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Fieldwork No. 2
TAPING ON LEVEL GROUND

I. OBJECTIVES:
A. To make familiar with the tape and its use.
B. To be able to measure an unknown distance on level ground, with the
use of tape.

II. INSTRUMENTS & ACCESSORIES:

A. Steel Tape 1unit
B. Range Pales 2 units
C. Marking Pins 10 units

III. PROCEDURE:
1. The instructor designates the boundaries of the distance to be measured.
2. The range poles are placed at both ends of the unknown distance to serve as
markers. Mark the first point as A and B for the other point.
3. Two members of the group are assigned as tapemen. One will be the rear
tapeman, and the other, the head tapeman.
4. The head tapeman hands over one marking pin to the rear tapeman, carries the
nine other pins, and then takes the zero end of the tape and moves forward in
the direction of the line to be measured.
5. At the initial point, the near tapeman carefully unrolls the tape from its reel
and sees to it that the tape is not looped or twisted to avoid kinds on the tape.
6. When the head tapeman has used the full length of the tape, the rear tapeman
signals or shouts “stop” and the earlier transfers the last tape mark on the
ground.
7. The tapeman then face each other in a kneeling position and align the tape to
the two range poles placed on both ends of the unknown distance. The tape
should be held steadily and properly pulled. Once the tape is aligned, the zero
end of the tape. After which, he then signals or shouts “okay” to the near
tapeman.
8. The head tapeman walks forward while the rear tapeman releases the tape, and
the process is repeated. In addition, the rear tapeman should pull the marking
pin before him at the end of each measurement. The number of marking pins
in his possession is a record of the number of tape lengths measured from the
starting point to the last pin on the ground. At the end of the tenth
measurement, the head tapeman asks the rear tapeman to hand him the tenth
marking pin in his possession. The assigned recorder then records the
measurement. It should be noted that the same process is repeated after every
ten measurements.
9. Upon reaching the end point, the head tapeman positions the zero mark of the
tape at the end point, B.
10.The rear tapeman pulls the tape, and observes the part of the tape which
coincides with the las marking pin. That fractional part of the tape length is
then recorded.
 11.After the measurement of the whole line is completed, a second measurement
should be made along the opposite direction. The mean of the two
measurements is taken as the most probable value of the length of the line.

TABLE 2.1: Distance of Line AB

No. of Tallies from point A to B
No. of Pins Left after the Last Tally
Measurement from Endpoint to the Last Marking Pins

TABLE 2.2: Distance of Line BA

No. of Tallies from point B to A
No. of Pins Left after the Last Tally
Measurement from Endpoint to the Last Marking Pins
NOTE: 1 Tally = 10 pins = 10 tape lengths

TABLE 2.3:
RELATIVE
TRIAL LINE LENGTH DIFFERENCE MEAN
PRECISION
1 AB
2 BA

IV. COMPUTATIONS:
A. Computing Distances.

𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 = (𝑁𝑜. 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑥 10 + 𝑁𝑜. 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝐿𝑒𝑓𝑡) 𝑥 (𝑇𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝐿𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑈𝑠𝑒𝑑)

+ 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑛𝑑𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑖𝑛

B. Computing Mean Length.

𝑆𝑢𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐴𝐵 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝐴

𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 =
2
C. The discrepancy for the measurement is the difference between the first
measurement and the second measurement.

D. Determining the Relative Precision.

1 NOTE
𝑅𝑃 =
𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐿𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ The denominator is
𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑦 rounded to the nearest
hundredth.

V. SKETCHES:
 VI. OBSERVATIONS:

VII. CONCLUSIONS:

VIII. RECOMMENDATIONS: