@not-my-real-name?ÿ Um, I carried a Zeiss Ni2 level that way between setups for maybe 300 miles of levelling.?ÿ My boss said do not drop it or bang it...
I'm retired now and haven't made a single car trip over 80 miles RT in one day in over a year (wonder why?).?ÿ I'd buy an EV in a heartbeat but it's p...
Looks good to me except how good is the benchmark concerning stability??ÿ Without a solid underground structure one would think a big bock of concrete...
When GPS was nascent at an early "how to" seminar (NGS) the presenter showed slides of ECEF, lat-lon el, and State plane coord systems.?ÿ He then turn...
Yup, been down that road and always withdrawn when confronted when the owner was cradling a shotgun.?ÿ If we were 200 yards distant I'd engage in loud...
When licensed I've mag located pins for friends and neighbors, 15 minutes of my time and made it clear I wasn't warrantying their property corners, ju...
@rankin_file?ÿ I didn't consider the CEUs angle.?ÿ Point well taken.
Not to be macarbre but when Newcastle disease infects an area many coops have to euthanize all their hens.?ÿ It involves gassing them then using Bobca...
Yep, decades ago I was a big conference attendee, spent thousands to attend ACSM (rip) and State conferences.?ÿ The seminars were illuminating and the...
Really??ÿ Roughly $500 for a Zoom seat??ÿ Agreed there are some production costs but gotta be much less than renting an exhibition hall, covering spea...
A friend of mine owned a high end print shop (4 color books mainly) where a bell rang each hour at a random time and everybody wrote down which projec...
Field crew utilization rates should be 40/hrs/week, they're the engine that pays the bills in construction & boundary surveying.?ÿ Minus of course...
Yup that's a common problem with "electronic" submittals where the actual plot is off by a few percent or maybe 100% if it's been scaled in Adobe PDF....
Glass beads are nonmagnetic. Whether applied in the paint mix gun or broadcast by hand when the paint is still sticky has no effect.?ÿ At one County m...
Long ago as County Surveyor I was volunteered to be the official measurer for a Balloon Stampede competition, which I described on this site at length...
@paden-cash?ÿ Not to mention the problem of roadways catching on fire when GTR is used for fill: "What at first seemed like a brilliant way of gettin...
Sorry to be a curmudgeon but a wet signed Mylar of a subdivision map/ROS in B/W stable ink, no BS electrostatic Xerox powder technique, should be file...
I've only been anesthetized once in my life, twilight sleep by fentanyl IV for a twofer, a colonoscopy and esophageal endoscopy, which saved the hospi...
Yes but common rebar is made of unfinished?ÿtempered?ÿsteel. ?ÿUncoated, corrosion-resistant low?ÿcarbon/chromium?ÿ(microcomposite),?ÿsilicon bronze,?...
