Winter DiaryTried to clean this up, hopefully clean enuff! Apologies if anybody is offended.Winter DiaryAugust 12: Moved to our new home in Alaska. I...
Just shot you an email, Scott. Thanks for keeping us all posted on the progress.-JD-Edit: WOW, that was fast! Thanks, Scott.
I believe it was a K & E Engineers Transit ca. 1913, we used it to level the sawmill rails. Other than that, I gues I go back to the old inverted...
"Has been a good training fete for junior instrumentmen."Exactly what I do with my guys in Nome, plus we make pegging the level a monthly ritual.Basic...
OOOKAY!With the old Win 2000 and then XP, I had the USB Serial Adapter by Keyspan Still needed the dongle to run Survey Link.-JD-
Dane, what O/S are you running? Windows 7 should recognize it. What DC? I still use the cords with both the FC120 (which has blue tooth, which appar...
Angel, sorry, can't resist!All women claim they got a little behind!Thanks Angel and Wendell, kinda nice to have time to post again!-JD-
I use the vial bubble on the instrument to check the bullseye bubble on the tribrach. I then hang a plumb bob (yes, I still have a tripod with a hook...
Most mineral surveys here in Ak date around the late 1890's thru the teens ... oldest one I recall was an 1897 1/4 corner...have to dig around for pic...
Seco also makes a "Heads Up" rod bubble that attaches anywhere on the prism pole. Has a little window to look straight at the bubble without having t...
Ooooh! Payback time!!When I finally made party chief on the slope, an old PC of mine was coming back thru Prudhoe from Kuparuk and was going to be my...
Control is established from the boundary, of course. As long as the boundary has been identified and marked appropriately, then I'm off. (that's why ...
Alaska......nope!-JD-
Black, our line weights are color dependent, and I just can't see yellow against a white background.-JD-
Add Alaska in the mixThrow the University of Alaska, Anchorage into that. They have a AAS in Geomatics in their Engineering program (or they used to,...
First of all, you mean a Topcon GTS-3b? Or a Sokkia Set3b? On my old 48DC with Survey pro, I use the CTS-1//GTS 3 setting. I assume you have the fu...
Stealing is stealing. On one hand you're right, but still, stealing isn't OK!I was out in Hooper Bay a few years back and had the base set up out in f...
Happened 4-1/2 years ago, still pretty hard on Bec and I. Whoever said "this too shall pass" is full of $__t! Yeah, just happy as a clam that Jennif...
