Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

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Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Clayton Bigsby posted:

The guy who ran the drone buys .LAS maps for work and said it's certainly close enough for most purposes. I haven't gone out and measured down to the centimeter but having measured and flattened parts of the yard using self leveling laser gear I can tell that it's not off by much. We are using it to plan future landscaping including rough calculations of soil needed / produced from excavations so it'll work just fine.

If I can drag my rear end outside after dark sometime I can go spot check a few places with the laser just for fun.

Absolute elevation I have no idea about, but it's relative that matters for what I am doing.

I mean, if this stands up, and I'm not sure how it could in even most situations, it's a super powerful tool. I'm just having a very had time believing it.

I want to be wrong.

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# ? May 31, 2024 00:39

ArcMage: Sep 14, 2007; What is this thread?; Ramrod XTreme

I have no trouble believing that it meets accuracy for most or even all purposes, but I'm an instrumentation engineer and measurement variance interests me.

# ? Jul 17, 2020 03:29

Arrath: Apr 14, 2011

I used DroneDeploy at my last gig, flying the stockpiles of various quarries we owned/did blasting service for. It was certainly accurate enough for RoM measurements of quantities of piles of rock and the more mundane things we used it for. And so much faster than the old laser profiling system that it paid for itself in the saved time. I could travel around and quantify a week's worth of quarries, with the data processed by the time I got back to the office, in the time it would take me to do two of them manually.

Where I'm at now we also use drone survey, but with actual GPS located control points and markers, and the data goes off to be hand processed and adjusted before it comes back, even then its used more for feeding into CAD for design and layout work than anything. Actual quantities of cut/fill and pay items are surveyed by certified dudes on the ground like anywhere else.

So, yes. For the average use case any of us might have for it in our backyard, I could certainly see it being accurate enough for every day use for landscaping or minor earthwork or what not. My half-rear end measurements of known features, like my truck or a fixed structure or known-quantity stockpiles for certain clients were always accurate enough that I was happy with them.

# ? Jul 17, 2020 04:27

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

I mean....piles of rocks in a quarry" sounds like the use case for this. I buy that.

Things that are more subtle like doing resi drainage.......not so much.

# ? Jul 17, 2020 04:40

Clayton Bigsby: Apr 17, 2005

Well, just for funsies I went outside now with a long rear end level and a measuring stick. Figured the height difference (there's grass so hard to get an "exact" measurement) between the plateau and the lower level to 120cm.

Checked the elevation tool.

High point is 206.29 meter, low point 205.13. So 116cm difference there.

Considering it's a lawn and not entirely even I'd say that is pretty good for most purposes.

I also measured the length of some stuff on the property and it's basically spot on (the kids' trampoline measured 361cm across, it's 360). But elevation was what surprised me.

I think we used 116 images for this particular model. It was windy so got a little "wobble" in the house in some spots.

Clayton Bigsby fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Jul 17, 2020

# ? Jul 17, 2020 14:11

Suspect Bucket: Jan 15, 2012; SHRIMPDOR WAS A MAN
I mean, HE WAS A SHRIMP MAN
er, maybe also A DRAGON
or possibly
A MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM
BUT HE WAS STILL
SHRIMPDOR

Well now I want my future lawn scanned by a drone. What does it cost to get this done?

\/\/\/Seems Friend With A Drone is the new Friend With A Boat \/\/\/

Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jul 17, 2020

# ? Jul 17, 2020 14:37

Clayton Bigsby: Apr 17, 2005

Suspect Bucket posted:

Well now I want my future lawn scanned by a drone. What does it cost to get this done?

DroneDeploy is expensive as hell but offer free trials so you can use that to process everything and play with, then export before it expires. We used a Phantom 4 drone which is a fairly affordable consumer one, shouldn't be hard to find someone who has access to something similar.

For flying and capture we used their free app (iOS but pretty sure they have it for Android as well).

# ? Jul 17, 2020 15:11

StormDrain: May 22, 2003; Thirteen Letter

My shelf installers either hate us or don't care.

# ? Jul 18, 2020 01:24

HelloIAmYourHeart: Dec 29, 2008; Fallen Rib

I legitimately burst out laughing, so thanks for that.

# ? Jul 18, 2020 01:49

TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.; Fun Shoe

That's amazing. At least the shelves are adjustable!

# ? Jul 18, 2020 02:13

Effective-Disorder: Nov 13, 2013

Those shelves aren't equally spaced, and it's right in the middle of the switch. Someone obviously thought it was hilarious, and I agree with them.

# ? Jul 18, 2020 02:36

wolrah: May 8, 2006; what?

Yeah, definitely going with intentional on this one.

That is either "wonder how long it'll take them to notice? *snicker*" or a complete lack of fucks given, and I just want to believe the former.

