I look through the robot once a set-up, without a cap/hardhat; or the cap turned backwards-sideways. I was the first backwards wearing cap guy back in...

Dewalt hammer drill, takes no time to make a perfect lil hole, then you can patch it.

NGVD29+2.4'=NAVD88 here,,,, more or less. So a 2' shift shouldn't be too surprising in Canada. The interesting thing is that the new update for 202...

Under the command line type in note. Play with the options there, it works in my AutoCad, but not sure in older and light versions. You're able to lab...

Scanning is ongoing, ongoing, ongoing at the Vault here. The Books are gone, there are 4 computer stations set-up for research, it's the biggest clust...

@olemanriver Out here some say ranchers don't really sell cattle, they sell grass and cattle process it. Not far from here there are pastures that...

@paden-cash That is an awful story. Just goes to show that Paden Cash will tell about his screw ups as well as his successes. I think I would try...

I don't change my pricing for clients during a project. The time to do it is when they come back for new work. In fact, there are some clients I'm loc...

I doubt any of the local original surveys ran the length of the north lines. I always presume that the N1/4 is a stub out. Maybe from the NW corner, m...

@rover83 The job numbers and account numbers are connected in the set-up for the accounting program. We had to really up security a couple of years ...

@olemanriver It's our accounting program that's tied to quickbooks and our accounting firm. It's Excel and won't ever be switched. Start with a clie...

We do job cards, each job gets a job card or multiple cards that place the location of the job, it also cross-references the location with the client ...

Was the Tech working for an alphabet agency? Just watched that very thing happen last year. The old 1/16th monuments didn't mean anything, time to res...

There is a reason 250' is recommended as a distance limit for levels, well two reasons. Curvature and refraction. You say it yourself; "when the heat ...

I use 11x17 exclusively for one client. They want field plan set sizes. Normally for them the number of sheets for each job is at least three. I'm pri...

@dougie In writing is the difficult part. Statutes may layout the process to dedicate and vacate a road, but it's court cases that get into the det...

I looked up a bit of Michigan statutes and rules for this question. Seems it's like many other states, but I got bored diving into the weeds and will ...