies of North Carolina and I'm just finishing my first completed survey, which took over a year because:
*it's big, woody, and hilly
*I spent all my work experience, before getting my license, drawing, so no field experience
*helpers kept leaving, didn't answer calls, etc. I had six helpers over the course of the job.
*a few times I hurt my leg and couldn't walk for a week or more.
Hopefully I can get some more work that isn't so tough. 🙂
I picked my username because I seem to be the surveyor who knows most about spirals in North Carolina. I program computers and I've written code to compute points on a spiral, spiral intersections, etc. Since the spiral is not expressible in closed form (like the normal distribution function, and for the same reason), this all has to be done numerically. None of the jobs I've drawn have involved spirals though.
NCSpiralGuy, post: 401827, member: 12287 wrote: I live in the boonies of North Carolina and I'm just finishing my first completed survey, which took over a year because:
*it's big, woody, and hilly
*I spent all my work experience, before getting my license, drawing, so no field experience
*helpers kept leaving, didn't answer calls, etc. I had six helpers over the course of the job.
*a few times I hurt my leg and couldn't walk for a week or more.
Hopefully I can get some more work that isn't so tough. 🙂I picked my username because I seem to be the surveyor who knows most about spirals in North Carolina. I program computers and I've written code to compute points on a spiral, spiral intersections, etc. Since the spiral is not expressible in closed form (like the normal distribution function, and for the same reason), this all has to be done numerically. None of the jobs I've drawn have involved spirals though.
Welcome from another NC surveyor, I still remember the feeling of completing that first survey, although for me it has been over 50 years. I was working up in Cherokee a few months ago and was looking for the end of a buried culvert and slipped down the road embankment and hurt my knee and was lame for a while, it is no fun walking up and down the mountains with a hurt knee, one of the joys of working solo I guess.
Ed
Welcome!
Welcome to the bar.
You sound like you will fit in with this bunch.
Many of us are not quite concentric. A few are oblong. But all of us are fussing with an oblate spheroid....
I hope you will stick around, cast out your pole, and make us all richer.
I know I try to make others richer, by my posts.
And, many have contributed to me, in many forms. Advice, warnings, encourgements, and downright berated me.
I'm better for it.
Welcome to the forum.
Nate
Ps, keep the salt handy.
Always glad to know that our numbers are growing. We all learn something new nearly every day here. Welcome.
Greetings from Charlotte!
Welcome. I have to ask, just how big was that survey? I can't imagine working on only 1 survey for the entire year.
I'm more of a urban type surveyor. I generally do 200-250 surveys per year.
Howdy and welcome,
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Hello and welcome also, I was surprised to see you can be become licensed in your state without any field experience, never heard of that before but to each state its own.
Welcome NCSpiralGuy
Welcome, I'm new to this site as well but have already found a lot of very useful information and interesting discussion.
Welcome from the Rocky Mount area. What part are you in, as there are boonies in all parts!
Welcome from Wilmington, NC. I am surprised you can even sit for an exam much less get licensed without any field experience. I am positive it was not possible in 1994.
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It's 41776 må?, or about 10.3 acres. If it were a flat meadow that big, it wouldn't have taken nearly that long. Climbing up and down the hills for four hours carrying the prism pole and the metal detector wore me out, and I could barely walk on the level floor the next day. Sometimes I had no help for several weeks. One guy got pretty good at setting up the tripod and leveling the gun with the legs, and then he disappeared.
The form asked for progressive work experience. I started out doing rectangular drawlots and learned over the years to draw physicals, compute points to be set, scale floodlines, figure out gaps and overlaps, and draw a few plats to be plotted on big paper and recorded.
I'm in northwest Rutherford County. I used to live and draw in Charlotte. JB, could we have met?
