This is one reason I love this forum... So many "Survey" suckers, who love this esoteric history... 🙂
My first experience was with a 6" Kern with stinger tripod and 300' chain... Laid out the original entry/exit ramps for Dry Creek Road in Denver with them on my first day as a Surveyor (since redone and expanded, as part of the I-25 widening).
Where was it built?
I remember passing th K&E factory in Newark as a kid along Hwy 21. I thought it was an unusual name.
I have a later K&E in like new condition.
Loyal-
did you turn deflection angles? How many repetitions?
you know you're getting to be a Classic Surveyor when they are ripping things you worked on.
Dave
No angles, just had it out because a client was asking me (on the phone) what all the knobs did (he was bidding on one at a silent auction and didn't know what everything did). I needed a little refresher myself, it's probably been almost 30 years.
"Deflection angles," with a T2?
Shirley you jest?
😉
Loyal
Dave
I meant back in the day with the transit in the USFS, sorry for the confusion.
Dave
Yeah, lots of deflection angles!
Doubled left OR right, and read the compass fore & aft.
Loyal
Dave
Yea that's what the old field notes in our office indicate they did.
Dave
We read (and recorded) the compass reading as a left v. right blunder check. Years later I realized that that data was invaluable for determining local variations in the magnetic declination along a surveyed route (often a Section Line).
Loyal
Dave
they are also useful for deciphering old notes which aren't always completely clear.