50+ years ago we surveyed the wrong lot in a subdivision. Not by mistake though. I was a young instrument man and just followed orders of the crew c...

45 or so years ago we had just bought our first home. The lot behind ours was "offset" a little, meaning our corner was on his line but not his corne...

@geoff-ashworth The only way I've been successful in getting rid of it is to cut it off at the ground and give it a good soaking with Roundup or the e...

We used 60d nails for control points on sanitary sewer route surveys. In general, if undisturbed, they would last for many years in out acidic soil h...

I reviewed a bunch of easement sketches for sanitary sewer easements. I would pull them up on the computer, read them, and click on the polylines to ...

I am a melanoma survivor. God must have something left for me to do. A few years ago I jumped off a headwall to get the invert and hyperextended my ...

12. All angular directions shall be represented in degrees, minutes, and seconds. All angular directions shall be referenced to the meridian of ...

@holy-cow, I never intended to become an engineer. After getting my LS, I went to work for an engineering firm computing road alignments and rights o...

Holy Cow, thankfully I didn't have many courses that required us to memorize formulae. We could look up the formula, we just had to know which formul...

Keith, you were a few years behind me at Southern Tech. Like Holy Cow, I started with a slide rule. Even though the HP35's were out, weren't allowed...

And I'm thinking of moving to Florida because it gets too cold in Georgia to suit me.  

So glad you made it home safely.

Stacy, I was not aware that Georgia has that law now. I can certainly understand the reasoning, but just wasn't aware. If possible (not always possi...