>>2708432That is cool Assuiebro.
I figured one of these threads someday there would be a fellow surveyor. Always interested in how other surveyors do things.
Ticks suck ass, and so do mosquitoes. A few snakes and small gators here or there but the bugs are always the biggest problem.
Heat and humidity are always a bitch here too. I have worked from the panhandle to the Keys in Florida in every type of bullshit you could think of doing topographical surveys.
Now I just do subsurface utility exploration(SUE) mostly, I use radio frequency equipment and ground penatrating radar to locate underground utilities on State roads. Then GPS to set control then survey. Then a vacuum excavation crew will show up later and verify what I marked and I survey the test holes.
Love working in the woods though, normally quiet, peaceful and don't have to worry about getting run over.
Most of roads in Orlando are named after surveyors, it is a long held profession. You couldn't build anything without them.
I tied into traverse x cuts in trees that where only a few hundredths out cut 100+ years ago.
You guys use metric I assume?
We use the us survey foot which is the bastard of the metric system, breaks down a foot into tenths. We double check all backsight, foresight and instrument heights with metric.
