What kind of equipment did you use?
We had a 1923 Adolph Leitz Transit. And, a 200' tape, abney level, hand level, plumb bobs, pocket full of chaining nails, and we set backsites, out of whatever we could use. Sometimes a 4' lath etc.
Year was 1972.
Nate
> What kind of equipment did you use?
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> We had a 1923 Adolph Leitz Transit. And, a 200' tape, abney level, hand level, plumb bobs, pocket full of chaining nails, and we set backsites, out of whatever we could use. Sometimes a 4' lath etc.
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> Year was 1972.
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> Nate
The first equipment that I worked with was a Wild T1A Theodolite (I still have it BTW) with a K&E Autoranger EDM that ran off of the truck battery. We did not have a top mount for the theodolite, so we measured the angles and distances separately with an azimuth base. The Level I used was a Wild NA2 (which I also still have and use). Everything was booked (no data collector).The year was 1986-1987ish, I think. I would have been 11-12 years old.
BTW, my father was a solo operator back then when I wasn't working for him with that equipment. I am still not quite sure how he pulled that off.
When I first went surveying was for my father with a 100 or 200' tape, compass, and note pad. Later was with a Geodimeter 4400.
> Year was 1972.
Dang Nate,
Explain that you were only 8 years old working for Mr. Fred...
I started in 1975...two years out of high school.
I was the "big boy" who toted the Wild DI10, tripods, T2's, etc etc etc up and down the line.
If I remember right, the suburban had, for a three man crew:
Wild T2 (for fine work)
Wild T16 (for general work)
Wild Target Set (for traversing)
Wild DI10 (for long distances)...and that big square retro-prism
Wild D0 (compass of choice)
Warren Knight Sipe Sumner Compass (for most of the work)
K&E Staff Compass (for the Junior Crew)
100' Highway Nubian Tape...bobs...clamps...tension scale...
Collins Brush hooks
Estwing ax
Spencer Logger's Tape
Filson Vests
Hubs...tacks...lunch...water can...deck of cards...and a wonderful time...
With Weyerhaeuser Co we was the rich boys to Fred's poor boys...but we climbed the same hills and found the same pineknots...
Tell us about that court case...wink
DDSM:beer:
> What kind of equipment did you use?
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K&E tranist w/chain 1986
Psst...
I'm one step closer to my quest of 're-populating' that old truck...
Warren Knight Compass #23181...thanks to Jesse Kozlowski
DDSM:beer:
1953.
Gurley transit, 100 foot steel babbit cut tape, chaining pins. That tape and the pins are still in the garage. I was five years old and have the photo to prove it.
All that good Army stuff.
T16
T2
M2 Aiming circle
30 meter tape
SIAGL azimuth gyro. We were always a bit afraid of that thing when it spun up.
Best of all was the Gamma Goat. We did not cut line. We flattened line.
I started measuring land and making simple maps on my own, as a hobby, in my early 20s. Nothing fancy, just a compass, and pacing for distance.
A few years later, in 1998, I started working for a company that did surveying work. The first instrument that I did survey grade measurements with was a big yellow total station called an Omni MKIII. Made in America. It was a beast. A couple of years later I convinced the boss to buy a Topcon GTS 225, which was amazing by comparison. Never looked back. Thanks, Nate.
Al
K & E one minute transit and a Lufkin 100' chain and plum bobs. I mainly remember Mosquitos as big as toy helicopters!:-D
I began my engineering and surveying career Spring 1980.
Gurley Transit, 100 foot add tape, Ziese NI2 level. The second surveyor that I met outside of the company I worked for was Fred DeAryan. That was in 1979.
> The second surveyor that I met outside of the company I worked for was Fred DeAryan. That was in 1979.
LOL...I met Fred when I was with Weyerhaeuser...must have been the same time you met him...gathered up some 'corner cards'...
Steve,
I remember the first time I met YOU...1985?...outside of the testing area?...I asked you what Right Bank Descending meant...RBD???..the next time was at a ARPLS short course...the president's reception open bar???
:beer:
DDSM
(A Unicorn hunting Clap brother)
(better than a pig hunting texan)
1972 for me also. Within the first month of going to work on a four man crew, I was put on running a Ziess th43 with a swivel base and optical micrometer scale. A very sweet theodolite that could be set up in a minute or less. I would call out the angles and the party chief would keep notes as the front and rear chainmen measured the distances with a 100' steel chain. We set hubs using the tack ball, and winding the string up with a final loop around the plumb bobs when done. Then the gammon reel came out, I hope the inventor is rich! Our crew vehicle was a chevy suburban which could haul, and hit 60mph in second gear. We used a dip needle to find corners. soon after the HP handheld calculator came out with trig functions and I remember the party chief doing superelevations calcs in the field for road construction layout on Randolf Rd. in Charlotte. In fact we rode by the old office building today while coming back from Discovery Place and I was remembering those good old days.
48 years ago. X sectioning a ditch for the soil conservation district. Engineer tried to explain what we were doing. Transit and tape. It all felt so natural no need to explain...I learned then I was Born to Survey.
Pablo B-)
Sokisha EDM with a red LED readout that displayed slope distance. All angles were determined by using verniers and could be done without tuning the power on (you had to rotate a mirror toward the sun to more easily read the verniers). I got pretty good on the gun and could work it almost as fast as today's instruments.
1971-1976 (110,000 ac. boundary Palm Coast Florida)
Wild T2
HP 3800B
Caterpillar D8H
Hope the baby is doing great and of course SWMBO too!
1977, Wild T-1 and Lufkin Pioneer chains (100' & 200'). The company had a couple of EDMs, but the crew I was on didn't get to use one until I was put on a mountain job for the USFS in October. I spent that fall and the following spring and summer with on a crew with a T-1 and a top-mount Beetle 500.
Me use stegosaurus spine section for plane table. Use pterodactyl leg for alidade. Vine make neat measure-thingy. No missing 0.04 or pincushion to make worry.
Did a Survey in School with a Transit, then graduated to the Army. Wild T2s with inverted scopes, gyros, 30 meter tapes etc.
1987 in my first Job with Andrews and Clark, I was introduced to the HP3820a. I still think it's the best gun I ever used. I also got spoiled that year because I used to be able to do all my calcs manually with a cheap Texas Instrument solar calculator, then someone introduced me to an HP41, I was in surveyor heaven.
Ralph
Nikon 10-sec. theodolite
Beetle 1600 top-mount EDM
About 1982
