Clown’s to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.This Stealers Wheel song is stuck in my head. I’m trying to do an as-built for the state for a fiber on a pole line that dates back to WWII and crosses several sections that were surveyed in 1960 by BLM using photogrammetry and I’m not finding much in the way of corners, and what am finding doesn’t match record too well. Then I stumble on a BLM ‘reference monument’ set in 2019, but the only person who seems to know anything about it at BLM recently retired. It appears to reference a section corner buried deep under a road accessing a comm site on top of a mountain that our fiber feeds. Appears BLM in the process of doing a dependent resurvey of the boundary of their gobbed up mess that is their 1960 survey. So here I am trying to make sense of it all without much to go on and both the state and BLM are not much help. A bleepin’ pandemic isn’t helping.
Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you,
And I’m wondering what it is I should do,
It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I’m all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with youpost edit: In no way shape or form am I suggesting that anyone with the state or BLM is either a ‘joker’ or a ‘clown’ and do not intend this reference to disparage anyone. Thank you.- 9 Replies
Now you know why the BLM guy retired!
Yeah, they pushed photo surveys for a while, the one I knew about ended up in court. The photo survey lost. Can’t imagine why. Good luck, that one was messy.
Sweet Gerry Rafferty.
Maybe it’s the day it is… but somehow I thought Angel would have to flag this post for wandering into the political.
Well, there’s political “a” and there’s political “b”.
Political “a” you are wound up, and trrowing rocks at Trump/Biden. This is not allowed.
Political “b”, is you are reading a congressional act, about survey instructions, and photographic dependant quasi resurveys. And discussing honest survey issues.
Political “b” has its place in intellectual discussion, and really cannot be off limits.
I took his post a political “b”, with a bit of music, and a dash of salt.
Have a bit o salt, and peace with yourselves.
Kindly offered, without any angst.
We work in PLSS states, based on Thomas Jefferson’s vision, of an orderly conveyance of title.
Thanks
Nate
Well put.
There is a Record of Survey in Kern County, California that is based on EDM and Photogrammetric measurements.
Book 10 of Surveys, Page 24. There are six sheets. I attached the first sheet.
Year: 1968
The rest of the sheets (RS 10-24 to 29) may be found here:
I remember visited my Dad at the office in Bakersfield. We went across the hall where he showed me the “computer” which all I remember was about the size of a chest freezer. Years later he told me they had used it to do a Record of Survey of a lot of sections using photogrammetry and an EDM. That’s all I know but the R/S first sheet has more details.
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