RPLS dream field crew

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I can imagine that it went south quickly!!!!!!

I'd have to get an equipment list. Whoever had the fanciest equipment that I can't afford, that would be my dream team. All the people on here are dedicated enough to surveying, that they love to discuss it even after the surveying day is complete. ? Let me play with that $80,000 piece of equipment!

I would like to have 3 of the 4 guy on Mount Rushmore, on my team.?ÿ

Posted by: Scott Ellis

I would like to have 3 of the 4 guy on Mount Rushmore, on my team.?ÿ

That 4th guy might not be so bad...

Scott,

There is a school of thought that all four qualify as surveyor's.?ÿ Teddy did a bit of mapping while out exploring the Amazon.

Posted by: John Putnam

Scott,

There is a school of thought that all four qualify as surveyor's.?ÿ Teddy did a bit of mapping while out exploring the Amazon.

That is stretching out, maybe a?ÿcartographer. Unless he plotted up the Amazon deed's and set some Boundary corners.

I, for one, would like to work with Kent McMillan for a winter.?ÿ Personality aside (way aside), he's an extremely knowledgeable fellow working on interesting projects in a place totally foreign to my experience.

Also, he lives in musictown, TX and eats some good lunches.

Posted by: Jim in AZ

That 4th guy might not be so bad...

Posted by: Scott Ellis

I would like to have 3 of the 4 guy on Mount Rushmore, on my team.?ÿ

I worked on that crew once: one over educated dilettante and two guys who quit the profession after a couple of years as soon as they got better offers.?ÿ

Posted by: Scott Ellis

I would like to have 3 of the 4 guy on Mount Rushmore, on my team.?ÿ

I haven't seen any of their posts for awhile. Did Wendell ban them for being too Political?

You want a bunch of opinionated people on a Survey crew? It seems to me you need a chief and one or two skilled technicians.

I sent two crew chiefs?ÿout together a couple times. Talk about a mistake! They both wanted to be in charge and neither would listen to the other! I told them. I'll never do that again, probably even in a pinch. I could see the same problem with the 'dream team'. We all may end up at the same point, but how we get there, may not be agreed upon.

Who the hell uses a three man crew these days??ÿ I'll stick to our one man crews.

Sometimes in traverses far from the truck with a lot of brushing it is actually more efficient to have three people on the crew.

Posted by: sirveyr

Who the hell uses a three man crew these days??ÿ I'll stick to our one man crews.

We use them all the time. With all these woods and hills it makes sense in West Virginia. A robot is of little use here on a large boundary. Maybe small lots but not worth the investment for those.

A three man crew is definitely a thing from the past, it is hard even winning bids one a one man crew anymore.

We float between 1 and 3 or 4 person crews. It depends on the task. Every market is different...

Posted by: James Vianna

Assuming money/time was not an issue, I would hire?ÿKent as chief, Bill as the gunner and Nate as the brush ape.

safe to say that if those three cant get it done, it cant be done.

stay cool, Jim

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I can only speak of surveying in a PLSS setting which could exclude a lot of otherwise well qualified folks.?ÿ But my dream PLSS field crew would be?ÿ Loyal as PC, Dave Karoly as the gunner and yours truly as the grunt.?ÿ

But not to worry, I wouldn't be doing too much grunt work.?ÿ I figger I would be tying flagged nails all day while Loyal and Dave exhausted each other?ÿdiscussing procedure and?ÿall the legal aspects of the survey. ??ÿ