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Heard a foreman say 'drones are just for pretty pictures' on a site in Phoenix
He was talking about a big grading job and said the drone data was just fluff for the client. But I saw the same crew use that same data to spot a drainage issue before they poured a slab, saving a full day of rework. It made me think we still treat a lot of tech like a toy instead of a real tool. Has anyone else had to prove the practical use of something like drones or scanners to an old school boss?
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mia_baker5mo ago
Honestly, what happens when that foreman retires and the new guy only knows how to work with the drone data?
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lewis.gray5mo ago
Man, that's a real problem waiting to happen. You end up with a crew that can read a screen but can't spot a bad weld or a shaky foundation from ten feet away. The data's useless if nobody on the ground knows what they're actually looking at. We're gonna have a bunch of people who can fly a drone but can't fix what it finds.
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wendy_henderson214mo ago
@lewis.gray nailed it. Had a crew like that last year - great with the tech, couldn't tell a rotten beam from a solid one. Now I make them shadow the old-timers for a month before they touch any drone. Fix the basics first, the data comes second.
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emma_rodriguez305mo ago
But that new guy can check ten times more ground.
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