2. My pappy always said that the line runs over there. 3. That is just way too much money to come out and take a couple pictures of my property. (Even...

I will talk to the bosses at work, but we have about 50 miles of pipeline to stakeout. They may be interested. We have been buying them by the pallet ...

Oh, I was going to offer to buy you an adult beverage and talk surveying but I have appointments tommorrow night and have to go to Clarksburg on Thurs...

Nope, in the office. You probably drove right past it. It is just past the Canonsburg/Houston exit. We are about a half mile from the casino. New Stan...

Sounds like you are in my neighborhood. I am presently 10 minutes south of Bridgeville. You gotta love how they have PennDOT locked up like Fort Knox.

I also have a South instrument that my grandfather decided to buy from Canada. I was told by a dealer that they perfected the 2 year disposable instru...

Beware of the lowballers. Just because something costs less does not mean you are getting better value for your money. This goes for surveys as well a...

Specify that the intent is to follow the centerline of the dirt road as it appears on such and such a date followed by the series of metes and bounds ...

I am not really sure. That is the info my grandfather always put on his plats. I think it may be that when he shot the curves in the field, he calcula...

My personal preference is to give the information as needed to plot in CAD. Most namely, Carlson since that is what I use. I always say by a curve to ...

No problem with the shoulder but then again, I am not all that old in surveying years. My only problem is dickie do disease. But then again, I would n...

Congrats Dave, welcome to the club. Now off to PA!!

Now that I look again, that is exactly right. Point of tangency is the PT. POT is a point on tangent. I guess that is what happens when I start work t...

Paul -- My grandfather who started out with PennDOT in the 1950's always taught me that POT meant Point of Tangency (which is pretty much what everyon...

Don't feel the least bit of sympathy for them. I hope this story makes national news, but it won't. I can share many similar examples just from my exp...