BSM. (Barn Sour Mule) Boss is speeding, going HOME!
Nate
Me, looking thru the gun at the new rear chain girl
"Left a ...ummm....uhhh...left a ummmm a bit"
Her back to me "Which is it? Red one or a blonde one?"!!
Karen was an ex-stripper with the vocabulary of a truck driver. Always changing clothes in the van, sure glad she was good looking!;-)
-JD-
Hey! Remember that time about six months ago when we couldn't get the key to turn in the ignition and thought we were stranded? How did we fix it?
Anyone know where the tire wrench is?
What do you mean that stone you just found has a born date and a died date on it?
Good news! The dead dog's on the right property.
It's 3:00. Why is the sun southeast of us?
Don't worry. She sees ya. She's slowing down. She's........MOVEMOVEMOVEMOVEMOVE
Wonder who that cop's after. We're about the only one's out here.
No wonder none of the corner references match anything. Look again. The notes say Township 19, not 17.
So, why are you in such a pissy mood this morning........(20 minutes later)......remind me to never ask you a question like that ever again.
Quick! Come here! (shirt gets pulled up over his head) Whatever it is that's crawling on my back: knock it off, KNOCK IT OFF, NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW (sounding like a little girl)
You know what? Pickled eggs, chili and Diet Coke probably wasn't the best idea to have for lunch today, was it?
Sokkia: RTK lost!
me: grrrrrrrrrr
me: was that the data collector?! (I saw something fly off the top of the truck as we made a turn into a gas station)
crew member: I thought YOU put it in the truck!
me: It was on YOUR side!
all of us: #@$%&^*!@!!!:excruciating:
school bus: crunch CRUNCH
all of us again:@@#$!@^^%&*//":@##$!%%^&%$**&(??||!!!!!!!!!:pissed:
(this really happened! good thing TDS had a special going on - "trade in your old card for the new one! working condition or not!)
(It was not in working condition)(bought a new HP48, plugged in the new card and went back to work. LUCKY we downloaded all the data the day before.....!!)B-)
Day one on the job my first boss told me a similar story involving a Huskey FS2.
He was following his crew up an interstate on-ramp, headed home from a week long road trip surveying raw cell tower sites, when he saw the DC come flying off the top of the lead truck. Both trucks came to skidding stops in the emergency lane and the boss man jumped out and played "frogger" with the cars and semis to retrieve the DC. The DC looked okay other than the keys being ground off the keypad. They said it was the longest hundred mile ride they'd ever taken wondering the whole way if the DC would fire up and download the data at the office. Turned out that the Huskey's brains were fine, just had to go on an expensive trip to the shop for a new keypad. Oddly, the boss man used many of the same words you did when he described watching thousands of dollars worth of equipment and data fly onto pavement.:-D
To this day I don't put equipment on top of the truck or on the ground where it can be backed over.
Pull it tight.
Put me in a hole.
Kill the brass.
Raise for red.
Double up on this corner.
Can't see it, must be good.
"There might not be a future in Surveying but sometimes the present is not too bad."
Raise for red!
Wave it!
But I can see YOU!
Left a hair!
Your OTHER left!!
Gimme a two foot boot.
LINE!!!!!
GOT IT!!
GOOOOODDDDD!!!!!
> > A lot of words I didn't know existed before 1979 when I first started on a crew, many can't be repeated on a public forum, a lot colorful language out in the field!
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> > SHG
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> Same for me Shelby.
After my hitch in the Navy, I thought I'd heard it all. Then...surveying.
Rick
I never go an entire week without downloading the data.
That happens every afternoon, often on my own time.
Stop the truck!!, but very slowly. (instrument on roof)
"That's absolutely PERFECT!!!" (Statement by I-man when staking out a point and the client is watching)
"This should be a bunny". (Famous last words)
Now being solo, the old days of working with a crew was a love/hate relationship.
The day is beginning: "NNU (next number up) is 3325, 5.4 rod, on a 01 206."
"Shot, shot, shot, shot, shot...."
"Lean a little left...."
"Bring the rod up 'til I tell you to stop."
"Good, good!"
Pee break: "10-100"
Poop break: "10-200"
One and two from above: "10-300"
The day is done: "Check-in."
N 89.59BALLS (00)
THROW
DOUBLE THROW
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
WHERE DID THEY COME FROM ?
SWING THE NEEDLE
CLOSE ENOUGH
THAT TREE HAS TO GO
TWO MORE DROPS OF RAIN AND WE ARE DRINKING BEER
BOX IT UP
PICK ONE AND USE IT
THIS AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE
NOT ENOUGH BIRDS FOR A FIX (LAND OWNER THINKS I AM A DRUG USER)
COLD BOX (OKIE FOR 12 PACK)
I'M LEAVING JUST DON'T SHOOT!!!!
I THINK HE IS SHOOTING IN OUR DIRECTION
CALL THE SHERRIF
NOT AGAIN!!!
IT IS JUST US AND THIRTY DEER HUNTERS OUT HERE
DON'T SLOW DOWN A#$@#$HOLE
I DON'T THINK THEY SEE US? MOVE MOVE MOVE
WHERE IS THAT F@#$@#$@$ STONE AT????
WELL THIS SHOULD BE EASY THERE IS ONLY A MILLION STONES ON THE HILL
A CHARED POST OH THAT WILL BE EASY TO FIND TODAY
BOSS-DID YOU GET HER DONE
BOSS-WHERE ARE YOU AT (GENTLEMENS CLUB AND BRING MONEY, BE THEIR IN A MINUTE)
Had 2 crews staking R/W from each end thru a thicket that had been logged about 2 years prior, through treetops and briars. We were using a right angle prism and a chain saw to cut lines from CL out on 90's to pull a tape. When we got within earshot of the other crew, while the saw was off, heard the guy on center line giving line by hollering "SOUNDS GOOD".
Same thicket sometime later, were eating lunch and heard a commotion in the bushes. It was an injured owl about 18" tall tangled up in the briars. Got the bright idea to catch him and put him in a tow sack to take to the game warden. Walter, the old guy in the crew, grabbed a pair of welding gloves I had bought that morning, and got hold of him. I was holding the bag and asked "Got him Walter?". His response was "NO, HE'S GOT ME!". Had his claw run thru the glove and his hand between his thumb and forefinger. Thought he was gonna bite the stem out of the pipe he had clenched between his teeth.
Walter was also the head chainman, and he had a whole closet full of striped shirts. He's get way off down the centerline chaining and stand behind the plumbbob string looking back to get line, then he'd say "What do you mean you can't see the string?"
Also heard;
"good enough for gubment work".
"naw, they weren't hot" after a red faced crew member downed a jar of jalapenos on a dare.
"rickrack" = riprap
"heard the humidity was 110 on the radio"
