If we did not work in the rain, we would not work 9 months out of the year. You have not surveyed until you have done construction layout in the PNW ...

can some draw a sketch?> The C10/TS15 one is the same and measures the vertical distance (if you check the tape against a normal tape 1m != 1m)>...

Couple of years ago I was working a HazMat site. We were basically filling in an old polluted 'lake' (a glorified ditch) with concrete and charcoal. ...

I once read that more people are attacked by black bears than Grizzlies. People think they are just big teddy bears and don't give then the respect t...

I have an old GRE4 (could be a GRE3a) in the back I could let go for cheap** if you want it.JohnBy cheap I mean shipping and a 6 pack

ORS 92.044 section 7"(7) Unless specifically requested by a public or private utility provider, the governing body of a city or county may not require...

In Oregon we passed a law that creates a 1' utility exclusion easement around a monument. I would have to look it up to see if it was just for newly ...

I have a couple of 1200's with R300 lasers. On several occasions I have gotten a return of over 1400 feet from a nice white FAA just for the fun of i...

Geezer,Why not just reference the grid bearing. It seems to me that if you rotated the Geodetic azimuth by the convergence angle your bearings are ac...

Just remember,Friends don't let friends scale to the ground without truncating.

Most fun once in the field was my 1970 Land Rover Series IIa. The truck would go anywhere. Saved me many a mile of walking. Shelby can attest to w...

I think I figured out my own problem, or at least a work around. I had originally set the font in my Excel file to simplex, silly me. When you impor...

Mark,One of my first projects when I went pro back in the day was a design survey of the Oregon State Penn. We spent quite a bit of time inside at it...

OmniDriveThe 1105 uses flash ram so you do not need anything nearly as special as Shelby's Omni for your system. Just get a PCMCIA to Compact Flash a...

As I recall this has been the law in Washington for quite some time. Good luck getting anyone to mark for you when you tell them you are surveying. ...

Not a tomb stone, just an old stump. Funny thing is, this whole berm is man made. I fought the snow in April to set a panel here and it was just a fl...

I don't think it has to do with the location of the Desc file itself, I think it is the location your laptop is pointing to the label styles. It soun...

> Thanks for the reply John. I have the 'use current point label style' box checked on the 'Insert' tab, but I have always had the 'Match on Descr...