Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I have a job coming up to set tall rebars on line in dirt packed hard by tens of thousands of semis driving ov...

Right after WWII in Fort Lauderdale a surveyor named George Brendla bought a bunch of surplus gun barrels and used them for monuments. When you found ...

In the Tucson area it was common to set an angle iron as a guard post, protecting the tagged rebar a few tenths away. Those angle irons are not the pr...

I don't have a problem providing a title company with a preliminary of my ALTA survey because i know it will help them speed things along. But, I've l...

Many decades ago one of the girls in 4th grade easily won the prize for best penmanship. I doubt she is still alive but I'll just use her initials. WG...

I started off with two HP plotters, a D and an E, 24 years ago. When they died I changed to the Canon in 2018. Very happy with it. Printing is sharp a...

They send me a check by snail mail or overnight. Nothing else will do. Well, hand delivered is good too. I do recall a biker showed up at the front do...

I annotate my ALTA surveys to match the deed, showing record and measured, but not because I think it is a good idea: The attorneys claim they can't "...

Well here is a strange take on that for you to consider. I certainly know north from south in any part of this country, coast to coast and border to b...

I actually know several surveyors who believe it isn't their job to check the drafting. Sign and out the door with glaring errors, including in one ca...

I've had very few bad shots, like once every couple of years, and every one was because I heard the beep and thought it had stored the point, but in f...

If you are measuring angles it makes no difference whether you sight short or long first. The largest uncertainty will be in the short sight whether i...

I once had a client for my COGO software who had turned on the save feature and for years had been saving every single keystroke (until it completely ...

My two cents as a general comment; Never give a client the impression you are sticking it to them - they don't like it, and they will remember. A "mai...

Well, perhaps because I frequently dig in the dirt for boundary monuments, and it is sometimes 115 in the sun, but I often look a mess. Quite filthy, ...

I thought they were useless until on my way to update a survey and needed my location map to guide me there. True story.