You'll lose many an increment borer working on the oaks in Texas. 🙂 Soft woods like Pine are fine, and we have used them on it, but proving a 24" o...

I have one that is still standing that I believe to be the patent tree from 1857. It is in Freestone County, Texas and has a "cat face" blaze on it. ...

I'd say if you were still surveying with a 1' mountain gun and a highway chain, then you wouldn't be wrong. If you're not, then it's silly.

I wouldn't do anything. People make poor decisions all the time and it's not our place to right ALL of the wrongs and inequities in this world. If a...

The State of Texas has no distinction between Easements and Boundary surveys (except for the stupid loophole in "construction estimates") so all easem...

I've had this happen a time or two. What we do is that we tell them is less than the original, but we are going to check everything. A surveyor frie...

The last one that said that to me got a very different response. I asked or what, and dropped my file on the ground and took a half step toward him. ...

Is the flash card full? We have to hold our mouth right to get the 5700 to crank and run. Sometimes, the lemo from the radio to the base will draw j...

Just set a bigger corner so that the position can be "massaged" inside the monument. A 2" iron pipe will work, but a 12" is better. 🙂

Just pay for the subscription and get the RTK values (after shooting them a few times and averaging them) and then throw them into a LSA. Quick, pain...

Mike, not so fastThere is ZERO reason, in my opinion, to put the ROW into a spiral.

Mike, not so fastAssuming that the rails were laid out, as the plans said, in a simple curve. The train itself would make the sprial, curve, and spir...

I'd think it should be more, but with the right circumstances, like wide open, I could do it for that. Add much brush to cut, then probably not. Add...

The last time I had someone jerk my corner, and had to go reset it, I took a 4' long No. 7 rebar, dug a hole about a half of a foot, and then set it u...