For several years I ran the survey department of a medium sized engineering company. The vast majority of our work was for local governments. I alwa...

Holy Cow, post: 401516, member: 50 wrote: One of the most common names (plus minor variations) for a creek is Mud Creek. We have a creek near here ca...

I'm glad we don't have to survey in the snow. Serious question. How do you locate stones in the snow? If it is a ferrous monument is one thing, but...

The majority of the easements that I have surveyed and prepared the easement documents for were sanitary sewer lines. We actually staked the lines on...

It should be easy. We had it pulp wooded last year and you can see all the way across.Well that's actually true, but you can't walk fifteen feet with...

BK9196, post: 400150, member: 12217 wrote: As they say in surveying.................It depends................. Maybe.Andy

It's kinda like a Philly cheese steak except it's in Pita bread, and it has real cheese rather than the plastic stuff they use in Philly.Andy

I thought so. I was an engineer on the construction of the Moccasin Bend WWTP that HS designed. My daughter (now 35) was born in Eastridge. We enjo...

makerofmaps, post: 399896, member: 9079 wrote: We are right now. It is very smokey. 3 fires are within 5 miles of my house. 2 on Lookout Mt. and the o...

foggyidea, post: 399518, member: 155 wrote: I do use "y'all" frequently. My mother was born and raised in Americus GA and I went to the Univ. of Ala....

lmbrls, post: 399485, member: 6823 wrote: As you get older, you will listen more patiently to someone claiming you made a mistake, as you have become ...

It will happen more than once. I will ride by a site and think, "Yeah we did the boundary survey on this", or "I staked the streets in that subdivisi...

rfc, post: 399236, member: 8882 wrote: What's the advantage of fixed legs? Weight? Is this thing for leveling only? It seems that if you were going to...