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To show you what an old guy I am, I started writing COGO programs in 1965 on an IBM (punch cards) when I worked for FDOT. The drafting supervisor didn...
For those of you with arthritic hands, this model really helps.
Paden,I was once chewed out by one of the big names in surveying in Las Vegas because my crew had stopped by to pick up a map and they had used the fr...
Here is how real surveyors in Tucson do it. The one on the left is the original tagged iron rebar which matches the brass caps in the street. The one ...
Digging for the center quarter corner in a pecan grove, a foot down I found an upended bucket with the words, ÛÏYouÛªre almost there.Û Once I dug ...
We're a recording state, so I file a record of survey showing the monument, and to help those who will follow me I state how deep it is, probably the ...
We had a wood stove the first eight years of my life, and I was twelve when we got our first TV, so I am a fellow older person.My two favorite utter l...
I have a suggestion, for those of you who are near a calibrated baseline. Some weekend head over there and take RTK shots on the brass caps, compare y...
GPS RTK is the greatest gold mine of all time, in the right hands. I have repeatedly demonstrated that in open areas an RTK point using a bipod for st...
Now that is what I call real surveying. Well done, and thank you for the photos.
My favorite quote from her: At least my lovers married me, which is more than most of the broads in this town can say.
To old timers like me, rocking the rod is the vertical equivalent of locating a house corner, where the crew would swing the tape and when the instrum...
I'm solo so the bonus is what my wife thinks I deserve, but I'm reminded of last year when my very best client made it clear I could bump up one of my...
It is obvious that IÛªm outlier in how I run my business, how I do data collection, my lack of marketing per se, financial success, etc. I certainly ...
Rich., post: 403468, member: 10450 wrote: Or even faster....but that's part of the problem, who wants to bring/train someone when it slows them down!I...
Biggest relief: My wife handles all of the paperwork and accounting, which means we don't have to worry about an employee dipping into the cash box.Wo...
Maybe I'm the outlier, and I do have a distinct commercial survey niche, but my key clients don't need an e-mail from me to remind them I'm still arou...
I cannot imagine a more annoying way to get my key clients mad at me than to bombard them with unwanted e-mails. What a horrid idea. There is a reason...