When I first started as a chainman, there was a saying in the office about one party chief "don't put more wood in the ground in the morning then you can pull out in the afternoon." I thought it came from maybe a few mistakes. One day I got switched to his crew, which did mostly construction staking. We sloped staked for a road widenning, and had set more than a thousand feet of stakes and RP's. At noon the party chief was looking over his note and then says "OK, pull everything out we need to start over." Same thing happened a few days later, but he cought the mistake before lunch, so we were able to complete the job that day.
[USER=137]@Ruel del Castillo[/USER]
I have a saying about myself that I shared with a couple of fellows who decided they wanted to ride back out to the road on the bed of my flatbed pickup earlier this week.
People will drive for three hours to get to an amusement park, Stand in line for another 30 minutes to purchase a ticket to get through the gate. Then stand in line for another hour in order to experience one minute of pure terror. My workers get paid every day to get that same experience without all the time wasted traveling to and from.
Tom: I drove ......... always!
ACD Surveyor, post: 444317, member: 494 wrote: "OK, pull everything out we need to start over."
[USER=1220]@Luke CO PLS[/USER]
Had a field coordinator working for him during an East Coast sojourn in the late 1980's that was nicknamed by the crew chiefs "Two Time Charlie". The story was that he screwed up so often that it was more efficient just to bring him in the office and schedule crews then it was to send him out to job sites