Hi! I just started my career in surveying, a surveying assistant to be exact. I work for this company in rural Nova Scotia Canada. Beautiful lands to see and explore. Grateful for a job that will allow me to do what I love! Any tips or advice? I'm 26 and the only female surveyor. Love your videos
Hi Ellie! That is some beautiful country you are going to be working in. I suggest you get some comfortable work boots and make sure you take care of your body. Eat healthy and stay away from the bad stuff. Learn as much as you can from the crew and teach others what you know. If you ever have any questions feel free to ask. Have fun!:]
@@SmithSurveying Thanks! Feeling very blessed! Our lands are definitely very different but equally as beautiful :) Any recommendations on good boot brands??
I have enjoyed my pair of Danner Quarry USA. I am going to break down and buy a pair of Nick's Woodsman this month. I'm starting a new job in Oregon so I need some good logger boots. I'll let you know how they turn out!
Awesome video. Beautiful part of the US you're working in and that altitude will make you as fit as Superman. How are you getting on with your boots? Have you thought about getting a pair of rubber ones too?
The boots are holding up good 👍 I am going to clean and oil them this weekend. I will get a pair when it gets closer to monsoon season. Hows it going up north?
Hey, I am looking into taking some surveying classes in KY. I have an environmental science degree with a focus area in GIS so I believe some of these classes will cross over, but my question is what is the job market like? I love being in the outdoors so I know this will be a great fit for me, but worried about finding a job after taking these classes. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. You work in some beautiful places.
Man that was some blue sky we don't see that very much here in Tennessee. Do you ever use a Total Station in your work or is it all with the GPS system?
It is blue sky here in New Mexico most of the time ☀ I have only used the GNSS (gps) receivers since I started in August. I am hoping to get to bring out the total station this summer though. I personally don't trust the reliability of the receivers with tree coverage due to muti-pathing
I wish all I had to do was hike and find stuff on the ground I spend 80 percent of my time cutting bushes or going through briar patches or sweating my butt off in the summer here in Mississippi and Alabama but I enjoy surveying! Plus I wish everything was marked up as good as that!
That's what I was working in when I was surveying in New Mexico and Arizona. I'm back home in Oregon in the woods now. Lots of brush and poison oak to cut 😂
I noticed the section monuments located with GPS had pine trees close. In NC my GPS lacks accuracy when pine trees are close. It never was a concern to the surveyor in the video? Why?
Also no bipod with opus readings? What’s the epoch count for these shots? A little confused, is he saying the base was established using OPUS or all current corners being shot? Remember I’m a NC/S FLA surveyor so what seems obvious in your territory isn’t here
Hey brother I've been trying to apply for an apprenticeship program but everything seems to be closed down for applications at the moment. Is there any other route someone who'd like to be a surveyor could take other than through an apprenticeship ?
@jose g It kinda depends on your situation but I can tell you how I got started. I got online and got contact information for the local BLM surveyors office and contacted them. I volunteered a summer working and that got my foot in the door. You can contact local surveyors and ask them if you can shadow them. Volunteer your time and show them that you care. Work hard and learn as much as you can man 🤙
why do you setup the base in an arbitrary point with unknown coordinates in the local datum? do you collect static measurements in the base during rtk and then process it all over? whats the plan?
I run a static observation while I'm out in the field. I set the base to Northing 100,000 Easting 100,000 so I can work while the static observation is going and use the processed static observation as the control. Good question :]
I'd take an rtk shot (with cors) of the point and then set up the base with the known coordinates. Or just use cors and rtk without base. Assumed you've got coverage there. Static processing and coordinate transformation of the already measured points is just extra work I wanna avoid :p
Hello, Are there many immgrants that doing surveying ? I am actually studying geodetic and cadastral surveying in college in SouthKorea and served as a surveyor when I was in army . I dont know if that helps me to get a job in NorthAmerica Thank you :)
Great video! How long did it take after you finished school to get this gig? I've been looking into surveying and it seems like a lot of the jobs by me (Ohio) are for construction sites, but what you're doing seems a lot more interesting to me. Are there a lot of jobs like this in surveying?
Hey man I was wondering if I should do this for a living my grandpa has his own good business and I could take over. I am only fourteen and I have like a year of experience so far. What are your thoughts?
Hey dude! If you enjoy it then I would suggest pursuing a career in land surveying. Lots of opportunities out there for Land Surveyors.. Learn as much as you can from your grandpa and start saving for college right now :)
@@SmithSurveyingsorry to bother you but how old do you have to be to start. Is it 18 but you normally start at like 20 or something because of the schooling.
@@kolbyadams8536 My schooling cost about $30,000, but the cost depends on where you go. You can do some research online and check what schools in your area offer degrees in Surveying or Geomatics. I went to Oregon Tech and it was a great school. You can start working right now and get as much experience as you can. Every state has different requirements for licensure, so you'll have to look that up. Usually you have to have a degree and a certain amount of time worked under a licensed professional. You can do it man 👍
@@SmithSurveying used Trimble gear at my last job. Sx10/tsc7. Used r6 model 3 for gps. It sucked in any canopy. My new gig we use Carlson. So far I like it.
Hello, I’m getting close to finishing my associates in general studies in college, I will then need to have a degree picked if I want to continue to getting a bachelors and have seen a surveying degree available at other universities that I could transfer to. What is it that you have do you just have a certificate or do you have a bachelors in this field? Also what companies can I work for that will allow be to survey in like national parks that you do. Any advice would help, thanks.
Congratulations! I got a bachelor's degree from Oregon Tech and I studied Geomatics (Land Surveying Option). Well there are a lot of companies that work in national parks but if you are interested in working for a government agency that is a route you can take. I worked for the Forest Service in this video but I work for the Bureau of Land Management now. If you can get into the Pathways program while you are in college, it is an awesome program. What state are you in?
@@SmithSurveying USA! If my neighborhood was surveyed in the 1950's using pacing, how can the measurements be the same if the same property is surveyed today using modern tech? Or are you saying a surveyor today would not use pacing at all if property is being re-surveyed?
@M TS The measurement could be the same if the person that did the pacing was super accurate. I've done some pacing to find a property corner but never to establish or reestablish one. Do you have any documents on it? I'd really like to see that survey!
Why not use a network that has permanent base stations that would beat the need of carrying it all over the place. Whip out the GPS anywhere and be able to use it
Why is it that there is so much smoke and mirrors when it comes to locating true North? Have you ever compared you compass to the North Star, I have and the compass was about the same in so much that I could not detect any variation. I know that might not be true for other places, but just like you most Surveyor just pull a compass and take a bearing without adjusting for declination. So I am assuming your compass was off by say nine or ten degrees maybe. Anyway north seems to be a mystery to a common person.
I set my declination scale on my compass before I go out in the field on a new project. That way my compass is set to "true north" and not magnetic north. Do you set your declination on your compass? I always enjoy hearing from your Armor Vestrus!
This guy seems young, is he licensed or just working for someone else? If he’s working for someone else they should really send him with another guy lol
