Wendell, whatever the outcome, I just have to say how valuable this forum has been to me. I stumbled upon it too long a go when I was still a wet behi...

Just used mine yesterday to bust through the pavement and a foot and half of hard packed gravel to recover a section and quarter corner that were pave...

@sgorm8989 Paul hasn't been around here in quite some time. This thread is 12 years old. You can open a rinex file as a .txt file and play around with...

I can't see any reason to have a meandering boundary along the north lot lines unless it was intended to follow the creek which would form a natural m...

Over the years I've had a number of close encounters with both Grizzly and Black bears and up to a point I really didn't consider Blackies to be much ...

Thinking back to my spud bar days trying to break through a frozen hard packed gravel road, I'd kiss the tuchus of the man that invented that rotohamm...

The really fun ones are the back corners that fall at the intersection of 4 head high wood privacy fences ready to fall over and intersect so that the...

Client leaves out a key detail like that, I'm asking myself what else did they not divulge.

Usually when I see reference monuments or RMs, they're random, more like formal control points for which DOT or whoever has published the coordinates ...

Boundary Line Agreement?

Those are essentially unicorn conditions, not the 95% of the areas I work in. Mr. Moe is in Big Sky country. I nearly always have to deal with multipa...

I think I've been setting corners with RTK for at least 20 plus years. Even when I'm using a total station, the control that I'm occupying with it, I ...

@jimcox Having used both, the R10-2 is light years ahead of the R-8 working under canopy. I'd occasionally get bad initializations with the R8 and pos...

Graveyards are chock full of them. Sorry, couldn't resist.

Not just fence companies, utilities do the same thing. Just remember that the guys wielding the shovels usually aren't the sharpest crayons in the box...

@gary_g No building permits required here outside city limits. Real bummer they didn’t pay heed to a platted easement. No easy fixes.

One of the reasons I didn't stick it out with my own company was the drain on my energy dealing with nickel and diming Tom, Dick and Harrys, jerking m...

Had one recently, road project, our people needed some exhibits done so they gave me the CAD files from the contractor. First thing I did was call the...