Jon The latest rewrite of minimum standards in Kentucky considered this issue. There was an attempt to require monumenting lines at no less than 50...

Jumbo I'll tell you that the same condition exists in Kentucky. There is no repository for a retracement survey. There are some very convoluted w...

The refurbished one may have been dropped, and or is an older version. Vision hasn't been out that long so you can count on getting a newer instrumen...

In Kentucky, you would have to have your Kentucky license number on the cap. Rules were recently changed that allowed only one surveyor to be depicte...

I run an S-6 and I've not heard anybody definitively say that that isn't the end-all, be-all of robots. That thing is the cats meow. The magnetic dr...

Traverse Point FarmI have known surveyors to use both concrete nails and 60d nails as property corner markers. There are still some fans of PKs, I su...

Traverse Point FarmI missed the existing Mags when I set up my traverse because of gutter debris. They are nowhere near a corner. On this same surve...

You know our very own Kentucky based Carlson Survey has been supportive of KAPS in the past. It is possible that they could be talked into donating a...

Rephrasing an old quote, "Ask not what my state/federal society can do for me but what I can do to protect and promote my profession"Unlike the licens...

I recently did a survey upstream from the Markland Dam and my parent deed claimed to the low water mark. The Army Corps backed up the river in the la...

General Liability is probably going to run you about $500 a year and E & O about six times that. You will need to do quite a few jobs just to get...

Realtors have that information at their fingertips. I thought it was a fantastic idea but it didn't pan out as big as I had expected. If I were look...

I started out five years ago and was very hungry for the first two. My business model was to lose money for a while and then slowly climb out of the ...

In my immediate area, planning commissions require roads and improvements (sewer,water,etc) to be in before a final plat is filed. The centerline of ...

I hate to derail the primary question but it would seem the appropriate thing to do would be to defer services until the original surveyor has been pa...

Another outstanding lesson Mr. Stahl. "Presumption of law" is something I like to hear about.

This seems like a parallel to something I run into often. Several counties have planning commissions that must approve any splits. This is a legal l...

The surveying curriculum in the local college requires co-op credits in which a student works in the field in between various levels of courses. At g...