!! I just came here to say that maybe a drawing, Exhibit A, with tie(s) to some monument(s) of record. Not a huge fan of metes descriptions, picture...

You can always give a dip needle or maybe even divining rods a try, but then a good schonstedt is going seem quite affordable afterwards. I prefer the...

Good luck with it. Any time I've tried an explain the basics to a layperson their eyes glaze over and they get that deer in headlights look, usually i...

Had that happen while going down the highway 70+ mph in a suburban. Something shifted in back just out of reach, a hiss followed by a fine mist of day...

Sounds a bit like it falls into the 80/20 rule where 80% of headaches can be attributed to 20% of the people involved.

I turned 60 last September and I can't wait to retire. Don't get me wrong, I love this profession with a passion, but for the last twenty years I've h...

Love me some Golden Ratio. See it everywhere in everything. Must be some fundamental reason as to why. I've always been fascinated by fractoids and lo...

If you took a wire brush to it with something acid like vinegar, you might get a better idea. I've seen some oddities set where rebar were called for,...

@bstrand I'm not too worried about it either bud. There's really nobody lined up to step in to take my place anyway so they might just as well have so...

You see where this is all going, right? You teach the machines, while the machines regurgitate information collected from around the web and various...

I got it figured out. Out with the pebble and back into making big rocks into little rocks.

Just out of curiosity, are you running this traverse using Access (since you appear to be a Trimble shop with TBC) or some other variety of field cont...

The OP caused me a flash back to my very first traverse run in school with a total station, an HP48 and cogo card. The guy teaching had never run a tr...

@jim-frame You hiding a 2' tall munchkin surveyor behind that white screen?

Mid 1990s while working construction staking on Anchorage's airport, was having a chat with one of the contractors installing buried wiring for the st...

Not to mention they keep your pearly whites gleaming!  

I'm ametricdextrous. I'm so use to going back and forth between miles and klicks, ounces and grams, litres and gallons, none of it fazes me at all ...