No, this wasn't captured as I watched a crew working is some neighborhood in my county. This is on a website that some company uses to promote its surveying services.
I realize there are varied ways to advance the instrument from station to station, and my preferred method and yours might not be the same. Do you chance moving your instrument this way? I can certainly get on board with moving the instrument this way for a very short distance, but it appears the crew left the truck this way. Smart marketing or not?
Alan Cook, post: 334719, member: 43 wrote: No, this wasn't captured as I watched a crew working is some neighborhood in my county. This is on a website that some company uses to promote its surveying services.
I realize there are varied ways to advance the instrument from station to station, and my preferred method and yours might not be the same. Do you chance moving your instrument this way? I can certainly get on board with moving the instrument this way for a very short distance, but it appears the crew left the truck this way. Smart marketing or not?
No, I never wear a hardhat;-)
The general public has no idea how we move our camera around nor what we are always taking pictures of.
Disturbing.
I once worked for an outfit that threatened to fire people on the spot for doing that. It was rule 1. Since they had followed through on similar threats on higher numbered rules no one dared to test them on this one.
I use to have an old Wild manual with an illustration showing that as the preferred way to carry the instrument. - Not sure I'd carry a modem instrument that way, but I was known to carry a theodolite around on my shoulder like that back in the day.
I see no problem with it.
EXCEPT: One time the I-man walked under a sign and smacked the transit.
I blame the I-man for that, not the procedure.
Sure beats just slinging it over your shoulder sideways.
RFB, post: 334727, member: 142 wrote: Sure beats just slinging it over your shoulder sideways.
Sure beats using it as a hammer, too.
How many times do you suppose the I-man smacked it on something before you found out about it?
I have move a total station like the before and I am sure I will again. I have never done it with a robotic total station I just think the instrument is to heavy and I dont trust the tripod screw to hold it. I would also take the data collector off the tripod.
Honestly, doesn't it seem odd to be wearing a hard hat????
I mean no bright shirts or vests, no boots,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, doesn't look like any kind of construction site.
Not too sure this is even a survey crew........................
And no, the instrument goes in the box.
Another thing that bothers me is the back of the truck left open.
Not too bad. At least he's on a flat, unobstructed surface and it's pretty close to being upright. Far better than certain other practices.
I have done quite a few jobs that required a hard hat. From the photo you can not tell what they are walking away from. It could have been a building under construction, some clients tell you to wear steel toe boots, and some just say safety footwear. I know a few guys who wear steel toe sneakers.
I'll carry it like that for short distances on flat terrain but I'd want to keep it more level than that - I usually keep the tripod in front of me instead of on my shoulder. The older I get the less I trust myself to do stuff like that.
Where he is I might, but I like to keep the box with me. Since I have the box I usually remove the gun from the tribrach and leave the tribrach on the legs. Most of the time savings, none of the risk.
In wooded or rural areas I always take the gun off the legs.
About the instrument... Leica care... 😉
Hmmm I guess I'm guilty. That's why I like this forum. I bout half the time I leave it on the tripod and carry it all on my shoulder. That's how I pack the level pretty much every time.
So I'm not gonna carry the robot on the tripod anymore, but what's the consensus on carrying the level that way?
I've not been on one that required hard hats but let you in without boots, or vests or bright shirts.
But then I avoid construction like the plague anymore..................
Still, no stake/lath bag, no hammer, no stakes or pins, no book, just looks weird and staged, of course a surveyor wouldn't be advertising to other surveyors, they aren't much for clients.
I put it back in the box to move.
Not long ago there was a thread from a new guy from PNW or Canada with a photo of him on a very precarious rock face with the instrument over his shoulder and there was an intense discussion then.
I think it was in that thread that someone mentioned that they had nerve damage in their shoulder from carrying the instrument the same way as the top photo because the handle for the tribrach screw had dug into their shoulder so much over the years.
That don't fly around here.......
If I see that, He might not get a ride back to the office.
Depending upon his reasons for the mistake and the tone of his sincere promise to never do it again, he may need to find a new employer.
That looks like someone who is not paying for the instrument themselves.