Montana Codes Annotated, 7-22-203(2) calls for international foot (1 ft=0.3048M) for NAD83. (1) of same chapter says for survey for foot for 27 conver...

Sincere condolences to your family sounds like he had a full life and a loving family. While all veterans deserve our utmost respect, I have a special...

Lots of memorable corners, but think working in South Dakota retracing corners in the late 1990's retracing corners set in the 1890's. The surveyor (D...

Stumbled into survey totally by accident. Worked as a Heavy equipment operator (scraper operator), and during the off season, went to work as a survey...

Check into publications by Brian Portwood. He published books about numerous cases in various states that makes for interesting reading. Know for sure...

We were working staking roads on a new subdivsion that I had recently pinned. The power company guys were laying in their?ÿ lines, and I noticed they ...

Hang on to the TP, it is going to be worth more than the dollar bill before long!

I have a couple interesting articles on the survey of the line, don't know if it explains the kinks, but they are an interesting read. The first is a...

I liked the Subsurface ML1-M. Far easier to handle than the GA52, and in my opinion equally effective

Run across a few of these "approximate" corners/property line. Seem to me to be a little bit like being pregnant, either it is or isn't?ÿ

Yes, I used telluromenters in the 1970's when working for a coal company in ND, Wyoming, Utah and Montana. First ones were MRA Something? didnot look ...

Know nothing about South, but I agree, Igage is a good bet. I've used the static CHCX90D reciever with excellent results. Mark is the best for support...

Unfortunately I no longer have access to the picture, but the best picture I had was of two YPC's set on opposite sides of a fence corner post, repres...

Amen and touche! Shelby

I haven't used other drafting software, other than Traverse PC, but it is a great program. Was easy to learn, and does everything I need, to complete ...

I haven't had problems with GPS under powerlines using a static observation to submit to OPUS, haven't tried RTK however. Just to show how old I am, ...

Kent's reply's reminds me of an old story my Grandfather told me. Did you hear about the (insert the State of your choice here) mountain lion that ve...

Mortgage surveys in Montana are an interesting proposition, and one that I think has fallen victim to what I think of as a "Mortgage Survey"., which w...