@jph I think what is being missed is the question: "What are we actually doing?" The answer in almost every case is that we are retracing a previous...

I like a locator that easily indicates polarity and works along a chain link fence. A few models from a few brands can do this. I think it is a worthw...

@tommy-young Personally, I don't mind an audit. I always appreciate someone looking over my work. If the cost is swallowing my pride and making some ...

@jph ?ÿ lol...what do you think that you are an expert on legal descriptions or something?

@jonathan50 ?ÿ That seems to come and go. Right now, engineers seem to be getting tired of bad information. In the end, they spec whether a kid with...

@jitterboogie Bang...dinner!

@squirl Construction outfits around here are offering about double the going rate for a cadastral surveyor...

@paden-cash Had a discussion with my party chief one day about the value of a rod I had dropped as I fled a ground nest of hornets...no dead bodies t...

Had something like that happen before, we tied in an intersection monument, at the corner of a plat of that contained lots worth maybe $50,000,000 wit...

@linebender Ok, that brings up one thing I hate... The equipment note says both total station and GPS...but I want to know about a certain course. D...

@aliquot The question remains...you revisit that monument, and it has obviously been changed in some way, and it is significantly different in measur...

@mightymoe By who? The person that did it. In my state, I am unaware of any statute that would require a person to rehabilitate every monument in a ...

@jitterboogie This is the main reason why there are many surveys that I have done where I have not visited the intersection monument of an intersecti...

@mark-mayer It is VERY common in 99% of the surveys in bigger counties in WA as well. Block breakdowns, section breakdowns, etc are shown according t...

@leegreen According to labor agreements around here...surveyors are a trade. The interaction of the union/trade portion of the world (which may or m...

@leegreen Why, exactly, is it YOUR problem what someone else identified you as?

@bstrand The two surveyors talked all the time, from what I know (never met either of them...and never will). They may not have been friends, but the...

@mightymoe Firstly, I didn't reject it...and the guy who did is now gone from this earth. But, my understanding was that while half a foot was withi...

@aliquot Significant digits are...significant!