A $29 course on your phone. Learn to put a peg back from the marks still on site, carry a height with a level, and check your GPS before the machines start.
Learn to set out and check your own work, and know it's right.
One payment. Open on your phone as soon as you pay.
The people who can check and set out their own work are the ones crews keep.
When you can check your own work, the job doesn't stop and wait for someone else. No course can promise you a job. This one teaches a skill crews depend on.
Problems people on building and civil sites write about, again and again.
A machine hit the peg. The surveyor can't come today.So the job waits, or someone guesses.
The level didn't close. I don't know which reading is wrong.So nobody trusts the height on the slab.
The GPS says it's locked on. But is it right?If the base got bumped, every point moves with it.
Two benchmarks on site don't agree.Which height do we build to?
Everyone talks in letters and numbers I don't know.So you don't even know what to ask.
Each one is small. Each one turns into a day of waiting, or work done twice.
Every line below is taught in the course today. The grey tags show the lesson.
Set up from the marks that are still there, put the peg back, then check it on a third mark.
Start on the benchmark (a mark with a known height). Carry the height across. Then close back on the benchmark, so you know it's right.
Check the rover (the GPS on a pole) on a known mark in the morning and again after lunch. If the number moved, stop before the machines do.
Know what the offset (how far the real point is from the peg), cut and fill written on a peg mean, and put offset pegs where the machine won't hit them.
Level it and centre it over the mark, so the rest of the day is right.
Tell the difference between a reading that repeats and a reading that is correct.
37 short lessons in 6 modules. All of them open when you pay.
Inside the course: a real quiz question
For your own work, usually yes. Setting out and checking pegs, heights and lines from marks you were given is normal site work. Legal property boundaries are different. In most countries only a licensed land surveyor may set those out. Check your local rules.
No. It starts with what a height is and how a level works. Every new word is explained the first time it comes up.
You learn the steps and the checks here. Then you try them at work. Each lesson has pictures, so you can follow it on a small screen.
Not step by step yet. The level lesson teaches the idea every laser level uses: start on the benchmark and close back on it.
No. Use what you already have at work. The checks work the same on any brand.
Yes. The checks are the same everywhere, and everything is in metres. You also learn to ask which map settings your job uses. That is the one thing that changes from place to place.
Each lesson takes 4 to 6 minutes to read. There is a short quiz at the end of every lesson, so you know you've got it.
Your login comes by email from GeoThrive. All 6 modules open straight away. Nothing is posted to you.
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