On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, John Henderson wrote: > > My old man's a surveyor so I've played chainman plenty of times too. > > These days it's less about the chain and more about carrying the prism > > to the benchmark and to each spot. You don't expect the surveyor to do > > the walking, do you? > > It was a surveyor I met in the field recently who told me that the > chainman job had been abolished. > > I didn't ask her how she cuts down the trees that are in the way. > It's called fieldhand now. As a fieldhand my son has bogged the ute sorry as a fieldhand he has dug all the holes with a crowbar and hammered in the pegs. Someone still has to do the hard work He is now qualified but still looking for a job. He talks about mm accuracy, not a few centimetres. (Of course, in the 19th century, there were some very famous surveying mistakes)
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