The one I had to crank was a Monroe.

It seems to be a compilation of usable suggestions for those studying or just entering the profession. And also, some good suggestions for many well e...

For those who don't miss it at all, or never looked back, why are you hanging out on a survey forum? Let's be honest,you must miss it a little. I st...

Well yesterday when I came to work my office was 58 degrees, so I immediately email facilities to fix it! The coldest outside was I70 construction s...

We had a bear knock our base down and chew the foam out of the case. Had almost made it to our search coordinates in very rugged terrain when the sign...

I recommend that a recreation easement be recorded between owners sharing a pond. I have dealt with several that started out fine between relatives or...

Here is a shortlist of advice I wrote for a presentation to the Young Surveyors Association a couple of years ago. Don’t quit learning Don’t be af...

In Colorado - Exception in deed, the exception of highway right-of-way in tax deed did not exclude that portion from fee … simply an acknowledgment ...

Colorado, for one, does require by Rule what you suggest: Documenting New and Existing Monuments. If a monument is set, as a result of a land surv...

I was involved in cases where the hunters persisted in trespassing. See the statutes below and the CPW hunting regulations also below CRS 18-4-201 Exc...

So, in the cases I was involved in, the hunters had been notified they were trespassing and persisted in doing so. The statutes suggest that you may n...

In Colorado property lines are not required to be posted in order for a trespass to occur. It is the indivuals responsibility to know where they are.

These were cases where an adjoining landowner was identified on the OnX map, improperly in my opinion, as the owner and they requested a ticket issued...

My first week as a "surveyor" I was setting up a brand new Wild T1AE with the head of the surveying department on a construction site. The previous de...

In preparation for testimony in trespass cases I have confirmed with OnX that their maps, at least in my area (Mesa County, Colorado), are imported di...

When faced with the mathematical impossibility of offsetting a spiral curve I resorted to the following: Intersect the tangents and fillet a curve usi...

Note the two holes in the second photo. The brass cap was found in the upper hole (north) but the stub of the original monument was found in the lower...

Yes, I regularly used a Whites pinpointer. It was especially usefull for use under chainlink fences as you can set the range of detection. So, if you ...