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Posted by Mike Shepp on February 14, 2021 at 4:48 pmI discovered the other night that surveying has become a ??thing? on YouTube.
jed replied 2 years, 9 months ago 29 Members · 123 Replies- 123 Replies
The dude is dressed like a mummy and it looks like it’s about 70 degrees out there. Ha I’ve thought about picking up a go pro or 2 and live streaming on twitch but then I figure nobody would watch me anyway. ???
I wouldn’t trust his backsights to be stable. In his second video he says he set one the day before. If it was one of his sticks, then Yikes!
.WOW, makes me appreciate my robot and GPS.
And my laser plummet and my data collector.
It makes a handy backsight.
My first question is what are you doing and how much money are you making? ????
He has some neat videos. One man conventional topo, booking every shot…
I’m sorry. I was on the verge of dropping into a vertigo storm, first thing. What does it cost to hire a camera man, man? Or use a tripod? Daryl Moistener, where the hell are you?
I will defer to those among us that perform that sort of survey in 2021. In almost 50 years in the biz, I have taken on very few projects like that and none of those that I did take on were done with a theodolite. City Boy. Flatlander. Sissy. Call me what you will.
For nostalgic reasons, that sort of thing is interesting to see. A quick, rough traverse for U-tube purposes seems like a quaint outing for fun. I never worked on a project where we were sent out to have fun.
Using a stick with a nail in the top as a backlight? Not what the guys with good closures used to use, when I broke in. Good enough for some projects. Not good enough for “So you want to be a Surveyor” crap, IMHO.
Show me a good chaining crew do their thing and I am all over it. Leveling, tensioning, temperature correction. That will light my fire.
I’m old. Set in my ways. Don’t like to change just for the sake of change. But, I have some pretty cool GPS stuff that may have been able to do that survey, in those conditions, without a single nail in a stick, with all of the constellations available. Not naming names.
Rant off. Valentines Day blues.
JA, PLS, SoCal
@flga-2-2
Duh.
He’s an influencer. Probably worth millions.
JA, PLS, SoCal
I will admit that I only briefly browsed the video, but did anyone see an instrument that was leveled? Every shot I paid attention to was obviously off level.
Jeff D.The rifle in the cab would be particularly interesting to the local department of wildlife or fish and game and law enforcement.
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The camera was rarely more than approximately level, so hard to judge except by comparison to trees.
I did see references to leveling the gun. He was quick about it, so I assume that model has compensation built in and he only needed to be sorta close.
. Yes, he leveled the instrument, and was very fast. That and the fact that he set backsights with half-rotten old branches just pushed into the ground, and he didn’t use a data collector, make me think that this wasn’t him actually surveying but doing a video about surveying.
This guy is interesting to watch. Entertaining and informative. Indiana Drones
I spent $180,000 on this LiDAR now DJI released one for $500 – YouTube
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There are a whole series of videos by him, some in difficult conditions. If he was faking, he sure went to more work than necessary to do that.
His backsights were somewhat sloppy, but he only needed enough accuracy to tell which trees were inside the line, so maybe that was good enough?
. @oldpacer Robots are a bit heavy for that kind of work where you’re packing it while climbing over slippery rocks and logs, down cut lines and up and down steep slippery slopes. I’ll take a compact TS over a robot any day for long traverses through thick forest. I’ve worked with some old pros at that kind of work and there are some pretty slick tricks to making back sights you don’t have to go back and pick up to move ahead.
WillyI’m more with @jerry-attrick on this one. Mildly interesting video of a very rough surveying method that would be (barely) OK for about 1-3% of the work I’m involved in.
Most of the “day in the life” or “so you want to be” surveyor videos are comprised of fieldwork with minimal explanation of the reasoning behind it, or what the finished product looks like, or the additional steps that have to be taken in the office for what they’re doing to be useful. The standard video is more “walk through woods talking about how awesome it is to be in the woods, and turn a few angles while we’re at it.”
I mean, even when I used to do more fieldwork, my day also involved some field calculations, data processing, QC/QA and usually some drafting. Also GNSS, robotic total stations, laser scanners etc…some of which could be used in the woods solo with more efficiency. (No digital data collection? They were mainstream by the ’90s. I haven’t booked an angle in years, and I only did that because it was required by DOT contract.)
But hey, it is YouTube, and there are some cool vids on there. There’s nothing wrong with showing the cool parts of our job. It’s just a very skewed look at a very narrow slice of a pretty wide-ranging profession.
Also, if all you want to do is run around in the woods for the duration of your surveying career, you are going to have to accept the limitations that come with it. Headhunters and employers who are trying to lure me away aren’t doing it because I can run line solo with a conventional TS.
“…people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” -Neil Postman
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