If you think a lath bag is going to keep you wood dry then it really is not raining.?ÿ After a couple of hours of good old Pacific NothWet sunshine nothing is dry.?ÿ Wet wood and notes are the least of the problem.?ÿ Everything is usually covered in a thin film of mud.
If it's any consolation, down this way we use an umbrella, over the total station, as a sun shade.
That doesn't look like the center line of the road. Is there a control point there I can't see or are you doing a very detailed topo?
Detailed topo of an existing bridge (to be replaced) and its approaches. We'd normally use RTK for these but the RTK kit was on another project, so we got to have fun with the robot.
I've never been on a job where we had more than the center line of road and both edges of pavement, but I don't have a ton of topo experience. I mostly worked on severances and srpr's etc as an instrument man and now I'm a party chief mostly just on new residential construction since we are overloaded with new housing expansion lately and I'm the one doing 95% of that at our company.?ÿ
On a side note, Kiel does not melt easily. I got one stuck in the defroster, and despite running the thing all shift to dry gloves while I worked in the "wintery mix" it's still stuck!
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Good looking out not putting a sail next to your total station. I mentioned to my boss that I used the popup tailgate on our yukon to protect the instrument and man from hard rain, when she purchased a transit connect. Her response was to purchase a 6' square popup pavilion to protect the instrument.?ÿ
Need less to say in a beach community... it was never used for that purpose.
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Worked solo in the rain a lot in OBX, but usually far enough from the truck that an umbrella was just too much extra weight. Boss would say keep working every time I asked if it was raining too hard.
My vote is Keil too, or maybe a grease pencil, but they are very soft for field work, and not sure how well they would hold up outside??
Just today had to drape a rag over my controller, lol!
As to the OP question about marking, I liked the ??keeping stakes dry? suggestion best but if infeasible, and even lumber crayon fails, try a paint pen, but if that fails, try grease paint.
Grease paint is also called a paint stick, but not much to look at.
Iron workers (god-like prima donna??s) use them to mark steel.
Try a paint stick. It displaces moisture and leaves a greasy but inscrutable mark.
@ddubya?ÿ
Probably the wrong word.
Inscrutable:
Any person or thing that's mysterious, mystifying, hard to read, or impossible to interpret?ÿ
@learner?ÿ
A guy I work with got told the same at his previous employer, so he kept working until his Trimble s6 got fried from water damage. Then he went home.?ÿ
A guy I work with got told the same at his previous employer, so he kept working until his Trimble s6 got fried from water damage. Then he went home.?ÿ
Once again I reiterate....... We all work in the rain regularly and routinely in the PNW. Instrument failures because of it just are not a thing.?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ
Fried a Sokkia Set2C in the late 1990's.?ÿ The repair cost to me was more than the invoice for the entire job.
