I worked on a similar project years ago. Someone decided to sink all of their retirement savings into a real estate investment. The paid cash for th...

Coming up on 40 years next summer. I was a budding young glaciologist on a research expedition when the head of the program looked at me and determin...

Leica's switched to Lunix on the TS20 because of Windows 11 lack of support for monitors under 8". I'm guessing that means other vendors will be foll...

I really wish Oregon had classifications for surveyors. In Oregon, the PC is paid based on Power Operator Group 2 while the tech is classified as Lab...

@cvt Theoretically that would work, but only if you could keep the prisms aligned on exact same vector from the point of interest. Slightest of chang...

According to a white paper on Leica's site, the AP20 is actually more precise than a manually steadied prims pole and slightly less than a prims pole ...

@robertusa Typo, I meant to type no exception. As far as low watt, back in the day, a lot of surveyors thought no license was required for broadca...

@robertusa Yes, they are merely FCC compliant. All fixed frequency UHF radios used by non-governmental survey equipment requires an FCC license. ...

In Oregon under ORS 105.8, triple damages+ can be awarded for knowingly removing a tree or shrub on another property. Double damages+ can be awarded ...

@mightymoe I like to set a several mag nails as turning points on the way out and then run through them on the way back. Not that I've ever had a ...

Besides the tilt function of the AP20, the automatic rod height is great. I wish it worked with the GS18 but that is usually kept at a fixed height a...

That's funny. $600k doesn't get you much more that a tract home around these parts anymore. There is a new subdivision in my little town offering du...

Once upon a time I might have agreed with you, not anymore. I just had some entitled lady let one of her beagles, on a short lead, lift a leg on my t...

I'm doing some construction staking for about 6,000 feet of new curbs and sidewalk along an hold highway what is now a swanky part of town. In the la...

Yes, Bluebeam and Adobe, as well as AutoCAD and many other software, have tools to implement a digital signature certificate of authority. Unfortunat...

@ryn_lance This site just produces the simplest of electronic signatures and not a third party verifiable encrypted digital signature as required by m...

PacificCorp requires a walk around before pulling out. All of their rigs have a big sticker noting the requirement. As for backing into a tree, be ...

@joe-ferg Speak for yourself, I still see a 25-year-old in the mirror when brush my teeth in the morning. Then I put my glasses on.

@field-dog I think you can do all of that within C3D.