With GPS...er.... GNSS, working as well as it does these days I wonder what the circumstance was that called for a 6600 foot EDM shot.

Torrens - the thing is not that there will never be any title problems, although those will diminish over time. The advantage is that if you do have a...

Took delivery of a new Party Chief vest yesterday. The old one is about 5 years old and while it isn't falling apart it is looking a bit ratty. The h...

I think that a Ranger dc running Survey Pro or SurvCE should work with that old Topcon. Those are the common softwares that support multiple brands. ...

"my stance is that if someone is going to rely on a mark I set to determine their boundary, the material used is not the relevant issue" It's not up t...

I'm sure it depends on the exact wording of the statutes. The matter has come before our board and the practice grows.

"An approximate corner? That doesn’t even make sense." It's a euphemism for non-permanent corner. Oregon law requires that a record of survey be prepa...

Oregon is my state as well. I can tell you this about "approximate corners". The board doesn't like it much, but can't do much about it. So if there i...

I suppose that this varies from state to state. I've done a fair amount of DOT work in both Oregon and Oklahoma. Neither state has had reliable contro...

Trees are too valuable to be left. The penalty for cutting those not your own are high. Get the survey right.

"Do you have your crews blaze line anymore or is it just flagging etc." When running lines in the forest for timber harvesting the contracts usually c...

"Not really on topic, but one of the counties I currently work in has thousands of descriptions that read “the North 10 acres” or “the East 10 acres” ...

I must say that this guys technique is poor. There are ways to do this that cause less disturbance. He seems to be attempting to make the greatest mes...

That's around $2900 of today's money. Also, noting that Charlie Brown was one of the surveyors helpers.

A few years back I was working for a company that got sold to another. Under those conditions all the software vendors were willing to change the name...

Anyone can download my boundary surveys, my state being a recording state, and print them out at will. I may not be liable for misuse, but I still lik...

I've developed a scale bar that is a "Dynamic Block". Look it up. In this form it has a button which activates a pulldown from which the appropriate s...

While I agree that a stable tripod is critical for high precision measurement I kind of object to the use of the word "tight". Because it tends to lea...

While I agree that Sidewalk Superintendents can be annoying and distracting, surveyors in their neighborhood is very much their business. Try it when ...

As always, licenses are non-transferable. I couldn’t sell you my drivers license, my hunting license, or my fishing license either.