Chief Surveyor, Fallon, NV: alidade? plane table? transit?

[Lee Hixson]

That's right.

Looks like we have a new, expanded definition of conventional equipment. Now, all my fellow job searchers, besides having the ability to "keep notes" and have competence with "triangulation procedures" we also need to be able to "...Obtain data ...using alidade, level, transit, plane table...."

(Whew! At least they left out the Gunter's Chain--and knotted wagon wheels.)

https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?jobId=191901&partnerid=25037&siteid=5010&codes=in-indeed

[land butcher]

ROTFLMAO

I'm guessing about half of the surveyor's active today have never seen, let alone used a alidade or plane table.

[RAM]

Could be intertested job, BUT have you been in Fallon in January, I have and it's not the 10 deg temp that is so bad, it is the 30-40 mph winds.

[Dhanrion]

I learned on a PT and alidade. It was such art work, but not high precision. But you sure learned how to dial-in the contouring!

[E_Page]

I've used all of those. Most likely, they just pulled out the position description that was last updated in the 1960s.

[Stephen Johnson]

That's right.

Looks like we have a new, expanded definition of conventional equipment. Now, all my fellow job searchers, besides having the ability to "keep notes" and have competence with "triangulation procedures" we also need to be able to "...Obtain data ...using alidade, level, transit, plane table...."

(Whew! At least they left out the Gunter's Chain--and knotted wagon wheels.)

https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?jobId=191901&partnerid=25037&siteid=5010&codes=in-indeed


Even have used the wheel. Ours was 6.6' circumference.

Have used the plane table on Large area (miles & miles) surveys.

BTW I did start in the 60's.

[Lee Hixson]

Me too. Summer of 1965, right out of high school. Pounded stakes behind two guys dragging a chain all across the outback of Utah and Idaho. Worked my way up the 5-man crew to head chain-man. (They let me touch the transit once, right before I escaped to CA.)