The following is from a job ad for a survey position.
"Physical Demands:
"The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
"While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is frequently is required to stand, walk, use arms, hands and fingers to handle, or feel, and reach. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasional required to lift 75 pounds. Specific vision required by this job include the ability to adjust focus."
"Sit, talk and hear." All at the same time?
"Required to stand, walk, use arms, hands and fingers"? I am Italian so that all comes under talking
"Lift 75 pounds"? Let's see, I have some legacy Ashtech Z-12s that do not really get used often. They weigh 35-45 pounds with batteries in the Pelican cases. I have carried one in each hand but do not envision any company today using such technology on a regular basis. What exactly is this guy lifting, because I could lift it but not carry it as far as I used to?
"Ability to adjust focus." Does that mean with my left or right hand or adjust with my eyeballs?
Paul in PA
Hired a graduating HS kid once for rod man, static set up/sitter etc.
He was a giant. Powerlifting is a big HS sport here and he was ranked 3rd in the state in the heavyweight class.
After he filled his application, we talked and besides being courteous, he told me that he could lift a car off the ground. I said that we were having some flats lately so that might useful.
The kinds of things I have to lift occasionally that might fit the description include manhole covers, sacks of concrete, concrete mixer, generator, bundles of fence posts or rebar, and base station batteries.
Ditto the lifting base batteries. A physical limitation I am starting to have trouble finding hands able to overcome is people who know how to climb a fence! It's funny to watch them bust their ass, but not when I have to repair a strand of fence!
If you have a four man crew and one guy goes down who weighs 225, the other three can carry his sorry butt back to the survey chariot.
Manhole lids are 80 pounds, right?
Sackcrete is 80lbs
5gal & water can is 45å±lbs
60d nail in box 50lbs
fully loaded ice chest will pass 75lbs easily.
City of Orlando drainage manhole lids can weigh up to 225 lbs.
Brad Ott, post: 381012, member: 197 wrote: Manhole lids are 80 pounds, right?
City of Orlando drainage manhole lids can weigh up to 225 lbs.
Paul in PA, post: 380939, member: 236 wrote: "Required to stand, walk, use arms, hands and fingers"? I am Italian so that all comes under talking
Apparently the thumbs-up button has disappeared, speaking of talking with hands here
Ever lift a full keg by yourself?
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Scott Zelenak, post: 381030, member: 327 wrote: Ever lift a full keg by yourself?
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Scott Zelenak, post: 381030, member: 327 wrote: Ever lift a full keg by yourself?
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For safety's sake, I generally try to empty them as rapidly as possible.
Scott Zelenak, post: 381030, member: 327 wrote: Ever lift a full keg by yourself?
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No. 1/2 or "Pony Keg", Yes.
All jokes aside assuming the position is more than an office job, rural land surveying is an outdoor heavy physical job, miles of hiking in rough terrain carrying heavy loads and enduring all sorts of risk (snakes, bugs, bear, moose, raccoons, cliffs, creek crossings, irate locals). Of course nowadays I'm an office cube puke, but 30 years ago the job description might have been:
"Must endure daily 7+ mile hikes to the jobsite backpacking surveying instruments and tripods, 2" monument pipes, lath, chains, chaining pins, yada-yada, a firearm, lunch, sometimes in intense heat or cold and raging storms. Must spend 10 days at a time at remote tent camps, cooking over a fire and building and doing tear down on said camp.
OSHA would freak out but also must be adept around helicopters,sling loading and breakdown, single skeg disembarking, hand pump hot refuels from 55 gallon drums. Must not mind being around pack horses and mules. Must be competent at 4WD no roads travel, Tote Goats and Tracksters. Must be an expert with chain saws, Sandviks, and machetes. Must be able to navigate Boston Whalers and MonArks in the open ocean, and perform beach landings and departures in rough conditions.
Most of all, must be able to endure living with 5-7 people you've never met, for many weeks, and, thank God they are all surveyors, measure using Jacob's Staff, transits, Invar chains, Solar transits, theodolites, dumpy,automatic levels and Rhodes Reducing Arc, and Tellurometers to the best of their limits keeping good records all the while.
All for $5.20-$7.00/hr, plus a hefty per diem check when out in the field. Expect arthritis in joints and other long term disabilities, near term injuries and possible death as part of the job description.
Of course now the pay is $20.00-$50.00/hr, so for a young man it may make sense.
Field Dog, post: 381021, member: 9186 wrote: City of Orlando drainage manhole lids can weigh up to 225 lbs.
Then City of Orlando employees can open them!
I've worked at four airports, those manholes are about 8 inches thick on the taxiways and aprons.
They bring a truck with a big electro-magnet.
We like that.