paden cash, post: 441271, member: 20 wrote: Not at all. I was j
They don't make a helmet that would fit Kent....
If Kent takes my suggestion I recommend a simple PLSS jet pack which only has a throttle and joystick versus the much more complicated Texas version which adds foot peddles and is just much more complicated to operate.
Dave Karoly, post: 441296, member: 94 wrote: If Kent takes my suggestion I recommend a simple PLSS jet pack which only has a throttle and joystick versus the much more complicated Texas version which adds foot peddles and is just much more complicated to operate.
Dave,
Way back in 2011, you touted a Little Giant Ladder to cross a 6 ft. fence in style.
https://surveyorconnect.com/community/threads/little-giant-ladder.56591/
I'm sure that Kent could just expense out the ladder and the cost to hire a porter for this job since it is most assuredly being billed at time plus materials.
Gene Kooper, post: 441301, member: 9850 wrote: Dave,
Way back in 2011, you touted a Little Giant Ladder to cross a 6 ft. fence in style.
https://surveyorconnect.com/community/threads/little-giant-ladder.56591/
I'm sure that Kent could just expense out the ladder and the cost to hire a porter for this job since it is most assuredly being billed at time plus materials.
Wow Gene, that's quite a find. I'm trying to remember that, the client set up the ladder, I think. I hate climbing fences because I'm tall with a high center of gravity.
I do remember talking to Steve Gardner's crew.
This thread is bringing into clear focus just why surveying in Texas is so difficult.
MightyMoe, post: 441349, member: 700 wrote: This thread is bringing into clear focus just why surveying in Texas is so difficult.
That is one of my favorite cartoons of all time.
Kent -your a good guy to take all this on the chin - even though you bring most of it on yourself with your "everything is bigger and more complicated in Texas" attitude.
I think you would actually get along very well with everybody involved if we were sitting around a campfire (maybe having a couple high balls).
Quite frankly - looking outside in - I see some comments from both sides that would chap my back side if they were directed towards myself.
Apparently you all have a special "internet friendship" that enables the line to be very apparent. I will say this type of banter makes other social media look pretty tame. I sense it is battle of the wits to prove who is more intelligent. I refuse to participate in those types of conversations. I'll leave that to the half dozen people here that consider themselves president of the survey debate team. That reminds me...don't I have a class reunion coming up soon?
imaudigger, post: 441373, member: 7286 wrote: consider themselves president of the survey debate team.
That's pure gold, gold digger.
Every time I consider climbing a fence I think of this image and suddenly carrying a ladder or making nice with the neighbors seems like less of a problem.:D
Stephen Ward, post: 441388, member: 1206 wrote:
Unknown to me at the time, this image was on my screen when I had my back to it discussing site concrete mixes with one of the staff. That explains the darting of his eyes and the smirks.
Richard Imrie, post: 441392, member: 11256 wrote: Unknown to me at the time, this image was on my screen when I had my back to it discussing site concrete mixes with one of the staff. That explains the darting of his eyes and the smirks.
I'm sorry.....or you're welcome whichever is most appropriate. :joy::joy:
Stephen Ward, post: 441395, member: 1206 wrote: I'm sorry.....or you're welcome whichever is most appropriate. :joy::joy:
Definitely a thanks.
Rankin_File, post: 441353, member: 101 wrote:
i use to have that on a tshirt.
Kent McMillan, post: 440618, member: 3 wrote: That fence was apparently built to discourage trespassers from entering a nature preserve that I actually have access to,
If you have access to it, then presumably there is a gate to drive through, and hence, no need to crawl over it.
Nope, no way I'd try to climb up and over an 8' deer fence.
Kris Morgan, post: 441410, member: 29 wrote: If you have access to it, then presumably there is a gate to drive through, and hence, no need to crawl over it.
While your topology is correct, the corner in question lies outside the fence, not inside it, and by my estimate the easiest thing to do is to just climb the fence, as it often the case where 8 ft. fences run for miles without gates. I'll take a photo from the top of the fence to show the situation.
Andy J, post: 441411, member: 44 wrote: Nope, no way I'd try to climb up and over an 8' deer fence.
The 8 ft. fences are a real factor in quite a bit of rural surveying where what is euphemistically called "wildlife management" is a significant factor in land use. The basic problem is really just crossing the fence as efficiently and safely as possible and transferring such equipment as is necessary from one side to the other. The best tips of the thread have been just a sheet of folded cardboard or a blanket to lay over the barbed top strands of the fence, with pipe insulation or a split foam noodle being close seconds.
Maybe it's my big feet, but I'd worry about getting tangled up in it that high off the ground. good luck!