If there is nothing else then it is better than nothing. The last time I DP'd any corners was almost 20 years ago.?ÿ It was on a 2,500-acre ranch in...

With all those long, skinny, crooked parcels, how was a householder to know where he could dig without taking his neighbor's peat?

I keep ours set at 80?ø, but hereabouts the temps usually cool into the low 60s overnight, so we don't have to run the AC all that much.

Pretty much off-topic, but I'm reminded just how bad the internal clock in my Carlson Surveyor+ is.?ÿ It loses (or gains, don't recall) multiple hours...

I had never heard of it.?ÿ Google led me to the NIOSH page, which says that dehydration can exacerbate rhabdo and shows a picture of a guy drinking pl...

Here in CA most stakes are fir or pine.?ÿ I've never seen hardwood stakes used.?ÿ I guess it's a matter of what's most inexpensively available in a gi...

In CA, architects are allowed to perform measurement work (e.g. topo, layout) pertaining to their projects.?ÿ They aren't allowed to do any boundary s...

Percentage-wise, maybe, but they're still cheap, especially considering their capabilities.

I don't care what the rapist says, I'm not interested in talking to him.

What's your budget??ÿ If your intent is to do this solo, I think you can probably get a used robot and data collector with some life left in them for ...

Yikes!?ÿ When I bought mine years ago it was a little over $500.

I use a Bosch 36v rotohammer.?ÿ For onsey-twosey monuments it's great.?ÿ If you have dozens to set a corded machine would probably be better.

Assuming that both the 1903 and 1921 surveys were done in accordance with instructions and/or the standard of practice at the time, I see no reason to...

For a long time I was skeptical about the value of antenna orientation for RTK because I figured the errors inherent in the method swamped those arisi...

I was told by our county's recently-retired Principal Civil Engineer that this is the main reason that Caltrans no longer funds 4-way stops on county ...

For 17 years I lived in a house that had a driveway with no observable slope -- it was pretty much dead flat from the garage to the curb.?ÿ Any signif...

Another term for that driveway is "funnel."

Somebody should have a chat with the inspector on that job... ...or maybe they did, and it involved a transfer of funds.