I have an old Topcon 2meter rod that the flat tip screws over the pointed tip. When not in use it screws in under the level vial. Jp

Trimble's product line and there marketing strategy that includes planned obsolescent is offensive as a user of their products. Thanks for posting y...

This board is as good as riding 3 across in in an old standard cab truck going to the survey site in the morning. Joking and badgering each other. I...

Is there control left? Calibrate to it and check the residuals, rotation and scale and maybe it is good enough. The job is 20 years old sounds like ...

sounds like bs to me????

Great Book! Reading it now. No revisionary history, taken right from the mans own pen. Jp

Dave Karoly, post: 429132, member: 94 wrote: The monument is existent so, no, I'm not going to open a 2000 year old tree, it's not necessary. I don't...

Warren Smith, post: 428951, member: 9900 wrote: Don't forget MLB (Michael Binge) in his Daisy Duke's - an image you can't unsee - oooof! Curious mind...

Evan, everything you said above is true, but I fear that is becoming the norm in the profession. Some rise to the occasion of doing a good job most o...

Dave Karoly, post: 429101, member: 94 wrote: Mostly the GLO didn't use the Sequoias for BTs, I guess for a few reasons, they were the marketable timbe...

SURVEY NAKED! Story has it that one warm spring day in the low desert of Palm Springs California area, crew had stripped down to just shorts and boot...

I had a lot of trouble spending big bucks on sun GLASSES when they started to make all of the lens out of PLASTIC. Now I need prescriptive sun glasse...

Jim in AZ, post: 427685, member: 249 wrote: No trains! That would be nice - we have a 2-miler about every 10-15 minutes... I don't miss those!

I wondered where my chair casters went! Way to think out of the box. Technology has made all kinds of advancement with hardware while some of the si...

Dave Karoly, post: 426998, member: 94 wrote: particularly Charles Bronson's unrecorded maps. He was County Surveyor in the 1940s and 1950sThat was one...

Loyal, post: 426986, member: 228 wrote: (and not being able to take a pee,Beware of all the game cameras in the woods! You might find yourself and li...

And who owns between the creek and the distinct property line? Sorry for changing the topic but I have one like that going on now. Original descript...

Maybe he was to lazy to look before setting a new one. If he is that lazy then he probably thinks no one else will look. Once again I'm glad they ar...