The kicker is, sometimes awful surveyors get it right, and sometimes good surveyors get it wrong. Be a lot easier if the bad ones were always wrong an...

I use a dedicated 25' pocket tape with a rebar wired to the end at zero. A dip is just like a sideshot and I want a single, dependable measurement, no...

Dan B. Robison, post: 378988, member: 34 wrote: ...can you turn on all the elevations?...can you make the text bigger so I can read it?...can you move...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 374654, member: 291 wrote: This thread is intended to go on for a long time to come, as others add to this. NEVER write a des...

skwyd, post: 374809, member: 6874 wrote: Related to the lack of setting pincushions, don't call a monument off by 0.01'. The instrument can't reliably...

Very impressive map. Well done. Isn't it amazing when you are posting how you can spot the obvious typo that was invisible before.

Mark Mayer, post: 378526, member: 424 wrote: A suggestion. Add the dip to your rod height and code it "IE" then the elevation on the point will be the...

Jim in AZ, post: 378465, member: 249 wrote: Bruce - with your level of experience I'd think you were worth $350/hr. You should be getting more valuabl...

My clients usually want minimal information, and since I don't use a field book: I shoot the center of the manhole lid coded as MH. That automatically...

The $250 an hour was when projects and money were coming in by the wheelbarrow full, I had the very latest equipment, and I was much younger (I have a...

I prefer lump sum contracts, and I calculate that fee based upon $150 an hour no matter what I'm doing. However, I also look at the client, and the pr...

I would think your starting billing would be more like $6,000 to $9,000 a month. I took me three years to reach $20,000 a month. My best advice: Figur...

Don't forget the floors will be polished and won't hold a tripod very well, and think of how you are going to mark your traverse points so the night c...

I realize the original post was tongue in cheek (and rather well done at that), but the topic is actually a serious one and efforts have been made to ...

mkennedy, post: 377438, member: 7183 wrote: I doubt a caller would need to say that because I would answer the phone, "Hilltop Surveying. My name is M...

I can easily accept AAA Towing Company because they are, well, a towing company, and want their name up top in a search list. However, I read with sc...

I'm going to chime in on Social Security, with the understanding that none of us knows exactly when we are going to leave this earth, so it is a matte...

Holy Cow, post: 376374, member: 50 wrote: [USER=7322]@Jethro[/USER] That is an excellent example of how surveyors have been stupid for years. Far too...