In my neck of the woods "eleven" is "Punk". How about yours?
No relationship between, 11 and punk, in the woods I run in.
jud
In Nebraska, 11 was Punky, they never heard of it in Washington.
In my neck of the woods (to us old guys), "big punk" was eleven and "little punk" was seven.
I have no idea what this is about? I've never heard the number 11 and the term punk used in the same category. If it's about kids, they're punks till 22 or something. 🙂
Punky is 11 to the mossy backs around here.
Anybody that knows ANYTHING about surveying knows it's 'railroad'. :coffee:
Back in the good old days when instrument men had a magnifying glass on plumb bob string, a white handkerchief in their back pocket and 2-way radios were to expensive you had to use your “field voice” to communicate.
Not around here with anyone I know.
Eleven could easily be confused for seven, so punky was used in some instances, to alleviate the confusion...;-)
> Anybody that knows ANYTHING about surveying knows it's 'railroad'. :coffee:
hmmm....I didn't know that, but I knew that 'boxcars' was 12.....
Wow, I had forgotten all about that but I remember now!
:good: > Anybody that knows ANYTHING about surveying knows it's 'railroad'. :coffee:
+1
We always use punk as 11 (still do actually). I thought this was a profession wide term. But then again it may have been 30 years ago. Don't forget about clickety-click (66) or that could just be a local term.
Eleven is "Yo!" at the craps tables.
As in ee-YO-leven.
button pusher!;-)
> In my neck of the woods "eleven" is "Punk". How about yours?
we use to use "dinky"
Surveying, like any profession, has its special terms and slang. Some are just humorous, some help distinguish similar sounds (e.g. eleven and seven), and some are just plain strange!
Balls - Slang for numeric .00, as in 4-balls (4.00)
Beep - Verb. To use a magnetic detector to look for iron pipe, etc.
Blood - To slowly raise the levels rod in order that the instrument man can read the foot markings.
Boot - To raise the levels rod some number of inches so as to be visible to the instrument man, e.g. "Boot 6!" means "raise it 6 inches."
Blue topping - In road or grading work the surveyor sets stakes and paints their tops blue to represent the required elevation. Graders then work to just cover the blue tops of the stakes.
Box - Data collector.
Bug - To use a magnetic locator to search for an iron pipe.
Bullseye - Zero degrees of inclination.
Burn - See shoot
Burn one - Measure from the one foot mark on the tape rather than from the end of the tape in order to increase the accuracy of the measurement.
Bust - Closure error, i.e. the amount by which the survey fails to perfectly close.
Cap - A metal or plastic cover on the end of a rebar or pipe, typically stamped or printed with the surveyor's license number or other identifier.
Cut line - To clear vegetation for a line of sight between two survey control points.
Double nickel - Slang for .55, as in 6-double nickel (6.55)
Dummy or dummy-end - The base or zero end of a tape or chain, as in "hold dummy at the face of the curb."
Dump - Download data from the data collector.
EDM - Electromagnetic Distance Measurement device, the instrument used by modern surveyors that replaces the use of measurement chains. It determines distance by measuring the time it takes for laser light to reflect off a prism on top of a rod at the target location.
Ginney - A wooden dowel 6-9 inches in length with a sharpened end. Set in the ground to mark survey points.
Glass - The EDM prism.
Gun - Originally, a transit, but potentially any measurement instrument in use, e.g. theodolite, EDM, or Total Station.
Hours - Degrees
Hub and Tack - A 2" by 2" stake that is set in the ground and that contains a nail ("tack") that precisely marks the point being set.
Jigger - Transit (Australia and New Zealand)
Legs - Tripod
Pogo - Prism pole
Pole - Approximate unit of measure (about 0.1 foot) used for stake out, e.g. "Move a pole to the left and drive that hub in"
Punk - See railroad.
Railroad - Slang for eleven, as in 42-railroad (42.11)
Rodman - The person holding the rod with the EDM prism. This person is the modern version of a chain carrier or chain man.
Shoot - Measure distance with an EDM
Spike - Usually a 60 penny nail used to mark survey points in hard ground.
Stob - In the southeast U.S., a wooden stake or post, but in modern surveying, a piece of rebar used to mark a property boundary.
Tie - To locate something with the transit or other measuring device.
Top - Slang for eleven. See railroad.
Trip - Slang for triple digits, as in trip5 means 555, and 43trip7 means 43.777
Turn - The rodman is told to stay in place while the gun or level is moved to a new location.
Wave - To slowly move the levels rod back and forth in order to confirm that a measurement was made when the rod was truly vertical.
Zero - Zero degrees, minutes, and seconds. A perfect zero.
Eleven was "punk" for the crews I was on.
Not that way now, have used in recent years and fell on deaf ears.
Went the way of hand signals....
The people I learned from 11 was called "dinky", I don't know the origins of the term, but my dad and his business partner both worked for NY State DOT.
