I have never done anything more than put the case in the truck and leave the truck standing guard. If it is too sketchy to leave a set of legs up I wo...

Anybody have a TDS card they want to trade for a SMI card?

What choice is there but used, the premium on a mint item would be too much. I have a 32SII with a broken number 5 key, every once in a while I play w...

@dougie The 80's hairstyles are back, I think that when the bowl sinks go, they will stay gone.?ÿ

I worked for a guy that offered a 5% "discount" for payment in full at start of work, and another that required 50% percent to start and the remainder...

How is your test progressing? What sort of deliverable are you producing? Can you produce section views by station directly from the point cloud and p...

Keep cool, either the people who need to will see the situation for what it is, or they won't, not much you can do to sway it. At this point it is all...

The Leica manuals say to shade for peg and maybe for precise work, an addition with the new LS models; shading was not mentioned in the old DNA manual...

@aboonz Don't write off the manual total station, especially since you have the manpower and are tight staking. Get a basic total station with on boa...

Unless you are working alone all the time I do not think you need a robot, look at a manual total station. Get something simple with on board function...

@aliquot Upon reflection  "dismissal and divisiveness" would have been better phrased.  I appreciate that there are discrete elements to b...

@just-a-surveyor My understanding is that it is more financing than price which leads management to the Topcon/Magnet line. One dealer even expected ...

@just-a-surveyor I think it is about more than rates and business acumen, it is about culture. Sometimes the money from higher rates just flows right...

@paul-in-pa Dismissal and division within the profession will only push all of us down.  The men and women out here helping build the buildings...

@nate-the-surveyor I would bet these guys know what they are stealing. 

I have nothing nice to say about magnet, but if you are running topcon I do not think you have a genuine choice. Embrace the suck. ?ÿ

Crew size is not the determining factor, and for that matter I have seen a deficiency in bringing along the office techs as well, drafters who have ne...

Whats a fuzzie?, another word for feather?

First aid zinc ointment, failing that a diaper cream with high zinc content will prevent and help heal chafing.

If it is live and direct just red pencil and clear coat can get her done sometimes. For scribing I am partial to the tile scoring knife For masonry n...