Hi
Its our 3rd rain day in the office as the final cold fronts from down south atlantic roll on past us, dumping a light dusting of snow on our high peaks around, not table mountain as that is at 1000m, , snow is expected on the ranges above 1400m, so if tomorrow is the same as today, we will go off to matroosberg to play in it.
Anyway, with all this free time, my brother completed a short video clip of the projects we have been working on over these last few cold wet winter months here is cape town.
Have a look at how we do survey down here in the Cape Town.
Let me know what you think . It's titled " Keep calm I'm a landsurveyor"
Regards
Aloha, Lee: Cool video!! I like the camera setup on the pole, looking down at the guy setting it up :good:
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That is my brother Chris, he produced, directed and made the video. He was a videographer in another life.
Sweet - that's great.
Interesting to play "spot the differences" in the way things get done 🙂
Great sound track too
One of the best videos about surveying I have seen.
Tell your brother to keep at it. That's a good video to have on a company web-site.
I like the music, very up-beat.
Thank you , the music is by Rubber Duc Music, a south african group based in johhanesburg I think..
HI Jim
My parents recently immigrated to New Zealand, stay in the bay of islands in the north, fixing yachts.
I have promised to go visit them in the next year or two, so I will come and see about the differences...
You aint been a surveyor if you have not worked in a south azimuth system !!
REgards
Nice presentation. 🙂
Very cool!
South Azimuth
Uh, seems to me that the US Corps of Engineers used to use a south azimuth all the time 🙂
I have worked with a south azimuth, but only in the USA!
Great Video!!
What's the white powder you used to set out the footing lines?
I saw this done once in Aus, is it lime? Sticks much better on dusty soil than paint in a hot climate I think.
> Thank you , the music is by Rubber Duc Music, a south african group based in johhanesburg I think..
Cool song, hearing the chorus took me back: Ain't nobody got time for that.
The white powder is hydrated lime, use it in motar mixes or to stabilize road layers, so plenty of it around, and if it gets wet, it cakes hard and stays around.
Only trouble is if it gets on your skin it really dries it out.
This is our version of stakeless setting out of buildings, we use no pegs or lathes, just chalk the lines as we stake out the dxf from the screen, no point co ordinates loaded. Only do it for the foundations though, we use point co ordinates for all the structures , columns and brickwork.
WE run two robots, one starts from either end and we meet and cross check in the middle. We are only staking to about 30-40mm tolerance for foundations. Can do a lot of corners this way in an hour.
We need to get those active prisms to do this type of work, as we need to concentrate quite hard not to get the wrong robot tracking the wrong prism, this normally happens when we meet in the middle.
Its quite easy to catch though, as one second your within 100mm of the point, next you are 20m away and tracking south, even though you are stationary.
A pair of active prisms will cost R60 000.00 here, I am hoping one day to find someone who wants to swop a pair of passive 360 prisms for a pair of active ones .... any takers ? 🙂
South Azimuth
I was just guessing at the south azimuth thing, I presumed you had to be in the southern hemisphere to warrant using one.
Lee,
that's uber cool!
A great company presentation and interesting to see your way of surveying and staking with two guns on site.
Your brother did a great job too, I like the stake out layering office & field shot.
Could be a good teaser for surveying students.
greetz from Belgium.
Christof.
Thanks Christ
We used a gopro 3 and an iphone to do the filming, the computer shot transitioning to the staked out foundation shot was quite tricky , I tried to do it in autocad, but man is it impossible to get a convex picture to fit the lovely geometry of that curved building on the cad file.
My brother did it with some plugin in in the end.
Feel free to post any links to the video.
REgards
Freaking Wonderful!!
Very nice!! Quite entertaining!!
🙂 :good:
