TAPING

• COMPOSITION OF TAPING PARTY:

  • HEAD TAPEMAN

  • REAR TAPEMAN

  • RECORDER

  • FLAGMAN
• PROCEDURE OF TAPING:

  1. Aligning the tape
  2. Stretching the tape
  3. Plumbing
  4. Marking tape lengths
  5. Recording tape lengths
• BREAKING TAPE -the standard practice of measuring short distance on uneven and sloping ground to accumulate a full tape length wherein the tape is hold horizontally above ground and

  plumbed at one or both ends.
• THERMOMETER SCALE - scale used as a means of obtaining additional accuracy and uniformity in measuring with the tape.
• TAPES CAN ALSO BE USED:

  • Erecting perpendicular lines

  • Measure and lay off angles

  • Determine obstructed distances

  • Locate irregular boundaries

  • Determine areas of different shapes
• METHODS OF ERECTING PERPENDICULAR LINE:

  • CHORD-BISECTION

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