This picture always cracks me up.
Route surveying by the best.
it looks like a Norman Rockwell but I'm not sure, is it?
I'm pretty sure its not a Rockwell, but you never know.
I'd like to find out how to get a print of this one..
This sometimes comes with that picture. I first saw it in the library at Paul Smiths College in 1970 - sure seems like a long time ago....
A Surveyor Is
A Surveyor is something that grubs around in the woods looking for little sticks and stones. When he finds them, he does some kind of weird dance around them with a funny looking 3-leg crutch which he leans on and looks at.
When he doesn't find them he walks around all day like he's lost.
Sometimes you see them squashed by cars along roads, especially in the summer when all the other bugs are out.
A surveyor has one big eye and one little eye like Popeye.
He usually walks bent over all the time which is why he always looks so stooped.
His face looks like old leather.
He cusses terribly.
He can't read because he measures between things and then puts down a number in a little book which is different from what his little map says.
He always measures to a stick or stone, stops near it, and puts in another stick or stone.
He is not too bright because he is always making marks on side-walks and roads to find his way home.
His pants are always torn from rock salt and his shoes look like they were made of mud.
People stare at him, dogs chase him and he always looks worn out.
I don't know why anyone wants to be a surveyor.
I love the tripod legs.
Back in the mid 80s, the student surveyors club at Ferris (I forget if it was student chapter of ACSM or MSPLS) printed t-shirts with that picture on it. Mr. Hashimi, faily new in the program director's position, thought it most unprofessional.
It's in the latest Missouri Surveyor.
Sometimes you see them squashed by cars along roads
Be careful out there. I've known 4 surveyors killed by cars so far.
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Youv'e probably seen it.> Ken Salzman
I first read that in Tenn. in the TAPS newsletter in about 1980 or so... It's an oldie!
Youv'e probably seen it.> Ken Salzman
Some days, it still feels like that.