Survey Slang

A Picket A Warm Body Angle Tightener

Arkansas Ninety

Banana Knife Beater Beer 30 Beer Leg

Beer Thirty Beer Truck

Big Yellow Bill Dukey Bleed All Over It Blowing The Office Stink Off BOB Bob Up Bonker Boomer Box It Break Chain Brush Buck In Bug Bump Bust

Button Monkey

Candy Cane Can't See It From My House Cap Crusher Carl Cartoon Chain

Clap a Ninety Concrete Dry

Cooked Up Cornstalk Cows Face Crick Crummy Dark 30 Desk jockey

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Survey Slang The width of a rod as in "half a picket to your left" A green rodman hired to fill out a crew. Party Chief to a new, unsuspecting instrument person "We have a bad angular closure, what you need is a angle tightener I think it's in the glove box next to the tape calibrator!" Standing on a line and slapping your hands together to approximate 90?. Machete Sledgehammer Quitting time When the instrument operator sets a tripod leg on the line so that the chainman can't chain properly. The first one to recognize it and holler out gets a free beer from the instrument man. "This doesn't happen as much since we got those new-fangled EDM things." Quitting time Park a truck over a control point and you buy the beer (full case) Metal detector Shovel Lots of red edits to the draftsman's maps Going out into the field. Old HP total station for big orange box. Raise the gammon reel Metal detector Long shot To pack up the instrument Shortening the chain going up or down hills. Any timbered area Trial and error instrument setup online between two points. Eleven Small amount followed by right or left When the traverse/level loop has a bad closure due to a mistake. Surveyor who only pays attention to the data collector and not the real world. Range pole Good enough - let's get out of here. Aluminum cap driver Nickname for a Zeiss theodolite Construction plan Anything to measure with that winds up (cloth tape, nylon, metal, etc) A right angle off a baseline. End of GPS static session (as in about as exciting as watching dry) GPS session done (25 footer). Steep ground Creek in Pittsburgh Crews vehicle When do we quit? Office worker

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Dingwop

Dinky Dirt Bag Dog Hair or Whips Donneker Doodlebug Drive It Duane Thomas Rod

Every time you think about it, hurry Eye Box Eye-oh Field Apes Flop Flying Saucer Surveyors Flying Saucers Following Rabbit Tracks Frost Pin Funny Papers Fuzz George Get down there and wolf that out Give Me a Boot

Glass Goat Meter Good for Wood

Grunt Gum Tree

Gun Hair Have a pencil? Then get his phone number and you can call him tonight Head for The Shed

Hemlock Stump He's crazier than a run over dog. He's stump broke Highway Ham Sandwich

Hockey Puck

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Survey Slang A 1.5 inch diameter by 6 inch long steel weight with an eyebolt and spring-latch (like the hardware at the end of a dog leash) screwed into the weight such that the distance from the bottom of the weight to the inside of the spring latch is one foot. It is used primarily as a weight at the end of a fiberglass tape to use when sounding water depths or measuring water surface elevation below a reference point on a bridge. It makes it simple to adjust your sounding or tape-down distance by exactly one foot. It is also handy to use simply as a weight to hold one end of the tape when doing rough horizontal distance measurements by yourself. It is a common term within the water resources community in Indiana (USGS and DNR at least). Eleven Someone that is unlicensed going to the field Small pieces of timber A big, unmovable rock just sticking out above subgrade. Magnetic Locater Set the pin (or stake) One that you are not sure whether it was adjusted, or hit by a Road Grader or maybe some sort of farming machine. What the surveyor tells a crewman that may be dragging. I send the green chainman to find one I/O or instrument operator Field worker Double centering Those who believe blindly in GPS. For GPS receivers Running an erratic traverse Big steel spike Construction papers. Small amount followed by right or left Nickname for Geodimeter. Clear the brush with a chain saw. When doing a topographic survey, placing the rod on your boot top to get that extra foot of rod to read. Prism Nickname for the Geodimeter. Instrument man telling chainman, when putting a hub on line prior to pounding it in to set a tack. Term used by office persons to identify field persons A tree the field crew has no idea what it is, so they identify it as a "gum tree" Theodolite/Total station Small amount followed by right or left Ya'll are talking too much out there.

We have completed our assigned duties for the day and it is now time to return to the office. Surveyors IQ When someone does or says something foolish or funny Experienced field hand A bologna sandwich. The Georgia State Highway Dept. lunch, couldn't afford real ham sandwiches for lunch. Tribrach adaptor

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Holler Hollywood Hop Hotfoot I-man Importing Daylight It is what it is

I've had more fun than any one person should have Jaggerz

Jakeleg Surveyor Jigger

Jumper

Just installing a perforated overhead sanitary line through your property, sir. Knife Knock Legs Lens 'Lil Lucy Magic Carpet Ride Maul Meat Mirror Motion Lotion Mount Moving a "Rod" or "Half a Rod" Mr. Green Jeans Muck Muck Mudbug (a Louisiana crawfish) Must be part of an old Mule plow

Nancy Nolan (short for Swollen Nolan) Nose bag Number Banger Ok, another day in the life of Rod Transit. Ought, Double Ought, Triple Ought

