@beerlegjohnson getting back to your original question... some suggestions: don't be shy about watching and learning from the other trades on the pr...

@jim-frame?ÿ Hahahahaha!!

@350rocketmike?ÿ Few things... 1st: Calculating traverses and resections by hand, using pencil/paper and formulas (not a programed solution) in coll...

@350rocketmike Why as a last resort? Mathematically, angle & distance resect is as strong a solution for a set up point as a traversed solution. ...

@john-putnam?ÿ Nice that PBOT is doing that for you. Digging them up yourself is no fun.

@michaelrod?ÿ My opinion: back charge the chip seal contractor. County crew doing chip seal? Take it out of their budget.

@chris-bouffard?ÿ Except with resection you don't have to set up on an existing point. Set your tripod up anywhere, resect and you're off.

@rover83?ÿ Well... it reiterates to me, project managers often don't really know how the work gets done. Typically I would talk to the superintendent...

The company I've been observing is using 2 one person crews. Each person has a rover and is loaded down with nails with color coded feathers in carpen...

Rover layout, nails and feathers. A robotic total station for small area is quicker - latency of measurements is quicker. That is, as soon as you plu...

@norman-oklahoma?ÿ Agree.

Add it to chart of accounts. Cost of goods:Recording fee.

My thoughts align precisely.

New exam question: given the about parameters, solve for the external. (Round to 4 decimal places.)

Read it cover to cover when I first started surveying in 1989. I learned so much... wrote papers in college citing POB as a source... it was cool to b...

Times have changed. People who want to be outside working in surveying are not easy to find.

@john-putnam?ÿ ugh... I have two general contractor clients that require lien waivers notarized before they'll send payment. Payments from them will ...

@norman-oklahoma?ÿ "Yup" to all that.

@mark-mayer?ÿ gezz.. in 1997.