I agree with JPH and others above.?ÿ The surveyor's mandate is to serve the public.?ÿ If my client and a neighbor tell me different stories I'll not f...
I don't doubt Region 1 requires it.?ÿ Only trying to point out it wasn't common in the seventies to paint blazes and there's arborist's reasons not to...
My perspective is outdated in that I was active in the USFS & BLM in the seventies; though I clearly recall we did not paint blazes as that would ...
I've been wireless for a decade with very few spam calls except for the rare solicitations from political parties, local police/firefighter orgs etc.?...
Is was a big consumer of Stouffer's frozen creamed chipped beef over a toasted biscuit, 10 minute prep time with a microwave and toaster oven, yummy.?...
Around here add a 1/2 day "class" which you're charged for.?ÿ It includes such tidbits as hardhat/proper boots/orange vest required,?ÿ what the semaph...
On living trees the tree will heal and cover a nail, spike, etc. with bark in a few decades. In the forested West healthy trees of the right age (fair...
The earliest reference I can find to a (wooden) subtense bar is the 1880s, not the 1700s as the OP stated.
A Roelofs prism is attached to the objective lens, not the ocular lens.
Only done a few industrial factory layouts.?ÿ Handled all the exterior staking, precise concrete pads and ibeam column penetrations, and spent several...
Done a lot of preliminary surveys using a compass (Jacob's Staff) and tape and that's the way to interpret the record compass bearings *except*: Dec...
I stand corrected(?).?ÿ A four year BS Forestry degree in California substitutes year for year in accruing the seven year experience requirement to si...
Not in California.?ÿ The Board of Forestry (and Fire Protection) license qualification requirements here are: (b) Furnish evidence of having complet...
For setting a "monument" anybody still drill a small hole in concrete (usually sidewalk or curb), then pack sponge lead into the hole with a hammer an...
I'd be wary of scribing crosses on window sills, could be liable for damages by an irate tenant.?ÿ If necessary I'd scribe it subtly and rub the eject...
Me too.?ÿ Also used my bob to dig in hardpan and gravelly clay.?ÿ But doing so wears down the bob tip so it needs regular replacement.?ÿ Oh, also forg...
This just in!?ÿ From Washington State: "As previously announced, WAC 332-130 is being revised.?ÿ The proposed revisions are: ?ÿRemoving the require...
Surveyed for two decades in Idaho, Washington and Oregon for the USFS pre-GPS and timber cruiser surveys were laughably inaccurate.?ÿ Their technique ...
You're suffering from the "Twinkie Myth".?ÿ Twinkies original "best by" date was only 25 days (45 days now), beyond which their taste and texture degr...