The best mentor I had was a professor at White Mountains Community College.?ÿ Universities become beholden to administration and the uncompromising pr...

A kind gentleman hired me to survey his one acre in NH.?ÿ I quickly found the rear corners then moved roadside.?ÿ After ringing and digging to no avai...

@half-bubble?ÿ I'd me more worried if I were the city as they might inadvertently extinguish a utility easements crossing the parcel by creating a un...

First off, if you're going to set something in the road have the decency to make it a gin spindle and not a cheap little magnail. Second, get there at...

We're coming off two years of record breaking wet weather here in NC.?ÿ I'm not sure if the bees are worse than they usually are, but they're definite...

It is partly our fault for not having the resolve to charge what we know we should be charging.?ÿ Another part is that no one has any clue what we do....

@holy-cow?ÿ I have never had a client that inferred superior accuracy from a grid tie or a coordinate pair.?ÿ If they even ask what it is, their eyes...

@jph?ÿ NC doesn't require a survey for every sale and our board does not differentiate between a boundary survey and a mortgage survey. Meaning, you ...

I started my surveying career in NH and ME where few physical NGS BMs and almost no CORS stations existed.?ÿ My attitude towards ties to SPCSs was nea...

@big-al?ÿ I try to shoot for next day but it's still possible if within 72 hours, possibly more.?ÿ Yes, I usually have to pre-drill but it's quite fa...

When I stake foundations or write info on stakes, I do it with the dumbest guy on the crew in mind.?ÿ I typically tell this to the contractor unless i...

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In NC we are required to perform a tie to NCSPCS if a NGS benchmark is within 2000' of any portion of the subject parcel.?ÿ If a PLS doesn't own a GNS...

Before involving the authorities, I would certainly call the SIT or whatever he is or at the very least send him an email.?ÿ It's not as if he is a vi...

There's a reason surveyors spend time learning about error propagation and the difference between accuracy and precision.?ÿ Search the web and you can...

If I was off by one foot vertical on an NGS elevation BM in NC I'd first assume that I did something wrong.?ÿ For that matter, any level run that is o...

I was about ten when my grandfather was laid off from the local lumber mill. He'd put many years in there as a truck driver.?ÿ A Korean vet and excell...

At my rate, I'll find bigfoot before I find an accountant worth hiring.?ÿ?ÿ