I often carry a sewing tape stuffed in my pocket-- flexible and lightweight and good to 1/8". And up to 5 feet.
Here is the preliminary design. Not much bigger than a pocket knife.
With cameras in cell phones I've started taking a lot more pictures at job sites and placing a stretched out tape or rule along side of the monuments put things into scale.
Google+ Messaging will send a pic and text at the same time for some fast info from the field to office.
I do have two GPS cameras with compass that gives location and direction for forensic use with lat and long and date stamped that attorney like to see.
I give the guys instructions to take pictures of everything they find and what it looks like from every setup and every monument found or set from ground level to what is in the sky.
Cee Gee, post: 333276, member: 451 wrote: sewing tape
But check it against something more trustworthy. A long time ago I measured something with my mother's sewing tape and thought the result was questionable. So I compared it to a yardstick and a steel carpenter's tape. The cloth tape had stretched over an inch in one yard.
I thought maybe it was a shrink rule for new cloth, but Mom didn't recognize the concept, so that must not be common, and the tape was just worn out.
rlshound, post: 331049, member: 6800 wrote: Have this hanging for ready reference....that tool should come in handy
Isn't the re-bar number simply the number of 1/8"s? Why wouldn't #5, aka. 3/5", be 5/8", like all the rest. Nearly the same size (.6" vs. .562").
Nit picking, I know.:-)
We record evidence. It takes little effort to make it complete. I cannot for the life of me understand why someone wouldn't measure what they are certifying.
A Harris, post: 333285, member: 81 wrote: With cameras in cell phones I've started taking a lot more pictures at job sites and placing a stretched out tape or rule along side of the monuments put things into scale.
Google+ Messaging will send a pic and text at the same time for some fast info from the field to office.
I do have two GPS cameras with compass that gives location and direction for forensic use with lat and long and date stamped that attorney like to see.
I give the guys instructions to take pictures of everything they find and what it looks like from every setup and every monument found or set from ground level to what is in the sky.
My field crews are all younger than me by almost 20 years. So they've ALWAYS lived in an era of cameras on the cell phone. They've never surveyed without the benefit of their own personal cell phone in their pocket. Yet you would think I'm asking them to poison their grandmother they way they complain about having to take pictures of every monument found. "You mean I have to take my phone out of my pocket for EVERY monument? That's a lot of work."...
You know what else is a lot of work? Finding a new employer... this is why I don't own my own business...