Started with Excel, created program with FoxPro which was great but bogged down with all the crew personnel combination possibilities as the company g...

CO, UT, WYMostly work in Western Colorado. Airport work in Utah and Wyoming on occasion.

billvhill, post: 422678, member: 8398 wrote: In Colorado survey plats are Deposited. Subdivisions or replats are recorded, filing is where maps are lo...

On Forest Service contracts the favorite accessory was a battery powered Dremel for scribing trees.

I believe the BFE at the point of the peninsula will be the BFE for all of the backwater. The water will not come around the point and climb the hill...

I carry and use a White's pinpointer. . It has an adjustable range of about 9 inches. Handy to carry and great to use around fences and other interf...

paden cash, post: 409945, member: 20 wrote: I was "forced" to comply with ISN to maintain my contracts. It was nothing but a shakedown. My client hi...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 409474, member: 291 wrote: It's good for tying to the legs of your polar fleece underwear so when you put your pants on your ...

I picked up a similar set in a Nebraska antique store for $15, labeled as "tent stakes".

I am working on a problem right now where a patent was issued for Gov't Lot 1 in 1888. The patentee sold the land in 1917 as the S1/2 NW1/4 thereby i...

One of my early experiences was the split of a mountain ranch property for purchase by a ski resort for the water rights. After describing the new lin...

We use both Terramodel and Autocad in our office. The recent versions of AutoCad (15-17) seem to occasionally import the dwg file created by TM in in...

I have been trying for years to get someone to let me plat "Lois Lane" to no avail. Although one client did let me name his subdivision "Another Subd...

I am just curious and I sure as heck don't want to start a debate like some others going on right now, but are you inclined to "straighten them up" to...

Said Lot, post: 394035, member: 1296 wrote: Interesting discussion.My outfit frequently does R/W retracements for our company's state DOT work. Our p...

Without disrespect I would question that when the fence builder, wall builder or foundation staker shows up which location do you suppose they will us...

Gene - I have no problem with any of those scenarios. I have witnessed the very same thing on many different scales. Not only in the mountains where...

The first time I ran into this practice I inherited a proposed subdivision with the boundary surveyed by PLS I knew and respected. The boundary was dr...

So, it is still a pin cushion right? The found monument is not accepted but no monument is set at the "true" position. Why is this any better than set...