Ya'll are all Southerners!-JD-

Been a construction surveyor for 30 years, with a little land surveying off and on all thru that. Made 19K a year with the land surveyor and 100K a y...

Ain't it grand?! Really miss doing these surveys, seems all of mine are in the villages anymore.-JD-

We use "Permanent Utility Easement" This allows us to install underground and above ground utilities. Kind of a catch all, takes care of water, sewe...

I'll move the gun a few feet on the tripod, making sure it stays vertical, sometimes with the tripod legs spread over the shoulders. Anything more th...

Mr Winowc,Perfectly good post. By all means, stick around. So many opinions out there, it's kinda fun to look at all the responces! I have a 26" Col...

Couple of books I have:Moffit/Bouchard: Surveying (mine's old-8th edition)Davis/Foote: Survey Theory and Practice+ as much field time as possible.-JD-

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Caterpillar D-3. 'nuff said!-JD-

Only getting chewed out 3 times a week? Sheesh, sounds like a real teddy bear compared to the guys who mentored me! Stick it out.-JD-

Maybe not the "field"Careful with your EDM indoors if they have a halon system. I touched off a $100,000 halon dump (at least that's what they told m...

Don't know about the law, but I've always used U.S. feet in AK.-JD-

YLS, do you have a phone number for this Corvallis? I have a "smoked" card the I would really, really like to get the info from!!-JD-