Bill93, post: 398040, member: 87 wrote: I suspect the vast majority are bronze rather than brass. Either the alloys vary significantly or soil condit...

Sounds like appliance operation at its worst.On the other hand, I could have a lot of fun designing a drone that set monuments using my custom .50 BMG...

I believe it's the International Boundary Commission (IBC) that handles it. As far as the funding of maintenance where the state adjoins such a bounda...

Precisely why my signature says what it has, for quite a while now...

I find this a most interesting and perhaps timely thread.I'm definitely in my "sunset" years and strangely, in the past couple of weeks I have seeming...

I agree 100%- "original position" means ORIGINAL POSITION. Period.

FAR OUT!!!

Thanks for the replies thus far, y'all.The very reasons I started this thread are twofold: 1) to consider the options suggested here; and 2) the fact ...

I would've been HOPPING mad!

Since the topic is RTK and things that can go wrong: the dreaded RTK "false positive" is one that bit me a few years ago, where the controller said th...

IMO this would be a good re-make for the old Alka-Seltzer commercial but instead of the guy yelling "Phones... PHONES!!" it would be "Drones...DRONES!...

Additional topo work which the engineer insisted on because he said the ground needed to be restored as closely as possible to the original terrain......

The current sign bridge design (at least in the last contract) gave the contractor the option of either setting the entire structure whole, or setting...

About two years ago I insisted on bringing out our 100-foot chain to verify the distances between footings on a couple of highway sign bridges (there ...

Having to deal with the small but distinct number of "hardened criminals" within the agency I work in; such people would be better suited selling used...