The recording fee in my county is well over $400.?ÿ That does not leave much to set pins and draft even if you did the plat last week and the job is n...

@bc-surveyor?ÿ Here is a link to Seco's monitoring kit (the second page has the plates).?ÿ Mining, Tunneling, Monitoring and Rail Archives - SECO Man...

@dave-karoly I loved my old TrimMark IIe (I still have one stashed in my attic).?ÿ Inside that big box was a Motorola Radius 2000.?ÿ The Satel is on p...

Why would you not use a DC if you are using a total station??ÿ Let's face it, hand booking is time consuming and has the added disadvantage of being s...

You can actually purchase the forced centering plates which may be cheaper than fabricating them yourself.?ÿ you could use the same for a backsight or...

Most of my work is design related for infrastructure or commercial projects and made up of copious amounts of topo and some boundary on the side.?ÿ I ...

@lukenz Yeah, the radios get quite hot and need to be hanging on the side of the tripod to let the cooling fins do their thing.?ÿ I have a friend tha...

I'm using a three monitor rig, 1x32" & 2x28", and I love it.?ÿ I'm actually contemplating replacing one of the 28" units.?ÿ Sometimes it is a litt...

How hot is hot??ÿ Most equipment is made to work at high temps, a GS18 has an operating limit of 65C (149F). If you are talking about covering the an...

That is what I thought and saw.?ÿ But that was what Leica said to use.?ÿ I'm still trying to get in touch with someone there that has a more definitiv...

@holy-cow Nice things is that her hourly compensation package costs me next to nothing and she does not take up much office space.

@350rocketmike It is supposed to have a glove mode that helps out in the rain.?ÿ I had to flash new screen drivers and then load an executable to chan...

@ramses Yeah the current prism is fine, I only mentioned that because the one they show in some of the material looks different.?ÿ After looking again...

I've been test driving a Leica CS30 and I really liked it util it rained.?ÿ The capacitive screen just goes crazy in a typical NW rain.?ÿ While a numb...

I've been using Leica GNSS & TPS since the 1200's came out. (actually in my 30+ years I have never used anything but Wild/Leica theodolites).?ÿ Un...

@holy-cow I've found that having Word read the description aloud as I follow along on the exhibit helps catch those mistakes.

Depending on the type of work you do, I think even at $10K it could be worth it.?ÿ For setting out the time savings on just getting close to the hub l...

@skeeter1996 I would say that unless all the affected parties were no stupid enough not to get title insurance, which does happen, it is the insurer t...

@holy-cow I had a similar situation with my property.?ÿ 20+ years ago my 90 year old clay sewer line gave up the ghost.?ÿ Instead of running to the se...

Come on Mike, do you think it would admit to knowing you?