Yes to all the field stuff. How about adding the EZ Arc??ÿ
What about doing cogo by kerosene lamp, with an old Monroe calculator? And dumping kerosene into the gears of the Monroe, to keep it running??ÿ
I did just a little. Dad's old Monroe burned in a fire about 20 yrs ago.?ÿ
We still keep kerosene lamps, for when power goes out, which it does about 2x a year. It was off for nearly 2 weeks some 15 yrs ago.
Old stuff often has use, when modern stuff fails.
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No linen, but yes to nearly everything. Not sure if I feel proud or just old.?ÿ
Add to all of this: if you have ever worked on a 4 man crew, you might be old school.
Yes to all but the GPS. I didn??t touch a survey GPS until about 4 years ago.
How about this one? Plotting on linen with a pen plotter for Massachusetts Land Court. ?ÿThe traverse was on a pen with red ink. It all came out so light, I copied the whole drawing 0,0 to 0,0 so it would plot twice. This was necessary only because my hand or Leroy drafting was so bad?ÿ
One place I worked at, there was not a Leroy set in the building, the boss insisted on everyone hand lettering. If you found yourself needing work (back in the days when if it rained you stayed in and reduced notes, plotted base drawings or deeds or maintained the equipment) he would say "practice your lettering", e thought he was kidding, but the field notes started looking better. There was one drawing of the local hospital that was (and probably still) constantly remodeling or some other site construction going one, once a month we had to at least do a visual comparison but have the equipment just in case we need to locate something. This drawing had everyone under the suns hand lettering one it, you might think it would be ugly due to all of that, but it was really a work of art. I've never had good penmanship, but if I were hand drafting and lettering and taking my time it looked OK, hardest part was keeping letters the same size, even with guide lines.
Two letters in particular gave me great grief.?ÿ The bad news is they are in my name.