- Good times to be had today.
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I've always felt like I was the only one who enjoyed running levels. We elevated 88 aerial targets all over El Paso a few years ago, using a Leica digital level, and it was awesome!
Granted, we set panels down the middle of the route which happened to be a main thorough fare through town and TxDOT came along and milled the entire route taking our panels with them. Needless to say, we moved all of those panels and had to re-elevate them.
Hope you have a good day and things run smoothly for you!
I love running spirit level loops.?ÿ Haven't done one in a year or two.
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However I might caution you about breaking Paden's Rules of the Universe when it come's to levels...
Don't run levels on a Friday.?ÿ Wait until Monday....you'll probably be back out there anyway.?ÿ ;)?ÿ
Don't run levels on a Friday.?ÿ Wait until Monday....you'll probably be back out there anyway
Started a level run through a stream bottom on a Friday when I was a rodman (Spring of 1988).?ÿ We knew we weren't going to finish, so we brought a cut nail to set in a tree as a TBM where we could pick up on Monday,?ÿ Set the nail, flag the heck out of the tree, and call it a week.?ÿ
Monday rolls around and d**n if we can't find the tree.?ÿ After about ten minutes someone notices the flagging.?ÿ In the stream.?ÿ In a beaver dam.?ÿ We eventually find the stump and, as you would expect, the little buggers took it down below the f'n nail.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
Flat as the Holloman Test track.....
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Always amazed when I close flat. Esp when im not cheating.
Surveying is the best job ever.
As an instrument man I had a knack for remembering numbers.?ÿ This made me able to keep a set of level notes in my head.?ÿ Loops were easy, I just kept running totals of the BS's and FS's 'columns' in my head.?ÿ If your loop closed the two totals would cancel each out each.
The one party chief that discovered my habit threw a fit.?ÿ He use to stand behind me and repeat slightly different shots to confuse me.?ÿ Until he messed up his own notes.
I can still keep a running tally of numbers in my head.?ÿ When I do it at the store with a basket full of groceries my wife says it's "creepy".
@paden-cash Back when doubled angles I had to make myself NOT double the angle in my head and therefore affect how I read the vernier.
Andy
Lesson: Never rely on a single BM.
Shhhh.?ÿ That's All I had today. ????ÿ
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And to be fair, the headwall where it is mounted if wiped out during my loop would have been due to a biblical flood that would have washed me downstream from the dam I was looping through the monitoring points for in the days work.
Telegram for Mongo.... tell your cheap boss it??s fricken?? 2020. Buy a digital level already.... last block of proposals I evaluated, I knocked off points if they didn??t have a digital level.?ÿ
We'll never give up the Silver Powder Coated wonder.?ÿ ?????ÿ
There was talk about getting a Trimble DiNi and I wouldn't complain.?ÿ
It's a good crucible for the crew, if you can't run a 2 peg test or a level loop, maybe you should move downstairs to the planning department.
Sometimes the pluses and minuses balance out mathematically.?ÿ it can happen.?ÿ Sort of like flipping a coin and it ends up standing upright next to a door or chair leg.
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In Japan, perfection is only a goal and never attainable, yet strived for.
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Oh yeah, addendum:
So my junior coworker running the rod put out a radio broadcast to the senior most person of the field crew(I'm new at this place) and asks for a rod bubble.
Before senior guy responds I crack in " We won't need a bubble today. We'll just rock the rod old school"
Teaching new dogs old tricks is important.
There's been times using the digital when I wish it were optical. Stuck in a heat sink where we couldn't effectively shoot over a hundred feet due to the spread error. Of course you'd probably have to have both instruments available in that space to see if the optical would out-perform - though I think it would.
If it's dancing enough to be a problem for digital, wouldn't an eyeball average through an optical level be too suspect also? I would think the average refraction correction for those conditions would be too hard to estimate.
