Somewhere in your instrument setup routines, you are able to select the type of instrument to connect. One of your options will be "manual" mode, in t...

When using the total station, I stick two nails in the ground and use a magnetic compass to get a rough backsight azimuth and go for it. No wasted ti...

plumb bob or plumbob?Which is it? My I-pad autocorrect says two words. This is like the benchmark / bench mark issue; does it depend on the context?

I used to carry one regularly on my tool belt. 16 ounce one with gammon reel. I used it with a long shank screwdriver holding one end of a steel roll-...

DudeIt is about 46 degrees here in overcast Northeast Mississippi. I MAY have to use the toe of my boot to scuff the 1/8" ice off a point on a typical...

I have seen similar notation in the U. S. public Land Survey System in Northeast Mississippi field notes. There will be an entry for degrees and then ...

I had a call late Friday evening from a lady friend of mine. She wanted to have a piece of her land surveyed to give to her daughter for a Christmas p...

things you almost see in the fieldOnce, while surveying near a nice subdivision in a nearby town, I was cutting my way down an overgrown property line...

Amazing! I have always heard that it was there, about a mile and a half off the highway. I have never seen an original marker in my 35 years of surv...

Yes, I used a "chain" in the early 80's - a 100' steel tape. I can "throw" a chain and "do it up."Reel? I need no stinkin' reel! I still use a plumb b...

I know, I am an old TDS guy. I liked the software and could use it. I am currently using survey pro 5.1.

I have not done a solar observation in two years. I use primarily GPS to determine Geodetic North at a point approximately in the center of my survey....

I finally got my Ranger rental unit to communicate with my GPS units. Two years ago, my sales rep set everything up for me, and I was trying to look, ...

I would love to have a reoccurring job like this. You have done all the hard work. Field checking for changes and incorporating anything new should no...

Does anyone out there have TBC and can convert a survey pro 5.1 file to a survey pro 5.0 file for me? I downloaded TBC, found where I could do it, bu...

Well, the rental unit came in. It is running Survey Pro Version 5.0. I have had mine two years and it came with version 5.1. Well, just like AutoCA...