Recent survey in an industrial area, signed and sealed by a registrant. Large square within the site with the label "Electric transformer tower."
Not quite. It is a huge electric transmission tower. Big. No mention of the 240Kv lines I can see on the aerial.
Bruce Small, post: 349572, member: 1201 wrote: Recent survey in an industrial area, signed and sealed by a registrant. Large square within the site with the label "Electric transformer tower."
Not quite. It is a huge electric transmission tower.
Yes, those Transformer Towers are tricky! You can code in a descriptor when you locate the feature and an hour later they've transformed themselves into something else like a Bus Stop or a Paul Bunyan Statue.
Field Coded "ELEC TRANS" and dutifully mapped by CAD tech, rubber stamped by LS.
A number of years ago I had prepared a roadway topo for the engineering firm that was designing a residential development. This was during the infancy of data collecting and coded descriptors. My original collection file noted this 135kV aerial transmission pole as "PP - class 1" (class 1 wooden poles are generally 90' to 110' in length). I was admonished by the head draftsman to simplify my descriptors and make them shorter. He decided to make them all merely "PP" for power pole.
The paving plans for the residential development merely noted a "power pole to be relocated by others". When the developer and the engineer were notified of the pole relocation cost (to be paid by the developer) they quickly decided to plan the paving as can be seen in the photo below. At first the engineer shot his mouth off and told me I needed to be a little more detailed in my field work. When I told him I originally had noted the size of the pole, but his head draftsman had changed my descriptions, he back-peddled a little. 
I bet someone got their ass chewed...and it wasn't me.
That's quite a pole alright. It must take a magician to get it to keep standing like that since it was sawed in half about half way up from the ground.
Either that or that's some mighty fancy photography.
Was it "PhotoCHOPPED" (Kinda like a karate chop, only higher up the pole!)
I like the way the lower wire is suspending itself just to the right of the "PP".
Bruce Small, post: 349572, member: 1201 wrote: Recent survey in an industrial area, signed and sealed by a registrant. Large square within the site with the label "Electric transformer tower."
Not quite. It is a huge electric transmission tower. Big. No mention of the 240Kv lines I can see on the aerial.
Looks like an electronic transformer tower to me! Haha
I didn't like that movie Electrical Transformers. I think that was the 4th one in the series or something.
Anyway, I wish I could get my crew to note much more detailed information about the poles they locate. I get data collector codes like "PP" for a pole that is carrying power, phone, and cable, including a transformer and service drops. Then, the same code for a service pole that has an electrolier arm on it and only a power service drop to an agricultural pump or something. Oh, and no indication of directions for the lines attached to the poles either.
When I got out of college, I went to work for a local firm and about 6 months after I came on board, we got the SMI software (you remember those cards that went into the HP48GX?) and I got to design the topographic codes system from the ground up. We had a system where we could get a BUNCH of information into the maximum of 15 characters. Of course, we still had a field book, so we could also just note the point number and write to our heart's content about what a point was (with a sketch and everything!).
I know of a plat that dedicated all roads and easements to the "Pubic" forever.
I still wonder if they exist. I wouldn't want to be in that court case...
Any pubic cemataries involved?
