We need to do a static obervation on a benchmark..as you can see, its in a 'tough' location...sigh..
You can see the disk on the concrete wall. Fortunetly, there's even a bench for me to sit at and 'tough' out the session.
Don't worry about me...I'll make it thought the afternoon.;-) 😉 ...somehow..
Temeprature is 80 and sunny...with low humidity..
:good: :sun:
Oh no! My condolences. Hang in there, you will make it.
That's a tough one! Hope it's a prevailing wage job. Here is the kind of static sessions we have in the Mojave Desert:
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Question...
What with the white plastic/cloth tarps?
Is that to sit on?
Just curious...i ususally don't survey in a desert..
Question...
that's an aerial reference point
Joe,
Where is the cooler of beer? 😉
Have a great weekend!
Just curious
What are you surveying in the desert?
Have a great weekend!
just out of view...I want to be professional ya know!:-P
Just curious
> What are you surveying in the desert?
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> Have a great weekend!
well duhhh.....sand.;-)
Just curious
The rock mound below the ground plane antenna is a PLSS section corner. The survey was for boundary and aerial control for a 52 mile railroad line from Eagle Mountain to the Salton Sea in CA. The fun part was getting to drive the speeder car with a GPS RTK system on it to establish the alignment of the rail line for writing legal descriptions of the right of way.
Seeing that disk in the seawall reminds me of one of my favorite gadgets. At my old company, we used two meter poles and with "bi-pod" type tripods for the pole (they did have 3 legs). But for the benchmarks on seawalls, and there are a lot of them in Florida, we had this black plastic plate that screwed on top of the regular tripod, then had "pinchers" that extended out to grasp the two meter pole, so you could have stable set up right on the edge of the seawall. You didn't have to worry about it blowing over, either. Thing is, I've since gone solo, and I don't know what it was called, or who made it. I've looked over the SECO website but I didn't see it there.
Yeah, that's it. Those are things come in handy sometimes.
Just curious
That is just too cool (no pun intended). You should write more about that survey endeavor and include more pictures.
Have a great weekend!
C clamp and bungie cord will do the same thing, but don't look nearly as sexy.
Simple solution
Why not just set an eccentric point where you can setup on easily / safely and do a one turn level connection from the BM? Thats how I used to do it all of the time for hard to access BM's that were not GPS friendly. You are likely just using it for vertical control, no need to occupy directly with GPS if it is in a bad location. You are much better to observe where GPS is free of any bad influences that you can control!
PS: just don't blow your little level loop.
