1977, Wild T-1 and Lufkin Pioneer chains (100' & 200'). The company had a couple of EDMs, but the crew I was on didn't get to use one until I was...

> So how much do they want for plain ole AutoCAD these days? $1000 a year?It just went from $450 to $495.

> If you like that, you will LOVE the Carlson packages with Intellicad.If I had a multi-seat operation I'd probably go with something like Carlson ...

I've installed CMS IntelliCAD 7.2 Pro to try out. Initial impression with a fairly complex ALTA/topo is that it's every so slightly slower than AutoC...

> My recommendation would be to download a trial version and fiddle with it. I am guessing you will be impressed.There seem to be many flavors of I...

Optical plummet tribrachs aren't terribly expensive to buy used. I've seen some good Topcons go for $100 or less, and some Wilds for not much more. ...

> I have heard that the batteries for the Trimble 5603 are not made any moreThe 5600 series (and the Geodimeters that precededed them) use external...

> Does the Trimble system know the difference between the backsite and foresite prisms?The old Geodimeter / early Trimble active targets aren't dis...

I thought you said *you* were writing the article.(Just kidding.)

> I've never tried to copyright any of my work.I registered the ALTA that I discovered was being used by a design firm without my permission, but a...

> Jim's isn't directly in traffic but it could get run over.It's not a traffic-rated lid, but this is kind of out in the middle of nowhere so I don...

This installation is part of a contract that specifies what to install under different conditions. I was just following the engineering detail, and ha...

> McLain had strung the stringline and they built the fence. Later it was found that the original lot line was on Kirkegaard's side of the fence. ...

> Where do you get the access covers? How much do they cost?For this I used a Berntsen BMAC6 that I had leftover from another project. I had to gr...

> That's quite a hole ya dug there.It's not a hole anymore. It looks something like this now:There's an old 1" iron bar marking a rancho corner in...

How does the S6 do riding on its side? I've been told that some instruments (the Leica DNA03, for example) don't tolerate the bumps and jolts of tran...