Wish someone would have the bright idea and make them a foot up from the end You might want to try swapping out the washers for 2-piece shaft colla...

I use a Garmin eTrex 20. It's small, light and relatively inexpensive. And no longer available, apparently. The eTrex 10, at about $100, might be ...

COGO is an acronym for coordinate geometry Pedantic note: it's not an acronym, or even an initialization. It's some sort of bastardized shorthand...

Ever notice how the North America on the left has a lot more members than the North America on the right?

When my son was in junior high he memorized pi to 193 places, and Pi Day became a family tradition. We still observe it around here, though with less...

it takes about 16 seconds for the home page of the website to load. I get about the same for the home page, but the Recent page -- which is the one...

I figure that some sort of age-related injury will probably be the thing that gets me to retire. So far I've dodged the bullet, with nothing more tha...

if ever county has survey records accessible and organized online like Tulare County, Regrettably, that's not the case. My home county (Yolo) has ...

There will be a custom finger joint in the middle. A finger joint is going to be a weak spot. Compass staffs (staves?) take a lot of pressure at ...

calculate the cost of ownership of a Leica or Trimble kit. I advise checking the cost of ownership of GeoMax versus either Leica or Trimble. It's ...

Probably cut it down to bedrock and hauled in an “engineered fill” I got a chuckle out of that, even though I know it's feasible in many areas. Bu...

@skeeter1996 I'm in California, which is a mandatory recording state under pretty much any situation that involves a dispute, so "what if he never set...

I've only encountered this situation once. My client, the prevailing party, asked me to remove the other surveyor's marker. I declined, saying that ...

There's a 1913 subdivision in my city that has the lot numbers stamped into the sidewalk mid-lot. They also stamped a fancy arrow at the back of walk...

I have a GTS-300 manual; there might be enough similarity for you to get the information you need.?ÿ Message me with an email address if interested an...

In California, all Records of Survey, Parcel Maps and Final Maps are required by law to have "a marginal line . . . drawn completely around each sheet...

Horrible software. That pretty much describes just about every piece of HP software I've ever come across.

debris could be suspended at any depth, so the task may be a big one. I would expect any interesting debris to be denser than water and thus on the...