I would get something that could get to internet. If allowed. Arc GIS surveyor 123. I don’t personally have this but know a few companies that utilize...

@norman-oklahoma good grief. lol. When we were evaluating the Digital levels to see if they would perform as well as our geodetic Wild levels. For mos...

@norman-oklahoma that is correct which is how an adjustment should be done at least that’s how we were required to do them when I was running geodetic...

@ryancj31 by ending on even number you are balancing out the rods and turns. On adjustments. Of .02 per 160 turns. You are looking at this wrong. ...

@ryancj31 by ending on even number you are balancing out the rods and turns. On adjustments. Of .02 per 160 turns. You are looking at this wrong. ...

@bc-surveyor depending on your budget you can rent a laser tracker as well as they do come in on certain projects and set up your control for you. Jus...

@holy-cow hats what the sprinkler heads in the ceiling are for lol.

@jms66 piano wire was my go to on building anchor bolt templates to make for was alignment and layout. But you can cut your hands very quickly if you ...

@calavera357 No worries. I see Jim has you squared away. I figured the softwares had come a long way. It’s been so long since I used GIS software. Bac...

@chris-bouffard yes sir. I make less right now than I did in 1999. But I was working 70 hrs a week back then. Now 5 years ago I was being paid by tax...

In the 90’s I did this and it was non robotic total stations. If you need to carry elevations instrument and rod heights become very very critical. We...

Well it has been a while but if you have everything in a spreadsheet then it’s very possible to use that data save as a dbf4 from excel. Then one can ...

@bill93 you nailed that. Your BS and FS distance overall and within a single set . That’s only part of doing these levels. If field procedures are fol...

We use Carson on top of autocad. Trimble Business Center and civil 3d on engineering side. A good bit of solo folks I know run either Carlson on autoc...

Get you a pair of turning turtles. No wasted time driving stuff in the ground. Maybe ste something about every mile more permanent. These things are g...

I still keep keep one with me all the time. Use it for sketches and or notes that I believe are needed. Especially on boundary surveys. If a land owne...

You need to flag one I always did red. It’s called red rod. You neeed to make sure they alternate equally. So if red rod is first BS it ends as closin...

@peter-lothian gotcha. Will give that a go. Thanks.