For me cost proposals are just part of business development. If I'm too busy or not interested I'm the project I simply won't respond to the first vo...

Jpaws, post: 429346, member: 12545 wrote: Nice find! How many holes did you dig!Two - one during an optimistic effort to eyeball the intersection of a...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 429220, member: 291 wrote: What's sad, is I don't know what they are.It looks to me like they're prism mounts that you stick ...

The paint thing is common around here, especially for buried monuments of any kind. We have lots of pavement -- and hardpan soil that might as well b...

Scott Zelenak, post: 429190, member: 327 wrote: Man, that is service!About how much did all that service cost?

paden cash, post: 428927, member: 20 wrote: My collapse is usually due to hypoxiaAnytime the temp gets above 80?øF or so I have to be very deliberate ...

Edit: It's a 1/4 corner, not a section corner.

I have 6 of the 2-meter tripods, and have always carried them in the SECO bags in the back of my truck. Some of them are over 15 years old, and bubbl...

MightyMoe, post: 428886, member: 700 wrote: it looked like the only system that would accept even a 2" cap is the one with the large poly base.The pol...

Frank Willis, post: 428609, member: 472 wrote: When something gets messed up, Carlson doesn't deny it. They just fix it.I'm a pretty contented SurvCE ...

paden cash, post: 428673, member: 20 wrote: Only one of the FEMA RMs was recovered at the time and THAT datum disagreed with these USC&G monuments...

John Putnam, post: 428619, member: 1188 wrote: My insurance provider just informed me that they would no longer be providing me insurance because of a...

R.J. Schneider, post: 428630, member: 409 wrote: I'd always wondered if they use those two terms interchangeably.

Many years ago my city got in trouble with the California Board because they had an unlicensed person with the job title Associate Civil Engineer. Th...

I'm in the long pants (and long sleeves and hat) camp regardless of where I'm working. Sun protection aside, there are just too many stickery things ...

Does Colorado really allow unlicensed persons to use the title Land Surveyor? That wouldn't fly in California.

I'm not familiar with Nikon guns, but it sounds like you may have been operating the instrument with the compensator(s) disabled.

foggyidea, post: 428376, member: 155 wrote: It's not just for yourself, but it's in the best interest of your clients to have E&O.I've seen this a...

Sometimes crews are instructed not to talk to anyone due to the sensitive nature of the project. Disclosing even the company name, let alone the name...