> A year or so ago I had a call from a lady whose neighbor had hired some dumb bass of a surveyor and totally screwed up everything. Within two mi...

That is a cool picture and story behind it.

Yes, I think it was originally spec'd for 5th order - T-16 work. They later said it was good enough for the 4th order survey work that was required w...

> When I mustered out of the Corps of Engineers in the early 1970's, if I went to work for the Engineer Topographic Laboratories, that was going to...

Yeah, we had PADS too. It weighed 330 lbs and cost the Army $330,000 per unit. Geez, I wonder how they came up with a price....:-X With the tool kit...

We used the SIAGL occasionally when I was in the Army.