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 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...

@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 ...