> Cogo. Well, does anybody do calcs in the field? Hmmmm I do!HP-41 or [rarely] laptop!

> > Only in the US can a 10 year old buy an assault rifle with a 100 round clip but a 40 year old can not buy non-lethal self defense items.WOW...

GLO Iron Monuments - Here are scansI believe that Section 242 of the 1930 Manual (posted above by Dave Ingram), first appeared on Page 229 of the "Adv...

Aspen Scaled by 0.35Pamper or cloth?

> Well, isn't the main point that he was making letters according to some regular pattern that wasn't remarkablty elongated or squashed? Of course!...

I doubt that a "gimbal point scribe" was used in this case. The nature of the "marks" look (to me) more like a series of "points" possibly done with a...

I've seen a few Gamble Oak BTs, but the "best ones" were cut ~3-4 ft. above the ground at the time of scribing, and have been "help upright" by the su...

Ketchikan, Temsco 500s & various Float-planes, those were the days...Last time I was in Ketchikan (2004) the Cruise Ships had pretty much destroye...

Quakie "stems" are generally rather short lived (40-150 years), although sometimes (rarely) MUCH longer. Being a clonal colony, the root system can li...

HP-41cx, everyday, MANY times a day.I still have my 41c (bought in 1979), also a 41cv (early 80s), both of which still work fine (turned them on just ...

It has ranged from Sea Level (Alaska) to 12-13 thousand feet in the Great Basin.If I added up all the field days over the last 46 years, I would guess...

a: the 2003 data is screwed upb: the 2013 data is screwed upc: both data sets are screwed upd: both data sets are OK, and Kent is screwed upe: insuffi...

Terrible news!A great loss to all.RIPLoyal

I have a paper back reprint that I bought many years ago. It's a GOOD book, and somewhat of a classic. I would think that a leather bound "original" w...

"A Global Positioning System was used to the establish the orientation of the bearings"I see no mention of "RTK" in that quote. Maybe he used Static, ...

They are DIFFERENT types of files as far as I know...

JimI have the same problem with the 2=1 units, that's why I went to the 3 thumb-screw version. IMO, it's MUCH faster, and right the first time.Loyal

The one that I linked above, has 3 "thumb screws," which I MUCH prefer of the 2 (thumb release/lever release) + 1 thumb screw models.Everyone that has...