Setting up a Survey Total Station

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Rami Tamimi is an American doctorate student at The Ohio State University working towards his Doctor of Philosophy in Geodetic Engineering. With over 8 years of experience in the Land Development Industry, his experience revolves around traditional field surveying, civil design work using AutoCAD Civil 3D, and geospatial technology including LiDAR, SONOR, and Photogrammetric data acquisition and processing with the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems or Drones. He is also a University Professor and creates instructional video content on KZbin.
Intro: (0:00)
Securing the Total Station to the Tripod: (0:24)
Position over your Point: (1:37)
Bubbling the Total Station: (2:51)
Readjust Position and Finalize Leveling: (5:47)
Outro: (7:11)
#Surveying #TotalStation #Sokkia

[@devbagsmusic]

Dude this is a great video for a complete newbie. This was really well done. Probably the best survey channel I’ve found.

[@retiredperson4054]

Rami -- Your videos are expertly done (and perfection) -- just a great surveyor would shoot for!

[@kennakada6002]

I spend more time looking up videos on surveying rather than my lecture notes and videos lol. This is very good so far that I have come across. Cheers mate, I will check out your other videos.

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ALIEUFSAMAH]

When using the three-foot screw to adjust the onscreen bubble won't it affect the circular bubble that you previously set?

[@RiyazAhmad-ee1np]

Hello sir! I have watched almost all of ur uploaded videos. You r doing a great job and the way u explain things is highly appreciable. I thank you from the core of my heart. Stay blessed.

[@Ionizap]

Nice to watch, haven't used a total station since 2014. I was on vacation, our students left the instrument in the survey vehicle over the weekend and it was stolen. Luckily it was replaced with a GPS and we made a deal with Topcon to have base station on our City Hall. This was great for us, we could roam anywhere in the city and take shots, monuments even back then were not being maintained or replaced. I'd still love to have a total station for those places I can't get a good signal with GPS.

[@shreyamehta5231]

Perfect, as same as I learnt in my best coaching ever. Thanks for your efforts.

[@sanyat2773]

I am surveyor from Russia. You nice explain! Good luck to you!

[@abdullahrabea2262]

May God reward you, engineer Rami, greetings to you from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[@akarshsharma6099]

Thanks for enhancing our knowledge.

[@armorvestrus4119]

This is the best video I have seen about leveling up the Total Station. Thumbs Up.

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad it was helpful!

[@localsfrmhighflyer]

What a great tutorial for beginners. I really love your video

[@coralplanet9025]

Perfect demonstration

[@antonkuz7]

Я уже 10 лет почти каждый день занимаюсь геодезией, но все равно с удовольствием посмотрел) Очень понятно все объясняешь. Поделился со своими молодыми коллегами.

[@JediMik]

я более 10 лет и иногда тошнит от работы и всего вокруг) всё таки, я гуманитарий в душе

[@erickasadha9687]

Grate illustration, thanks so much

[@Sameer.K2]

Great video. 1 thing I'd like students to remember is memorize "Bubble Up" i.e the side on which the BUBBLE is(out of circle of course) would be UP. Which means you have to bring that side down to level the instrument.

[@RamiTamimi]

Excellent point!

[@StinkyTeal]

"Chase the Bubble"

[@KwekuDanquah]

That the technique I usually use.

[@tymikawelsh9367]

This was perfect

[@narayananjayachandran831]

Bro, you are just amazing. Thanks for this video. I subscribed.

[@RamiTamimi]

Thanks for the sub!

[@iqramulhaque763]

Love from Bangladesh,, I am Survey Engineer 😍

[@monirulislam4723]

I am survey engineer from Bangladesh......... I love survey work ❤

[@quidproquo4510]

Thank you

[@jyrameloeriesaclauso7501]

Very informative. Hope to see a lot of surveying videos from you.

[@RamiTamimi]

More to come!

[@IbrahimMohammed-bz9ck]

Your video is really helpful

[@nashakennedy4192]

This was helpfulllll😍😍😍

[@AzharPsas93]

Great survey support from malaysia ❤

[@nishathbanu9046]

Super explanation

[@sv9400]

Thanks for the video

[@vishwajitkhandare5795]

Best video, keep going sir, thank you so much for such awesome content, good quality video....

[@RamiTamimi]

You're very welcome. Thank you for being a wonderful supporter of my content!

