I miss the days of monument lids. I surveyed in Cleveland for a couple of years and regularly found 100+ year old stones in the streets. Back here i...

I never ever pull someone else's pin no matter how blatantly wrong it may be. It is class D felony to remove a survey marker. Hopefully the situatio...

Only the prism I am carrying. The Multitrack prism head came out just about two weeks before I bought my equipment and I went with it. The S-6 never...

In Kentucky the Licensure Board has recently defined the date of survey to be the date the monuments were set. When I sign a plat, the current date g...

Our local surveying chapter likes to do an annual charity job of some sort, generally a cemetery location or church type survey. One member takes the...

The 4 year degree requirementI got the "group W bench" reference. Classic and appropriate.

"no business related debt"! Right there is where I would call a business successful. Times are tough. If you aren't borrowing, then call it good. ...

Jeans winter and summer, every day unless something official is going on. Shorts only result in ripped up legs. Sawbriars are too prevalant at prope...

Trimble has come out with a lower-cost version of the S-6, called the S-3 to save yourself about ten grand. The talk is that it has everything the S-...

Mortgage inspections (have a hard time calling them surveys) are still done around here but not as much. I have been in the business of educating fol...

I put one on my truck which I use for solo surveying during the week and farming/towing on the weekends. It takes a minute and a half to put it on an...