After we went thru the ef5 tornado here in Dec. 10, 2021 I’ve been a lot more attentive to the warnings. We were in the design stages of a new house a...

I worked around a very large limestone quarry quite a bit and all the original property corners that hadn’t been mined thru yet were drill steels.

Well, I don’t see the basement attached, so I bet it still floods.

To me it looks like a castle nut on the end of a threaded axle with flagging under the nut.

I retired 5 years ago and can truthfully say I haven’t missed it for a minute. I started out working for the local heavy construction company in 1977,...

Old guy I used to work with wore a 2” leather tool belt all the time doing construction staking. There was a 2nd belt about 6” long attached on one si...

I’ve staked literally thousands of R/W monuments down here in the west end of the state. They are usually laid out as one of the last items on the con...

It’s been over 30 years ago, but if I remember correctly the 4000 I had developed a problem with not being able to level the bubbles not long after I ...

This is a Geodimeter brick prism, or RMT. The tilting frame comes off with the 2 thumbscrews on the sides, there’s a threaded 5/8 hole in the top of t...

Just a tip on the short rod. I used to mount one of the old brick prisms between the bottom of the rod and the point so I could stand up and take the...

Whatever your opinion about heat index and wind chill, they should be relative to compare between days. Local weather man reported that exactly 8 mont...

Wow, thats a blast from the past, 2011. I figured I had responded, looks like twice.

I was staking some clearing lines for a new rail loading facility at Fort Campbell back in about 2000, and one was about 1/2 mile long through a secti...