[@toumachefatmazohra2106]

thank you that helped a lot

[@1m_here]

Very helpful

[@omkaryadav3808]

Best video ever I have seen very helpful for me lot of thanks...... Plz make more videos on Ts.... 👍🙏

[@RamiTamimi]

Sure I will, new video coming tonight!

[@lokongjeremiah3397]

Thanks rami

[@RamiTamimi]

You’re welcome 😊

[@samwelkariuki3114]

You make a good trainer

[@bahramaghakhan1024]

Thanks Enjoying your channel

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@atitwageorge5097]

Thanks alot sir

[@semesaratuvou7397]

Great video bro thanks for sharing

[@RamiTamimi]

Thanks for watching

[@richfuturebydsk2562]

Thanks a lot Rami Tamimi for this video. Much support from ZAR - KwaMashu. Rich Future by DSK I'm studying Mining Engineering SAV3601 with UNISA

[@RamiTamimi]

That's awesome, best of luck to you!

[@davidjoshuabaguio1970]

Thank you babe🎉

[@RamiTamimi]

You're welcome

[@successenvironmentalengine9537]

good work. thank you.

[@RamiTamimi]

You're most welcome!

[@aminuk853]

nice video man!

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@nashakennedy4192]

Perfecto

[@tpli4873]

hi, Tamimi, I'm Land Surveyor in Hong Kong. Nice to meet u, :D

[@mohammadhadian3720]

tnx

[@easereviewscience1817]

Good morning Rami. Could you please give video about slope staking. Convert the percentage of the slope to run and rise or in opposite. Thank you so much for great video.

[@frankzersky2286]

Hello Rami, It would be helpful to your followers to get an understanding of how one would approach a tripod setup in a more challenging real world conditions ie. stone walls, sloping terrain etc. in those cases a plumb bob can speed up the process, but certainly the projection of an imaginary line through each of the legs to intersect at the setup point, while insuring the tripod top is somewhat level will result in less frustration. It should also be pointed out that laser and optical plummets can add to frustration if the tripod head is not leveled first. On a different topic, I was amazed to find “3d scanner App” can produce contours (isolines) of a site by selecting “More” then “Capture Floorplan Image” followed by “Isolines” and specifying “Isoline Step” interval. Amazing! Keep up the good work!

[@PimpBeetle138]

Hi Rami. I really appreciate your videos and I think you are doing great work for the survey community. I was wondering if you could show us how you would go about setting up a total station on a project that is using either a grid or ground coordinate system and explain the importance of the scale factor and how to input the scale factor into the total station. I have heard of people not accounting for the scale factor and then their distances end up incorrect. Is this something that you could do?

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad you like the videos. Scale factor is very important when it comes to working in State Plane Coordinates as it takes into account the curvature of the earth. A lot of times people don't account for it because they are working on a small site in a local system, so the scale factor really doesn't change their distances. But of course I can make a video taking about it.

[@nonamoatafa308]

Good job👍👍

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad you liked it!

[@rrssmooth6643]

nice

[@williambarlow8758]

Rami, would you make a video teaching a user how to change the Sokkia total station from an occupied point to a back sight point; then move total station from occupied point to back sight point to continue collecting data points?

[@mikeward7290]

The people I work for just bought the cheapest Chinese total station on the interweb. I will find out the name tomorrow. Our fresh out of college engineer is leaving on Friday and the lead geologist asked me to help him run it. I work at a very interesting place, but I love it.

[@joro8604]

Good job

[@RamiTamimi]

Thanks!

[@alrazeeni3351]

Dear Rami, thank you very much for your rich content and great effort in helping surveyors and students. I want ask you about measuring instrument height. Should the surveyor measure the slant Ht. or vertical Ht.? The manual for my total station don't say anything about it.

[@monatamimi8125]

I like your videos👍

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad you liked them

[@akashbadole916]

it's a Great video

[@RamiTamimi]

Thanks!

[@Alaskaislarger]

The best way is to put tri-pod over the point and stomp the legs in, WITHOUT THE INSTRUMENT ON IT! It dont take very long to get good at setting tri-pod first. Expensive robot total stations will stay in adjustment and thats the proper way to set up.

[@RamiTamimi]

You are correct, having the total station on can be dangerous if you are on unstable land. Luckily for me, my yard is flat and so I don't run the risk of soil breakdown. But thank you for mentioning this!