Pack It Up

Peecup Pegged out my fun meter P-gun Ph.D

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Survey Slang Not to yell, but a "hollow", as in a stream depression. The number 69. Height of the backsight. Rodman on a two man crew Instrument person Very deep into the woods! Used in the field and now the office, when a measurement doesn't match record. We have completed our assigned duties for the day and it is now time to return to the office. What the southerners call "briars" or "sticker bushes" - the field crew hates these An unlicensed surveyor that will work cheaply. For any survey instrument on a tripod except GPS which seems to have no nickname. Origin of "Jigger" thought to be from a question asked by a native New Zealander in the 1800s "What's that thingamajig?" Chisel used to make a hole in the rock roof to set the station underground To a inquiring property owner

Machete Small amount followed by right or left Tripod Prism Small amount followed by right or left Prism pole Helicopter transport Wisconsin slang for sledge hammer New folks referred to as "meat"; as in fresh! Prism Gasoline Tripod Moving by a prism pole width Nickname for a Wild T-1 Use your hands Field hand You have no idea what you just dug up when looking for the corner. Nikon NTD3 Wooden Tripods Lunch box Person that calculates The chief signals quitting time.

0, 00, 000 - stationing (1+00 is "one plus double ought") or size of drafting pens We have completed our assigned duties for the day and it is now time to return to the office. Wisconsin slang for pickup truck After working all day in 60 mph winds and 20 degrees. Hand level Really handy for setting monuments-that's a post hole digger

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Pin Finder Pincushion Corner Pipe Farm Pistol Butt Planting Iron Plumb Ball Pogie Pogo Pogo Stick Pogues Pogy Point of "Beer"ing

Pointer Pounder Powder Monkey Powerful Saw Pretty maids in a row Pull your head out of your box

Pulp Wood Crew Punk Punkin

Railroad Raise for Red Ralph RBS

RBT

Red Dawg Red Head Reflector Rigging Rigging Slippers or Sticky Shoes Robbie Gunn

Rock Detector

Rod RSO

School Marm Scope Screamer Sharp Shooter Shooter Shooting Stick Side Rod Skootch

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Survey Slang Magnetic Locater More than one monument marking one point. Area with lots of pincushion corners. Crooked tree trunk Setting monuments Plumb bob Term used by field persons to identify office persons Prism pole Prism pole Office types Prism pole Rod person sets point near large obstacle blocking field of vision for subsequent shots. Previous setup needs to be repeated to set new point. More common than beer leg in these EDM days. Rod person buys round for crew. Theodolite/Total station Sledgehammer Blasting person Chain saw Good points on line Telling a "Button Monkey" to pay attention to what's on the ground and not in the data collector Survey crew that spends a lot of time cutting line 11 (so as not to mix up with 7) The number 7 (7 and 11 sound alike when shouted from a long distance) The number 11 Rod to close to level Metal detector Really Big Scale - usually a big old' 2 foot long architectural scale. Really Big Triangle - "Looks like we'll need the RBT to draw this line" Red clay road in Pittsburgh Nail with flagging on it set for temporary point Prism Surveyors tools Caulk boots Two man robotic crew. RG is used in field notes for the "other" crew member That mysterious device that the new guy always gets sent to the truck to find Prism pole Radial stake out sheet given to crew in pre-data collector days. Two trees growing together Theodolite/Total station Metal detector Shovel or drain spade Theodolite/Total station Prism Pole The boss Move it a little bit - "Skootch it left a hair Bubba!"

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Skosh Slack Off Smeller Snag Sniffer Some days chicken, some days feathers. Spad

Spinner Sprinkling Holy Water Staff Stake Farm

Stinger Stob Driver Stone Township SWAG The Rock Tad Tear Down The Eagle Flies Ties Tinhorn Training Wheels

Transit Wand Wave it Well, leave it to Beaver Well, sometime you 'da windshield, sometime you 'da bug or Whirling Disease

Whiskey Leg Wiggle In

Wing Ding Ying Yang Your other left Your other right

Survey Slang Small amount followed by right or left. Quitting time Magnetic Locator Old dead tree Metal detector When things aren't going well for someone.

Flat nail with an eyehole (to hang the plumb-bob) pounded into the roof underground for a survey station Theodolite/Total station Land Surveyor signing plat Prism pole Open construction site where you've just set a couple of hundred survey stakes. Prism pole Surveyor Survey monumented with stone corners Scientific Wild A** Guess T- 2000 Small amount followed by right or left Pack up the instrument Pay day Measurements to objects from a corner Corrugated metal pipe Two lath held to a prism pole to hold it steady for stakeout of "close" points. Theodolite/Total station Metal detector I can't see you, pick up the rod and wave it around Commenting on the actions of a consistent bonehead. When things aren't going well for someone.

Trying to stake a point with RTK after 5 tries and all being in a circular pattern. Rather than beer leg, (illustrative of early mentors) The process of setting up the transit on line between two points - a trial & error sort of thing that gets you kind of close to being on online - sometimes called "bucking in" The 90 degree arms measure Confused person Right. Left.

Yoyo

Gammon reel

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