If it is rigid enough I can certainly see uses for it. You might be on to something.

Speaking from a flawed memory of early American history.... one of the grievances the colonists had with King George - not enumerated in the Declarati...

I no expert in this, but you may need a radio handle that is compatable with the CS15 for this to work. When we replaced the old 2006 model data colle...

Its a statistic based on probabilities expressed in sigmas blah blah blah ..... THat's a coordinate quality estimate in my mind.

Understood. Those numbers are a statistic based on probabilities expressed in sigmas blah blah...... That's a coordinate quality estimate in my mind.

If a Leica, Trimble, or even a Topcon receiver is telling you that it is fixed you can rely on ±0.2' results. The questionable part is when they are t...

I wonder why you are restricting yourself to Sokkia and Topcon. Which are just different ways to spell the same thing. In the last 4 years I've used T...

"Say you you run a loop between 3 benchmarks, establishing marks between each one, and you find two original BM’s match within the precision of the cl...

"Shouldn’t you run your loop, adjust it if you must or need to, holding a single benchmark?" Not necessarily. If your purpose is to densify an existin...

Not all survey firms are created equal. Some have higher hourly rates than others because of overhead costs and/or the education and experience levels...

I'm pleased that your levelling worked out so well but merely pacing off the instrument and turning points would do the trick.

In Oregon it is written into the statute law.

Like HC, I'm going to want to review all the adjoiner documents before fully committing myself. That said: If I had been the 1950's surveyor I would m...

I think that you may have missed my point. Is the reversal happening now?

Don't get me wrong. Absolutely avoid trying to fix any blame. At least until it becomes crystal clear that things are being abused. This isn't the mil...

I have a few stories about guys who have lost or damaged their pin finders (and other tools), either maliciously or accidentally, and then gone for mo...

Every RTK unit I've ever used, and I've used multiple examples of each of the big 3, yields a coordinate quality estimate. These are aspirational. A ...

A few months back Kuker Rankin, the Leica dealer here in the PNW, offered me a used MS-50 for a low price. It seems that they had several that had bee...