If I were in the business, I'm afraid I would be a royal pain to the architect until they learned to do it right or refused to work with me any longer...

I watched a guy move his Trimble robot the other day. He put his shoulder under the tripod head and held the legs so the instrument stayed nearly upr...

Larry will be along shortly to ask what the value is to the client.Also perhaps, what your liability exposure is.

>frickelfrackerI hadn't heard of that one. Is it more like a doohickey or a thingamabob?

Have you checked the grid factor setting?Bump - I see John checked in today. I'm really curious whether the grid factor idea mentioned above checked ...

Educate me - is an easement enforceable on a party who had no notice by recording or otherwise, even where a prior deed to another buyer might not be?...

Except that the International foot didn't exist until 1959 or 1960, after a majority of the PLSS was done. Not that it makes a significant difference...

My impression is that Dave Ingram is quoting the ultimate achievable accuracy, and most uses would not have been that accurate.Readings taken too near...

10 tripods x 2 good legs each / 3 legs needed = 6 good tripods just by swapping legs.Put the lever locks on the other 4.

He said the error is proportional to distance. That is not a tribrach or prism problem, which would tend to give errors around 0.1 ft at any distance...

>I found a setting for feet and it's settable, but upon power up, it always defaults to meters.I found a manual here, and it's almost readable.Sect...

Carry a stick of chalk in your gear for brightening up the end of a rod in a hole.