Artie Kay, post: 384032, member: 3428 wrote:
The Cuillin mountains, Isle of Skye in Scotland.
I was under the impression that this was the most beautiful vista on the Isle of Skye
Taking my boots off after a day in the field. Geez but that feels so good! I've enjoyed that since 1979 when I first started.
After that, it's turning that angle, looking for a monument, shooting that distance and finding it, especially when I'm deep in the woods. (well, at least as deep in the woods as I can get here on Ol' Cape Cod.)
That mad scientist in me who cobbles together some elaborate conglomeration of data from a wide range of sources and assembles it with some half notion of how to make it all come together ... and then as if by some miracle it does, though Plan A went out the window long ago and I'm now on Plan Q. I sometimes have no idea starting out how to make that happen. As Hannibal of the A-team would say, "I just love it when it when a plan comes together". (*Insert theme song to the A-team here*)
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Still in high school (and almost flunking out) I learned to close and adjust a traverse, 180 x N-2 and the compass rule on a Marchant mechanical calculator. I don't think anything in surveying has matched that except maybe opening the envelope with the letter that I PASSED !!
I, like a lot of you, think my favorite thing is finding a hard-to-discover error in a plat, legal description or traverse. And solving the puzzle that is boundary surveying. Getting every thing to fit in a puzzle that "doesn't fit". And, of course finding an original stone that no one else has found in years. Of course it's disheartening when you show someone what you discovered and they say "so"? But just because they don't understand just means that they're missing out.
All of these eager "geo-cachers" just don't know what they're missing.
Lots of favorites, one of which that isn't mentioned yet:
Talking to an attorney, and them coming to the realization that you are an expert and do know what you are talking about.
Finding something set in days of yore that's right where they said they set it.
Driving around in my truck with a big ol cup of joe
No no. For real right now my favorite is using my pipe finder. Believe it or not, I was raised surveying without one. Now there's not much monumentation here, but now that I started using a pipe finder, I've been finding twice as much (still not a ton) but when that thing starts singing and I'm darn sure it's a pipe, I cut a little hole with my trowel, flip back the grass and there's a pipe. That's my favorite right now.
I thought it was all the hot chicks that come running every time you get set up somewhere in public. Or is that a figment of my imagination?
Holy Cow, post: 384195, member: 50 wrote: I thought it was all the hot chicks that come running every time you get set up somewhere in public. Or is that a figment of my imagination?
Watch them stupid chickens, they'll poop on the equipment.
Whilst we may live amongst the equally the most magnificent scenery on earth, it's the places we get paid to work at that is a big pleasure.
I've yet to post about this trip, but Maria Island, off East coast Tasmania.
Amazing peaceful place to spend time at, work hard but leave relaxed.
Persuading others to my point of view.
Aloha, to me it is creating design points in the computer. Then staking them out on the ground. It is truly an exciting moment to see what is in the digital format manifesting on the physical plane. To see them fit with existing landscaping or topography...it can a simple fence line, a path, or simple landscaping features!!! I just can't get over this--every single time I do this!
:totalstation:
Living and working a life outside of the cubical where it is usually meeting with more critters than people.
Richard, post: 384231, member: 833 wrote: ....... work hard but leave relaxed.
😎 (couldn't find the "thumbs up" emogee
Jon Collins, post: 383957, member: 11135 wrote: I love hearing about every blown budget from the bosses. Several per day.
I love hearing from my employees how "shitty that job was....don't take jobs like that" and bitching at them for blowing my budget. Lol