Ever the contrarian, and thinking long term, I have provided the AutoCAD file without charge but with the caution that it is now XX years out of date....

What WA-ID said. If vacant I'd visit the site and walk the boundary just in case the adjoiners have been active, so say 50% and a little more. If occu...

Long ago I noticed that my body could block the radio connection if I stood in the way, so I had a metal clip made that fit on top of the rover rod, j...

Speaking just for me, when I started surveying I read every survey book, literally word for word. The other guys would go in for coffee and there I wa...

Me surveying the future Alligator Alley, 5 May 1965. We used an airboat to get around.

I use a wood stake as a base and a craft stick to mix the two (white and black) components, and disposable gloves. Clean up is easy (wipe the stick an...

He was an exceptionally decent and helpful man. I enjoyed chatting with him about surveys.

I find my epoxied disks in place after 25 years, and Tucson gets a lot of sun.

We used to see new tellers every week at our local Wells Fargo, so we assumed this was a training facility. Nope, they were all fired for not meeting ...

I've said repeatedly that if you are working efficiently you will know what you just did and have no need to polka dot the world. I somehow manage to ...

I don't agree. Our freezer failed after 40 years, and our Sears microwave is going strong at 43. Well, I did replace the light bulb, once. My Dell XP ...

Gene, of course, that was the way I took it. Picker of nits, indeed. Ha.

I didn't see anything insensitive, and I always enjoy your posts. Can you put it back?

Depends on what kind of surveying you do. My niche is ALTA surveys for some pretty sophisticated clients and my drawings are carefully reviewed by a p...

Rather than comparing what the manufacturers say why don't you ask for a demonstration of each at a calibrated baseline. I have taken my Leica to the ...

Apparently there is an easier way. The Washington Post had a laudatory article on a young man in Miami who is raising awareness of climate change by p...

Murphy, you might enjoy Alexander King's "May This House Be Safe From Tigers," where he explained he had learned to include an obvious blunder in his ...

Solo land surveyor party chief here. Unless I am really certain in the field I prefer to go back to the officce and run the calculations while sitting...

No, see, you didn't follow their rules either: Nearest square foot for under an acre, otherwise acreage with three (3) places to the right of the deci...