Benched from the field with a bum hip. Need a new one and a new knee also. Trouble is, my normal, end of the season buffer isn't there. Can't affor...
Kinda on topic.... we used to do cross sections of all the roads in Prudhoe on a yearly basis (took about a friggin year to get all of them!) 100' C/L...
Yeah, need to blow the dust off of the resume', been awhile. Getting fed up where I am now....-JD-
I was always told to use where the bent rod or mon is straight, usually where it enters the ground. If it is really messed up, use it only for a "che...
How long is this open? Might be interested!-JD-
One of the things that would irk the he!! out of me when I was crew chief on the slope was to get a flat tire with one of our own PK nails or the 8d n...
Down on the lower Kenai, the phone company had us put the phone pedistals 5' from property corners, electric coop seemed to like placing a pole on the...
Beep, Beep!-JD-
Too, two, to.Sorry, the spelling police slipped out!-JD-
Biggest "freakout" for me was running into a small flock (covey?) of pheasants. They are not indigenous to Alaska, but some of the artsy folks down i...
Yikes!! That one falls in witht the rock climbers that hang a tent or hammock off the side of cliffs!Not fer me!-JD-
I know I really am going to regret posting this, but.....Never had any issues with cows, but did have a herd of caribou move in on a field full of lat...
A young man went to visit his grandfather in the nursing home. "How are they treating you here, Gramp?" the young fella asked. "Oh, pretty good, son...
I know you said lower 48. Seems like we're always short good construction surveyors here in AK. One of the things that chaffs my @$$ is plan sets co...
"It depends on your audience whether to include the words latitude and longitude. For surveyors, probably not needed. For the general public it adds c...
Running a conventional traverse in Hooper Bay, setting the instrument up on the forward point, BS already set. Gal walks up to me to tell me that som...
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It's looking like the engineer that did the layout for the fire hydrants somehow shifted the basemap East about 30'. I did have trouble in a few spot...
