You often are overheard screaming out "no Dufus, your other left".
My old, hard of hearing, parttime helper's name is actually Dufus.
It is like winding up a top except you wind the string around the neck of the bob and then put half a bow at the end.
Or, like most while in the middle of measuring, throw the loose string over your shoulder and neck, thus, rope burning scars are an ever-present proof of having been there.
You have working complete GPS. For big shot and you stop, turn around, hike back to truck to put plumb Bob, field book and pencil in your pocket. Can't walk anywhere without.
Why would anybody try to survey, without a plumb bob?
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I had a clear plastic triangular ruler with a black spring inside. every fifth coil was painted with green florescent paint and every 50th coil orange. You could expand and contract the spring to whatever scale you needed. I thought that was my coolest tool ever. Unfortunately someone else did also. I keep looking on ebay, but not yet.
You know what a E-Z Arc is. ???
If your truck has points I feel very sorry for you. Get a new one!
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These comments are great!?ÿ
Bstrand,
I'm afraid you are not alone. A number of the younger generation are with you.
Old habits die hard. My dad used to ask me for 2 bearings, subtract them, and figure a tangent in his head.
I could just give him the offset, but, his brain was con configured that way.
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Or use a string cleat. You figure eight the string on it and flip the last loop under. I had very old ones but somebody thought they needed them more...
If you know what "punk" means...No, it's not my nickname (anymore)
Yesterday was spent along the county line about two and half miles north of the cemetery where Governor Davis has the grandest tombstone. It was nasty with three inches of snow turning into slush on those dirt, with a tiny bit of rock, roads. Could have used another digger of holes. 🙂
Haha...I think my hole digging days are behind me but if you need the help, count me in!
I still drive past that section corner you let me set way back when and proclaim to those in the car with me, "I set that!". It was a couple miles south of Buddy's place, west of 59 about 1/2 a mile, if memory serves. I recognize the intersection to the east when we drive through.
Well, I am old. And I am a surveyor. Only a handful of those apply to me, though I do know about almost all.?ÿ I have moved forward some in the last 50 years.
you have "bucked in" to setup on line.
you have used a rod stacker.
you have "double centered" to prolong a line.
you have used a "natural" backsight.
you have used an optical plummet to set a point on line.
you have used a concrete block with a red pencil line on it as a backsight setup on a PCP.
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You can read a verneer
That??s spelled vernier
You've used a Brunton and pulled chain or shot Stadia.
I am old.?ÿ Used stadia and a plane table for topo work.
Where do old surveyors do their drinking? At the Subtense Bar.
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