Was doing a boundary job today, it's on the way to the office so we took the gear home last night and just went straight to the site this morning. Everything was going good, recon turned up a number of monuments that seemed to fit (by pacing/taping). So I pack up, grab the tripod and knife (I'm the I-Man), boss grabs the rod and his nail belt and we head in to start the traverse. As soon as I set the bag down it hit me.....I never put the D.C. back in the bag after dumping work yesterday!+o( After working up the nerve to tell my boss/dad. He replies "Looks like you'll learn the old way." So the rest of the day, I got to write all the info down in the field book. I've had to do it before when primary & backup batteries have died, but never a whole job. As soon as we got back to the office, Data Collector in the bag! Now I get to go through and put the points into CAD. Never Again! Thank God it wasn't a topo.
AL-
You will find your pencil never runs out of power !
Ten years later you will be able to see what you did by reading the field notes.
The DC will be long gone.
YOS A Luddite non-data collector user except for GPS.
Derek
> Ten years later you will be able to see what you did by reading the field notes.
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> The DC will be long gone.
Not if you're me! Making obsolete survey gear work far beyond its design lifetime seems to be my specialty.
Excellent experience. Thanks for being humble enough to post this.
Jim-
Still use the Makita cordless saw for cross cutting you recommended.
Duzzit count ?
YOS
DGG
Call me old fashion, if I am doing a traverse it will always be booked, I never use a data collector for it. I still have some of the old traverse spreadsheets around to do all the math by long hand, always threatening my helper to make him use them.
Wookie
Easy big fella'. Everyone forgets stuff now and then.
No shame in posting that.
I still carry a Kern waterproof field book in my back pocket when in the field (not much lately unfortunately) for all of those things which need to be recorded but do not fit in a data collector. I bought a couple of cases of them around 1990 and still have plenty. All field books are good; Kern was the best.