Beware putting all your eggs in one basket.?ÿ I personally lost 30 grand due to the bankruptcy described?ÿ below. Baldwin Brothers bankruptcy "They al...
In the early seventies I worked for a lower 48 Forest Service and when operating from our "duty station" (typically a town, ranger station or work cam...
What you do with your personal phones is your business but I find?ÿ it irritating to be repeatedly sent to voicemail when calling a public agency's co...
Here's my how lazy can you be when setting final monuments story.?ÿ Tasked with?ÿ recovering the R/W for a 1970s Interstate highway highway bridge at ...
Done a goodly amount of ALTAs in my career and charged plenty for doing it right.?ÿ Obviously you cannot estimate the cost until you ruminate over a c...
I once hauled four of a friend's goats 250 miles in my '72 VW Van by removing the middle and back seats.?ÿ It's advisable to lay straw back there; mak...
I agree it's a regional/type of construction thing concerning exactly how to label a slope stake, or any stake for that matter. Worked briefly for an ...
A crewmate of mine was involved in a helicopter (Bell 47) low altitude engine failure autorotation hard landing which injured his spine.?ÿ The T-2 in ...
Surprised such a huge project didn't have a least one licensed LS on board.?ÿ I guess the essence is Survey Grade GPS equipment does not require licen...
I'm surprised that quit claim deeds aren't a viable solution when both owners have held to a common (though not of record) line by acquiescence.?ÿ I'd...
I always advise my clients with long standing adverse claims to continue their adverse claims and not pursue the issue beyond my preliminary survey wi...
Unsolicited advice:?ÿ If your Curta binds up,?ÿ do not attempt disassembly, you'll never be able to put it back together. ??ÿ
Nope.?ÿ Mostly used 100' steel tapes. But when working for BLM we used a 300' Invar tape quite regularly if the terrain permitted it or it was require...
I know nothing about UAV topo mapping but have considerable experience in traditional (pre-GPS) photogrammetric mapping and would like to conjecture w...
Now this is a stab from the past! In a way I miss hand drafting; mylar, the drafting arm, pounce bag, horsehair brush, leroy lettering, leather weight...
Posted by: Ianviola Hey guys, im currently using a nikon nivo instrument at my job. When i started we had a Leica and it was great. This nikon is kill...
Posted by: JPH I usually make sure that new lots aren't hitting the SF to the exact minimum. Really??ÿ In large subdivisions where interior lots are r...
Posted by: aliquot Posted by: JPH Posted by: aliquot I have never run into this problem because I would never report an acerage to a precision that a ...
Posted by: paden cash ?ÿ ?ÿ [?ÿ .?ÿ .?ÿ .?ÿ ] I also prepare a drawing of record showing what I did and what I used to determine the corner location.?...
I get a little jumpy when a surveyor suggests the solution for a pincushioned corner is to remove those monuments which he/she does not agree with and...