What I like about most of the bridges I’ve staked is that the anchor bolt holes are drilled and the bolts epoxied in place. I recall a bridge that the...
There is nothing more painful than to watch a concrete crew that primarily works on roads hang anchor bolts. If the contractor’s survey crew screws u...
I show courses along the meander line at the date of the field survey. It is for area computation and to compute closure. Offsets are set on line wi...
Less questions = More time = Better odds of passing The PLS exam in New York is the only exam I’ve taken that I did not have time to complete. Back ...
When I lived in New York the experience requirement was 8 years. I had 9. They told me I needed 2 more years because I lacked enough Original surveyi...
I’ve never listened to music on a Walkman and I absolutely refuse to be an old fart. Rock on!
@olemanriver He must be including the party years. I think a lot of surveyors stumbled onto surveying as a career. At least I did. I wanted to be a ...
A project many miles long with hundreds of control points and the contractor doesn’t think this is the right time to upgrade machine control equipment...
How high were those multiple bars stacked end to end at the end of the week? Seems like a blind squirrel would have noticed something was amiss in a ...
@flga-2-2 Have you considered physical therapy to improve mobility. There are two kind’s of pain. Pain that decreases the quality of life and pai...
Olive oil instead of bacon grease. Next time it’ll be Avocado oil.
@holy-cow Good for him
Maybe they want to get out of the office. Do you get paid?
They don’t buy a “comfortable car” because they want a corvette and can afford one. Seems simple enough to me.
Half corvette,!half SUV, nothing I’m interested in. It will find a following in the current market.
@squirl Thanks. I called and got an appointment 2 days later. After about 10 minutes he commented that my skin sucked up the ink. I’m a little dis...
I'm having a beer so I asked a couple of the young ladies behind the bar if they'd like to see me with a tattoo or naked. I'm getting a tattoo. I'v...
Leading my retired farmer clients way back in the woods to their rear corner and saying their should be a pipe here from the 30's. I took a step forwa...
The last one I found. The next one I find will become my new favorite. In New York’s northern Catskill Mtns. there are thousands of miles of stone wa...
Great news and glad to hear life’s treating you well.
