The economy has left us with fewer people, and now with more work than people.
So, a senior project surveyor ends up in the field with me, setting monument positions.
We get set up on the basis of position, and backsight the the basis of bearings for the plat.
The Sr PLS is digging through the back of the truck, "Where are your target cards?" he asks.
"I have never used one in 10 years of surveying. I used to carry them..."
He isn't sure I am fit to survey.
I did learn some things from him that day. Guess we need to get them in the field more.
i have a pile near my desk. still trying to find a use for them.
Did He Have A Plumb Bob Wihout A Gammon Reel ?
Or mini prism?
Paul in PA
We use one everyday, for backsights, trav and corner locations. My rodman uses his metal one which I prefer vs. a plastic one.
> The economy has left us with fewer people, and now with more work than people.
>
> So, a senior project surveyor ends up in the field with me, setting monument positions.
>
> We get set up on the basis of position, and backsight the the basis of bearings for the plat.
>
> The Sr PLS is digging through the back of the truck, "Where are your target cards?" he asks.
>
> "I have never used one in 10 years of surveying. I used to carry them..."
>
> He isn't sure I am fit to survey.
>
> I did learn some things from him that day. Guess we need to get them in the field more.
If you are using a reflectorless total station for stakeout target cards or gammon reals are great for checking line and distance as the point is driven. Also great for locating pins where getting a prism over the point (or under a fence) is difficult.
I broke my last one several years ago. Can't seem to find them out here in the wilderness territories.
I still use one everyday also. Mini prism too. I never leave the truck without either one.
Sometime during my early months of surveying I was sent out to set a traverse point, was a hub, put a nail in the top and placed one of those paper targets on the nail, we were still pulling a chain in those days. Anyway that hub was in a horse pasture, the horse watched closely what I was doing and when I started to return to the instrument he would go over and pluck that target off of the nail and drop it, you could see the grin when he looked to see what I would do. Went through that several times until I found a piece of rope and tied it into a halter, the instrument man finally was able to turn the angles while I held the horse, friendly old bugger, he was just fun loving and lonesome.
jud
> The economy has left us with fewer people, and now with more work than people.
>
> So, a senior project surveyor ends up in the field with me, setting monument positions.
>
> We get set up on the basis of position, and backsight the the basis of bearings for the plat.
>
> The Sr PLS is digging through the back of the truck, "Where are your target cards?" he asks.
>
> "I have never used one in 10 years of surveying. I used to carry them..."
>
> He isn't sure I am fit to survey.
>
> I did learn some things from him that day. Guess we need to get them in the field more.
I don't know which I despise more - the office LS who never gets out in the field and has become so alienated that he doesn't know how things are done any more - or the full-time field guy who thinks that he knows more than the LS, even though he never bothered to go for his license, or did, but failed on the first go, and never really wanted the responsibility anyway, or wanted to be involved in the politics, or what-F-ing-ever.
> "Where are your target cards?" he asks.
At one place of employment we had the target printed on the back of our business cards. That was 1994. I haven't ever used them since leaving that job. Before that we usually used a piece of flagging with a nail through it.
