I'll echo this: always keep your cool. Be upfront about mistakes or problems and work with the contractor to solve them. Don't be adversarial-the cont...
Mortgage Surveys?!Just stock up on bar napkins and steal a bunch of pens from your local bank. Then draw up 4 or 5 a day and fax 'em to the title comp...
From the wording, I'll guess that pay rate is for the crew. So let's say full-time two-person crew at 125,000 to 250,000 per annum. That requires at l...
I'll echo this. I'm thrilled with the thinning of the ranks and the raising of barriers to entry. And on the other note, I usually see the pincushion ...
WilliChiming in from Fairbanks here. I can't speak to the horizontal, but I have seen a LOT of vertical motion with TBMs in trees, particularly when t...
There are a lot of good things about being a surveyor, but if he's Alaska bound, good at math and science, and loves the outdoors, he should consider ...
Another good one to remember is Texas A&M CC's program which, I believe, is already ABET accredited and affiliated with a large surveying and map...
First Rule of ConstructionAh right, thanks. I'm a little slow on the up take this evening.
First Rule of ConstructionMaybe I'm misunderstanding: are you saying you staked curb offsets using the slope distance from your stake to the curb? Huh...
As the mountaineers say: "Cold feet? Put on a hat." Stopping the heat loss out of your top is important. I live in Interior Alaska, so I'll just share...
$90/hr for a two-man crew is not a recipe for a successful business. That is just owning a job. There's no room in that for an actual return on capita...
I have used a Topcon DL102C, a Sokkia SDL30, and the Leica DNA series digital levels over the past 10 years and enjoyed wonderful results from all of ...
You've got your head on straight. The money is important. Don't let all this "Who do you think you are?", "Shut up and eat your gruel", etc. nonsense ...
As others have noted, from a regulatory standpoint, it REALLY sounds like you are a non-exempt construction worker, and should be earning prevailing w...
br>The above link is the prevailing wage rates for Alaska, which is one of the few states that specifies prevailing wage for field surveyors. You coul...
> "... more motivated by making a profit than preserving history."> Kind of like ol' W.T. Waggoner himself... and every other sane rancher I've ...
If you really have to be gnat's, lay it out direct and reverse face, then split the difference. This may be especially visible the steeper your vertic...
One nice thing about surveying in New Zealand in the old days was that the telescope image in the T2 was right side up.
