I clearly remember being taught the "required" items to have in the stake bag:
1. 12-place book of tables
2. Curta
3. Bottle of Tabasco sauce
4. Hubs (2x2's), maybe tacks too, but they were essentialy optional as the plumb bob made a pretty good hole
If you forgot the Tabasco sauce you had to walk back to the truck and get it, now. If you forgot the other stuff you could get it later, there was always a way to fudge things...
Let's see:
Right angle prism
Folding wooden "tape" measure
Dip needle
Chain clamp
Chain repair kit
Hanging chain thermometer
Aneroid barometer
Lids from cans (shiners)
Bottle opener - important after setting up a beer leg
Large ring of keys for opening gates (probably still necessary)
Playing mumbledy peg (sp?) with plumb bobs at lunch
I got my first summer job surveying in 1992. I was still in college. I spent a summer doing mostly topographic surveys and boundary traverses with a Wild T100 with matching Wild data collector (don't remember the model number). I got my first full-time job surveying in 1994. The company I worked for had a Wild T100, a T16, and a T2a (I believe that was the model). We used the T100 all the time, unless it was in the shop being serviced (which we did regularly), and then we would use the T16. We didn't use a data collector a first. So lots and lots of field book notes along with level loops. We would even pull a steel chain for a lot of things because that was more reliable than the EDM on the T100. I learned to use a plumb bob REALLY well. I prided myself on my ability to keep it still even with the wind blowing, and how I could whip that gammon reel target around and have it hanging and ready (almost) with just one hand.
In my tool pouches I had my plumb bob, pocket tape, chaining pins, hammer/hatchet, nails (various sorts for various surfaces), flagging (at least 3 colours), fence pliers, a small wire brush, a small spool of wire, a spoon, my tack ball (which I made myself from a rubber ball, a length of leather, and a brass tag from my boss), my right angle prism, my radio, a center punch, and probably some other things I'm forgetting because it has been a long time since I ran a crew.
I was really happy because I started with a company that used self-professed "dinosaur methods". And all of the things I had learned in the classroom about surveying were directly applied to my job. I learned methodology and technique. I applied what I had learned, like WHY we wrap angles and WHY we measure forward and back on a traverse and so on. The knowledge I had gotten in college was directly applied to what I was doing ON THE GROUND.
[USER=249]@Jim in AZ[/USER]
Tabasco sauce - Curious what that was for?
I can think of good use for eating
and perhaps an initiation use for lethargic chainmen..
Paint it on the dairy aire to hasten them into action!
Jim in AZ, post: 351835, member: 249 wrote: ....Hubs (2x2's), maybe tacks too...
Funny tack story from the "way back" machine:
Our crew chief was a little on the prevaricative side. For those that don't want to Google it; a prevarication is an "untrue truth". A good example was when Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped a guy off of a cliff. When Ray Dawn Chong asked about the victim's whereabouts, Schwarzenegger told her, "I let him go".
That's a prevarication.
Anyway this PC was always playing the engineer we worked for with his fast talk. Being dumb survey help, we didn't know the difference. Until the PC went on vacation and the engineer took us out to stake some paving. We always used tacked hubs. But we did it the way Kenny, the PC wanted it done....we put tacks in the hubs BEFORE we put them in the stake-bag. Not knowing any better, it was just something we did when we loaded up the bucket....we stuck tacks in the middle of two or three bundles of hubs!
When the engineer saw what we were doing he asked why. We told him that's what Kenny wanted us to do. He kindly told us we were going to do it different...and I quickly realized why Kenny had always side-stepped the procedure.
Kenny got his ass chewed when he got back.
Earthwork computations the hard way. Area of Trapezoid A plus Tapezoid B, take total and divide by two, then multiply by distance between trapezoids, save that number, start over with the next pair of trapezoids, keep going until you have all the saved numbers you need to make the final total. Don't forget to divide by 27. A dam with a total length of a half mile and 50 feet intervals on the cross sections and a calculator that only understands add/subtract/multiply and divide.
Richard, post: 351864, member: 833 wrote: [USER=249]@Jim in AZ[/USER]
Tabasco sauce - Curious what that was for?
