It's been a while since my last post about the surveying in Belgium, a lot of work has to be done.
Some weeks ago two of us went to the Ardennes in the french speaking part of our little country for another 6 km of a new high voltage connection.
It was a 2 hours drive to the other side of the country so we stayed at a hotel for a week and worked long days.
Actually it went too smooth, we finished the field work in only 4 days.
Some more views of the site,
In the background you see the three steam plumes of the cooling towers of the nuclear power plant.
A lot of yellow fields with flowering oilseed rape.
It's also the region of one of our well known spring cycle classics, 'la flèche Wallonne' with the climbing of the 'mur de huy'
I did another indoor job in Oostende at the maintenance depot of the tram, a very busy place with a lot of action.
The job started terrible as the first day one of the employers hit the S6 when he stepped from a small step up. The S6 is fixed already, and our dealer lend me an S8 wich turned out to be a great gun for this job.
The S8 has a built in video, so on the dc you can switch from the usual input screens to video image to turn the instrument to whatever you see, yourself for example when you lost lock, or when you switch on the laser spot to point at inaccessible points.
I captured some screenshots,
For the first time I had to measure some point right above the instrument, I do understand and appreciate the strange shape of the handle now!
Christof.
That is awesome Christof, thanks for sharing!
Radar
Christ-
Truly amazing what you do !
Please do not stop sending us your 'Belgian Surveying'.
As a question from a purely cadastral (boundary) surveyor (me), do you set out property boundaries too ?
Cheers,
Derek
Yes, very nice. Thank you.
Don
very cool, busy week!!
What a great and interesting post! I would love to see more.
S8 sends remote video?! HOW COOL!!!
That would be super nice when solo to be sure it doesn't lock on a license plate or tail light!!
It was a 2 hours drive to the other side of the country.....
Christof LOL
....I can travel from Adelaide 850k to Coober Pedy and still have at least another 500k to get to the Northern Territory South OZ border!
Great pics . I have just been working in a sewerage treatment plant where potential for methane explosion high.... No pics for general consumption.
RADU
Nice stuff, Christof.
Thanks for sharing!
Rick
Thank you for your participation here. I wish more of your European associates would join in as well.
Very interesting posts, these Belgium surveys
By the way, if you wonder, In Canada, many years ago, they changed the name of these plants (yellow fields) to Canola.
Dank U
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Christof,
Your posts are always interesting! Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!
Richard,
the moment I was typing that I realized that I'm probably the only on the board that can cross the country from border to border by car in just two hours.
chr.
Christof, all of those pics are neat! (as always from you!!) 😉
But the one with you UNDER the tram thingy...makes me nervous! 😐
Christof
I remember years ago when we were flying into London we saw large fields of yellow. When we had a chance to talk with a local person, they told us it was Rape seed plants.
As always, enjoyed your post and pictures. Someday I'll need to buy a digital camera so I can post some pictures. Of course, I don't know how interesting pictures of me sitting around napping will be to everybody.