What is this 'not realistic' you speak of? I hear it from my wife quite often and do not understand what she means. I mean what are the 25 hours in ...

@murphy That is how I used to handle it, until they came down on me for it. I've come to the conclusion that if it is that important, the client ca...

@jitterboogie California gets really nasty about it. Years ago I had one of the locate providers threaten to sue me over it. Now I just have the c...

@norman-oklahoma Washington's law changed a couple of years ago. Now they will give you a list of utilities but that is it.

@hpalmer In my experience 811 locates cover only public or quasi-public utilities such as water, power, gas and sanitary. On-site private utilities...

@not-my-real-name Slope staking still has its place even now that machine control is common. Every once in a while I set slope stakes before constr...

I can't think why anybody would be messing with photographing paper sheets when a pdf copy can be downloaded from a public source for free. i work i...

My first party chief spent his time as a drafty on a first order control crew with the army. talked about spending a month in the jungles of Panama t...

Because ink smears on rite in the rain paper.

There is a big difference between the smells generated from an old school dairy vs the modern agribusiness model common nowadays. When I was a kid, d...

@norman-oklahoma?ÿ Monument tables are the way to go.?ÿ I've set up C3D user defined property classifications to include meta data referencing fallin...

3.4 million for emotional distress?

Thanks for the tip on the medical insurance thing. Is that something that is mandatory and gets taken off your pay? How significant is it? Up here we ...

I think I have a format file with that information.?ÿ I just need to see which attributes it exports.?ÿ They are simple to create in the old LGO forma...

I have had a Pipe Mic with the offset attachment for at least 15 years.?ÿ They work great but are next to impossible to get reasonably clean enough to...