In all my years, I have never shot through glass. Bad practice.

When I was little, I would chew on my lead soldiers. Still have my soldiers, and the teeth marks are still there. ?ÿ

In 1974, my everyday instrument was the Wild T1-A and the HP 3800.

I always fill the HI column. Part of level note keeping.

set a lead plug with copper tack

My pet peeve, surveyors are so unprofessional. No caps on their rebars ??ÿ Case closed.

I have never seen a 500' chain. I use a 300' chain, which I still use, and have in my survey van.

Yes you can. Different cut/fills to top of wall, and bottom of wall. Note, different offsets to top and bottom of wall, due to the batter, which you b...

Never liked them. never used them.

I would take our engineering plans and hand enter the corridor information into Trimble Business Center. This did take some time, a 2 mile corridor wi...

A fine piece of ingenuity. My old mentor, Ernie, showed me how to use mine. I still have it.

It is 9600

Yes ?ÿ

I started surveying in 1974. I did not do any geodetic surveying, except for once, a railroad tunnel, pusher terminal in Golden, British Columbia. Exc...

I think a co-worker said it best, " My daughter knows how to use AutoCAD, but does not know how to hold a pencil. "

When I was in the field, my practice was to reboot my TSC 3 every Monday morning. Seemed to alleviate any problems.

I was taught never to do intersections.

I still have my Collins machete from 1974.

I would suggest you become a Civil Engineer, and then look for work as an engineer in the field, building roads and bridges. With experience, you can ...

I worked with a old timer who loved his Whites. They can be rebuilt, so maybe in the long run, they maybe a good investment.