Ron Lang, post: 375427, member: 6445 wrote: Are running it to site superintendents who have no idea what they are doing. I have them constantly asking for information on misc. Items that have nothing to do with my layout. Like am I supposed to mill the asphalt. And asking my crew to covert decimal foot to inches because their non-english speaking crew doesn't know what fill 0.50' is on curb stakeout.
Once I was staking curb around a hospital and the contractor was complaining because I didn't set a radius point on an arc with a 200' radius. The superintendent asked if I could set it, and I said "Yes, but it will be on the other side of the building". Then he asked why I couldn't just set it closer.
C Billingsley, post: 375898, member: 1965 wrote: Once I was staking curb around a hospital and the contractor was complaining because I didn't set a radius point on an arc with a 200' radius. The superintendent asked if I could set it, and I said "Yes, but it will be on the other side of the building". Then he asked why I couldn't just set it closer.
Sometimes you have to massage their head with a three pound hammer for a few minutes to shake the gears loose. 😀
MightyMoe, post: 375827, member: 700 wrote: had a young guy years ago that took over in the middle of a job, the old experienced guy had to go oversee a different job, the new guy called in a panic, said my stakes were wrong...... I drove up and he was going to cut 1.5' from a curb and gutter stake that said F-1.5'. We stopped putting the place holder after the C/F, all he knew was + and -......So glad when the old guy came back, this kid was the boss's son.
After similar confusion happened a few times, we started writing our stakes like F+1.35, or C-0.90 just as a precaution. It seems to me that it does make more sense anyway. However, the kid should have been able to read the difference between a C or an F.