
Last seen: February 18, 2025 8:09 am
A tree fell in a residential area near me and killed a child. Last I heard, 5 different surveyors had been involved in locating the tree in relation ...
I looked up Lignum Vitae and among other things, it has been used to treat syphilis. Sounds like a good wood to use if it doesn't rot. Is iron commo...
In Kentucky, many corners are trees. I use a Javad GNSS unit with base and shoot the trees with an offset and I'm pretty close to the center of the t...
You've been a busy guy. I could not begin to compile a list like that, except for the very great ones. One of my favorites that I was describing to ...
Around here, there are storm easements down most subdivision lot lines but fences are commonly erected on the property lines with no issue. Locating ...
About 90% of my jobs are too small, too dense, too many fence lines for it to be more trouble than the help it provides. But sometimes, a 4 wheeler i...
I've been surveying out of the back of an F-350 dually 4 door, 8' bed for the last 18 years. Plenty of room for equipment and 4 wheeler right in the ...
It does look pretty steep. It is very handy to be able to get close without just the use of your own two legs. I am working on big survey in the App...
I don't think it should be codified but the level of care for $1,000 an acre remote mountainside is a little different than one would handle a $1,000,...
A subdivision with Civil War themed streets was created a couple decades ago. Had Cannonball Lane, Battleridge Drive, etc. and the main drag through ...
I worked with an immigrant 30 years ago from Romania that was a licensed surveyor in his home country. At the time, it was difficult getting his degr...
Mountain top to mountain top, I once got 18,000 feet on a 1 watt internal radio on a Javad T-3 but that is the exception. Got a 6,000 footer once bu...
I even remember beer vending machines though not as ubiquitous as cigarette machines.
I have been a big Subsurface fan for a long time. I did buy a Maggie a while back and just didn't like it as much. The shape of the handle wasn't er...
I was working with a 75 acre description once with 18+ exceptions and the remainder was about a one acre parcel. That was a lot of work for one littl...
I learned to swim in the same pond the horses drank out of. Swam every summer day of my childhood and ultimately became a rescue swimmer for the Navy...
Nice outreach Radar. I've been to grade school and they had a ball with the metal detector. NSPS makes some great material for things like that.
The first ten minutes of Full Metal Jacket are some of the finest in cinema history. I wish I had the memory to spew out the insults the way he does ...