Amen to this...
2 guys with a robot or RTK is the way to fly for fast and effiecient staking.
50 TO 300 TAKE YOUR PICK.
Depends on Size of Hub, and who needs it, and Accuracy Needed, and type of job, and type of client.......... There is no answer, and as soon as you provide one, the in-gin-ear will "can" that figure for everything.
I can set 2000 per day if they don't have to be set in any particular place.
Working solo with a robot 8 per hour ave would be about right. Depending on the site some might go fast and others slow. Considering control and checking the whole set out at the end of the day, site super BS and such, a good day for me solo would be 50-60. Don't do it much anymore and don't really miss it other than the money. I'm just getting too old to work my old bones that hard anymore.
With a two person crew you could do more but I never really enjoyed paying wages and dealing with all the tax withholding and such. Do less and earn more, keep life simple.
Are you paying by the hub or by the hour?
Ever employee I ever had was paid by the hour. They would probably get more work done by the hub but wouldn't be all that happy when the hubs were scarce. I don't pay myself, just get by on what's left after expenses. Your biggest cost is labor, I do it myself whenever possible.
I know some folks made a lot of money working survey crews, just didn't work that well for me, seems everyone was making money except me. If I wanted to adopt it may be different. Maybe I'm a loner, didn't enjoy managing people and spending a lot of time making the payroll.
One good thing about solo, you can turn the grinder off at times!
We set paving nails in bond breaker every 25' gnatsasss and mark grade. 75 seconds per point is our goal, 2 men and a robot. That is the pointmonkey crew speed. I station and offset the alignment when I do it and can shave it down to abbout a minute per point once I get my stride. Could probably get it to 50 seconds if i hit high gear.
10% more than anyone else.
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We just completed setting 660 24"x5/8" rebars with 2" caps flush in ground with minimal stamping in the field. Our proposal was for an average of 7/hr. We actually averaged 10-12/hr running solo with a robot. We could do 16-18/hr with a 2 man crew. It was block corners in a cemetery and the points were no more than 20' apart. Some went in good and others were driven through rock. Only had to rock drill 2 of them and epoxy them in. Those 2 will be wiped out when they dig for the grave and remove the boulder.
TDD Says -- 100 / Hr
Roomers of my demise are greatly exaggerated !!
a good two man crew that knows what their doing can stake 100-130 hubs a day every day--on one occasion with a 3 man crew at a place called the white farm in north glen, colorado on a giant overlot grading we staked 1300 stakes in a 12 hr day-
most survey companies big jobs at 50 stakes per day because they lack experience, at times the ground isn't ready when they arrive, equipment is in the way, dirt has to be moved or site coordination sucks, they call you to get you and eat up the clock, meanwhile the surveyor loses money--sad but true---most need to write better contracts to insure profitability---TDD
TDD Says -- 100 / Hr
once staked 1100' in 1 1/2 hours. every 30' + back/ahead at the PI's. If we hadn't stopped to get a drink we woulda doubled that.
YES VE
WATER IS INDEED EVIL !!
TDD
RIGHT PERRY--YOU PICK'EM UP AND SET EM IN BACK DA TRUCK----TDD
