Local Planning board insists on a new "legal description", complete with metes and bounds on every survey. Yet they wonder how come my distances and ...

standard joke in MT used to be what's red and sleeps 5, answer, an MDT suburban survey rig.

BOR got one at my complaint. It only took 4 years from complaint to pulling his license, three weeks of my time and 3 days testifying to the board inv...

Rankin_File, post: 328594, member: 101 wrote: Well hypothetically, I'm pretty sure a guy could use a bow saw to cut down 6 trees fir and ponderosa ran...

I was party chief for laying out a $585,000,000 silicone plant, the plans were Fed-ex'd overnight to us (almost every day) for layout within the next ...

[sarcasm]Just tell the forest ranger the tree was suffering from GPS emitter radiation and had to be put out of it's misery[/sarcasm]o.O

I've used both ax and saw I prefer the bow saw, less effort if you don't bind it up. Get a 36 inch blade one if you need to fall anything bigger than ...

Years ago the Beaverhead NF travel map had a campground shown named "Fugar Wee":-S on Clark Canyon Reservoir, the actual name on the sign and on late...

Also a long time JAVAD user/Fan starting with an Legacy/legant, Oddessy and last 8 months Triumph 2/ Triumph LS user. They work so much better than"...

Good Pay isn't everything. After 3 years of working away from home (160 miles away) the old lady said move home soon or become a bachelor:-$.

There is one engineer I've known who worked with a surveyor for a couple of seasons 30 years ago and has on several occasions rendered his criticism o...

I "chose" this profession when I lost my firefighters job for whistleblowing in 1986. The Surveyor of that forest was the only dept. head that wasn't...

Pine, spruce and Fir trees are hit or miss, sometimes I've had to wait a while to get a usable FIX . some BIG cottonwoods are a problem if they are f...

Apprenticeship is also being hurt by the reality of one man shows made possible by robotic TS, AutoCAD and GNSS. The Eng. firm where I work has had a ...

Richard, post: 327302, member: 833 wrote: I gather this is a single piece of equipment. DC, receiver etc all at top of pole 2 metres long.John I'm cur...

Plumb Bill, With the LS you also have the option of offset photogrammetery which can really help with things that can't be surveyed directly; like st...