It appearsthat this is more a case of archaeology than one of surveying, although the THOROUGH research of records is certainly involved. Running a s...

About 35 years ago I laid out a ship dock in the Houston Ship Channel that used multiple battered (and vertical) piles. We laid out a template on she...

DaveThat reminds me of a friend when I lived in Houston that said the only type of trees in Houston were "Creosotus Telephonus", he wasn't far from be...

I have been known to give CAD drawings of projects, as well as coordinate files of control points to those doing the layout on our projects. The BIG ...

As usual - it dependsI have used a probe rod to measure down to the top of the pipe and then add the diameter (with a note that for accuracy the clean...

I had a rodmanThat retired (not altogether voluntarily) at 81. He told me that he had had two jobs, World War II and Welker and Associates. In the o...

The only timeI had a survey go to a jury trial the previous survey matched to the second of bearings and to the hundredth in distances the "original" ...

SnoopTry Ben DeVane or someone in the Wiregrass Chapter of SAMSOG. You can search by county at the SAMSOG website www.samsog.orgAndy

ANDBe sure to watch out for "Booby Traps" when you see evidence like that. Many years ago we found a "patch" in a secluded area. In the trees around...