This very question is why I think eventually I will have to start my own company because I don't think anyone is going to pay me a manager's salary fo...

From my days in uni, it's possible to determine the prism constant by doing a three peg test. You place three pegs in a line. You then measure the dis...

Having a better instrument, 1 sec vs 5 sec, will give you higher confidence in your work and it will be more versatile in the long run. I'm just spe...

Never work in the mud, it's not worth it. It's slow, dangerous and you spend too much time cleaning everything to make any real money. Always carry a ...

My TS15 range goes between 90m to 150m depending on where I'm using it. In the city where there are a lot of magnetic fields present, from Wi-Fi, Blue...

The idea behind it makes sense, because regulations change, technologies improve etc. But most surveyors I know and have worked for are pretty stuck i...

Software has been getting worse and worse and the worst part is that we are being forced to use the newer, worse software. I was very happy to use Win...

I heard a story from a geodetic surveyor that someone had stolen one of their tripods used for static. They took off the receiver and placed it carefu...

Some horrible days when I have to work in mud during the rain on a construction site, setting out marks in an inch of dirty water on a fresh slab, ham...

Judges don't care about math as much as they care about original marks because the point of a survey is to discover the original intent of granting th...

Can you incorporate property? I mean create a company and transfer to title to it and give shares out to whoever you want? I'm just spitballing here, ...

I came up with another one today, stop me if you've heard it before. Why are surveyors in short supply? Because they have to be smart enough to know ...

I'm in Australia and over here one-man crews have started to become the norm, at least in the big cities, because money talks. At the same time, there...