@bstrand Loved that backhoe tearing off the whole lid structure. When I worked in Cleveland Ohio many decades ago, there was an old manhole lid rus...

I believe KY no longer has a state specific exam Somebody with a better memory than me can correct me but Kentucky quit administering the state spe...

Also a fan of the Subsurface. Sold my Schonstedt.

Huge Javad fan. Even in the deepest darkest hollow, I've been able to get shots. My total station work is very tight but I feel better with points l...

I moved from LA (Tarzana) to North Carolina near Charlotte a couple of decades ago in my mobile youth. I picked up a job right off because the crews ...

That's what I thought! And my gun is what I consider to be the best still available, a Trimble S-6. Great locking and tracking, it has made me a lot...

I know a guy that said he hadn't unpacked his gun from the truck in years and I thought he was nuts or a poor surveyor. Then I bought what he had and...

I never could get used to a laptop keyboard.?ÿ The bigger and clackier the better.?ÿ I took typing in high school though the machines were electrical....

That looks like just another surveying day in Kentucky.?ÿ At least there is occupation around a similiar sized parcel.?ÿ Perhaps a bit of an angle bus...

Bill Bryson, the author of A Walk In The Woods wrote a book called The Mother Tongue - English and How It Got That Way.?ÿ It is not something to pick ...

There are a bushel basket full of red flags.?ÿ I did learn a new term though.?ÿ I don't ever recall hearing the term allodial. Allodial title?ÿconsti...

Ditto with the Javad base.?ÿ It actually saved me once in very steep rugged terrain.?ÿ A big wind gust came up, knocked the UHF antenna into the base ...

I re-read Uncle Tom's Cabin recently and there may have been a very very oblique shout out to the surveying community.?ÿ The book starts out in Kentuc...

Welcome Bart from Northern Kentucky.?ÿ We could use some more representation in Eastern Kentucky in KAPS as well.?ÿ Johnny Justice has been a surveyin...

I will start by saying that I know very little about PLSS rules and procedures but aren't the words on paper a guide to get you close to finding the l...

Thank you John.?ÿ I think I probably nailed it with the "control w" accidentally.?ÿ My life is smooth again.

I lost a calf last week for the exact opposite reason.?ÿ It was 6 months old and was smaller than my dogs, probably weighed in at 50 lbs.?ÿ Cute as he...