Good luck, Nate. Are ticks vulnerable to harsh winters? Hopefully something good can come from these extended cold temps.

If you punch his address into FEMA's Map Service Center website, does a 2012 FIRM panel come up?Demand the lender provide a map that shows he's in.

Does he tie and verify section corners in 150 year old subdivisions, too?Good luck with that.

Any thoughts on how it got up there?

Please help us northerners understand what's going on down south.I'm seeing a dusting of snow that is causing a state of emergency? Is it the acciden...

Maybe we should be looking at this site as a revenue GENERATOR.For every owner who uses a $40 website and handheld GPS to mark his property corners, t...

We had nearly -10° air temp last night with wind chills near -40°. Granted, I stayed in the office today, but it's not like you fall over dead being ...

"Do you work in winter?" (Recently, this has been a common question :'( )

It looks to me like we were just grouped in with architects and engineers. If they pulled out strictly "surveyors" as a subset, I doubt we would have...

Yesterday was 10° here and the sun was shining. A little breezy, but not too bad.I was able to get out and do some field work and thought to myself "...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 20'; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 40'........That cadence has set up permanent residence in my head.

I'll let you in on a little secretI may not like the current dangerous cold, but I would miss the anticipation of a warm spring day, the blazing hotne...

First, I have both.If you already have the mini 360, I would definitely go with the SLR (long range). The range on the SLR is about twice that of the...

> If you get it surveyed, do a favor to the next generation and have it recorded. Transfer the property from yourself to yourself and include t...

[sarcasm]Wow, that surveyor is goooood......[/sarcasm]

Slipping on iceI have creepers, but those look like mine on steroids.Thanks for the suggestion.

I'll take that! It's relative.The problem we're having with the early extended cold is the frost going deep and fast. The other issue for a solo guy...

Paul, if the pdf was a scan of a signed and sealed drawing would you use that?

The terms are relative to the age of the person writing the note. An iron rod from 1984 may be "old" to a 25 year old, but not to a 65 year old.Now f...

Mr. Wenzel, great suggestions. By the way, how did you do gun hunting this year? I saw quite a few deer, but passed up shots on the bucks I saw (wai...