> I'll bite. Where do you put the data collector when you need both hands free just to point the instrument at a target? Do you hang it back up on ...

> I know times are very tough. They are going to be a lot tougher.Things are on the upswing in my area of the west. 2012 was better than 2011, an...

There's one just like it on eBay right now. Kind of pricey at $200 for the lot of 3 (though the others are of a different manufacture).

> Our 12 year old Dell desktop is inadequate at this point.If I were in the market now I'd buy another Dell. I'm on my third Dell workstation, and...

Here's a pic of my batteryThe Tadiran TL-5186 is a lithium primary (non-rechargeable) battery. The good news is that they're cheap, around 6 bucks.

The graying of the land surveying community is getting disturbingly hard to ignore. Especially among those of us sporting the most gray.P.S. While I...

> My argument has always been that we provide professional services and it has worked until now.It's not the nature of the services, it's the requi...

> I need to change the Lithium Ion battery in a Legacy E GPS receiver.Be careful what you put in there -- it's likely a lithium primary battery, no...

I always use a contract with subs, and I usually mark them up 15%.

So much depends on the particular circumstances that trying to determine an average price is pretty meaningless. In my home city most of the ECs I do...

> Kern -- probably the dumbest sales slogan ever. "The best is yet to come."I have to disagree -- I believe that award goes to Subaru: "Love. It's...

> No improvements built within 2 feet of your property line.Are you suggesting that throughout PA there are 4' wide fenced strips centered on parce...

> I have an impression that Leica equipment is considerably more expensive than some of the competitionI don't think this is the case any longer. ...

As Dave K. said, excellent explanation.

> These were 1/2", 3/4" or 1" inside diameter pipes with one end crimped closed in a vise. The open end was driven into the ground and the crimped...

> Well I'm throwing in the towel. Got a Dell Optiplex with Win7pro and had high hopes.My son's computer is a Dell XPS Studio with Win7 that's about...

> Yes, steel or iron pipe is sold by the inside diameterTechnically it's a nominal size. For example, the ANSI inside diameter specification for 3...

> Good luck in my part of rural America hiring someone for DB Wages...this is a non-issue.Because there are no federal projects there that require ...

The problem I've had with a number of NGS applications is that the installation defaults to a folder in the root directory. With default permissions,...