This morning we set up on a couple of section lines to mark points along each section line at roughly 400-foot intervals so the county road crew can run string line to get correctly centered on the existed hard-surfaced road to lay down new chip and seal. All they wanted was a spot of orange paint. No problem. I'm waiting to hear from them when they discover the fluorescent orange outline of the dead bunny rabbit we found.
> This morning we set up on a couple of section lines to mark points along each section line at roughly 400-foot intervals so the county road crew can run string line to get correctly centered on the existed hard-surfaced road to lay down new chip and seal. All they wanted was a spot of orange paint. No problem. I'm waiting to hear from them when they discover the fluorescent orange outline of the dead bunny rabbit we found.
I'm fairly certain they won't even notice:
I got in big trouble one time back in the good old days of doing road topo's with a steel tape, station/offset everything.
There was a dead cat within the limits of our topo, so I got sta/off for it and recorded it in the field book. I called it "feline speed bump" The draftsman plotted it as such, even though he knew it was a joke. The engineer never caught it during his design, and plans went out.
During construction the contractor asked what that was on the plans and how come I didn't stake something for it. Welllll, it seems that the city engineer was a cat lover and we all had a big meeting the next day.
Had one slip through with Canine Relief Station for a fire Hydrant while collecting data not intended to be used for construction design. No repercussions, guess most could figure it out.
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And whose says we don't have fun out in the field??? LOL.
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Noted a tree once, back in the field book & station-offset days as a bigass elm. Yep, it made it to the paving plans. We all had a good chuckle.
Also, in about 1990, when 'line-work' was getting associated with collection files, I was instructed to 'shoot' the road striping. I guess I got carried away and went all the way around the big elongated "R R Crossing" hot plastic stripes. It looked good on the plotter, but the owner questioned the time I spent...oh, well.
Paden, along the same thought process, us field guys can have fun with abbreviations. Always quite obvious to us, but maybe not so to some overly anal office staff personal. PUKE's for short
Now your tree could be BFE (Big Effing Elm) or a BAE in your coding system
PIP - Poison Ivy Patch
MAD - Mean a s s dog
HBIB - Hot Babe in Bikini
lest we forget FUBAR
...the list is only limited by our imagination and how much money we have in the job.
I once put a bunch of "cow" shots on a job with a note that the shots represented a snapshot at a particular time as the cows were "meandering about the site in an unpredictable pattern". I also once located a "found 42 inch beaver (deceased)" on the side of a road. Never had any of them make it to the plans, though.
Thems good stuff, Wayne!!
~N
I was doing the field work with my sidekick. I asked the property owner if he knew where his corners were. He said "Yeah, over there under that concrete donkey" I found a lawn ornament of a donkey made of concrete, lifted it up and sure enough there was a 1/2" rebar planted in the ground. It was marked in the field book as 1/2" rebar found with concrete donkey witness. When my grandfather was working up the survey the next day, I got a phone call out in the field. Howeve, it only made it to the plat as a 1/2"rebar found
I like when the cad guy calls me up and says he's never heard of an unkvar tree.
We were doing an Alta once, and the crew located a turtle. They took a shot on his back, and did a break line around him. As luck would have, those 5 shots caused the contouring software to draw a contour. Their code fore the break line was TOE TURTLE.
WE had fun with a turtle once. We put a spot of paint him and flagged him up a little. We didn't take any shots on him. I mentioned about it that evening "on the other site" and about got excoriated and eviscerated for it. You'd have thought we were lynching a truck full of babies or something.
Apparently turtles are hands off when having fun in the field.
My former employer once located and indicated on his plat a 1972 Crystler Newport that had obviously not moved in many years and was adjacant to a boundary corner.
we used to stick the point of the plumb bob in a rotten stump and hold the line about 10 degrees out of plumb. Really confuses the instrument man.
I once found a 59 chevy pickup on it's side, It was ON the property line. I drew a pickup Side profile, on the plat, and labled it, as "East top of cab is 2.2' EAST of Section line".
I also add fish to ponds.
And, sometimes generic pines and cedars and oaks to areas to depict them as wooded.
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I once found a 59 Chevy pickup, laying on it's side. And, on the property line.
I drew it in profile, and said the top of cab was 2.7' east of Sec. Line.
This led to somebody removing it, but it did look funny, on the plat.
If you show a pond, well, put some fish in your pond!
N
back in my commercial construction/field engineering days, i worked on a project with no local electricity. i was designated to be the first to show, about 5 am, fuel, prime and start a huge generator.
one morning, there was a road kill raccoon on the sidewalk in front of the building. the concrete was just about topped out and partitions were starting. i walked in the building, grabbed a handful of .22 shells from the partitioned area. they got sprinkled around dead raccoon, and each spent casing got circled in keel and numbered. then caution tape to cordon the area. all topped off with a halogen area lamp.
that was a fun morning, waiting for Columbo to drop by for his investigation.
