I picked the worst time to also switch to an iPhone. Now I??m learning to a new field software, data collector, robot, gps and cell phone all in the same month. Tried the iPhone because I was having multiple issues with my oneplus 8 pro android phone and my fianc?? and her family all have iPhones so it??s convenient in some ways. 12 years using Android makes it a hard switch though. I should have tried Samsung instead.?ÿ
I too switched to iphone...the alarms and the sounds kill me...What do you mean I cannot set a different volume for each alarm? Am I a cave man??ÿ And on and on, the little things I miss from Android.?ÿ
I haven??t used a plumb bob in 20 years, and my instrument doesn??t have an optical telescope so I have no use for one
That is one thing I would really have trouble getting used to on the SX12. Even though I am always using it robotic. That said I really wished I had the camera on my s5 yesterday when it didn't want to find me while searching.?ÿ
@dmyhill?ÿ
My sim card is back in the Android. Some of the issues I was having persisted with the iphone and I couldn't send pictures or receive texts (Google chat) messages from my project manager yesterday, which is probably the most important thing I need, so I switched back over. I'm still in the 30 day return period for the iphone. They both have their strong points like any other equipment, but I was missing all the things I could normally do just like you say.?ÿ
Never used it for anything other than it's intended use.?ÿ When i venture into the field (too rare a phenomenon), it is on my tool belt.?ÿ Call me old school I do not care, there is no more reliable tool available to a surveyor than a plumb bob.
Mine probably doesnt work anymore. Havent changed its batteries in years
Doesn't anyone plumb lath backsights anymore??ÿ
Doesn't anyone tie out monuments before digging deeper anymore??ÿ
So many other every day uses.?ÿ
If I caught a coworker using a plumb bob to pound nails I would impound their bob and tie a string on the end of a claw hammer and have them carry it.?ÿ
I remember once when we played a trick on the instrument person. While they were sighting on the string we slowly used another string to pull the bob side ways. After a few retakes on the I bubble the I man gave us the plumb up sign on the string. We had some fun with that. You want us to do what??ÿ
Many years ago I was hired by an attorney who was handling a property line dispute. The neighbor had paid for a survey which "our" client disagreed with. My survey agreed with the other surveyor. Over the next few months a boundary line adjustment was negotiated, requiring several site visits with attorneys present to finalized the geometry that was agreed to by both neighbors. The day came to set the two new corners for the adjusted boundary. I borrowed a T-16 from a friend and hired a LSIT I worked with.
Both new monuments were within 50' of the instrument, so I figured we would chain them in. However, there were some large landscape boulders on line, so we had to chain about 4' off the ground to clear them. Everyone involved were standing on the sidewalk watching us. I turned the first angle, then handed the head of the chain to the LSIT and told him that his add was .48. He just looked at me and asked "what does that mean?" I showed him the incremented end of the tape and said "You will hold your plumb bob here and I will hold the correct foot at the instrument, then I will give you line." "Okay." We pulled the tape level and I started to put him on line, then saw the plumb bob swinging wildly about an inch below the tape. Our audience was getting restless.
I walked to him and quietly asked "what are you doing?" "Holding the plumb bob at .48 like you told me to." He sure was. He had wrapped the string around the tape several times at .48, which didn't allow the bob to travel from the tape height to the ground, where we needed to set the monument. With my back to the crowd, I quickly showed him how to let the bob descend to the ground while maintaining the add of .48. We eventually got the pipe in, but I had to whack it around a bit to actually fit the line and distance well. The second one went much smoother.
The guy was only maybe 5 years younger than me and had spent a few years in the field, but it was a very poor assumption on my part that he had actually used a plumb bob for anything or had ever used a chain/tape to set anything, regardless of being an LSIT who went on to get his PLS.
@bad?ÿ
You could have fun with that at any place that sells batteries.?ÿ "Uh, sir, can you help me??ÿ The batteries in my plumb bob died and I need new ones now.?ÿ Where do you keep them??ÿ Are these the only batteries you keep in stock?"
Tangential to topic, the superlative cabinet maker Frank Klausz has a very cool plumb bob collection in his shop.?ÿ See minute 9:00.
so I have no use for one
Even you need to tape measure a short distance from a point and have to "bob up" to get above brush??ÿ
Hell, I can't even walk correctly in the field if I don't have a plumb bob on my right hip.
have always used 16 oz with gammon reel. lost one i had for at least 15
years. a part of me was lost.
If I ever fall out of an airplane I would rather have a plumb bob with a gammon reel on my hip than a parachute....
'cause it's gonna get caught on something...
I have used mine for that, when I need to double check a measurement with a huge slope. I'm sure I could check it with the TS but it's faster to pull a tape and plumb bob if it's handy.?ÿ
