Cant't go to a Tupelo, MS, community college for Drafting and Design Technology or for the Surveying Option, either. Academic administration pushed th...

I intended to work for myself when I retired from teaching. I already had my company set up and most of my equipment bought, and was doing weekend/aft...

Why, everyone knows that the GIS / Tax Maps are "surveyed lines" and they cannot be wrong! Heavy reliance is placed on these drawings. They are as go...

The grass is always greener on the other side! Hey, travel several counties over for survey work and charge four items your normal rate! They are doin...

I feel your pain!:pinch:

Good article.

No. Good answer, and charge them a percentage of the sale price to do it! Realtors charge....what, about 6%? Surveyors could charge 1% or 2%.

Snow? What's that?B-) Today: Clear blue skies and 47 degrees in Northeast Mississippi!

Circumstances. I started out as a Civil Engineer. I have always liked history, and when I started out with an engineering company with the survey crew...

Where do you put the Schondstedt?!:excruciating:

Utilities around here are typically installed over 30 inches deep to keep farm implements away from them. Erosion sometimes changes that. Our "permafr...

Power pole guy anchor? I have found plenty of abandoned ones in subdivisions near new power poles. Schondstedt goes, "wwwwEEEEEEEEEEEEE" and I get a...

guy set his own fence corner postMany years ago, I did a survey for a guy and tied to a fence corner post that was supposed to be 100 feet West from a...

I wish Schonstedt made a stone detector......B-)

I used mine today. There is a place for it on my toolbelt.:plumbbob: I am a solo guy, and I do not have a robot, so when I set up the prism with bipo...

Honda Foreman Rubicon 500 for me. I am solo, and it fits in the back of my pickup. I do not have a GPS pole mount for it yet. I have to strap everyth...