I just caught a show about the Snowy River project down in south east Aussie land. Not even half way through the show and they have interviewed several surveyors. However, I didn't see the name "Richard" mentioned. I can only guess they were using T1 type stuff. Certainly no modern day total stations. I think I saw one feller with a plane table. Looks like they had crew from all over the world. About 50 fellers or so. Thought you all might find it interesting.
The show is "Super Structures of the World: Snowy River"
E.
Eric, Actually I had a conection ... My long time chainman where I worked after graduation who came to Australia as a young displaced person from Poland after WW2 was a chainman on the Snowy scheme for a few years. So got to hear his stories of his experiences in the rugged , cold high country .
As an aside the mighty engineering feat of diverting east flowing mountain water into the sea to snding through tunnels back to the west to wards the arid dry land and into River Murray would not happen today as environmentalists and greens would protest.
Just goes to show how mass ignorance gets things wrong as that post WW2 project was a god send to the OZ economy.
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