> Had to stake a 'tract' of land in [say] Section 29 yesterday. The 1995 'legal' description (a recent water tank) said: [BTW, section numbers and ...

With a single base 20 miles seems to really push the limits of the RTK model. I might be dating myself but I always thought after about 10 miles the ...

Would it not be cheaper to have a repeater? I mean it looks like the guy has an industrial generator on the back of that thing.This is why I went to ...

"Be sure not to truncate the coordinates, it makes it too difficult to "get back" to the state plane value. Also it is much easier to sample in Quads,...

Don't do it Mark. Save yourself for a special social media site.

Please be kind and truncate.

I would think it takes a little longer than 2 hours per monument. First you need to mark them and call for locates. Don't want to hit anything under...

When doing some work for NOAA we were required to set to refusal along the Columbia River. The instructions were to sink it to refusal or 120, which ...

Leica.

Why not just use a tripod with sand bags if you are going to all of that trouble?

Nate,The 36v Bosch does have a hammer only mode. You can by chisel bits for it that work quite well. The thing has amazing power for being cordless....

Nate,I use a Bosch. Spendy but worth it.

> After asking for a 3D line from which I could get levels off it wherever the contractor wanted, I was told "oh no, we only designed it in 2D and ...

A good reason to require a PLS to write legal descriptions.

Jimmy,I have almost the exact same setup, mine is just in reverse. I had tried everything to get my wireless router to cross the 60 feet from my hous...

Reflectorless hints (slight hijack)> Why would you?> solo workers. > > I use reflective tape and measure up 6' HI's for the shots.Okay, I...

Reflectorless hints (slight hijack)Call me crazy, but if you can physically occupy a topo point why would you shoot it conventionally? It seems that ...

> Go to:> TOOLS;> OPTIONS;> Under the NAVIGATION tab: click the "DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY TILT WHILE ZOOMING" radio button.That does not do th...

"I was recently hired to perform a boundary and topo survey on a 5 acre vacant tract. After we finished, I was asked by the lawyer if I would add a c...

With A robot...I make it a practice to turn at least 3 sets to all control and monument ties. Many moons ago, back in the mid 90's, while working for...