While he didn't use it for triangulation I knew a surveyor in south Georgia that used tracers to determine a line to be cut through the woods and swam...

Nice looking rig. Those prism bags make excellent camera bags too. I can carry the camera, extra batteries, cables etc. and keep it all together. S...

I surveyed one similar several years ago. It was a reinforced concrete pipe 72" in diameter (to begin with). I am only 5'-8" tall so I should have b...

There is a local Authority that requires this type of "As-Built" as part of the plan review/project approval process. They require location every 100...

I see what you are"saying" now. We always recorded the elevation for a manhole cover on the edge above the "out" invert, but we were also removing th...

KentAlthough I've never worked as a Land Surveyor in Texas I have friends who are licensed there. I've been told of some "questionable" original surv...

ChristofI know you said you don't like checklists but they can be of help with this. We perform "Prework Hazard Analysis" or "Job Safety Analysis" be...

Reminds me of a project on which I worked nearly 40 years ago. We staked the back of curb along a street one afternoon and were coming back the next ...

If the deed included bearings and distances I did a "Map Check", generated coordinates, and plotted them on grid paper (remember counting the little s...

KentMy wife was a Post Anesthesia Care Unit (Recovery Room) nurse for about 10 years and dealt with a bunch of anesthesiologists. As a rule they were...

Around hereIf you even THINK hard about filling a ditch EPD (state Environmental Protection Division), EPA, NRCS and probably several others would be ...