There are many oddities regarding Ohio but I'll just keep it to one. The State of Ohio does not include any of the Ohio River. The southern boundary i...

@bstrand I would have to say that depends. Most don't get better mileage than a gas engine but the difference comes in when you're loaded/hauling. Mos...

@rich-roberge Back in 90 we had a new crew chief that would keep calling that out because the old crew chief used to holler that out all the time. He...

@bstrand I would hope your boss wouldn't have a problem with you talking to the land owners involved or those in the area. As long as you're trying to...

We were setting the interior lot pins on a subdivision that the original surveyor had been paid for setting said pins but had only set the exterior po...

 We were working on a survey that would reference a survey I had worked on as a crew chief/draftsman in the late 90's. I had called off a field s...

Back in the early 90's we were working in a subdivision from the 60's performing a route survey for a sanitary sewer and finding all kinds of junk nea...

@just-a-surveyor The trying to talk him out of a survey will help you out in the end. We do the same thing, I don't know how many times I've told peo...

@just-a-surveyor You can keep the snow. As long as it snows before the ground freezes it's all right I guess because it's easier to dig pins in. We a...

@holy-cow I get a lot of first time callers that don't want to wait for me to look in the files or county records, "just give me a ball park" with a ...

If the boards were really interested in making sure everyone was staying current with their surveying skills they'd just make every licsencee take a r...

Got caught in the back & back of leg 30 years ago by a Honey Locust branch. Two spots festered up and popped out in 2 weeks. Each was about the si...

This might be the market for you to switch jobs. If they sent a guy who only has 1 yr experience out to stake a project on such a tight site without m...

When I first started in surveying it was with a smaller company, one 3 man crew most days. The surveyors, not the owner, came up with a "rule" that se...

Wouldn't make any difference. We work in one county that has done an extensive job placing monuments boxes on section corners and quarter corners but ...

My realtor/attorney clients don't really care if they get charged more an hour for the new equipment as long as the job gets done on time. I've had to...

I can't believe this would even be an issue. If any of the crew members I worked with or myself had a ticket or needed a tow out of the mud (not becau...

I always place the recording or filing info at the bottom of my description. In Ohio nothing is standard county to county. Some record a new subdivisi...