Weds. night I was in Msla and got an email about a slide up on MT 37 along Koocanusa reservoir. So we grouped up and hit it Friday morning to develop control and topo whatever geo-tech wanted.
Here's a few pics-
this guy hung out most of the morning- about 200' north of our worksite.
.
.
.
this is the failed bin wall...
.
.
here's the pre-split cut on the opposite side of the road.- about 120' high.
.
.
.here's some wild flowers growing in one of the pre-split grooves about 30' up on the face...
the site was about 500' long to get all topo- 1063 shots.
about 350 of them were a surface scan with the S6.
Very thankful for reflectorless... 🙂
The road into one of our Camps slipped out. Sandy gravel with no fines with a spring running, like quick sand. We scanned it. The fog kept blowing in to the only hole in the trees and vegetation for miles around. We got it but I had to keep switching from conventional to RTK to get it. At times I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. Camp Commander wants to wing it with bulldozers, don't recommend that Chief, if you don't let the engineering geologist figure out a fix that will work you could lose a loaded crew bus down the hill.
We don't see formations like that around here.
Phlox, the white and purple flowers must grow most everywhere.
Sheese...button pushers, scanning, reflectorless 🙁 Whatever happened to helmets, harnesses, caribiners, pulleys, rope and a doubleshot of Starbucks to start the day;-)
Pablo B-)
2- factors here-
the good ole' days weren't always so good (with apologies to The Judds) and "the older I get the better I was"
I re-interate- I am very thankful for reflectorless.....:-P
Rankin,
That's what I was suggesting, thank you lord for reflectorless, robotics, scanning and all the other tools. Mtn. climbing gear belongs to mtn. climbers. The reflectorless works fantastic for measuring conductor heights on 230 kv transmission lines. Especially when I can remember the old way with chain and verticals and calcs.
Pablo B-)
> Rankin,
> That's what I was suggesting, thank you lord for reflectorless, robotics, scanning and all the other tools. Mtn. climbing gear belongs to mtn. climbers. The reflectorless works fantastic for measuring conductor heights on 230 kv transmission lines. Especially when I can remember the old way with chain and verticals and calcs.
>
> Pablo B-)
:good: :good: :good:
here's a quick pic of the job....(probably wont come in worth a rat's rear end... )apologies to the rat lovers out there... 😉 )