Laser ranging collected during the period from May 7 1976 through May 1981, has been used to determine polar motion and length of day (LOD) variations. Independent short-arc solutions of five days in length are used to obtain the polar motion and LOD results. The solutions obtained with these approaches are compared with BIH and Doppler solutions. With the Vondrak smoothing parameter of 10−7, the weighted RMS of the raw minus smoothed results is 0010 in x, 0008 in y and 0.28 msec in LOD. Finally, the results obtained during the MERIT campaign, an international polar motion intercomparison experiment, using both “quick-look” and the final processed laser range data are discussed.