StLSurveyor, post: 331093, member: 7070 wrote: Please post your photo for the Month for July.
Thanks
Evgeny, post: 348903, member: 7016 wrote:
That's interesting looking country. Steep too!!
What we'd call 'billy goat country'.
What is the survey for? Pipe/ power line?
That poor total station/ Robotic looks a bit forlorn on its own on edge of road?
I wouldn't be game to leave that if such around here.
I see that around here, but I don't leave my totalstation near the road. My luck, a truck comes by and takes it out. No thanks! Nice pix though.
This is another shot from roughly the same area. The survey was a new road as built and road dedication legal plan.
This is a subdivision that is being developed and the road was essentially closed. The only traffic there was two pickups that are very aware of surveyors and their equipment. It was a hot day, fairly new asphalt and the biggest issue was setup stability.
That tree is almost on line.
mattharnett, post: 358252, member: 6458 wrote: That tree is almost on line.
maybe it Is on line and your point is off....
mattharnett, post: 358252, member: 6458 wrote: That tree is almost on line.
All that plowing and tilling moved it off line and made it tilt to the right.....
mattharnett, post: 358252, member: 6458 wrote: That tree is almost on line.
Nothing that a little bit of saw work can't fix!
Rankin_File, post: 358390, member: 101 wrote: maybe it Is on line and your point is off....
It was the last holdout. There were bunches of stumps along that grassy space and that was the only one left standing. I sure hope they leave it. It'll make a nicer scene as time passes and it gets larger.
March Madness Photo:
VRMTSRVY, post: 332098, member: 7295 wrote:
Is that Camels Hump?
Out on the range in the North Carolina mountains
That's a good'n. Mr. Rhodes.
Had a similar experience last summer.
GMPLS, post: 362485, member: 8404 wrote: Is that Camels Hump?
Yep, from across the valley.
Survey control point on a platform off in the distance at the New York Wheel.
The New York Wheel is a 630-foot (192.0 m) tall Ferris wheel under construction in St. George, Staten Island. It will have 36 passenger capsules with a capacity of 40 passengers, set around a rim that is 182 feet in diameter, with a total maximum capacity of 1,440 people per ride. It will to carry up to 30,000 passengers per day and about 4.5 million per year. The Wheel will be the largest Ferris wheel in the world when it opens in 2017, taller than the High Roller in Las Vegas (550 feet), the Singapore Flyer (541 feet) and the London Eye (441 feet). Although fogbound in this photo, the wheel will have a 360 degree view of the entire NY Harbor, and of downtown Manhattan.
The rebar seen here is in a pit over twelve feet deep, which will be filled with concrete, resting upon 96 concrete-filled steel caissons drilled over 100 feet down to bedrock. The caissons taper from 3 feet to 6 feet in diameter from bottom to top, and the anchor bolts for the legs of the support structure are over 3 inches wide and 6 feet long.
The wheel has created around 400 construction jobs and will be erected in the upright position, unlike the London Wheel which was hoisted up from a horizontal position once the structure was completed (to great merriment from Virgin Airways, who claimed sponsor British Airways "couldn't get it up" when the raising was delayed). A single ride is expected to last about 38 minutes.
Sicilian Cowboy the wife wants to know once you're on, how long before you can get off?
That sure is massive.
Be interesting in a tail wind. It'd start to turn on its own. Can the motors then generate electricity?
And put it back into the grid?
