I find the title companies are mostly only good for providing copies of deeds. If you get a good title officer, they can track down a solid chain of t...
One summer, while I was still in college, I got a job working for Pacific Gas and Electric on one of their field crews. I learned a lot about actual, ...
Heh, when I accidentally kicked the camera case into a manhole, it was only about 7 feet deep. It was a terminating manhole, so it had virtually no fl...
Some of the Cities and Counties around here have standards for what monuments are to be set. They aren't 100% consistent. So you have to have differen...
Around here is it "a couple hundred". And that's for a Parcel Map, Lot Line Adjustment, Record of Survey, Elevation Certificate, or locating a propert...
I think the worst part about all of this is opening the sanitary sewer manholes. And I've opened up some very, very, VERY "unpleasant" ones in my trav...
Just over 20' or so. Which is good because I always used a 25' fiberglass rod to measure inverts.
I require my crews to open every manhole they shoot along with all grates and cleanouts. If the lid is bolted, locked, or otherwise rusted shut, I'll ...
Being skeptic of homeopathic methods is good. However, the desensitization process is not a homeopathic remedy at all (even though stores that sell ho...
Rich., post: 346681, member: 10450 wrote: use this link and redownload the KML for google earth... This will solve the problem if you are getting the...
My understanding is that they were eliminating this tool since it required a security protocol that didn't work with the FEMA site upgrade. I can't ge...
A good post from the start. Many great thoughts and sentiments. Now, here's my 3.5 cents (inflation and all that). I found out about the Land Surveyin...
The firefighters in this area that fight forest fires will often get nasty cases of poison oak due to the smoke from burning poison oak plants.
It is a process of desensitization. (I think I spelled that correctly). Basically, you expose your body to tiny exposures to the allergen and you slow...
The thing I find interesting is that it is always the civil engineers that don't use Civil3D. They're the ones that could benefit the most from those ...
Is that rodmonkey for hire? I might be able to give it a promotion to party chief. It's gotta be at least as good as who I have right now! Of course, ...
This looks tasty!
Genius! And I particularly liked the Fresno reference since I went to Fresno State.
I've never heard that saying before but I'll definitely be using it from here on out!!!