Surveyors Mental Tattoo?

[hellsangle]

When I was cutting my teeth as instrument "person", my party chiet, John Bolin, (LS 4047) would ask "Level? Over the point? Zero?" To this day that mental tattoo pops into my head everytime I set up.

"Forward 'n Aft" when measuring with a staff. (The bubble isn't exact unless you mean the 0.01'+/- difference by takin' two shots "Forward 'n Aft".)

More field procedures out there???

Crazy Phil - Surveyor to Recorder

[DWoolley]

A leaning rod is a falling rod.

[DWoolley]

"A leaning rod is a falling rod."

"CHAAAIN!" just before you run out of 100' or 300' in length.

"Raise for red" when reading a rod close to the level. The even foot marks were in red, tenths and hundredths are black. The rod is raised until you can read the even foot as a check.

"7.07" and "14.14" diagonal checks for 5x5 and 10x10 offsets. If a measurement was 0.01' either side of the number you confirmed with a "7.07", not 7.06.

Incorrectly citing an approximate distance in inches "We measure in tenths of foot. Inches are for carpenters and hookers".

[Dave Lindell]

Calling out "Fifteen: one, five" or "Fifty: five, zero" to clarify 15 or 50.
(There seems to be a lot of variations to differentiate seven and eleven. If you have ever played craps you will hear them all when players call out their choice of bet placing.)

[m4man]

When getting ready to set zero with the gun: "Looking at you".
When getting very close staking out: "Good for wood".
When slope chaining with the gun: "Hold your high" to record the vertical angle.

[Mr. Smith]

Looking


One


Two


Good