The options for risk are high BUT ... It's one of the few jobs where you have to be paying attention and thinking ALL the time you are out, so that r...
That handrail looks as though it's done a bit of tectonic shifting
So that's how target rods get bent!
It's called "Care of equipment". Our rod always travel in a padded bag AND within that each has its own protective plastic tube (as used for plumbing...
@lurker?ÿ Gives a bit of comfort to those like LukeNZ with a bent pole. On a practical point I might do that if there had been an accident on site a...
@shawn-billings?ÿ I think we are at cross puposes here. I agree that if EVERYTHING is the same then the various biases will cancel out. The point I ...
@shawn-billings?ÿ Agreed, but to be consistent you would have to walk round 180 degrees on the pole before looking at the bubble.
@olemanriver?ÿ Top mounted EDM certainly protect the instrument from the heat. I had an AGA120 (Geodimeter) on a T2 out in Sri Lanka at the start of ...
All ours are still Wild GDF6's: I've never yet found a robot which can move them. Don't even take delivery of the tribrach on any new instrument we ge...
Good practice says that you ensure all the gear is correctly adjusted (which means NOT using a bent rod!!). Yes, for control I'd always orientate the ...
I do wonder - that footpath has been patched several times. If they repair the concrete where the mark is, does the labourer think "This mark is impor...
Try this one for size and confusion (South Gosforth, UK). Some UK local authorities have devloped a liking for "double" min-roundabouts in built up ar...
@john-putnam?ÿ ?ÿ Yes, but only as long as the window frame doesn't warp and change the angle of incidence - don't ask how I know!
We use similar ones for long term monitoring, where you can get in to make the original mounting, but then can't easily get back for long term mainten...
Optical delusion! ?ÿ
Most likely MODel X - it is not Ministry of Defence - we have an ex-MOD one and that is engraved on the lower body. The lettering on the 1952 one look...
For something "smallish" like a kitchen there is NOTHING like a large sheet of card propped up at the right height to make sure that a) it fits b) y...
@bstrand?ÿ Perhaps they cut it to the scanned size +/- 3mm.
@bc-surveyor?ÿ The study is looking at reflectorless measurement - this isn't the same as measuring to a target. Note also that reflective material i...
I'm recent, or at least my "go to" is : less said about my age the better!