I know that's dangerous.
What if the Temtations were my Survey Crew. That lead guy would be dancing around the instrument singing "get the sho ooo ot BABY! I ain't to proud to beg" and the other four guys would each have a prism pole (maybe one or two with a GPS rover) and they would be dancing around the site. The map sure would look all synchronized but it wouldn't be worth a spit accuracy wise 😉
As a young PLS, I used to hire Lynyrd Skynyrd as my crew.
Those guys could cut some line, man, but woe to me if I ever ran out of beer.
Many people don't know this, but in the 60's it was customary for singing/and or rock groups to hire themselves out as survey crews in-between gigs.
Dave, I understand you frustration with the Temptations. David just couldn't hold the rod still. Fired them after one job.
Let John Lennon head chain, as he was pretty still and steady.
Yeah I worked on a crew with the Bee Gees in the late 70s. Those white suits were pretty destroyed by the end of the day, you know. Besides the high pitched "LEFT A TENTH - GOOD!" all day long got on my nerves after a while.
It was pretty funny when John Travolta helped us one day. Barry sent him over to get a rebar, of course he didn't just walk over there. Barry yelled at him, "G-dammit John, just walk to the rebar, we aren't in a movie here!"
Dave you are so right about them BeeGees and their high-pitched calls to each other.
But they were good at keeping each other working.
I remember one day, Maurice stopped along a line we were running to have a smoke, and Barry sees him, and right in my ear "You should be cut-tin yaaahh, you should be cuut-tttin YAAAAHHHHHH!"
Cracked one of my triple prisms.
I hired Jimi Hendrix for a summer - give that guy a machete and stand back!
Excuse me while i kiss the sky!
