@paden-cash In the 70s safety was no concern, but in the eighties government contractors had to have a monthly safety stand down for an hour, chargea...
Your Federal Government at?ÿ work.?ÿ NGS (and the Forest Service, NOAA, Fish & Wildlife and BLM) are now so woefully underfunded that they have to...
Yep.?ÿ I made most of my money supervising hillside mass grading developments where I controlled the Subdivision maps and construction staking in Oran...
Yep, its a good rule. I've been cut by rebar and know of several folks who died from short falls into rebar which killed them.
@flga-pls-2-2 I was surprised to not see any rebar impalement protection caps in place during construction of the foundation.
I've heard of 4wheeler based GPS topos but wonder how they can get down below 8"+- given the vehicle suspension travel and tilt errors.?ÿ But of cours...
I'm not sure but several States (Washington?) have authorized taking of roadkill for the meat without a tag or permit, although you do have to report ...
Wow. I can't believe folks are bitching about?ÿ old SPC survey records as being problematic.?ÿ Yes, converting optical?ÿ ground observations to a cont...
Not to reveal my age but in ancient times with a transit you'd wind up angles and repeat with an inverted 'scope to get down to seconds of accuracy.?ÿ...
Nope, if you are overpaid for a project it's an accounting problem and they'll correct it sooner or later.?ÿ You should be upfront and alert them conc...
0.17' to over a foot in old surveys may be customary in rural boundaries over half mile lines in rough terrain.?ÿ I'd hold the monuments found and not...
@bill93 I'm surprised it wasn't caught in the agency plancheck process. Is your example subdivision really old?
@bill93 Yup, that's the stink that develops concerning adjacent subdivisions surveyed/laid out in different eras. One of the surveyors is culpa...
@dmyhill I agree 100%, but the County will reject the map if the sublengths don't add up perfectly around here. I tried to educate them to no a...
@holy-cow This is a common problem when annotating tiers of lots on subdivision maps. You have to manually edit some of the sublengths (& c...
Stake the boundary, if there's problems cite and show any encumbrances?ÿ File an ROS to protect yourself.If you're the construction surveyor that's a ...
I was a stickler concerning sig figs for decades and grudgingly endured?ÿ unreasonable requirements by third parties (gubmnt' agencies, attornies, etc...
I worked at a firm in the early '80s which only had a licensed engineer for design and PLS stuff and he was woefully inadequate concerning the PLS end...
@loyal True 'dat! I once was investigated by the FBI for displaying a wooden USFS sign on my porch. I'd gotten it when I was tasked with ...
Ah yes.?ÿ If the city/county/State agency has made the improvements and your ground survey detects them then it's your duty to research the salient ta...
