I do whatever I am told.My preference is FL and TBC, and running a HD only line for gut. I worked at one shop many years ago that like face at flow li...

Today I described the tolerances we work to and achieve running electronic levels for tunneling operations as being "tighter than a whores heart".col·...

Banging ManholesAnother tool I forgot which can be quite handy is the 9' folding level rod for measuring inside the manhole, ie measuring down from th...

Banging ManholesUnderground utility location is a tremendous source of liability and is taken far too lightly by many if not most surveyors in my esti...

..Made a joke about survey wages and decided it was inappropriate as I have no local knowledge of Texas. From what I have heard the money in Texas is ...

Note regarding working in trenches.It is also important to remember that the depth of a trench does not need to be very high to make a collapse a dead...

I had the blade on a fiscars break, as in I hit a branch and half the blade snapped off and went flying. Would not buy again.

I found a vendor on this other website a few years ago, a forum for "bushcraft", the place is kind of a crack up and I thought I would head back on ov...

Headache Cage rulesI worked at company that did a Survey of the parking lot of the local OSHA office. During the field work a OSHA guy on his lunch no...

Yeah, they are kind of a pain, I like the openness of the field of view on that one but might try to find a model with a opening in the middle for thr...

I am a fan of a headache cage in survey rigs.

It does not make for as good a story but the most frustrating equipment experience I have had is using off brand, broken and otherwise delinquent tri...

Not gun specific and probably old hat but I carry a pair of binoculars to scope out the gun, a compass to give a forward AZ for searching and or for o...

I believe that Leica no longer supports those instruments. Need the "+" to be in the range of supported 1200 series guns.

From Memory;1.67 did, and if you got enough return edm to catch the angle but not enough to get a solid distance it would throw a zero distance in the...

I worked on a landscaping crew where everyone, except myself, BA or better.It was the lowest paid landscaping crew I ever worked on, the foreman was l...

I would probably incorporate the incorrect punch mark into a pattern of punches refferencing the center punch or "X".I can only speak in a speculative...