Why would a surveyor hesitate to set a new monument at the surface and document this by filing a corner record?Is it considered taking on un-necessary...

You can fix a leaking garden faucet with pink flagging.

I have found that they sometimes utilize information that is not the same as the USGS DEM. Not sure where they get the data. It's a mosaic from many s...

Call it what it is...2 1/4" dia. steel monument w/protruding 1" dia. steel top.It looks like it may be a portion of an old driveshaft. They were fairl...

Kris Morgan, post: 408991, member: 29 wrote: That is one of my favorite meals in the winter. I love Racoon. It's a dark sweet meat that is awesome i...

Mark Mayer, post: 408959, member: 424 wrote: That's pretty cool. But at some point somebody said "This office has a system going back to 1880. It seem...

Wild hog injuries are pretty serious looking (according to Google). I'd spend the rest of my life getting revenge if I was attacked.

Mark Mayer, post: 408946, member: 424 wrote: I used to write all the traverse data in the field book, although I've always (at least since c1997, when...

Mark Mayer, post: 408925, member: 424 wrote: The data in StarNet format:I don't have the SurvCE converter, but in this case my TDS converter worked. I...

Jimmy Cleveland, post: 408914, member: 91 wrote: Interesting, I usually adjust everything at one time. Is there a benefit of adjusting separately?Prob...

Are you getting the same answer when you manually check the closure?For example, is Carlson reporting the same angular error that you would get if you...

I see settlement marks in the asphalt where someone else dug the monument up. They made a larger hole than you.

reido99, post: 408794, member: 1068 wrote: He does ok work. Just kind of pissed that he can take work away from me and not have to pass the state exa...

Tom Adams, post: 408781, member: 7285 wrote: Hangin' with the cat.....must be Pep̩ Le Pew.This skunk doesn't smell too bad....I remember Pep̩ Le Pew h...

Does he do shoddy work or is it just the additional competition that you don't like?

Ahh...the phobia comes out!I was wondering because I have never really figured skunks as a hazard while surveying (unless working around culverts). Th...

Monte, post: 408731, member: 11913 wrote: I carry a sidearm, as much for skunks as hogs, and as much for other undesirables I might find. Umm...you sh...

paden cash, post: 408604, member: 20 wrote: Having seen wild hogs in all their glory, I don't think I'd touch one unless I first ran it through the tr...