For short and sweet, I always liked Paul Cella's (Cella Barr Associates): Have fun, make money.For depth, I prefer Gex Williams (Williams, Hatfield, a...

I'm 70 and I'll admit I'm starting to feel it. Last week I worked on a large commercial site and was really dragging at 2 pm. I solved that with a vis...

Tip for Solo Operators (Laser Distance Meter) - PRPopsicle sticks are great for any type of reflectorless measurement. I keep a roll of masking tape w...

Funny the memories you can dredge up. I remember being about five when my friends and I tried to dig to China, in the front yard, using old spoons. We...

WattlesLet’s see what old Gurdon Wattles had to say on this very subject:“The apparent advantage of metes and bounds, lies in the setting out of dimen...

Last week in the heavy wind my rover (and the base) fell over. The fall damaged the extension thingy on the tall road, with the thread broken off insi...

I win! 21, some time last year.

Here is how I would write it. If the straight lines have no calls, I would edit out the "a distance of" since it then would be verbiage. BEGINNING at ...

Someone actually wrote, marketed, and sold a program that bad? That's a disgrace.

Bruce! Service Rats!! ?Oh, they are cute. Rats make such great pets.

AngelAngel, did you know that giant African pouched rats are very efficient at detecting the odor of tuberculosis, and land mines? There was a nice vi...

You would think he would stop and ponder the situation, but I know of a survey in Tucson where the West boundary was the East R/W line of Oracle Road,...

The Tucson zoning requirements are written in Mandarin Chinese. I've always thought they do that so only the COT can interpret them, as they wish.

The roller coaster work load - SnoopDecember and January were busy, February was really dead, and March has been great. That's just the way it is.

I switch between GPS and a total station all the time and I've never seen anything like that kind of discrepancy. My guess would be scale factor, or s...