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I've always used Seco stuff too, but last year I bought a Dutch Hill bipod. It's excellent! I also finally broke down and bought the Hixon 25' prism p...
To be totally honest, those magazine inserts actually kept me from even considering Javad for years because the early ones were so lame. My reasoning ...
@gmpls I'm in western Mass, and head up to southern VT all the time. I could haul the Focus up and you could check it out. Lemme know...
@stlsurveyor I visited the Sokkia national service center about 30 years ago, right after I bought first total station, a Set 4 I think, and asked the...
@stlsurveyor I'd much rather carry the 15 pound Trimble or Spectra in their really nice instrument case/backpacks than the 9 to 10 pound Nikon or Topc...
It's coming up on 50 years this June since I started my surveying career, and after years of not worrying about much more than mosquitoes and black fl...
Pretty glaring omission: RCH - meaning "left" or "right" less than a half a hundredth. Usage: "Left, left a tenth, left a hundredth, left a hair, le...
A bad cable or a bad antenna will both give you fits, the antenna being the hardest to figure out. Easy fix if you can find one though.
I was 37 the first time and 57 the second time. Both times were out of necessity, as the jobs I'd had disappeared due to economic downturns. Starting ...
If you haven't spoken with Mark Silver at iGage in Salt Lake City, do yourself a favor and give him a call. He sells CHC, and provides the absolute be...
That happened to me on a brand new shopping center that I got hired to do an ALTA on.?ÿ We had the plat that showed corners, but there was nothing set...
@a-harris In good light, and with my 19-20 year old eyes, plus the magnifier on my Swiss Army knife, I could read our 30" Dietzen to 7.5". Nonadjusta...
I had a Focus 35 w/SurveyPro, both onboard and in the Ranger DC, for 3 years. Never had a problem with either, but I only worked in the woods and neve...
This one really rang a bell for me: "Workers who run late frequently but are great at doing what needs done." I had one of those some years ago. At th...
Back in the summer of '85, we were staking centerline for a future high tension line going through the Oneonta, NY area. We were the "B" crew from the...