I can think of good use for eating
and perhaps an initiation use for lethargic chainmen..
Paint it on the dairy aire to hasten them into action!
For the crew cheif to eat with his baloney sandwich & jalapeno pepper! (usually around 9:30 A.M.) He would hold the sandwich in one hand with the pepper sticking out between 2 fingers, bite the end off the pepper and fill it with Tabasco. Then - 1 bite of sandwich, suck the Tabasco out, nibble the pepper, refill w/Tabasco...
EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! That boy ain't right in the head, for sure.
Jim in AZ, post: 351909, member: 249 wrote: For the crew cheif to eat with his baloney sandwich & jalapeno pepper! (usually around 9:30 A.M.) He would hold the sandwich in one hand with the pepper sticking out between 2 fingers, bite the end off the pepper and fill it with Tabasco. Then - 1 bite of sandwich, suck the Tabasco out, nibble the pepper, refill w/Tabasco...
Holy Cow, post: 351943, member: 50 wrote: EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! That boy ain't right in the head, for sure.
I don't know. I could get behind that kind of eating. I like my food spicy!
(you asked for it)
EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! That boy ain't right in the head, for sure.
I happen to like hot chilies. Jalapenos are a great source of iron and a few vitamins in the winter. I like Tabasco. God bless Avery Island and the McIlhenny family. I'll even go so far as to say that a fried baloney sammich with Tabasco sounds pretty good. But I probably won't ever fill up a chili with Tabasco however...
(you asked for it)
EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! That boy ain't right in the head, for sure.
Holy Cow, post: 351983, member: 50 wrote: (you asked for it)
EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! That boy ain't right in the head, for sure.
OK. You're on next year's Christmas list for a Holiday bottle of hot sauce...
paden cash, post: 351982, member: 20 wrote: I happen to like hot chilies. Jalapenos are a great source of iron and a few vitamins in the winter. I like Tabasco. God bless Avery Island and the McIlhenny family. I'll even go so far as to say that a fried baloney sammich with Tabasco sounds pretty good. But I probably won't ever fill up a chili with Tabasco however...
Yeah - those two don't mix at all for me, but this guy couldn't eat without both! I can barely eat eggs without Tabasco, and Jalapenos or Habaneros are great with everything except ice cream...
The worst thing about the sea level rising would definitely be the loss of Avery Island!
Righto. Thanks.
I'm familiar with all except "baloney".
Google enlightened me.
Here if someone's pulling your leg you'd say "that's a load of baloney" (rubbish, dribble, crap, utter diatribe....)
Add Tabasco and you've a real heap of.....
I was bought up on Tabasco and it's great stuff, but in moderation.
Richard, post: 352003, member: 833 wrote: Righto. Thanks.
I'm familiar with all except "baloney".
Google enlightened me.
Here if someone's pulling your leg you'd say "that's a load of baloney" (rubbish, dribble, crap, utter diatribe....)
Add Tabasco and you've a real heap of.....
I was bought up on Tabasco and it's great stuff, but in moderation.
At first I was wondering "who doesn't know what baloney is?" But, in Aus. there is a whole other bunch of sandwich stuff, so...
You got baloney exactly right. It is a bunch of rubbish. But it makes for a cheap sandwich that isn't all that bad. For more information, here's a link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage
Myself, I grew up on baloney, Louisiana-style hot sauce, and peppers so flipping hot that my mom wore gloves when she picked them from her garden.
Triangles, french curves, and circle templates had to have several layers of tape applied to the backside in order to raise them up and be able to use them for ink. Otherwise, the ink caught the bottom edge of the template and ran up underneath. One day this guy showed up with a dimple making tool that was specifically made for making dimples on the backsides of plastic templates that raised them up. One of the coolest things I had ever seen in the office.
Ah, yes:
Ott planimeter
Ten point dividers
Sonic pen cleaner
Lead pointer
Highway curves
Pounce
Sticky back
Light table
Exacto knife
Accu-Arc
Drop bow compass
Tabasco sauce goes on everything
My sister in law almost passed out when I dashed it on my sunny side up eggs........
The military used to include a little bottle of Tabasco in MREs. Sure spiced up an otherwise bland meal.
