Whatever the checker marks is generally what has to be conformed to. These are cases where I try to have a reasonable and respectful conversation with...

@holy-cow I surveyed lower-lower Wacker! No lie, I remember it well and there are very few places where sunlight comes through. It's cool, a lot of se...

I'm not licensed in Illinois but I was educated back there. It's a degree state so your BS is what they look for. So long as you have the required cre...

@brad-ott Yup, Madison and Dearborn. You can see the plaque from streetview! I honestly couldn't stand working in the Loop. People with that much mon...

I enjoy reading these simply because it's become the norm in the surveying industry for about as long as I've been witness to it. I've been in it for ...

@brad-ott it takes me back. I got my start surveying in Chicago, lots of cool stories from those streets and even below them. I was intimately familia...

@james-fleming fool me once... I was just chatting with folk here at the office about family back in Joliet. My sister used to live in Elwood IL of a...

Where in Chicago did you find this?

Oh this is good. Just really, really good. At least he saved $300 off your over-the-top quote.

I thought for sure there was a furlong conversion in the appendix of my old Kara Co. field book but nope. Tons of useful information there, but no fur...

Same here, the RediMarks have been a standby for me. Good when new, and they stay okay if you aren't too rough with them. Keep them point-down in the ...

@paden-cash Yes, I was trying to envision how that mechanism would work. I assumed a check-valve would have to be present.?ÿ Hmm, fuel vapors. Yes, I...

@holy-cow "We had a handy dandy air pump that worked by pulling out a spark plug and then screwing in the connector to the long hose that could reach ...

Where do you hail from gmoney? Or can we shorten that to G$? (pronounced G dollar sign, of course ????)

@holy-cow I worked with a surveyor in San Diego who told me that when she received her license from the state, she found that they had misspelled her...