@peter-lothian?ÿ I just went through a 3.5 year ƒ??chainmanƒ?apprenticeship program.?ÿ Iƒ??ve worked the same amount in the field. ?ÿ I have my L...

It would depend on where you are now, in terms of education & training. Are you purely an on-the-job learner, or do you already have formal course...

"...the meanders of the low water line of said River..." seems to be the monument.?ÿ The trees/pipes hopefully help define this location. Yes, I wa...

Thank you all for your input, and now "the rest ... of the story" as Paul Harvey used to say. I'm taking over P.L.S. supervision on a project site, a...

disheartening...would the best option for him be to just start working on civil engineering courses and take some online classes. Take time to look...

@jph The real fun begins when not-my-real-name runs along that stone wall, and discovers it meanders back and forth across that long, straight line in...

Your state surveyor's association may sell reprints of the hand out materials from the seminars that they've sponsored over the years. I found that to...

You might want to consider formal education in the subject. University of Maine has online classes for surveying and related subjects.

More to the story. It is difficult to distill all of the facts of a situation into a single posting. Questions raised here motivated some additional...

Here, it would actually technically be feasible if the client were a local.?ÿ I could get his signature on the way to the judge-executives office whic...

I went ahead and re-annotated them. Couldn't find any way to renumber them.

@peter-lothian?ÿ Maximum percent of grade can be checked with a clinometer and a cloth tape can be used to get the slope distance to the creek and th...

There should be a field inspection of the system that will confirm that the installation is in compliance with the regulations as well as the permit. ...

Maybe an unused or rarely used spur into a facility? Could be. Massachusetts is littered with unused, discontinued and abandoned rail ways. I even ...