A 1/4 stone that my employee found:
That is the north face after we stood it back up.
Here is kind of the top slash south face:
Believe me there is an MIR there but it is very hard to see. You have to almost put your nose on it.
Here is the GLO cap on 1 inch iron post "alongside" (about a foot east) the stone:
The camera battery went dead after that so we didn't get the general scene shot. The pipe and stone are a few tenths south of an east-west chain link fence with razor wire on top. We knew the stone was there because of the GLO field notes. Other stones with post "alongside" we found the post and cap but no stone. This one the stone is still there.
A Surveyor's road sign (not related to the above):
A trivia thing, does anyone know why the California highway shield is shaped like this (I only found out less than a year ago and I've lived here all of my life):
They are in the shape of a miners shovel because of the California Gold Rush!
Loyal
> They are in the shape of a miners shovel because of the California Gold Rush!
I've lived in CA all my life, and I didn't know that until I read it here.
I've only lived here for 54 of my 57 years but I always thought they kind of looked like acorns. Shovels, huh?
I really like the acorn thought. It makes sense to me. Home of fruits and nuts. An acorn is kinda sorta both.
Somewhere I saw a historic photo of a california highway shield, my memory, which may be faulty, is it was turned over with a little handle sticking out of the top.
Now it kind of looks like a shovel stuck in the ground handle first. Who does that? Usually you stick it in blade first.
Dave, I thought you worked for the state, do you also have a private practice?
JRL
It is a State Fire Station we are surveying for a rebuild.
I used to have private work but that all dried up and I don't miss it. Hence my not trying very hard to get any especially since the last call I got included "I am having a feud with my neighbor."
I first heard it in a saloon in Angels Camp (or Murphy's Camp, or Copperopolis) back in the 1980s. Being a Mineral Surveyor, it stuck in my pointy head somewhere for future reference.
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_highways_in_California
Says:
"Standard California state route shields. They are in the shape of a miner's spade to honor the California Gold Rush."
Loyal
I like the sign in tenths especially the line under the tenths style:
I am sure I have seen a historic photo of a highway shield turned over with a handle but I can't find it. Here is the historic shield until the 1950s:
Minor correction then (for the sake of your co-worker). The state is the employer to you and your co-worker.
Government workers do not have employees.
In fact really if you think about it, you are an employee of the California private surveyors.
Now don't take me wrong, I'm just messing with you on a Friday.
EDIT: It just came to me that this may have been an older photo, not involved with your current project. If so, blaze away.
JRL
Yeah you are right. I just put it that way because I don't have permission to use a name and I am his supervisor. The traditional terms don't really apply because we are both licensed. Usually I take responsible charge but occasionally I delegate a project to him because I have plenty to do. It's handy to have a licensed subordinate employee because I can delegate responsible charge to him or I can delegate certain pieces of the work to him and he just takes care of it (I don't have to think so much about it). For example, on a recent scanning project I did the scanning and I delegated the control work to him which is the opposite of what we usually do but I need to do the scanning from time to time so I keep up on how to do it and I learn the quirks so I don't tell him to do something stupid.
Being a County employee myself, I always try to remember who I'm working for and who is paying my wages.
I'm a firm believer in cross training. There is nothing I hate more than people keeping information or skills from everyone else just for the sake of job security. In our office I try to pass on as much knowledge as I can. These days with a much much smaller work force, we must know how to do many things well. A small office cannot stand to lose knowledge and skills to people moving on , getting transferred, retiring ect. ect. An office of all chiefs and no braves gets nothing done.
JRL
