(I've been away for some time and I couldn't figure out how to just add a message to this thread, so I've done a reply to this message.) I finally got...
On the engineering side of the ledger: Ring, ring. Me: Hello, XYZ Consultants. Aussie contractor: Mate, I've just built a 25m concrete poowel (pool...
Urban/engineering legend has it that in European countries, they build hills with landfills and turn them into ski-fields.
@jim-frame?ÿ We "grew-up" using Garmin handhelds for recon and survey, don't use them much now that we have RTK, but I'm fairly sure that both Baseca...
@toivo1037?ÿ There are 3rd party and semi free privateer programs around for loading lists of coordinates into handhelds such as Garmin. One that I h...
Years ago, so we must have been around the age of mid thirties, an engineering friend of mine got seconded to another company for a couple of weeks an...
This is what came to mind:
A few years ago, I was surprised to be informed that, just as there is the word "uncouth", there is also the word "couth".
Here's how it was really done.
When I bought our drone, I was fully expecting a free in-store tuition that would be empowering me to fly that bad-boy out the door. Given the joviali...
Apparently you can buy arithmetic now, and pay later:
I was intrigued to know what a star drill bit was, and hand drilling into concrete and stone - found this on the www:
When we added BeiDou to our receivers, via a firmware upgrade, it also needed a language change/upgrade in the DC, without which while the receivers w...
I'm thinking I'll leave the stuffed batteries in each vehicle and just buy one of those LiPo power packs and jump start each one, as and when needed:
@brad-ott?ÿ Yes, hello my friend. I had a tumble and for 3 months was either horizontal or on walking aids. I did think about you while I was "away" ...
When I first saw Vision on the Trimble S6 instruments, I envisioned it as a step towards the Garden of Eden of surveying where for something like refl...