You just reminded me of the time I was staking through an easement to flag for clearing that was full of these Quaking Aspen suckers, maybe head high ...

except change, in which case nothing ever changes.

Technically because that setup has three legs, it is a tripod, but getting an optical plummet over that one would have been a real pain and completely...

@bstrand I suspect that you'll change your tune when you approach hitting 60 and you have a life time worth of old injuries.

@jimcox Works great for me to. Little bit too great.

@sarkiss Before moving any points, always have a backup plan if things go sideways. It's my preference once I have a boundary nailed down based on mon...

Couple of ways to do it with Access with both involving using the translate/rotate function. My preferred method would be to set up where I can see ei...

@bruce-small One of the things I love so much about this place, I'm always learning something new.

I'm not familiar with the term 'radial bearings'. In my experience curves are described as either being 'radial', as the radius point is 90 degree fro...

It always adds an extra splash of joy when they have an involuntary facial tick and a large caliber handgun stuck in their belt.

A mannequin. It actually had me pretty freaked out until figuring out it wasn’t a body.

One of the best pieces of advice I received when I was starting out was to work for as many different surveyor/engineering companies as possible. Don'...

This came up for me this morning with a question from another surveyor asking if he needed to survey a patented 160 acre parcel that another surveyor ...

In the 25 years I've been surveying, I've had exactly one occasion when my measurements matched another surveyors, exactly, to the hundredth. Because...

I'm partial to these for setting points in asphalt. Can usually drive them down flush so a snowplow isn't as likely to rip it out. Little beefier than...

@mightymoe I'm sort of a stickler for doing things right to best of my ability. I'm subdividing a couple of sections of Ag land for local government a...

@murphy Funny that you should mention it. In the hour and a half drive back to the office I saw at least a couple dozen people out harvesting the flow...

@holy-cow No earthquake today, either me racing the timer on my phone camera, or I’m levitating.