I swear this project is completely haunted or cursed... every time I've touched it, the data seems to jump around, points, lines, blocks... complete pain in the rear. Had to go back in the field to re-do some mysterious mix up with my RTK base station.
Found concrete markers where I swear I had looked for them before and not found.
Now, today, FINALLY, i get it all together after an all out data forensics class this morning and my paper space window disappears along with my title block and notes about 2 minutes from printing. !!
what the he*#^%$&^%#$&@^!!!!
No, but I did have some cursed frozen yoghurt once.
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haha.. love that episode. I know the haunting was my own fumbling around like a bull in a china shop, I just wish it came with a Frogurt!!
> haha.. love that episode. I know the haunting was my own fumbling around like a bull in a china shop, I just wish it came with a Frogurt!!
Just make sure it has the potassium bonzoate added....(or was that bad?)
We call them "tar babies"...(from the Br'er Rabbit Literature)
Every time you send a crew out there or try to do work on the project something screws up or breaks.
Once you start messing it just explodes into a huge crater you throw time and money into. Had one last week. Broke an antenna and had a flat in the field. The drawing mysteriously moved all the points and when I tried to plot the drawing all my lineweights had disappeared.
Nothing personal, but I'm glad other people have tar babies, too. :-/
We have fuster clucks.
Yes Andy, more than I would care to admit.
You are not alone my friend, you are not alone.
Yes, it was an apartment complex. We did the pre construction title survey, pre-construction tree and topographic survey, construction staking except for utilities, and post construction ALTA/As-built.
During the tree and topo survey, the following happened:
-all of our control points were pulled up several times.
-A homeless camp was found, sheriff had to be called.
-Our crews got the truck stuck twice
During construction,
-The dozer operators kept on backing into the retaining walls, the walls had to get rebuilt
-Three construction workers suffered heat exhaustion on site
-Two construction workers suffered heart attacks on site
-One construction worker was run over on site
-Two dozer operators cut through the silt fence (limits of construction), crossed a creek and knocked down 7.5 acres of trees that were scheduled to remain. I am talking about 24-36 inch oaks, pecans, etc.
-Entrance drive had to be redesigned to match the location of where the storm inlets were built
During the As-built,
-We found the gas line running under two garages
-One garage was built 3 feet into a fire lane (skewed)
If the client calls to update the survey, I would tell him to call someone else.
Miguel A. Escobar, LSLS, RPLS
I'm not religious or anything, but I always start every new job with a quiet moment of prayer and contemplation, that the forces that be, work on my side, just one more time, to keep everything from blowing up in my face.
I think you won!
ever have a cursed project??? yeah pretty much...
On the top of the hill at Elmo.
Reset the 1/4 corner and put out a new BT tag on a 16: Fir- that night that tree was struck by lightning.... in November....
within 2 weeks of that time, my buddies son was killed in a head on 1/4 west of there.
On July 5th the following year I was out finishing the project- setting a section corner 1/2 north.- some ponies came over and started to eat the windshield wipers off the truck- i walk over to shy them off- got kicked in the thigh- started bleeding and ended up in the ER.
so yeah- i cross my fingers when driving hwy 28 between MP 43 and Mp 45...
Reminds me of last night's episode of CSI-Las Vegas
Anyone staying in Room 114 in that motel ended up going nuts and killing someone they loved, or themselves.
I hate it when TV shows give crazy people ideas on how to wreak havoc on the innocent and unsuspecting.
ever have a cursed project??? yeah pretty much...
yikes, I think you win that one.. mine was just annoying.
ever have a cursed project??? yeah pretty much...
> some ponies came over and started to eat the windshield wipers off the truck
Holy crap, I'll take homeless crack addicts in the city over ravenous mutant car eating ponies any day of the week.