[@er9875]

Occasionally after I slide the reticle back over the nail and zero out the numbers on screen, the level bubble is slightly out of balance. Is there an efficient way to correct this or do you just have to start the whole process over again in order to get the bubble perfectly centered?

[@klperch]

Hi Rami, great videos, i might be missing something very obvious - but, if i already have Northing and Easting locations for the points i want to set out, how do i 'tell' the total station where it is? Or phrased in another way, how do i know the Northing / Easting of the reference point? How do i work it out? In my case, a surveyor carried out a topographic survey, the architect created a site plan, from which i pulled the easting / northing data of the buildings corners, and now, i want to use my total station to peg those corners out - but i have no existing reference on site. Hope you are able / willing to clarify - either way, still great videos and i'm now a subscriber. Thanks!

[@acinad4605]

Sir, what if I have an untitled land with no metes and bounds. How can I know where is the corner? Where should I start in conducting a survey?

[@RiiCaRd09328]

When you are on the leveling screen, there’s an icon for “tilt offset”, how do we use that?

[@Rondon2341]

I'm using a new automatic kolida total station. on the digital level screen .. as you use the footscrews to bring the bubble to the centre the the seconds reading exceed 10 seconds when it reaches the centre.. any help or advice

[@anujbhagwan8669]

I am finding difficulty to perform easting and elevation measurements at same RD(chainage I.e., Northing) for existing ground level , kindly help me to clarify this ,I have Sokkia Total station set1x.

[@samuelbrakoh1602]

Please sir I'm a survey assistant and your videos have made to be a great assistant. I will like to know if there more tutorials for to study and write exams to become a surveyor?

[@edjimpreche2523]

Rami I did my first survey camp today and it was awesome and your video was very helpful! My question that I would like to ask you is how come when I kind of leveled my Total station and when I turn it on it doesn't show me the Level & Plummet screen to fully level it with the screws rotation?

[@freeway8914]

I believe you have to manually go to the screen if it doesnt pop up

[@RamiTamimi]

Great work, I hope surveying treats you well. You can always open the leveling screen on your total station and continue leveling to a more precise level.

[@matangaeunyo3661]

You need to turn up level setup using shortcut keys on your keyboard.

[@TheAndraeMcRae]

$15,000 worth of surveying equipment at any given time, yet can't get someone there to watch the clipping on his Lav. Make sure to monitor sound levels! That being said, this is still a great and really really helpful video, and honestly thank you for being so thorough in your explanations! But for sure, just watch those input levels

[@RamiTamimi]

I might be an expert in Surveying, but I am a rookie in video production haha. There has been a lot of improvement on the microphone since this video was made!

[@TheAndraeMcRae]

@@RamiTamimi still absolutely love it, and you're bless for this as it's something I've been curious about for years!

[@prestonhalle9818]

Why are the x and y axes reversed on the leveling screen?

[@devinhefele5827]

Do you have a different email Rami? I think the one I tried didn't go through. You seem fairly responsive so I figured If I had any deeper questions it may be easier to shoot you an email. I am new to the field just started as a field guy 5 weeks ago and I am learning as I go and plan to enroll into a surveying program next fall. But in the meantime I'm trying to absorb as much as I can until then. Regardless I appreciate your videos my friend! Thanks!

[@Garovl]

How you do it that you wont completely mess the position of the Total Station above the point when you try to adjust the level by adjusting the legs?

[@RamiTamimi]

The total station isn't moving when I move the legs up and down, it stays relatively close to the point we are occupying.

[@natestone6570]

Do you check your level on 2 sides?

[@miraamir1104]

Please let me know the make and model od the device

[@DroneMappingTools]

Some people show leveling, then turn 90° and level again. If you get it dead center I am assuming there no need to turn 90° ?? Your videos are awesome!!

[@Bolensgoldrush]

Yes, so long as the instrument is calibrated properly internally (i.e. low internal error)

[@RamiTamimi]

Turning 90 degrees and verifying the bubble is still in the middle is a calibration test. If you equipment has been recently calibrated, you should be fine. But very good point!

[@wanjsea09]

Hi surveyor from Malaysia

[@RamiTamimi]

Welcome!!

