Casey & Company

This Christmas tree is obviously not your typical North Carolina Frazier fir, but it does remind me of all the greenery you see at Christmas: trees, wreaths, and roping. This tree started as a log in our firewood pile behind the office. Lisa insisted on saving the log for a project she had in mind. Daniel Wiles, owner of Yadkin Valley Surveying, sawed the log into lumber on his antique Meadows Mill sawmill this summer. That lumber is now packed on sticks in our shop air dryi

We often get comments and questions about GIS, Geographical Information Systems, and GPS, Global Positioning Systems, and their use in surveying. When surveying property lines in the forest a good sharp bush axe, a “gun”, and an experienced surveyor are much more important than GIS or GPS. The “gun” is also known as a total station. A total station is a theodolite integrated with an EDM. The theodolite measures horizontal and vertical angles. The EDM, electronic distance met