Great looking always bugged me! Can I survey off the map, is the question, and can I follow how you established what you surveyed. The first place A...
Mike Marks, post: 321898, member: 1108 wrote: > I have been drawing full color, negative engraved, 15 minute and 7.5 minute topographic maps and fu...
KILLER BEES!A few years back there was a lot of news about killer bees making their way North from South America. With all the bright colors we wear ...
Back to the original question, I have always found it easer to measure to a point than to set a point exactly where I want it. Example would be build...
Thanks for posting. This is great reading and I have been pushing these thoughts on my younger surveyors working under me. Geodesy and boundary surv...
Search this site for "geolock" I had good luck using this feature and not to expensive if your total station is set up for it. My 2 cents, Jp
If it isn't over the grade checkers head, he gets 25' o/s edge of pvmt with an elevation and fill/cut. Make the rest look good. My 2 cents, Jp
What a great life! Out in the county working at snooping out PLSS corners, then for fun going back to the woods looking for bears! Cool! Jp
I subscribe to the "Lucas Letter" which is monthly letter that deals with surveying case law. The February letter was about this issue exactly and tw...
Punch it in, punch it out.:good: I just add my punch mark to your brass cap, so don't worry to much about it.;-)
Seems to me if Surveying was a truly a profession then there would be no need for prevailing rates because the surveyors would already be making much ...
My old boss use to say don't erase in the field book as he was erasing.:-) Why not just line through the unwanted lines? My 2 cents, Jp
Was it worth it? Would you do it again? Just wondering, Jp
I agree with the photo I'd points. I would set a nail at the end of the turn arrow in case it was needed later for control. Jp
I just read 'Legal Principals of Property Boundary Location on the Ground in the Public Land Survey States' by Ira Tillotson, 1973. What you write ab...
I call it Planned obsolescence! I have had to replace a few lap tops for this reason too!:pissed: