Surveying: Quick Total Station Setup 

That was the best explanation I have ever heard or seen. You are a great teacher!

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Excellent demonstration.

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Awesome i just began surveying this was a lot of help.

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You're video might be the reason I get really good at this. Thank you so much my dude! Working out mostly in downtown Atlanta way up at the tops of new c0nstructions. Laying out for plumbing mostly. Thanks again this explains it better than anything I've ever seen and I appreciate this information so much.

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Great video. I use basically the same steps but one thing I do different is that when I set up my tripod, I level the plate with my torpedo level. That way I know my plate is level over my control point. Then I mount my total station into the tripod. I level the total station rough bubble to the plate.

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I am new i want to lean survey, thank you for the video boss

I'll be using this for a guestlecture at a dutch college as surveyor, translating what is meaningfull for the students.

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I discovered these videos today. I'm a former ironworker and a new surveyor. Awesome content. I would like to see a video covering the toolboxes on your work truck and also one on equipment maintenance. Keep up the great work

We built high risers so anything under .002 was good enough except embeds or anything like that

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Please good afternoon, I'm from Ghana 🇬🇭,i just complete S.H.S And i want to learn this machine what should I do please

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I was taught to zero the digital level out so there will be no error when back sighting

next video of this pls

in using ts in backsighting station for prepering topo suvey can you help me whats the procedure or steps sir/ma'am?

I’m having trouble. My station setup is being thrown off with the horizontal distance being -3 after measuring my back sight

R u planning any content regarding control traversing or looping of vertical control?

One cannot rely on optical plumbing as there may disturbance in prism.

Hello Brandon...what model total station are you using ?

this is nice vedio ,in what case during sit work the data is inverted???????

Which instrument are you using?

Set your legs before you put the station on

You know that you’ve mastered equipment setup when you can do this quickly on a soft dirt slope. Then your driving in the fast lane.

How to actual target prisom,

The method in this video works, but takes too long (IMHO) because lots of surveyors want to utilize the optical plummet of an instrument before it is leveled true. First, this video shows a "wide enough" stance, where I see a lot of people who set up this way end up with the tripod base that is very narrow. By "this way" I am referring to a setup procedure that includes at some point, looking thru an optical plummet that is not plumb/level. Those narrow set ups (the one in this video not included, it is fine) can "blow over" especially working along an interstate highway and set up in the breakdown lane on asphalt. So, first, I suggest a setup with the height pretty much as in this video (relative to your own eye height and the terrain) but the legs even further apart for a wider stance (video setup is very good, but wider is even better). There is no reason (95% of situations) to not have a maximally stable stance. That being said, the following method will get you set up in sixty seconds or less nine times out of ten. This setup time begins only when you are more or less at or very near the setup point. 1. Extend a leg to your preferred length (I suggest a couple tenths longer than was done in this vid, (becuz even more stability), and then drop the other two legs to the same length. 2. Place the tripod somewhere and attach your instrument to it (this step is only needed at your first setup, but every setup if you box your instrument between setups). I transport my instrument between setups on its tripod, and I carry the assembly upright, so as not to stress the total stations structural parts. 3. Place one leg an appropriate (educated guess) distance from the setup point, and take the other two legs in your hands about midway down each leg. Open the legs so that they are splayed to either side of you, in more or less the desired angle with the tripod head ROUGHLY eyeballed as level. 4. By eye, imagine a plumb line passing through the instrument, and move yourself and the two loose legs so that imagined plumb line also passes through the leg that is touching the ground AND the setup point. That is, you are moving the two loose legs, and your head and body and the instrument, so that your eye, the opposite fixed leg and the instrument are all somewhere on that imagined plumb line that also passes thru the setup point. 5. Set down the two legs you were holding and moving, taking care to keep the tripod head roughly level (roughly, don't bother looking at the bubbles). 6. With all three legs on the ground walk around the setup a third of the way, and note that, from this new vantage point between a different pair of legs, an imaginary plumb line passing thru the opposite leg and the instrument DOES NOT pass thru the setup point (unless you got lucky). 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5. You should notice that each time you do steps 4 and 5, the tripod head will get closer and closer to being roughly over the setup point. Almost always, two to three iterations is all you need to get the tripod head "close enough" so that the legs need not be shifted further. 7. Use your body weight to firmly plant all three legs, exactly as shown in this video 8. Take your plumb bob/gammon reel (if you have one) and hold it under the center of the tripod, and note where the tripod head center is relative to the setup point. Put another way, which way does the tripod head need to go to be over the point? DO NOT look thru the optical plummet at this point. DO NOT use the laser dot at this point if you have one. Those things used at this point will throw you off, because the instrument hasn't been leveled yet. If you don't have a plumb bob, just skip this step. If you do have a plumb bob, move the tripod head closer over the point by slightly shortening and/or lengthening one or two of the legs. This video shows explains that part very well. The goal is to get the tripod head within a tenth of a foot (30mm) of its final location. If you skip this step, you may or may not need to shorten or lengthen a leg during the next step 9. Level the instrument using the three leveling screws, and ONLY THEN look thru the optical plummet. Slide the instrument across the tripod head so that it is directly over the point. (or shorten/lengthen legs and then do that) 10. Check that you are still level after shifting the instrument position on the tripod. If not level, repeat step 9. 11. Rotate the optical plummet to the opposite side of the instrument, recheck the level bubbles and then the optical plummet. Problems then? Your instrument is out of adjustment. Everything checks? Your setup is done. IMPORTANT NOTE: One advantage of this system is the time saved by not having to constantly keep the tripod head approximately level so that you can kinda sorta rely on the optical plummet or laser. I only need to keep the head level enough so that the instrument can eventually be leveled. This procedure is really hard to explain in text form, but easy to teach in person. It is VERY fast, even on a slope or when setting up over a "tall point" (something like a nail in a tallish tree stump). Why did I bother to type this up? I get very frustrated watching people set up using optical plummets or laser dots that aren't plumb, and taking five or six minutes to set up a total station. Finally, it took me a very long time to type this, but this procedure is very fast. It makes a huge difference if you have a lot of setups, and doesn't matter if you set up very few times per day. I hope someone finds this rant useful......

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