# ? Jul 18, 2020 05:45

Brute Squad: Dec 20, 2006; Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

A different kind of crappy construction tale.

https://twitter.com/bangordailynews/status/1284453110744707076

# ? Jul 19, 2020 00:29

tater_salad: Sep 15, 2007

Should be fun for the lawyers to deal with that.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 02:37

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

I�m inlining this so everyone sees it.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 02:46

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Platystemon posted:

I’m inlining this so everyone sees it.

As someone with a lovely neighbor that makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside and I hope the sawyer had fun doing it.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 03:25

Javid: Oct 21, 2004

I can't help but suspect that it takes two lovely neighbors to escalate whatever they're arguing about to the point of... THAT.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 03:46

GotLag: Jul 17, 2005; 食べちゃダメだよ

Seems to me like the sensible adult way of dealing with it would have been to take down the Gadsen flag and give the neighbour an easement (or whatever the proper term is) so they could use the land up to that obvious visible boundary, and the owner could maintain ownership.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 04:24

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

quote:

The property-line dispute gained momentum in April when the Brawns put down a load of wood chips near the previously established boundary with 148 Grove St. in order for a tractor to travel the downhill grade to the back of their lot to clean up downed tree limbs.

Steve Ritter�s youngest son Blake soon planted a stake in the ground where the chips had been placed, Tracy Brawn said.

�He said, �This is our property, get your stuff off it,� so we had to call a land surveyor,� she said.

The surveyor determined that the dividing line between the properties was in the center of the 148 Grove St. driveway � and right through the middle of the garage.

We�re only getting one side of the story here, but if that�s accurate, I am inclined to say �he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword�.

Harsh, but fair.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 04:33

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Platystemon posted:

I�m inlining this so everyone sees it.

I'm the yellow crime scene tape.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 04:36

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Atticus_1354 posted:

As someone with a lovely neighbor that makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside and I hope the sawyer had fun doing it.

As much fun as whitewashing a fence.

# ? Jul 19, 2020 04:42

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

Platystemon posted:

We’re only getting one side of the story here, but if that’s accurate, I am inclined to say “he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword”.

Harsh, but fair.

lol guy wanted to be unneighborly and didn't know his own survey

# ? Jul 19, 2020 05:24

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

I thought this looked familiar - and indeed there was a similar case here a few years ago:
https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/domt-for-a-kappe-naboens-uthus-i-to-1.14231571?index=0#album-1-11658700 (The last picture is just the main house on the property; it was not otherwise involved.)

That case made it to court, not surprisingly. The sawyer had to pay fairly large reparations for the damages, and had to offer the shed owners the relevant part of his property at a fair market price - he had apparently been completely unwilling to negotiate or even help establish facts beforehand, which I doubt helped his case.

(And I'm sure the Norwegians in the audience are thinking of a certain Øystein Sunde song.)

# ? Jul 19, 2020 11:28

FCKGW: May 21, 2006

https://twitter.com/kierajanae__/status/1284244251803607041?s=21

# ? Jul 19, 2020 19:05

Qwijib0: Apr 10, 2007; Who needs on-field skills when you can dance like this?; Fun Shoe

Slip hazard: solved

# ? Jul 19, 2020 19:36

The Glumslinger: Sep 24, 2008; Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?; Hair Elf

When you really need literal wall to wall carpet

# ? Jul 20, 2020 00:10

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

https://twitter.com/sitnspinster/status/1284255910425055237

# ? Jul 20, 2020 00:49

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

canyoneer posted:

Can't go in the kitchen right now.
Why not?
It's defragmenting.

# ? Jul 20, 2020 04:30

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

FCKGW posted:

https://twitter.com/kierajanae__/status/1284244251803607041?s=21

That's ridiculous of course, but as far as the video goes the carpet looks perfectly clean?

# ? Jul 20, 2020 11:03

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

~Coxy posted:

That's ridiculous of course, but as far as the video goes the carpet looks perfectly clean?

That doesn't look like the kitchen of someone who has ever cooked, to me.

# ? Jul 20, 2020 12:37

Dr.Smasher: Nov 27, 2002; Cyberpunk 1987

~Coxy posted:

That's ridiculous of course, but as far as the video goes the carpet looks perfectly clean?

That's either new construction or a complete renovation. There's no sink installed in the island and nothing in the cabinets.

# ? Jul 20, 2020 12:52

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

~Coxy posted:

That's ridiculous of course, but as far as the video goes the carpet looks perfectly clean?

Not for long.

# ? Jul 20, 2020 14:08

canyoneer: Sep 13, 2005; I only have canyoneyes for you

do not anger the grinder

# ? Jul 20, 2020 18:10

Tea In A Shoe: Feb 1, 2009

That must have hurt so bad, even brazilian waxes are done with way less hairs at once. Please be careful and tie back all hairs when doing stuff with spinning tools.

# ? Jul 20, 2020 18:44