> I believe it was an alloy of brass and aluminumIt might be aluminum bronze -- roughly 90% copper and 10% aluminum -- though I don't know why they...

Off topic, but I'm impressed that your Garmin 12 appears to work with its internal antenna. As of a couple of years ago my 1999 12CX will only track ...

> Jim, that nail and shiner have a license number on it?No number, but it's just one of many nails set as construction stakes on an alley ROW line....

Lidar scanI went looking for the location because of a question that arose about the video, but after posting the image I forgot about my question and...

> Anyone else reading the updates on the Triumph LS test on Javad's website?Which update? I check the page fairly often, but am not seeing anythin...

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I went through a class earlier this month, and have already used it on a couple of projects. My training is still too new to need refreshing. 🙂

> I have heard people (a lot of surveyors) say they get their work by word of mouth.I'm not sure the term "word of mouth" adequately describes what...

AutoCAD 2013Homebrewed AutoLISP raw data conversion, COGO, and drafting functionsStar*Net v6TBC Advanced v2.91OPUS ProjectsExcel 2010I let my AutoCAD ...

I can't comment on the current Local 3 program, as I've had no contact with it in the last 30 years other than to make employer payments to NCJAC. Ho...

> I think I t has the potential to serve as a replacement for a field sketch perhaps.For the price of that system, it'd better do a whole lot more ...

Name notwithstanding, the interesting thing is that when this patent was applied for (1914), lightweight and compact steel tapes were already in gener...

Dividers> You have to set the distance between the points from a scale before "walking" the distance.I think they're talking about a device that's ...

> and I ask myself why are some of the states so low? I can understand places with low populations, but Cali, Il, and NY? Compared to Texas and Fl?...

> Meanwhile, back in surveyor land.... raise your pricesAnd while you're at it, see if you can find any surveying instructors interested in working...

> As that base receives GPS data, it compares the coordinate compute using GPS to the seeded coordinates, and then broadcasts the difference (corre...

I bought a suit when I went into business 21 years ago, and I wore it for the first few weeks while making cold calls on prospective clients. I wore ...

> Wow. Good luck with that.They had a couple of openings last year, too, and filled them. The instructors don't do it for the money, but rather fo...