Holy Cow, please enlighten this old Yankee, what is a cotton spindle?

@holy-cow this is the perfect example of why public bidding laws make no sense.?ÿ Both my former employer and I bid a large electronic tax map project...

The last thing I ever want to do is to speak to adjoiners if I don't have to, but, I have to say, at times, when I felt like I had to, some of them ha...

Most of the smaller builders I work for ask me to set a TBM of mark a finish floor elevation when we are staking foundations.?ÿ I typically do not set...

More than likely, the reason this this position remains open is the pay scale being lower than what the private market is paying.?ÿ Back in 2005 I was...

@aliquot I used to know the system well, but, only from studying it, never from actually practicing in a PLS state.?ÿ I have probably forgotten most o...

Back in the day when I used Leica digi levels, they had an onboard rec card and an external card reader to transfer the data.?ÿ That was about 20 year...

Sit back and enjoy, there are a lot of different topics discussed here.

It boils my blood when Engineers review and comment of survey plans, it happens to me all the time on subdivision plans.?ÿ Most of them only do it and...

I wish I could offer you some words of wisdom but I can't.?ÿ I have worked for two large Engineering & Surveying companies as the Survey Departmen...

@350rocketmike no, because we don't do them.

@aliquot You fail to consider that a PLS has to be proficient in the Public Land System to pass the test and answer mathematical questions with double...

@350rocketmike that's a valid use if you are not staking critical construction points.

@rover83 "Properly performed".?ÿ I'm 38 years in and have so many horror stories from 6 different places that I have worked.?ÿ I have had to put the e...

@norman-oklahoma but you have the time in to understand the math behind it and enough knowledge to accept or reject.?ÿ You have the time and experienc...

@rover83 Just like anything else, the software is only as good as the people using it.?ÿ If you don't understand what you are seeing it falls back to ...

@jimcox great solution! ?ÿ

@norman-oklahoma imagine something going wrong with a resection, causing something to be built incorrectly.?ÿ When you are sued and explain the standa...

@norman-oklahoma I work on large commercial and school construction projects routinely.?ÿ I've been on several sites for two years after the walls hav...

@tim-v-pls until your resection goes wrong.?ÿ I have seen it happen more than a few times.?ÿ My crews do not resect unless it's a last resort.