I've had a job for 18 months now. We initially did the 17 miles of boundary and topo. Then the project ground to a halt due to typical Fed/State/Tribal bovine scat.
Well it's kicked off now big time. I've got 17 miles of R/W to stake for clearing and grubbing. Then it gets restaked for construction. Most of this line is cross-country through "belly crawlin' thick sawbriar" cross timbers. Sometimes the woods and diesel smell good, but not in July and August.
I would really prefer this to happen in a cooler time of the year...but I guess I better just be thankful for the work.
Oh, and pick up a 24 can case of 'Deep Woods Off' tomorrow morning...:bored:
If you've got centerline, you should fly through the clearing limits.
He said while sitting in his recliner drinking a beer.
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Don
If you have a dozer available, I've had pretty good luck with this method through the thick stuff.
Pick out an offset distance that keeps you within the R/W. Then get the dozer headed down that line and keep a line of stakes behind him, paint them bright so he can see them. Just make sure he keeps stuff pushed toward centerline. As he's pushin ahead, you can then measure the short distance from your staked line to the limits and flag it. He can come along behind and finish up the edges. May have to use a few different lines, just as long as you keep straight stretches. Using a DC with roading is very helpful, can always tell where you are by station and offset. Keep jumping the transit forward to the hilltops.
Only time I had trouble with this the dozer operator kept veering off the line, and I kept having to get in front of him to get him back on it. After a few hours of this, he told me he could only see out of one eye.
This makes for the classic opposite view of the old comic showing the rodman wanting to be the instrument man who wants to be the crew chief who wants to be the boss who wants to be out on the site holding the rod.
We've got that cartoon on the wall in the file room. I look at it everyday.
I'm pretty sure I've got this job started off in the right direction. Talked with the clearing superintendent Friday afternoon. My first move is to show him where the good barbeque is and pick up the tab.
I've got some original bearing trees on that job that are going to need some 'surgical' dozer and chain-saw work. I need him on my side.:snarky: