I’m not that old, but I learned how to do construction the old school way. When I laid out batter boards and forms for the first time, we used an old fashioned field/sight level to do the job. The job consisted of me running around to each batter board, tape measure stretched way over my head and me hunched over at the end holding a pencil. My dad’s job was to look through the sight level and yell at me from afar to move the tape up or down until I hit the benchmark. It was tedious, time consuming and somehow I always went away with sore arms and hurt feelings. Read More