Have you ever surveyed with a cut chain, or a broken tape?

nate-the-surveyor · 2017-03-02T15:33:00Z

A cut chain, has a the first foot, graduated. Zero is at the END of the tape. To measure off 1.25 feet, 2 ft is held at one end. And, .75 at the other end. An add chain, has ZERO, then an additional graduated foot, What you read, is what you get. 1.25 feet, is read directly. 1 ft in increments, and .25' is directly read. 1.25'A broken tape, was the curse, of not paying attention, when cars were coming by. They run the tape over, and IF it is not laying flat, on the pavement, it breaks it. This leaves you to survey with the longest piece. Maybe a 200' tape becomes a 67' piece and a 133' piece. You can find this in field booksfirst part of day:200.00+125.87'Then, a later entry, says:132.00'+132.00'+25.87'Well, the tape got broke. It's the antique version of dead batteries. We have come a long way, baby!N

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Lee D, post: 417682, member: 7971 wrote:
At some point you have to buy a new one.

BLASPHEMY! (wink) 🙂

Posted : March 9, 2017 2:36 pm

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I surveyed almost 7 years before i saw an EDM up close. In the time I was on one crew that snapped a chain. We were pulling a distance and steadying up when the chain popped. Close inspection showed a clean failure. No twist or roll at all. It was about 10 degrees out..

Posted : March 9, 2017 9:58 pm

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