I've seen the book - I think. It is printed on 8 1/2" x 11, spiral bound, if I recall correctly. So it would be very susceptible to the office copier/...

Within my fair city, which is about 20 square miles in area, there are exactly 2 NGS benchmarks with levelled elevation. Both were set prior to 1960. ...

Bernsten or Surv-Kap or a lot of other places that caps are sold. Just make sure that you specify that you want the black lettering. They will sell th...

60k for a stripped down 3500 Ram with 8′ bed, just got one. They are hard to come by. My office is a block from the local Ford dealer. Sometimes at lu...

I detest the mentality that is behind the charge to whip out six to eight different individual lot surveys in one day’s time. This is how pincushions ...

"I guess it depends on your clients. About 75% of my work is residential or rural and I always prepare paper copies." Not to beat a dead horse, but em...

Like Norman, I remember doing translate/rotate early on in my career (~2005), but we always had office calculated points, and we always talked to the ...

This is how it once was at most places. When I started c.1990 we did that. It was the job. The LS would subsequently review what we did, but I don't r...

A startup cost that must be covered is living expenses for the 3-6 months it is going to take to get anything like a cash flow going. Beyond that I co...

In the case of the TCRA1105 the batteries are NiMh type -the main power, at least-, and therefore self discharge much,much faster.

The "main" battery that you leave in the stored gun will probably self discharge at a rate similar to the board battery. So I don't think that you wo...

I wouldn't be so sure about Leica being a dead end. My local Leica dealer, Kuker Rankin, will service such things, I think. We sent in a TCRA1205 rece...

Why not just…start surveying after completing the resection? Because you won't be "zeroed" on any one of the resected points. You will be oriented to ...

It's not just the years, it's the mileage. Nevertheless, I'd say that 10 years is a pretty good run. These things rarely quit working altogether, the...

Amazon just delivered my copy of Land Surveying Simplified, 2nd Edition. I've had only a short time to review it but I'd say it looks like a fine reso...

I'm sure that all those suits were back in the closet on hangers 5 minutes after that picture was taken. Being photographed was an event back then.

"They are already strapped for cash as they start out especially the ones who have started a family." Exactly. And it these folks - the least trained,...

While I agree that vests should be replaced before they get to looking ratty, the expense should not be left to the employee.