Surveyor Comic

oldie, but a goodie......

a copy of this was on the wall of the test shack when I was shaking gravel on a paving job in Wood's Bay, MT. 1986.

I once had a few vintage copies of hand drawn cartoons: both lewd and offensive to some, usually got a response of "OMG" by most people, lost them to a fire.
One cartoon captioned "Indian tortures surveyor", picture a surveyor acting as tripod and the plumb bob strung to his manhood all surrounded by sharp things.
The other a similar version captioned "Never forget tripod" drawing of a crew member acting as tripod with instrument balancing on top of his backside.
:scream:

A Harris, post: 412013, member: 81 wrote: I once had a few vintage copies of hand drawn cartoons: both lewd and offensive to some, usually got a response of "OMG" by most people, lost them to a fire.
One cartoon captioned "Indian tortures surveyor", picture a surveyor acting as tripod and the plumb bob strung to his manhood all surrounded by sharp things.
The other a similar version captioned "Never forget tripod" drawing of a crew member acting as tripod with instrument balancing on top of his backside.
:scream:

I had a bulletin board years ago that had a lot of gag jokes and some really funny newspaper clippings. One was story of a 90 year old lady that pulled into a gas station and wanted the attendant to "put back on" a piece that had fallen off her car..and she had it in the trunk. When she opened the trunk there was a standard large MH cover that weighed in at 200 pounds. She apparently had flipped it from its flange with her car and (from the noise) thought it had fallen off the car. I can't imagine her wrestling that thing into the trunk.

Another newspaper article was about a large hopped-up druggy that was stealing MH covers, apparently to sell for scrap. When a police officer saw him carrying more than one the officer "called for backup" before confronting the thief. Smart move.

My favorite though was a local article about a pot bust here in Norman where the County Sheriff found a couple of acres of weed growing down on the river. The deputies and several members of the local constabulary came out and (according to the article) the marijuana was burned "in front of several high officials"....

I know the guy that wrote that article knew what he was writing. 😉

Great stuff guys - keep 'em coming

Here's my contribution - another "oldie but goodie"

[USER=91]@Jimmy Cleveland[/USER] I stare at "The Last PI" that you posted above. I see myself all in it. (I'm sure I'm not the only one...)
Do you know who drew it? I'm sure it will outlast many a survey mark... It will be "kept alive", till Christ returns!
I'm working on a transit graphic, to go on my truck.
I'll post a pic of it, when it's on the truck.
N

Get that Invert

Ohio Original Subdivision Map.

[USER=291]@Nate The Surveyor[/USER]

I don't know who drew it. I saw it posted somewhere. I am a survey junkie, so anything related to surveying gets downloaded for future reference.

Jimmy Cleveland, post: 411999, member: 91 wrote:

That's the one! Thanks

paden cash, post: 411923, member: 20 wrote: I was then given a $0.25 an hour raise to the lofty sum of $3.25 an hour. ... I applied, took the test and became licensed. I did not get a raise at that firm the rest of the time I was there.

Corrected for inflation that's $2 /hr less than minimum wage in Oregon today for a PLS.

Steven Roessner, post: 412067, member: 9988 wrote: Ohio Original Subdivision Map.

Hillibillies? I've heard of "Hillbillies", but not "Hillibillies". Is that area of the state hilly? Lol.

gschrock, post: 412094, member: 556 wrote: I like this one.

I resemble that! I've spent a fair amount of time lately reading, almost napping, and watching the world go by. (But I don't think it explains my height questions in another thread.)

gschrock:
Reminds me of the time I was hired to get a coordinate on a time capsule buried in a planter in front of City hall.
I left a receiver on the point with a City employee sitting in a pickup truck to watch it while I took another receiver to a known control point.
When I got back the employee was asleep, right in front of City hall!
I wanted to just retrieve the receiver and let him try to figure out what happened, but I just woke him with a slap on the truck hood.

I used to love running long static sessions in the early to mid 90's as long as I came prepared. Great opportunity to catch up on my reading and practice my short game.

Early 90's GPS: Me: Mr Farmer I am doing a survey for a Road Improvement Project and need to occupy the intersection of the field roads in the pasture behind your house. Farmer: If the road is in front of my house, why do you need to be in the back? Are they going to put the road behind my house? Me: No sir. We are providing control for aerial photography so we can map the road. Farmer: So your going do your survey by taking pictures. Me; Yes sir in fact I have one of your house right here. Farmer: Sound crazy to me. So when will you be surveying the point in my pasture. Me: Well the satellite configuration will be good around 2:00 AM tomorrow. Farmer: What does a satellite have to do with surveying my pasture? Me: We use satellites to get our measurement, so we can control the aerial photography to map the roadway project. Farmer: So you need to come in my pasture tonight at 2 to communicate with satellites so they can build the road? Me: Yes sir. Farmer: Is this Candid Camera?

Of course, we also got "if you are in my pasture at 2 AM, you will probaly get shot".

gschrock, post: 412192, member: 556 wrote: [SNIP]
We did have one oft occupied mark in a remote rural area that was within eye shot of an excellent local burger stand. [/SNIP]

That sure got my cogs turning... I can think of a couple of places that might be.

lmbrls, post: 412325, member: 6823 wrote: Early 90's GPS: Me: Mr Farmer I am doing a survey for a Road Improvement Project and need to occupy the intersection of the field roads in the pasture behind your house. Farmer: If the road is in front of my house, why do you need to be in the back? Are they going to put the road behind my house? Me: No sir. We are providing control for aerial photography so we can map the road. Farmer: So your going do your survey by taking pictures. Me; Yes sir in fact I have one of your house right here. Farmer: Sound crazy to me. So when will you be surveying the point in my pasture. Me: Well the satellite configuration will be good around 2:00 AM tomorrow. Farmer: What does a satellite have to do with surveying my pasture? Me: We use satellites to get our measurement, so we can control the aerial photography to map the roadway project. Farmer: So you need to come in my pasture tonight at 2 to communicate with satellites so they can build the road? Me: Yes sir. Farmer: Is this Candid Camera?

Of course, we also got "if you are in my pasture at 2 AM, you will probaly get shot".

Early '90s story:

I was with the Highway Dept. and static was our game. We would scramble eight receivers across a county and try to get all our control tied down with some good mission planning. Sometimes you had to pick up at a certain time and race 45 miles in 30 minutes and get set up again at another HARN and do it all over again...any distractions could be critical.

I was watching a setup cook somewhere near the Oklahoma-Kansas Line and noticed a half mile away one of the local farmers was dropping the gang-disks off the back of his huge articulating eight wheeled tractor...then he started heading for me. Great. I'm thinking I'm going to have to explain what I'm doing to some farmer...

Sure enough he made it over to me. Climbed down out of his beast and asked if I had any "control info" on the monument I was sitting on. I did and he asked if he could borrow it for a second. He climbed back up in his tractor and started punching in the control lat/ long info. He showed me the setup he had and I was amazed. He had a good idea of where he was geodetically but was wanting a good "fix point"...something that wasn't that readily available back then.

I thought I was going to have to bring him up to speed and it wound up the other way around.

So, you actually want to get a license, and fuss with realtors, landsharks, and broke land owners?