John Giles, post: 332983, member: 57 wrote: Anyone else use the USGS website for topo's and aerials? I just started and it's a pretty good setup. I st...

DAM new format - you have to quote every single time you respond to somebody. Liked it a lot more when it was threaded. Roadhand - OK, I thought that ...

Question is...how did you get up there?

Construction workers do that kind of stuff all the time. I would have no problem with that set up as long as I was confident with the integrity of the...

Ya, I read that article about a decade ago, and again today. Maybe that is what "Drawing 1" is for? Stupid that we keep paying for improvements and th...

I don't know. On the Trimble unit, you go through and measure the horizontal and vertical errors simultaneously, then the tilt axis.I presume it uses ...

Better get to planting trees now. Bare root seedlings are not that expensive if you get them directly from a commercial nursery. At higher elevations ...

This new format tends to bring old topics back to the top on a continual basis. ....I'm going to start a topic called .04' so we can beat it to death ...

leegreen, post: 333466, member: 2332 wrote: Contractors can bend bolts, or drill and core new ones. As I'm sure you are probably aware, it just dep...

I would suggest going one step further and actually going through the columniation measurement routine. I use a Trimble 5600 and to meet the tilt acce...

Skeeter1996, post: 333459, member: 9224 wrote: I was always taught to design it to a hundredth, stake it to a tenth and build it with a D9 Cat. What k...

In my opinion, there is something to be said for recording level loops and control in field books. They can be scanned, archived and used later for th...

I use Carlson for reducing radial surveys and hand record and calc. control in a field book that gets archived for later use. Here is what my Carlson ...

rfc, post: 333442, member: 8882 wrote: I'm the wrong person to ask that question of, lol!Here's some more:Sums of both faces, from/to each point:From ...

It's usually the result of the combination of a conflict with the gobs of re-bar that the engineer required and a rush pour.

Am I misreading that data?

Not familiar with the Carlson format. I always handle the control data myself and only allow Carlson to reduce radial data.That gives me a warm and fu...

In California, construction staking is considered land surveying (regardless of the technology used) and it is not considered as experience towards si...