Sometimes you just shake your head.?ÿ Years ago I had the engineer in charge of a local county DOT send a note asking for the radius of a vertical cur...

You're BAD.?ÿ But funny.

@stlsurveyor?ÿ The last 3 or 4 years before I left I was about the same way.?ÿ The previous 18 years with the same company were a different ball game....

Interest rates on credit cards are (or at least were the last time I checked) in the upper 20s.?ÿ We use ours as a "charge card" and pay it off every ...

Your loss puts our daily gripes in perspective.?ÿ You will be in my prayers.?ÿ I'm glad to hear you got your vaccination, mine is scheduled for next w...

@john-putnam The fun part is when the bend in the pipe is NOT made at the manhole.?ÿ There is a large (42 inch) sanitary sewer line near me that has m...

@nate-the-surveyor A Cougar, in modern speak, is an older woman (older being relative) who preys on younger men. Andy

@lurker I'm only talking vertical for shooting over the out pipe.?ÿ For horizontal we did shoot the center of the lid. ?ÿ

@dmyhill I was taught, and therefore taught my crews, that we shot the rim elevation over the "out" pipe.?ÿ It is about repeatability.?ÿ Normally the ...

In March of 1981 I completed the second of my two college careers.?ÿ I had quit work and went back to school when I hurt my back.?ÿ I took a job as an...

If you are measuring to the invert of the pipes (invert in/out) I would expect to be within 0.05 feet without some type of obstruction or an offset co...

@bill-c When I was growing up there was an Air Force Base (later a SAC base) across the river from our farm.?ÿ One of my cousins and I used to poke th...

In Georgia the Statute of Limitations is from the date of survey.?ÿ After seven years you can (if you wish) give out copies of that old plat without f...

@jp7191 That's about the timeframe.?ÿ 1974 or 1975. Andy ?ÿ

@holy-cow I stopped at a service station (remember when they had those) one day in a company truck to fuel up.?ÿ They had a young man, probably high s...

I have a couple of 100+ year old quad sheets that I had framed.?ÿ One is the "Knoxville"?ÿ Recconnaissance Map dated 1901 reprinted in 1915.?ÿ at a sc...

@holy-cow 40+ years ago when I bought my first home and was still an LSIT I surveyed my lot computed and drafted the plat.?ÿ I just didn't get the sur...

@paden-cash Back when I was in high school one of favorite pastimes was possum catching (yeah I know, us country boys had to make our own fun).?ÿ We'd...

I second the motion.?ÿ I stayed up past midnight for the first time in?ÿ while.?ÿ I just wanted to be sure 2020 was GONE.?ÿ When my dog got me up abou...

@paden-cash If you remember the old movie "Thunder Road" he had a literal "kill switch" on his bootlegger's car. Andy