I surveyed that

reflexive reaction of my children at this point any time the austin skyline is in our field of vision.?ÿ guess i might have a little problem...

My wife hates it when we go on road trips. I stop to look at brass disks we walk by or start counting under my breath as we walk.

@oldpacer

Don't we all...33, 34,"100 ft"

@chris-mills here comes a new branch to this thread, mine too, was around 33, 34,ƒ?? 100 feet the last time I truly paced anything, before my gait changed significantly. ?ÿNow when well intentioned folks ask me why I am limping I say, ƒ??it is an old sex injury,ƒ??from college,ƒ??flared up again last night,ƒ??ƒ?

@brad-ott?ÿ ?ÿ My gait change has been nearly identical to my pants waist size change.

@oldpacer yeah, I remember when it was 34.?ÿ Now its more like 37-39 depending on how much I'm dragging my feet.

@chris-mills

Yeah, I find myself counting occasionally.?ÿ I think I'm both lucky and cursed in a way because 1 step for me is damn near right on 2.5 feet, so I simply count 5, 10, 15, 20... every time my left or right foot hits the ground.?ÿ If I had an odd or inconvenient number I think I'd be less likely to count.?ÿ ?????ÿ

1-2-3-10, 1-2-3-20, ...

36 steps to the hundred for me. I hurt my knee some years ago and was just dealing with it for quite some time. When I realized that my pacing had become consistently 38 to the hundred I knew it was time to seek professional help. 2 weeks after surgery it was back to 36 to the hundred again. You might say that I sent myself in for recalibration.?ÿ?ÿ

@norman-oklahoma?ÿ

I can do exactly 5 feet for each step on one side if I'm paying attention. I find myself doing that a lot and I haven't surveyed in the field for years...

Had a call for a survey last evening where I started to brag.?ÿ Shouldn't do that I suppose, but it both comforts the client and gives them the impression they may get a discount on the cost.

"Yes, i know right where you are talking about.?ÿ Jean Allen (an old bachelor) lived there for years in that rock house.?ÿ I should have good control anywhere in your section as I surveyed directly across the road in 2001 for Bob Smith.?ÿ We just broke down the southeast quarter of your section earlier this Summer and found the center corner.?ÿ Surveyed directly across the railroad tracks on your east side for Curly Johnson about 2005.?ÿ Found the southwest corner bar about seven years ago when working on the job for your brother, Tom, in the section to the south to help me find the south line of the Showalter place when he and Dennis were needing to agree on replacing that half mile of fence."

I comment on native tree species when hiking with my family. I know quite a few in California where I live. We were on vacation in Wyoming this summer and my teenage son said, it's great hiking here as mom doesn't know the trees and can't point them out.

My first day at my first real surveying job,?ÿ the LS had me pace out 50' next to a rag tape. Nineteen steps on flat ground. Guess the first thing I do with the new guy on his first day.

@williwaw?ÿ

That reminds me, I need to calibrate my pace.

@williwaw

That was one of the very first things they had us do in school also.?ÿ That and laying out a grid with only a tape (still haven't done in the real world).

@bstrand Way back, one of my first Party Chief jobs, got tasked with topo on 20 acres for a housing development and the site was completely covered in the densest spruce forest I'd ever seen, couldn't see 20' into it and we didn't have GPS and using the gun was out. I didn't know what to do. Rob, the LS I was working under, what a great teacher he was, told me they only needed to be accurate with the topo to within a foot. After we had run a traverse around the site and leveled through our traverse points, had me use a compass and rag tape to run 50' transects in a grid pattern through the site cutting just enough to see ahead and had me carry elevations with a P-gun every 50'.?ÿ When we popped out the other side I could check one of our trav points to see how far off I was. Got to say it was crude but got the job done. There's a forty unit housing complex on the site now, but every time I pass it all I see is that impenetrable spruce thicket.

@williwaw

Nice, what is a p-gun though?

@bstrand It's a small hand level. Small tube with an internal spirit bubble you can look through at a level rod and adjust to read the rod when you get the bubble to indicate level. Grade hops would use them a lot before GPS became the thing. Plus up to eye level and subtract the rod reading to get to your new elevation, move ahead, rinse and repeat.

@bstrand?ÿ

Now I feel old.