Have worked crossword puzzles in ink since I was a teenager and sudokus since I knew they existed.?ÿ Does that suggest I am anal retentive or whatever the psychologist's term is for such perfectionism?
Had a crew on a over night trip leave the instrument in the parking lot of the Motel. 60 miles later they turned around to retrieve it. Luckily the motel folks had dragged it in for them.
The worst though is the call from a construction guy "there is a problem out here" and you can't get there until the next day. Note: It usually is their issue, but my ulcers don't know that!?ÿ
anal retentive
Working in the middle of the Mojave desert and on a small hill I found a back sight setup, Leica brand. It had been there long enough the paint had been sand blasted off the legs facing in the direction of the prevailing wind. Either is wasn't worth the drive back to get it, as Jim Frame said above, or the crew couldn't remember where they left it.?ÿI still wondered how long it had been sitting on the hill.
After reading this I am also totally confused:
Definition of?ÿanal-retentive
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I am guilty of leaving a Leica GST-20 tripod, tri-brach with single prism on a construction site like many before and after me have. It was not in or near or in a public R/W.
My case is such, however, that I did not wake up in the middle of the night realizing that I had left a thousand dollars worth of stuff on a construction site. I did not discover the situation until I reached into the cubby for the backlight tripod in the work truck that I discovered that it was not there. A quick look in the direction of the backlight point revealed a leveled and properly aimed backlight ready for action. Is that being prepared? I think not.
Being a solo operator and the first on the job site, I didn't have to answer to or explain anyone except maybe maybe a couple of you guys.?ÿ
JA, PLS SoCal
Did you adopt it, or leave it for posterity??
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Yes, I have left a couple backsights up and retrieved them over the years, but 1 time, I was working on 10 ac, deep in a cedar swamp, on the fringe of my coverage area.?ÿ I brushed a 1320 to where I though there would be an iron.?ÿ Yep, found one, and right behind the iron was a prism pole pushed in the ground.?ÿ Nice big prism, orange target on a SECO compression pole.?ÿ I brought it home.?ÿ Checked with my neighboring surveyors - non fessed up to leaving it stand guard - so it got adopted.?ÿ It has been there through several winters, the pole was corroded shut, point rusted, bult glass still in good condition.?ÿ Just for fun, we soaked it in oil, were able to free the extension, clean everything up, and that rod is still in the Truck used as an extra backsight!!
Then there??s setting something IN the rig instead of ON the rig - bumper, hood, etc. - a cardinal rule of mine learned the hard way.
?ÿ Had a guy working with us years ago that had lost several jobs due to company buyouts or massive layoffs, etc that were absolutely not his fault but he nevertheless had an innate fear of losing his job and we couldn't really help but mess with the poor guy knowing his weakness.?ÿ One Friday, he headed out of town on vacation a little early (pre-planned) and I received a call at the office that "you guys left that candy cane pole here".?ÿ It had actually been left on a notch in the middle of a very quiet dead end road and the clients put it by their house.?ÿ Not one to waste a crisis, I immediately called the guy who was halfway to a great weekend and let him know that the backsight rod had been run over and the boss was not happy and the unemployment line was almost certainly in his future.?ÿ That still tickles me.
It followed me home. I also contacted local surveyors but no one claimed it. So as you did, I cleaned, painted and calibrated the setup and put it to work.
I was driving down the road to the next point got out to take the shot. No Data Collector! Back tracked down the road and there it was laying in the middle of the road. Some idiot had left it on the back bumper of the truck and drove off????
Left backsights, rods, yep.
The best was one that was 2 hours away, the boss called and asked if I was missing a backsight. I had no idea...he assured me I was...it was on a trail on a project and the super there had called it in.?ÿ
Left a rodman in the woods.
Almost did that one day.?ÿ Sent him off in a specific direction to see if he could find some fences meeting up at a corner, then come back to report what he found.?ÿ Much longer than it could have ever taken he finally approached me from almost the opposite direction.?ÿ He had become so disoriented he was thrilled when he realized he could see me.
