Talk of chainsaws brings this story to mind--"Ed Johnson," an old I-man who I worked with in the 1960s, had seen the bottom of a great many whiskey bo...

Great stories!One of my favorite monuments is one that I didn't find--but then again I did.It was in a Twin Cities suburb, not a terrible area but a p...

Great stories! I remember my first day on the crew, aged 16, summer of '61. The first thing I was told was, "Set the tripod up before you take the tr...

Wikipedia says that coordinate geometry is the same as analytic geometry, which isn't true. The term "analytic geometry" goes back over 100 years. Tho...

Thanks for this reminder. What a man. Live not by lies indeed... Thanks for the link! Great quote.

...Someone announced that it was noon."Right," declared Shukhov, "The sun's at its peak.""If it's at it's peak," retorted the captain, "then that mean...

It is also interesting to see the regional differences. I've had many chiefs call the backsight the "picket." I believe that to be a local thing and I...

Welcome! You have found a really good forum. I was based in Anchorage in '68 - '69. Probably would get lost there now.

@louella The city's position on the ROW lines might be coming from staff rather than from elected officials. Staff people are able to disregard resid...

Never saw anything like this. The numbers are molded in, so whoever manufactured the monument had a mold with changeable numbers. They went to an unu...

Look it up if you want, but basically the term Luddite was given to 19th. century textile workers in England that destroyed newer looming and weaving ...

Back to normal now with Firefox. Thanks, Wendell!

To jog those old memories, follow the link. Back up to p. 133 to get the full picture: Excellent book. The slope staking procedure is much the same...