In my ten years of USFS Cadastral boundary marking crew 1986-1996 we cut down any tree/brush that was needed to keep the KERN/WILD theodolite on line....
I helped layout a $585,000,000 silicon plant in SW MT. I spent 2.5 years most of it 6-10hr days on the project. I found out that when equipment is w...
Kern non-electronic theodolite with DM 50_? all measurements were recorded in a field book and reduced in the office, then stakeout information was ha...
You hit it in the head. I haven't done ELS for 4 years. I do remember checking all numbers; meters, feet, scale factor, closure, and co-ordinates inve...
for hot weather I use a boonie hat, I added Velcro to the front brim to hold it up while looking through the eyepiece. I use an SPF 50 spray before pu...
That was a good rough check. At my last firm I calibrated all the company tribrachs, usually on a quarterly basis. Monthly if we were doing a lot of p...
Given that I've only surveyed in MT and the oldest GLO I have worked on was 1870, I did do re-monumentation project with a BLM Cadastral Tech and we w...
MDOT submits their Certificates of Survey in state plane meters, US survey feet, and gives State Plane co-ordinates for all points and the scale fact...
I did a boundary relocation on a Mineral survey. One of the corners originally was a 4"wooden post. Two surveyors {both long since retired} had survey...
I used KERN Instruments/tripods for 9 years on USFS Cadastral. The only time I didn't like using it was if I had to set up on a point that was higher ...
I would say proud, but pissed off. Copyright infringement, especially deliberately leaving off the author credit to the best of my knowlege is a crimi...
I've managed to do that to MAGNAIL's and PK's. Usually though they just shear off about the last 1/4" you need to set a brass washer below grade to ke...
Should I get into surveying ?I got into it mostly because I like working outdoors. I also really get a sense of satisfaction from helping people with ...
"666" is part of my truck license plate #, Clerk asked if I wanted a different one as 10 people before me:-S had refused to buy a plate with that #. ...
10 years in MT USFS Cadastral back when a KERN or Wild T2 with an EDM was standard. We didn't do the field calcs on my crew, so we had to cut all the ...
On a survey I did in 2001 Butte MT based on the 1979 maps, the BFE was 1 ft below the bed of the stream which has 1 ft normal water and with 4 ft high...
It's 45 deg F here in N-C MT, sunny and calm, supposed to hit 52 today of course I'm stuck in the office:-( .
Thanks, the house was built in 1984 on knoll. Main floor roughly 15' above the nearest Creek 200 yards away. Unfortunately, they daylighted the baseme...
Was surveying utilities and property for a NAHN/ Habitat subdivision project and the neighbor who lived in the most rundown house with 4 junked cars a...