What a great find and they don't have to be big to be ancient.?ÿ We have numerous bald cypress in NC that are over a thousand years old.?ÿ One has bee...

I worked in an area where this was true.?ÿ The best surveyor in the area in the 80's performed a survey of his multigenerational family farm prior to ...

Ditto Leica over Trimble for long and short range reflectorless.?ÿ?ÿ All my data is anecdotal but having used both in monitoring projects with reflec...

Aliquot holds the moral high ground but in this particular situation it's equivalent to claiming someone's a liar when they answer in the negative whe...

I'm also in the business to make money.?ÿ If, after I've explained the above to them, they choose to go with the one-liner, I'm more than happy to get...

It's usually a waste of my time, but I explain that while it might be cost effective on a large parcel with dozens of individual boundary lines, it's ...

To me it boils down to the individual's ability to push themselves to learn new things.?ÿ My hobby is learning new things and I've developed a decent ...

@rover83?ÿ In that case, I agree with your reaction?ÿ

I agree that the monitoring procedure is not ideal or what I'd do, but that's the way it was setup.?ÿ Changing the procedure midstream is not necessar...

@rover83?ÿ My opposition to your view is that it allows for zero nuance which implies that you've focused on one aspect of ethics to the determent of...

@rover83?ÿ Scale matters. If this were a million dollar transaction, the appearance of a conflict would matter.?ÿ In a situation where no other parti...

@dan-spaulding?ÿ I'd double check on that if I were you.?ÿ They seem to be opposed to direct, voice to voice, communication.?ÿ I tried using their te...

I stopped being upset by individual welfare fraud when I realized how the point system for municipal utilities works.?ÿ Basing funding on greatest nee...

The small rotary hammer drills with quick release head and tapcons set flush is the best for the mason, is efficient, and you never have to worry abou...

I thought about writing a long preamble attesting to the fact that I don't know you at all and am only going by the words you've written in this threa...

@thebionicman?ÿ I never suggested we should ignore it or not spend large amounts of time trying to understand it.?ÿ I'm only saying that there has ne...

@michigan-left?ÿ I can understand how you've arrived at your interpretation of a surveyor's role.?ÿ It is certainly reasonable that a PLS should conc...

This is an excellent reminder of how different things are between our practice areas. I'm researching a boundary in the coastal plains of NC that pro...

@beuckie?ÿ Not all field personnel have the same skill level as you. I'd be fine with you running a DC adjustment on a one off project that you took...

When I purchased Star*Net, my thoughts were on the adjustment aspect.?ÿ At that time, I didn't have control of the equipment or methods of all field c...