For some reason…right out of the blue today I thought of your father and the wonderful infectious personality he had….I was driving by some apartments when he came to mind and I actually thought I saw him taking a stroll…🚶 ……just shows how people carry on deep in the memory of even strangers…he must have touched your hearts deeply.
That's funny because I passed a construction crew using one of those last week, one guy looking through it and the other moving around with the stick thingy, and I thought about what the heck that thing was used for, I kinda figured it was to measure something, but now I know! Thanks!
Not only did I not know how it worked I didn't even know what it was called! I've seen many of them in road work going on over the years, but had no idea what they were for. And in every case there was a second person with the stick thing holding it and moving it around for the person at the transit. Thanks for that lesson I learned something new today. Much love from So.Cal.💟
Thanks for showing how a transit works. I've always wondered about that and thought there had to be a lot of algebra and geometry involved. It's good to know that it's just a matter of getting the transit level to begin with and then making sure your measuring stick is at the same height/depth at several spots in your project. Deer just love rose bushes. My dad put cages like the kind you put around tomato plants to protect my mom's roses.
The deer are so cute you can't get too mad at them,lol 😂 Nice lesson on the transit.Wow, not a small undertaking to add that extra space. Hope you both have a fantastic week!
Good morning Bill, I have seen those over the years (never knew the name). Thank you for the explanation and demonstration. 👍 Very helpful and much appreciated! God bless!
Those sneaky deer - they have the entire outdoors to eat, but they eat the roses instead. It's a good thing your garden, and fruit frees are protected.
Enjoyable learning video. No useless blab. As in all good presentations, information from the commenters is good viable information or opinions. For the majority of commenters they got what they were looking for, "Oh, that's what that is!" I was looking for a little more. Armor Vestrus added enough for the redirect I am looking for. Having already used an "optic level transit" to facilitate placing 60,0000 lbs of steel structure and contents, I am faced with 3 more simpler but vastly larger structure locations. After that I will need to use a laser level, altitude verified by a distant "transit". If I understand correctly, I should be able to accomplish the task with a powerful optic leveler and not need to pay for the more expensive transit. Bottom line, I have more learning to do. Thanks for the video.
Fascinating! I always wondered how to use one of those. But to be honest, I never even knew what their name was, lol. Thank you for showing how and why they are used!
Yep thanx bill..as surveyors of sort back in 68in Toronto we used the transit,for angles and azimuts and the level for what you were doing taking the elevation. You brought back memories of the construction of highway 27 & 401.(:-). I only did that work for five years. Good job
I love it love it love it!! Thank you! I love learning new things! Great video I never heard of transit but then again in my profession I didn't need to. You crack me up with the deer eating your roses. Lol oh deer.🌹🥀⚘
Bill, you think your transit is old school, you should have seen my dad's! His was probably from at least the 50's. I don't think he would have had a current one in the 60's when he was building golf courses and surveying for grade. We used it all the way up till he surveyed some land he was selling in 2012-13. I'm sure the transit is still around, even though my dad is not. We called the stick a surveying rod. Thanks for the memories!
AWEEEE BUT BUT the Deer are just SO ADORABLE!!! LOL Yes I found this video very interesting because I not only didn't know how it worked nor did I even know the existence of a transit!! LOL But I love learning new things!!!
That was interesting. I always wondered how those worked. Thanks for showing us. You may have to put wire fencing around the rose's to protect them from the deer but it was pretty cool seeing the 2 does together at your house.
Went union, and while I worked for a plumber for a year and a half and learned a lot the unions teaching us about a lot of tools I had never heard of before. Wanted to see a visual demonstration of the transit level, great video!
They have an app on the phone level transit that we used on ours. It works pretty good. Until then I never knew how they worked. Pretty neat and makes the job easier.
When I got my new granite countertops they brought in a laser and put it in the middle of the kitchen and then shot laser lines all over. 3 weeks later, there came my counterrops.
Thank you Bill. I love tools. I saw the crosshairs just fine both times. I would love to check out the laser one. Too bad you couldn't just rent one :) Thanks so much for sharing :)
The "stick " .. Philly Rod , Linker Rod.. sure there's more but that's what i know it as ... Even called the "Shitter" Rod for dipping Sanitary Sewers to get a invert.
I used a laser transit today but they're not as accurate in my opinion. I shot my grade and double checked a few and some were 1/8 " different. Nothing wrong with old school. 👍
Please don't think that I am being mean or a know it all because I am not, but I have learned that a tool like the one you have in this video is a Level not a transit. I use to think they were the same thing but they have completely different functions. The industry even misuses the name but I do not know why. A true transit will let you flip the scope vertically 360 degrees so you can shoot a line backward without turning the head at all. I also have another type of Transit that a lot of builders use. It lets you tilt the head at a 45 degree angle but it is not even a true transit. A true transit lets you prolong a line more accurately than a haft transit or a level. To answer your speculation about how the level is used by surveyors like you have they use them to do contour mapping.👍
I appreciate you informing us about the transit. I am doing this for a project in Precalculus. I have one question though. Whenever we continue our transit the next day, does our rod reading have to be the same as the previous one we did in order to keep it balance everyday for an accurate measurement?
That's an automatic level, not a transit. Generations and generations of contractors in the past have referred to levels as transits, but they're not. A transit is an engineering instrument that can measure elevations like your automatic level. Also, the scope swings all the way through vertically 360 degrees which enables it's capability for surveying applications in the field for line transfer, or plumb, like for steel erection engineering, columns, etc. A transit has a finely graduated horizontal circle for measuring precise horizontal angles in the field like for applications such as squaring up concrete forms for large commercial type concrete foundations, or establishing bearings and boundries between tracts of land. I've heard levels referred to as transits hundreds of times over the years because I've been involved in land surveying equipment sales and service since the 1970's. I always thought it may be because there are other types of levels on jobsites, including carpenter levels, or speed levels, so contractors way back when may have called levels , transits, as to avoid confusing it with other types of non-optical levels on the job. Not sure, but it's always a point of humor in most instrument shops.
I have always wondered how a transit works and I thank you for the nice demonstration. However, dumb question: how do you know if it's level if the stick might be stuck down farther in to the ground than the one by the house or are the sticks just set on top of the ground?
You must not be American? We don't use metric here. I've been using these transits for decades, and I've never seen a metric stick. It doesn't matter which unit you use, and long as you use the same one consistently.
@@LiveSimpleLiveFree i promise metric measurements is better, but for an optical level it's the only thing that you can use. But anyways, ain't nagging at ya, good video, old timer,... looking to buy a level now... take care ....