My least favorite task would be chopping through frost looking for pins.... especially when the magnetic tone I just dug up turns out to be a random piece of metal.
clearcut, post: 384722, member: 297 wrote: I don't know what you all are talking about.
From the Arborday Foundation's website:"With its intriguing blooms and evergreen leaves, the mountain-laurel is one of AmericaÛªs most loved native shrubs. Clusters of striking flowers appear in May and June and range in color from white to pink-rose to deep rose. Regardless of hue, however, they all have unique purple . "
Here in North West Nc I believe the only people that like them are those that have moved here. To them they are sacred and cannot be touched.
I don't like it when arriving at the job and it is nothing but a grown over mess.
Worst growth I've ever seen was at a tower site in the mid 1970s that was acres and acres of wild rose with stalk about and inch thick.
So wound together and much too tough to cut.
Wanted us to topo a hilltop west of Linden, yeah in your dreams.
This stuff was slicing up tractor tires.
Best thing was to walk it down and push an opening with a dozer.
Looking for and setting corners in thick poison oak and poison ivy.
Construction surveying.
Sneaky snakes, or stepping on one.
People that follow me around talking.
Deadbeat clients.
clearcut, post: 384722, member: 297 wrote: I don't know what you all are talking about.
From the Arborday Foundation's website:"With its intriguing blooms and evergreen leaves, the mountain-laurel is one of AmericaÛªs most loved native shrubs. Clusters of striking flowers appear in May and June and range in color from white to pink-rose to deep rose. Regardless of hue, however, they all have unique purple . "
Beautiful blooms, but all branches are interwoven with the adjacent branches and horizontally, vertically and every which way. Blades bounce off unless you can get the proper angle which is rare because on the stroke you usually strike a different branch than intended.
I used to average about 600' an hour through some of the thickest cut over in my area. I think on that job it took about 2 hours to cut 250' through laurel.
But it got done and I didn't call the office to complain about the job. I just did it.
My how times have changed. At least with my crew. Lol
Digging in frozen ground in the winter. When 30 minutes of digging with a bar is a couple of shovels full in the summer.
Asphalt is no fun whatsoever as the temperature decreases. Especially as you reminisce to those Summer days where it becomes almost fluid-like.
Rich B*stards that don't seem to want to pay on time.....
Poison Oak and Ivy
Briars
People following me around yaking
Deed description with no metes or bounds.... your guess is as good as mine type of description...the adjoiners are the same....no metes or bounds....PITA....
Holy Cow, post: 384789, member: 50 wrote: Asphalt is no fun whatsoever as the temperature decreases. Especially as you reminisce to those Summer days where it becomes almost fluid-like.
Don't you mean INCREASES?
Dave Karoly, post: 384630, member: 94 wrote: And tweakers, don't get me started.
I hate working near walmart or an underpass!!
Kent McMillan, post: 384652, member: 3 wrote: The close second is the new wire fence that was built about 2 ft. off the ragged old wire fence it was intended to replace, but without removing the older one.
Are folks in your part of Texas buying that cheap 2 strand barbed wire that stretches when you climb over it, and breaks when you climb back?
Monte, post: 384873, member: 11913 wrote: Are folks in your part of Texas buying that cheap 2 strand barbed wire that stretches when you climb over it, and breaks when you climb back?
Sounds like someone needs to cut back on the biscuits and gravy.
I believe Monte is referring to Gaucho barb wire. It is very different from standard barb wire. The wire is thinner and is designed to withstand more tension. There are half as many barbs but they have a sharper point. Attempting to take it down, roll it up and reuse it in another location is next to impossible. I would NEVER place my foot on it in an attempt to boost my hiney over the fence. The odds of suddenly straddling a buzz saw come to mind. When cut or broken it goes into a death spiral, lacerating anything that gets in the way. The only place any can be found on any of my property is where the idiot neighbor paid someone to put it up on his half of the fence line because he was a tight@$$ attempting to save a few bucks.
There may be other companies producing identical wire. Gaucho wire is what it is commonly known as due to that being the first company making it that anyone knew existed around here. I'm not allowed to use the other words frequently used to describe said wire.
Monte, post: 384873, member: 11913 wrote: Are folks in your part of Texas buying that cheap 2 strand barbed wire that stretches when you climb over it, and breaks when you climb back?
The professional fence builders don't use it, but I have seen it on amateur jobs.
To be honest I have that issue with most any fence. Its me who needs to cut out the biscuits and gravy.
Speaking of biscuits and gravy. I made a friend laugh out loud yesterday. We both happened to be eating breakfast at the local convenience store. The biscuits and gravy are very good. However, such foods must be consumed very carefully when one has a full-length beard. Mine is about 90 percent white these days. Anyway, I finished off the food then made a short trip to the restroom to wash my hands and also make a quick check that I wasn't wearing anything in my beard. I returned to my table, turned to my friend and said, "It's a good thing they use white gravy with the biscuits or I'd look like a tobacco chewer gone bad." As he laughed I knew he was assuming I had made a mess that he hadn't noticed. The truth was that I had no such problem, but I enjoyed planting that seed in his mind for the next time we happen to meet up at the same place for the same reason.
Yep, that's the wire! 😡
I know one of my least favorite memories. Doing first order levels around a potash mine in winter. The control points are around 15' long, set into the ground, with a 8" water pipe around them to protect them. Often, the benchmark is about 15" deeper then the top of the water pipe. We come across one, completely full of ice. Started chipping the ice out with a ground axe, to get to the benchmark. Well, pipe wasn't all ice. Was a skunk that crawled in there, got caught, and died. So, on top of the ice, we had to chip him out. Inch by inch. You don't want to know about the smell.
Estimating. Especially estimating my schedule.
Calling another surveyor to report an error on his/her plat. This is definitely not fun. I know that I don't like to discover that I've made an error and it's only magnified when someone else brings it to my attention. So, I know what the feeling is on the other end when I'm the one sharing the bad news.
Most recent case was where the description indicated a certain line ran south and east but the drawing showed it running to the north and east. I was nearly certain that the description was wrong without actually calculating all the math involved. Turned out the error was in the description. What this frequently means is that the description has already been used on numerous documents that have been filed in the permanent record. We all know how difficult that call is to the client and others who are parties to the transaction that has been completed.
On one occasion the call went to a longtime member of the BOR.
Mistakes happen. We can do our absolute best to catch them, but some will eventually make it out into the open.
