PACED SURVEY 
experienced foremen, for making planting plans and for records of 
information in study of existing designs. They are not accurate 
enough for figuring amounts in grading. 
Equipment 
The worker should be equipped with a compass (see Lesson 
8). He should also have one or several sheets of cross-section 
paper mounted on a drawing board. It is possible, of course, to 
make paced surveys while recording the notes on any stray sheet of 
paper, but the cross-section paper will help greatly. A pair of tri- 
angles and an engineer’s scale should be used. 
General Directions 
Pace Length: Do not try to take an unnaturally long step, it 
is tiresome and cannot be continued with an uniformity. The 
ordinary step is not far from two and one-half feet, often a little 
more, and one is apt to lengthen it in pacing so that care should be 
taken not to overstep. For areas of a few acres the best plan is to 
take the natural step considering it two and one-half feet and keeping 
count in feet rather than number of steps. Starting with, say, the 
right foot, counting five, ten, fifteen feet, etc., each time it is placed; 
distances may then be plotted in feet with the engineer’s scale. 
When considerable areas are to be surveyed so that long dis- 
tances are paced and the accumulated error would amount to con- 
siderable, more correct results will be obtained by finding the true 
length of the pace by counting the number taken in a measured 
distance of considerable length. This is the method used in military 
surveying. A table of corrections for various slopes may be worked 
out and applied in order to give correct horizontal distances. 
Two methods are in common use: 
1. In which objects are located from base lines by two paced 
distances usually at right angles to each other. 
2. In which objects are located from some central point, the 
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