Last seen: January 16, 2026 1:51 pm
I set one of the two today, with the only manual hammer drill I have ever seen, an odd plastic handled thing with a metal top and a drill bit somehow ...
Recently helped a client who bought 5 acres with the concept that only 1/2 acre is buildable because of wetlands, and that to rent an excavator and st...
Accepted practice here, along with no right of trespass. Difficult to swing a hammer on the other side of the fence. ?ÿ ?ÿ
I beg to differ, the mold never stops here because the humidity is always >50% and the concrete is the largest source of mold, as it gives the most...
The concrete in question appears to be an aggregate of half pure mortar and half quartz and granite pea gravel.
I'm seeing a Ryobi 18v hammer drill for $175, and if all I need is to put in a PK nail with a washer, might do it. The 36v Bosch sounds like a great t...
Dunno, have to contemplate why large chunks of cash are a red flag for me. To separate it out into components, yes, some people flash the cash to impr...
@chris-mills there are moments when I think the bubble is only a fiction and the only true rod would be one without any asymmetrical weights to confus...
Cash is something of a fiction these days, People have it, sure, usually for bad reasons. I especially question when people want to be at the front of...
The other day I had a strange experience which might have nothing to do with rod runout, the bubble, gravitometrics, or anything. Put the LS-plus on t...
The safety officer from the airport stopped to chat with me a while back. I was sitting on a monument at the edge of airport property and he was conce...
Would pincushioning be greatly reduced if every surveyor was required to personally witness anything being set with their cap?
There is a simple explanation for many pincushions, which is that the crew did not want to carry whatever they set back to the truck. ?ÿ
Long time ago, before surveying, I was a tech support manager for a startup. Hired about 25 people that year, probably made most of the hiring mistake...
Dunno man, I quit making resumes when I got licensed. Everything started over. Licensed. Like it, don't like it. I know a half dozen people who were s...