Disaster!

Look up Fort Blunder, the Surveyor made a mistake and the Fort was built in Canada and not the United States.

There is a surveyor, that I met, who is cynical. He really believes that all surveys are fictions. And, that all original evidence is gone, and that to try to find it is impossible. So, for him to try to relate his surveys to reality, is an exercise in doubt. Trouble is, he has a few proteges, that are loose on the world. They know enough to pass the exam, and get licensed. (one took several attempts) But, now they are loose on the world. I am getting bad reports, from the better surveyors. It is an error in philosophy. An error in beliefs.
IF you start out, believing that there is a sound way forward, from where we are, you arrive at a different location, than if you believe that no evidence exists.

I am bumping into it at times.

N

You mean like moving a 1/16th corner NW 80' from where it had been established for 85 years resulting in a well established boundary being moved by a Superior Court judgment about 50' west (the loser defaulted, bad idea)?

Here's the thing about survey horror stories. A good surveyor could do excellent work over the life of his career. One survey gets messed up, maybe not directly his fault, but he didn't catch it, for whatever reason, and that 'survey horror story' is the one he gets remembered for. Some times they even construct giant monuments to keep the memory alive.

Williwaw, post: 375013, member: 7066 wrote: Some times they even construct giant monuments to keep the memory alive.

And we make elaborate reports and colorful maps of our blunders...AND RECORD THEM IN THE COURTHOUSE FOR POSTERITY.

"...at 1320.00 feet set aluminum monument (found pine knot in rock collar at 13+10.56)...

DDSM:beer::beer::beer::beer:

Doctors bury their mistakes; attorneys mistakes get put in jail; engineers blame their mistakes on reviewers for not catching them; surveyors monument their mistakes for eternity.

RADAR, post: 375019, member: 413 wrote: Doctors bury their mistakes; attorneys mistakes get put in jail; engineers blame their mistakes on reviewers for not catching them; surveyors monument their mistakes for eternity.

and record, at least in this area.

Steve

Survey Horror Stories? Dime a dozen 🙂 Some even make the papers.

RADAR, post: 375019, member: 413 wrote: Doctors bury their mistakes; attorneys mistakes get put in jail; engineers blame their mistakes on reviewers for not catching them; surveyors monument their mistakes for eternity.

Where in hell did this guy get all his information? The tone of his article was completely accusatory and suggests every one of us is a crook. :pissed:

Like buying trucks of concrete?