@mark-mayer All of our equipment is Topcon, including MAGNET Field software. We have a low incidence of connection issues with our GPS rover. I really...

@norman-oklahoma I understand. The pain I mentioned comes from situations like management telling us to locate all trees six inches and above, then a...

Did your sales folks give you any details on how companies are going to write their own software to overcome pitfalls in equipment manufacturers propr...

Tree surveys are a pain. One company I worked for bid a tree survey by looking at an aerial photograph, which didn't show how dense the trees really w...

What would you pay a person in this position? The title of this position is demeaning because it doesn't reflect the qualifications required for the p...

@flyin-solo I was a bit uncomfortable using this when a female was on my crew.

I disagree.

It is a nice instrument. The built-in compass is certainly a plus for section corner certification. The first instrument I was trained on was one of t...

My wife, an accountant, once told me a certain percentage of profit should go towards capital expenditure. Are those DOS programs you describe used fo...

Thanks to everyone who replied. I appreciate it!

I never got back with my crew to the monument. I'm on the county's version of medical leave due to a lower back problem. I was confused with the meani...

Excellent point! I'm all for the documenting. When I got back to surveying in 2012 after an eleven year hiatus, I was happy that the company I was wor...

I agree. I just think that excuses for not mentoring and training personnel are as pathetic as excuses for not checking prism pole bubbles, tribrachs,...

We try to mentor people here at the county. Fortunately our pace isn't as fast as private companies, so we have more time for mentoring. Lack of train...

If I had my own company, only to address safety concerns, e.g., working in heavily-congested roads or areas frequented by venomous snakes, mountain li...

@bill93 We never checked the sides of the monument for "1/4 S." One of the scribed lines is pretty deep, like it was made with a saw. It's definitely ...

@daniel-ralph We haven't discussed what we're going to clean it with yet. Any suggestions?

I just found another CCR, written in 1997, on LABINS. No mention of the monument being scribed. The CCR we had with us today was written in 2004.