Hopefully some of these well-made stone cairns still exist? Otherwise, it makes you wonder if they were removed."Those original 19th-century surveyors...

Although there is a distinct line, it is merely a formality. The border is about 100 yards wide.I once left the US...drove 100 yards north and was ref...

I'm reading that the going theory is that several holes were mistakenly drilled in the fractured member and filled with a plug weld as a repair.They a...

FL/GA PLS., post: 410677, member: 379 wrote: Lower right on the cross beam.Appear to be rivets to me, but the lighting is weird on the photos. It look...

Where do you see plug welds?Looks like hot rivets and structural bolting. I wonder if that member is classified as fracture critical and when the las...

John Putnam, post: 410616, member: 1188 wrote: I think that would only work if the sign was in a cardinal direction. You need to flip it so that the ...

Truthfully, I often wonder what the heck they do when someone sends in a perfectly good total station....perform some checks....wipe a few parts with ...

My thoughts are that taking a delicate (plastic) instrument apart needlessly is probably not good practice. They should probably be sent to a shop and...

The "zero" on a hand held laser meter varies depending on the manufacturer. I have one where it is centered on the device, so as to make it easy to us...

Now wait a minute....Do I at least get partial credit? "export the points to ascii....swap coordinate fields, then re-import"Truthfully I have not hav...

I wish that guy would get into the development of coin detectors. As crazy as some of his stuff sounds at first, he is innovating.

Shooting from the hip here with a guess.........I would think you would have to best fit a line defining the 2D axis of the sign, then re-orient your ...