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Surveying the ground for the new Cidery

We had two Engineers from a local surveying company Larry Steele and Associates out today to plot the terrain around where the new Cidery is going to be built as well as locate the existing buildings on the site (House and Barns).

Here are some photos:

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A truck full of high-tech goodies…


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Laser Transit - it measures distance, angle and elevation and
stores this in an on-board computer.



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A target is placed at an earlier survey post defining the property line.
All measurements are referenced to this.


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Our dogs were very happy to help out…


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Sometimes the appropriate technology is just a tape measure…