You might be an old surveyor if...

Posted by: @nate-the-surveyor

Cell phones, are flip phone only.

What's a cell phone?

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You still have a leather case with a Curta in it and still know how to use it with the tables mentioned above.

You have string burns on the back of your neck from wrapping the plumb bob string around your head and then stepping on it when you stand up.

You refer to what is coming out of that new box of nail as P-K's.

In frustration, you too frequently start sentences with, "Back when we didn't need batteries.............................."

You walk 2200' back to the truck and forget what you you went there for. ?????ÿ

Posted by: @holy-cow

You refer to what is coming out of that new box of nail as P-K's.

A pet peeve of mine is folks calling MAG nails PKs. I regularly sermonize?ÿ that the distinction is significant.?ÿ An actual PK is likely to be at least 15 years old.?ÿ ?ÿ

Posted by: @norman-oklahoma

Posted by: @holy-cow

You refer to what is coming out of that new box of nail as P-K's.

A pet peeve of mine is folks calling MAG nails PKs. I regularly sermonize?ÿ that the distinction is significant.?ÿ An actual PK is likely to be at least 15 years old.?ÿ ?ÿ

Yeah, well lots of folks still use the term "tin foil" when referring to Aluminum Foil, even though tinfoil went the way of the Dodo Bird over 70 years ago. Not to mention "chain" when referring to a TAPE. Of course there a many more of these "errors."

🙂

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@loyal

I recently purchased a new old stock "Hi-Way Chain". Also have a "Canyon Chain" and several others. They are referred to as add chains in many texts.

Curta was for rich engineers. We used slide rules. The circular kind.

If you have ever used cloth flagging.

If you have ever made a large backsite, out of lath, nails, (bent over) and triangulated or shot closing angles to it. As you had no EDM.

If you have ever built a leaf fire, for a few minutes, so the instrument man could find you, to triangulate.

If you ever wadded up "tar weed" and lit it, to make smoke signals.

Time marches on...

N

If you know what this is and how to use it.

Posted by: @norm-larson

If you know what this is and how to use it.

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I've got one of those up on the shelf. A GREAT tool, that was worth it's weight in gold (and probably cost nearly as much back in the day).

Loyal

You carry a Locke level and have an Abney level in the truck.

You know how to roll up and tie the plumb bob string.

The inside of your right (if you're right handed) boot sole is worn from making kickouts for chaining.

You have a tack ball tied to the bottom of your plumb bob case.

You have (or have had) a dip needle.

Andy

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@norm-larson

A multi divider? What do you use it for? For proportionate measurement I used a scale on a diagonal and the parallel rule. ???? 

@flga

The official name was proportional dividers and they were used for contouring before machines did it.  I used to have a large and a small (pictured) set.  You approximated where your elevation points fell and the points marked the contours.  I hate to say how often that I have used them, .. well er .. prior to about 1989 that is.

@andy-bruner

id like to know how you roll up your plumb bob string

...you visit this website.?ÿ ????ÿ

@norm-larson

There was also the Gerber Variable Scale. Its history was a great example of ingenuity and entrepreneurship.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1214955

https://www.nzeldes.com/HOC/Gerber.htm

@norm-larson

Wow, we must have been poor and didn't know it. We used a rubber-band with evenly marks on it. This looks much cooler!