Not mine, but maybe my favorite Corner Record ever. (sheet 2) "HOSTILE RESIDENTS. ONE PURPOSELY RAN OVER OUR INSTRUMENT..."
NC Hansen, post: 453946, member: 13086 wrote: Not mine, but maybe my favorite Corner Record ever. (sheet 2) "HOSTILE RESIDENTS. ONE PURPOSELY RAN OVER OUR INSTRUMENT..."
Follow up survey with another statement as to the hostility of the residents...
We will soon be changing the way survey notes are drawn and submitted. Minimal comes to mind, but I'm too old school and.... Won't go there
Anyway, I've taken to embellishing my notes with pertinent things pertaining to the era I consider of note.
Not often things fit that criteria.
One such example might be a measurement to a post at a farm entrance leading to a dairy known for something above the normal. Eg first robotic dairy in district, entrance to dairy (maker of excellent Bluevein cheese)
I'd write that against the description of the post.
A job I did 2 years ago was an exchange of land between a berry grower and farm.
Between the start and finish Biosecurity had quarantined the property and removed their Blueberry bushes (Blueberry rust)
Supposed to mark every corner except by express permission of the powers to be which we are supposed to elicit.
I just put a simple statement in my notes where the pegs weren't placed stating the quarantine exclusion.
(Unfortunately that rust has resurfaced in other areas reported couple of days ago)
Also for those that probably are privileged to be the first surveyor to revisit old boundaries lost in the mists of time but still evident from old stone piles out on the plains or deep in a Myrtle forest, I make note of the country features. (actually there's almost a reverent feeling when you lob up to such a boundary mark knowing no other surveyor has set his instrument up here since original date of survey 150 to 100 years previous)
I know our early surveys are a great source of useful information to historians, and I'd like my surveys to carry on that same benefit to future history buffs.
paden cash, post: 453936, member: 20 wrote: A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I spent a few years writing construction contracts and specifications for our engineering brethren. Our "standard specs" included almost 800 pages; project specific specs were on top of that.
Knowing the chances that any one individual would read them in their entirety were small, I took to amusing myself by inserting Paden's wisdoms hidden within the pages. I've forgotten most of them, but I do remember a couple:
When I was a graduate engineer in the first consultancy I worked for, our department boss, the head honcho, wrote in a spec, and forgot to delete:
"On completion, and immediately prior to inspection by the Engineer, the septic tank shall be cleaned and primed with a turd".
The contractor did read it, and as the peckerhead inspectors on that job we got the call from the contractor that they'd completed the tank after lunch and that the "boys are lined up waiting". We read the spec on the way out to site, and oh how we giggled.
Richard Imrie, post: 453950, member: 11256 wrote: "On completion, and immediately prior to inspection by the Engineer, the septic tank shall be cleaned and primed with a turd".
What a hoot.
At first I envisaged the first fill was to then see a full immersion of some poor turd that demonstrated the attributes of the biggest turd on the job.
Then I realised you prime the with some live bacteria. That bloke winning the 'biggest turd' prize probably wouldn'
have much life in him so wouldn't qualify.
Here they just throw in a bit of roadkill.
Yeah when we got back we rushed into the boss's office to point it out, and rather red faced he explained it had been a long day of reading specs and he found them all incredibly boring and had written that in to give himself a laugh but forgotten it. Then to deflect things, we got a lecture about old-school tank priming using roadkill possums, to get the bacteria going.
NC Hansen, post: 453946, member: 13086 wrote: "HOSTILE RESIDENTS. ONE PURPOSELY RAN OVER OUR INSTRUMENT
Wow. Hostile RICH residents. .. I googled the area. Million and a half dollar homes, swimming pools, tennis courts. A friend up here originally from L.A. told horror stories about close calls surveying in Watts in the late 1970s.I wondered if this was the same area. Obviously, this is not Watts.
Mike Berry, post: 453953, member: 123 wrote: Wow. Hostile RICH residents. .. I googled the area. Million and a half dollar homes, swimming pools, tennis courts. A friend up here originally from L.A. told horror stories about close calls surveying in Watts in the late 1970s.I wondered if this was the same area. Obviously, this is not Watts.
Yes, it's a rich area. My experience with the active locals... I was working on Sultus Street in 2009, and one of the owners ran out to the street to tell me not to remove his boundary monument. It was a 60D and nowhere near (opposite side of the street in fact) where we were working.
