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...

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...

end the workday with the expression "Box it up" Or he would signal you through the scope by making the shape of a rectangle with hand gestures.

"Your other left"

Sad to hear. From his posts, he seemed like a good guy. I remember how he fell in love with surveying from his first day on a crew.?ÿ

So many of these invasive pests have come from Asia. Here in Missouri, I have been spending a lot of money to save a couple ash trees from the emerald...

Hi there,Nice compass. I expect you are enjoying Nevada after your stint in Missouri. I came up to see your collection a few years ago and was impress...

My house sits at 99.97 % of total eclipse so we headed north about 20 miles to a county park where we got a minute and 45 seconds of totality. After f...

Was thinking about setting up a theodolite w an eyepiece filter until I started hearing all the cautions about eyepiece filters. Probably will just vi...

Well the guy claims he received... "multiple awards, promotions, and accommodations"Huh??Maybe he meant commendations?

My first experience with a retro prism was with a Wild DI-10 Distomat. It had a control box and a send/receive head that mounted atop our T-2 telescop...