AREA: Agricultural Mechanice OMIT: Surveying COMPETENCY. T. Locate field etakes for land leveling from contour data. JOB # 11 Plotting Contours sxtyarton: Students know the procedure for contour napping. Contour mapping is valuable in identifying land drainage pattern Contour napping helps in planning cropping systens. Contour lines show steep or gentie slope Contour mapping will be performed on the land and field. Two days required pukorives: 1. Using profile leveling procedures, to contour level field. 2. To plot contour lines on a sap using field no 3. To Calculate cute and fill ratio from contour DEMONSTRATION: Show students procedure for contour mapping. RREERENGES: Resource Unit on Leveling and Land Measurenent Practices JOS on Contour Mapping ‘SUPERVISED PRACTICE: Students, in groups, contour nap the field. plot data on sap. Galculate cut and £111 ratios fron map. AND APPLICATION. turn in field notes for grade = 25 pointe turn in contour maps = 25 poinc: turn in calculations for oat and £111 ratios points Participation = 25 pointe, Information included on unit exam. Information included in notebook evaluation. MATERIALS NEEDED: as tranaite 45 tripods 4 rode. field note sheste contour map eri‘JOB OPERATION Laying Out Contours Follow the steps of procedure listed below to perform the contour mapping procedar Equipments rials: Tripod all stakes (quancicy varies SEeveling instrument with Hela size) Tied! “Hamer Steps of Procedure Tetugtyselons Key FoTats7 tics A, Establishing the saealine 1. Establish an east-west line and a north-south baseline a5 near as possible to two boundaries of the field to be contour mapped. 2. Starting from the corner where the tvo baselines meet, Reasure with a steel tape at. 100 foot intervals along each baseline. C. Placing Guidh Stakes 3. Drive tall stakes into the h 100. foot, interval. “Each interval should be marked as shown in the illustration £0 the right. 4. Drive a second line of stakes one grid interval 1 Gistance (100 feet) in from : the baseline, ati Moasuning Baseline Intervalsitr ry Fo Steps of Procedure Safety Practices D. Setting Up Tripod Level 5. Set up the tripod level Somewhere in the field where the entire field can be seen through the telescope tube. 6. Take a Backsight on a Bench Mark or some other point of known elevation. Tf there is not a Bench Mark or other point of known elevation take 2 sighting on a permanent Object and arbitrarily give evan elevation of 100 feet. I Podman holds rod on Bench Mark with the rod face clearly visibi to the instrument man. P. Taking a Foresight on zach station 7. The rodman then moves to Gach stake or station where a rod reading is taken. Each station is identified by a combination of one letter and one number that corresponds to its location on the map, The elevations Of the various stations are Getermined by profile leveling, Bach rod reading taken ia'a Foresight and is entered under the FS column Of each station. Complete a Set of field notes on. conto mapping. Use the field note- Book page found on page 65. ‘The stations not iden= tified by stakes can be located by the rod man "aighting in* his position by aligning Eppropriate pairs of stakes.