> I agree. I've been taught that "along" and "with" have specific meanings and try to write descriptions according to those meanings. Having said t...

I have three sledges and a framing hammer in the truck. The framing hammer gets used for 95% of the work. Get a $10 hammer from Harbor Freight and t...

I think you nailed it.If all the information needed to build it were to be reviewed by the governing body the plans would never get approved.

A quarter is 0.955" diameter, so a 4 foot level and a quarter is a good check to see if a grade is less than 2%. The inspectors might not have been a...

:good: Not to mention the fact that if the collector, for some reason, isn't working the instrument is nothing more than a door stop.:-S

Apparently there is a system to the zip codes. A man named Ben Fry developed an interactive map many years ago called zipdecode. I googled but the m...

:good: [sarcasm]As long as I don't hose the site calibration on the actual job.[/sarcasm]

That is where I am. Starting a CDOT job next week and baseline check is part of the requirements.S6 was easy peasy. Same as "we always did it".For GP...

:good: Sounds to me like she (the client) has found her leadable surveyor. [sarcasm]Has she convinced him that the post the goat was tied to in 1948 ...

Am I missing something here?The accuracy of your field work lies in the precision of the angles turned and the distances measured. The "bearing" of t...

> Scary what you can find with very little info to go on.No kidding, I don't think I want to post here anymore. You guys can figure out everything...

That fixed it BUT.....If we were talking about autocad, I would say that is a snap to grid setting.