@mike-marks Good idea for the turning points. I had been mostly thinking about the instrument.

Now you guys are just trying to scare me. Stop it! ?????ÿ

Thanks everybody for the great ideas. We probably won't be doing the project until next Spring but I'll be sure to report the results.

@sireath There will probably be 5 set ups. There is very heavy brush and steep hills as an alternative route. If I can make the mudflat route work I ...

Thanks for all the thoughts. I have walked on the route I might try and only sank down about an inch so I'm hoping it will go ok.?ÿ

Yeah, I agree. I'll need to experiment with pile length before we do the actual survey next Spring.

@bill93 The project is to get an elev of the sensor head on a tide gauge. They started out asking for a few mm accuracy but now they are changing the...

@rj-schneider I was thinking along the same lines. The length of shots with a digital level are rather short so there shouldn't any significant error...

@bill93 Instrument Height would be about 5 feet above water surface

Ashton my friend you made my day! I saw that the word was wrong right after I posted it but couldn't figure out how to edit it. My faith is restored t...

Ashton Great questions and thoughts. I posed the question because I'm selling some property in CA and the deed for the property is a bit of a mess p...