[@aidalqarniL.tabudjul]

Sir how to interpret the lot description to the field. And where exactly to put our intrument

[@RamiTamimi]

Legal Descriptions is a whole other world in the work of Boundary Surveying. I am developing a course that will be available in the winter regarding performing a boundary survey. Stay tuned.

[@luisalbertosolanoortiz2317]

buenas tarde aque precio tiene la batería para sokkia de las pequeñas

[@michaelmolter6180]

My theodolite (no EDM) has bubble in a circle and a bubble on a straight level, but doesn't have this electronic leveling. How would the process change? Do you have a video on this? I usually use the straight level and adjust the feet, then turn the instrument 90° and repeat---this doesn't always work great, and I find I'm out of level again at a new angle. Maybe my instrument is just out of calibration?

[@michaelmolter6180]

Ah, figured it out. Turns out the bubble level needed recalibration. Very easy to do, and now it works great. READ THE MANUAL!

[@RamiTamimi]

Glad you figured it out. Yes EDMs usually have digital bubble assistance to precisely level the equipment more than the human eye can.

[@4touchdowns1game29]

well I can safely say that the bubble level is nowhere near what you think it is till you are working with a digital reading. You can look perfect with the eye only to realize your gonna be adjusting knobs for a while to actually get level.

[@JediMik]

в каждом телефоне gps приёмник. точность 0.2м а из Wgs84 можно перевести в любую СК

[@michaelwebber4525]

Please how to do instrument test

[@muhaiminahsan3241]

Where are you from

[@123rockstar2010]

This video makes me feel very old. I haven't used a totalstation before. We seem to be the last humans to use the old leveling instrument called the theodolite! 😂😂😂

[@RamiTamimi]

Oh I've used a theodolite once lol, in class for a lab haha. Welcome to the Channel!

[@willsonwang4713]

hey mate, you shuld do the 2 90 degress faces level insterad of one

[@RamiTamimi]

Technically yes if you want to check if your equipment is calibrated.

[@willsonwang4713]

@@RamiTamimi. Hahah thanks for the reply hhah. Really appreciated. It. Just recently picked up the knowledges regarding the surveying. Good videos mate. Keep it up.

[@micahcasingal9552]

How to know where to set up the reference point? The one you see on the view finder? Hope you reply. Thank you!

[@RamiTamimi]

The reference point should be placed somewhere were the most amount of points can be collected. For example, if you set up in a corner away from everything, this is a inefficient set up. You want to set up in an open area where you can see the most from that location.

[@29leizy]

@@RamiTamimi indeed

[@ehtishamulhaq2041]

Sar make a video teirmbal gps

[@elyrafaelsoto]

Hi my name it's ely and I have a sokkia but I don't know how can I run elevations on my data collector

[@Bolensgoldrush]

Do you have a rod with a prism on the end?

[@RamiTamimi]

You need to establish 2 points. Set your total station on one, and then back sight the other one. This will set up the job for you and you can begin surveying. Be sure to specify the correct prism you are using as well.

[@alexwhite5724]

Why not move the pink square instead of the instrument

[@RamiTamimi]

The point is preset, we cannot move it because that will change the coordinates of the point.

[@alexwhite5724]

@@RamiTamimi thank you 🙏 but i could not find a video explaining how and where to position the total station … and what the exact job is 🌺

[@akhilmuthuttan4974]

Haii Bro I Am Land surveyor from India I have work experience with Total station Now Am in Ireland Can u plz tel me what course I have to do for working in Ireland as land surveyor

[@RamiTamimi]

Hi Akhil, I live in America, so the requirements for Licensure here is different than in Ireland. I would check the internet or ask a local Surveyor what the requirements are in your country. Best of luck in your career!

[@akhilmuthuttan4974]

@@RamiTamimi Thank you Rami

[@abderrazzakkassimi1962]

Hi Tammi,do you can speak Arabic?

[@AliAli-gp1qo]

Rami tamimi are you Iraqi؟

[@RamiTamimi]

My Nationality is American, but my heritage is Palestinian.

[@AliAli-gp1qo]

@@RamiTamimi welcome. I had a test and watched this video and I got an excellent score.Thank you❤

[@factsevidenceagainstmarxis4474]

Why is that important, unless you are being friendly.

[@AliAli-gp1qo]

@@factsevidenceagainstmarxis4474 I did not ask you. what you want?