Ideally, set up your tripod about 20 minutes before backsighting. That will give the stresses time to equalize. In practice that means checking and re...

Composition materials like you describe (Trimax?) have a very high coefficient of thermal expansion. All wood tripods are better for that.

"Typically we are giving the engineers a boundary, existing conditions and a surface. Unless I’m misinterpreting what you and Norman are saying we sho...

Once you have your field data reduced to coordinates Civil3d is excellent mapping and modelling software. I use it. It has very little to get you to ...

IMO, Mink oil is a great leather conditioner, Snoseal is the best waterproofer, and Huberds Shoe Oil is a good combination. SO...what kind of boots h...

Around here the surveyor is tasked with showing that the existing improvements are serviced without encroaching on the proposed layout. This one is no...

A few years back I was operating with a pair of Hiper Lite + units. One day, just after New Year of 2018? one of the units just refused to light up. ...

I suggest contacting the executors of recently deceased surveyor's estates, and persuading them to pry the HP out the cold, dead fingers of the dearly...

How did you take that last exception and come up with my 65 acres? That last exception is a bit over 9 acres by my figures. Do not assume that the E1...

What Ashton said is correct. Those are directions, not coordinates. I must say that it always dismays us surveyors that a person would first plunk do...

True, you usually can't survey just one line. But you can monument just one.

IMO, it’s the crap pay/benefits at all levels that is the problem. That was bad enough, and then the entry level was cut off completely c.2008, and ha...

The overnight ice storm has impacted in-person attendance so far, but the crowd is building.

I believe that the GR-3 was new around 2009. Was Galileo a thing then? Even if the unit is theoretically capable of dealing with that constellation yo...

I think that you are underestimating the process. Everybody (who matters) understands that "One-Call" paint marks are approximate. The design process ...

Agree on the first do not on the second assuming you are talking about a closed traverse. The day RTK tightens up my 6 station traverse is the day I r...

Epoxy is used to secure anchors in all types in construction, so I consider it permanent enough for monuments. Epoxy is plastic, and UV light is the e...