I was a Fire Controlman in the US Navy, sort of like a floating artilleryman and the math was similar. A surveying buddy was a surveyor in the army a...

Concrete supply houses generally have the best prices on rebar. Menards has the straightest cut #4 rebar when I'm working for those that use that siz...

I use an old tripod with a 25' level rod setting in the middle of it with the antenna threaded on top. I set the battery right next to it and strap t...

I had a batch of monuments move 6' in about 6 years on the banks of the Ohio River due to hill slippage. You wouldn't know by looking at them but a r...

I feel like I've had mostly the same experience with the "very involved" (that's a nice way of saying pain in the butt, overly communicative types) cl...

I traveled the world (30-40 countries) compliments of the US Navy and ate experimentally everywhere we went. Often that did not end well but it was a...

There is a place you can send your favorite clothes and get them pretreated and I believe they are good for 100 washings or something like that. Matt...

I did a survey on a bend in the Ohio River with traditional methods and came back about 8 years later and there was up to 6' of movement amongst a doz...

I was on a longish project that in the beginning I located a series of pins with 15-20 year old legible caps. Three months later, after a dearth of c...

I like the color coding concept. I am forever highlighting different things with a pile of multicolored highlighters to track things more easily.

I read a book about Abraham Lincoln written by Dale Carnegie in the 1920s and at one point in his life, he acquired a compass and grapevine and began ...

I had about 4 spots on a brand new woven wire fence that had trees down on it. The fence is rated to take a standard car at 35 mph moving horizontall...

My very first album ever was Skynyrd. I've made the pilgrimmage in the bed of a pickup truck with lots of beer to Brickyard Road where Lonnie, Donnie...

I misspent my youth building and repairing swimming pools starting at age 14 and some days I wouldn't even take a shirt with me to work. Baked a dar...