Sometimes in traverses far from the truck with a lot of brushing it is actually more efficient to have three people on the crew.
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...
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
The trouble with multi-person field crews?ÿ these days is the great tendency for one guy to watch the other work for awhile, then maybe switch roles, etc. In the days before robotic and RTK everybody had to work together for things to happen at all. But now, not so much.?ÿ It is very possible for multi-person field crews to work efficiently but you need a PC running the operation to be a resource manager.?ÿ?ÿ
I wouldn't want Kent working in my state.?ÿ I've heard he is a nice guy but we never hit it off that way.?ÿ Texas and Utah two extreme ends of the boundary law spectrum.?ÿ Be assured I would never survey in Texas, don't even plan to vacation there.
I wouldn't want Kent working in my state.?ÿ I've heard he is a nice guy but we never hit it off that way.?ÿ Texas and Utah two extreme ends of the boundary law spectrum.?ÿ Be assured I wouldn't never survey in Texas, don't even plan to vacation there.
I got lucky a few years ago when the last of all my relatives in Texas passed away.?ÿ I no longer have any reason to be south of the Rio Roxo.?ÿ There has been two times I ran some equipment to Dallas for repair, but I was back out of there quickly.?ÿ I didn't even?ÿhave a meal while I was there...but I did stop in at a Love's Truck Stop an drop off some of my feelings for the area. ??ÿ
I didn't even?ÿhave a meal while I was there...but I did stop in at a Love's Truck Stop an drop off some of my feelings for the area. ??ÿ
Two things:
- Didn't even stop for a Whataburger? Maybe they have those in Oklahoma?
- (Fittingly) What, no Buc-ee's?
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.
In my gap year after graduating high school, I worked for a very large surveying company in Houston. When I started there, they were running around 36 crews, mostly three man but a fourth on a few. This was 1982, and Houston was entering a prolonged recession. Within nine months, they were down to running around 12 three or four man crews each day. They kept all of their chiefs, and only a few IMs and a few rodmen, yours included. Most days I was on a crew with at least two if not three chiefs. Talk about tension. The chief acting as IM wouldn't usually be too upset, but the one bumped all the way down to grunt was always an unhappy camper. Made for a lot of extremely long, uncomfortable days!
I was at UH for the 81/82 academic year. ?ÿ
While there was a recession, I'll bet that guy who was marketing 10' lengths of bailing wire as "pickup bumper repair kits" was making a fortune.?ÿ
Ha! You're definitely right about that!
