@jt50Please, please oh please old transit xpert. Just what are these fabulous instruments you refer to? I mean, I'm?ÿ sure many are wondering just wh...
Without going into too much detail, I am suggesting you lay out an equally spaced grid marked on the ground with stakes or pin flags. The grid points ...
Years before there was a Burning Man, I was PC on a crew surveying the AT&T Coax 22 project across the Black Rock and Smoke Creek deserts. Stayed ...
You said you are working on a powerline where you staked the poles. To me, that means new construction. Therefore no current is running through the li...
I watched that listing for some time. As I recall, he had it at $200 then $175. It truly was a cherry.?ÿ Sad part of the listing was that it was his d...
The three man crew was the standard configuration for one good reason. You can not hold both ends of the chain and give yourself line. Head chain (usu...
Marriage Analogy?? Here's mine... It has many of the BAD aspects of a marriage and very few of the good ones.?ÿ Worst form of business (IMHO) is 50/50...
Found it. PM sent.
I have one of those K&E tripods somewhere. It was made during the few years that K&E had optical plummets like yours. Unfortunately the transi...
Nate is correct.?ÿ
I think most of these were sold off the back pages of comics in the fifties. They are not transits by any definition. There is a pair of mirrors that ...
The formulas I employed many years ago to do sag checks on EHV transmission lines allowed me to actually use the hyperbolic functions on my trusty 41C...
I see he still uses his trusty Ames lettering guide to keep things tidy
When I started my business, I was steered to the Type S route and was encouraged to take much of the profits home as rents and royalties for which you...
Found in my old records of applications for registration to various states: Date of first day of work on a survey crew... Monday, September 12, 1966 T...
