Cuban Chrome (Cars)

'Cuban Chrome' is pretty interesting, although I've only caught a couple of episodes.

Mike & Edd are a good watch here too. It gives me a reason to brush up on my "Not-so-much-the-Queen's" English. My favorite was season 11, episode 4: 1958 Citroen 2CV. A post WWII design of a 2 cyl., 425cc buggy that could get a fr̬re around the campagne for not very much argent.

Kind of interesting to see what they consider sporty on their side of the pond. The season they were over here in the US wasn't that interesting to me.

I like Graveyard Cars, Marks reminds me of a Surveyor, always talking about how he knows so much about everything, and he is the best in his field, how he is the only person who can do it the correct way. I will admit so of it seems like an act and he plays it up for the camera.

FantomWorks and Bitchin Rides I enjoy as well.

I also liked Desert Car Kings, but I think that show was only a season.

paden cash, post: 367888, member: 20 wrote: Kind of interesting to see what they consider sporty on their side of the pond.

Yes, they've done some truly horrific things to some large American cars that looked as if Ed "Big Daddy" Roth had been in charge of the paint, pin striping, and upholstery.

Scott Ellis, post: 367916, member: 7154 wrote: FantomWorks and Bitchin Rides I enjoy as well.

Yes, and of the two Fantomworks is a bit more interesting because budgets are present. It's not as if they have a steady stream of customers wanting to spend $150k on their cars.

Kent McMillan, post: 367923, member: 3 wrote: Yes, and of the two Fantomworks is a bit more interesting because budgets are present. It's not as if they have a steady stream of customers wanting to spend $150k on their cars.

I wish some of those "owner/ enthusiasts" would call me to survey their property.....

paden cash, post: 367926, member: 20 wrote: I wish some of those "owner/ enthusiasts" would call me to survey their property.....

Well, possibly you would need to offer them something special that no one else has, like gold-plated monuments or curly maple lath with six coats of hand-rubbed clear.

Kent McMillan, post: 367927, member: 3 wrote: Well, possibly you would need to offer them something special that no one else has, like gold-plated monuments or curly maple lath with six coats of hand-rubbed clear.

You might have an angle there.

For an "elevated" fee, researched and period rebar could be set for corners, complete with cloth strips for flagging instead of the contemporary plastic. Stakes, of course, would be hand cut hardwood finished with imported tung beetle juice and polished to a mirror finish. 😉

paden cash, post: 367933, member: 20 wrote: You might have an angle there.

For an "elevated" fee, researched and period rebar could be set for corners, complete with cloth strips for flagging instead of the contemporary plastic. Stakes, of course, would be hand cut hardwood finished with imported tung beetle juice and polished to a mirror finish.

Not to mention presenting them with a map of your work laser-engraved on a stainless sheet, complete with holograms. I mean, hey, you're a custom surveyor, not some $300 Earl Scheib ALTA shop, right?

paden cash, post: 367933, member: 20 wrote: researched and period rebar could be set for corners, complete with cloth strips

I've got these in the back of my truck; if you want to buy some... B-) :whistle:

RADAR, post: 367947, member: 413 wrote: I've got these in the back of my truck; if you want to buy some...

The concours d'elegance survey would certainly require period-correct pipes and rebars for starters. However, the Elvis Presley commemorative survey markers with real white polyester flagging may go over bigger as you go North from Denton.

I should try that next time I need to set a corner, tell the client I am sorry you are missing a property corner I can reset it with an off the shelf 5'8" rebar with a orange cap stamped with my name for the price I quoted you, however it wont match the other corners. It may take me some time, and will cost almost double my quote but I can match the other corners for you.

Kent McMillan, post: 367935, member: 3 wrote: ... not some $300 Earl Scheib ALTA shop, right?

You must have seen my business cards... 😀

Scott Ellis, post: 367999, member: 7154 wrote: I should try that next time I need to set a corner, tell the client I am sorry you are missing a property corner I can reset it with an off the shelf 5'8" rebar with a orange cap stamped with my name for the price I quoted you, however it wont match the other corners. It may take me some time, and will cost almost double my quote but I can match the other corners for you.

What I ideally want is to set boundary monuments that give the client the sense of real quality. About twenty years ago, I was hired by an architect I had known for years to survey off a tract of land for a building site for his daughter out of a larger tract he owned. I asked him if he wanted anything special for boundary markers on the new line, thinking maybe "set in concrete".

"Do you mean like granite?" he asked, laughing. No, he didn't want granite, but obviously that represented the very best thing he could have thought of.

I stopped by a stone company and had them make me a couple of 6" x 6" granite posts about 36" long. I drilled a hole in the top and set one of my 2" brass tablets in it, polished like a Krugerrand.

I "dropped the monument off" by the front door to his house and left word with his wife that I had some other things to do but I'd set it the next day. It gave him some time to admire it. It got set (in concrete) and was well worth the entertainment value. I still have a photo of him and his wife standing beside the new monument in the pecan orchard. I heard about it for years and was briefly famous among their other friends.

Kent McMillan, post: 367922, member: 3 wrote: Yes, they've done some truly horrific things to some large American cars that looked as if Ed "Big Daddy" Roth had been in charge of the paint, pin striping, and upholstery.

I like them as well, but when they get a classic American car, I sometimes shed a tear.

Kent I'd love to see a photo of that monument.
Sounds excellent.

When President Obama visited Cuba lately it featured on our TV.
The old American cars took my eye. Loved it.
Early "Yank Tanks" as they were known around here were always a must see in my informative early years.

Richard, post: 368053, member: 833 wrote: Kent I'd love to see a photo of that monument.
Sounds excellent.

Well here is the monument after the granite post was placed and the hole was backfilled with concrete. That's my client the architect standing there with the Rabone-Chesterman tape in his hand. That's a Zeiss Elta 46R with a Zeiss Rec500 on the tripod in the background for those who are interested in such details:

And here's the shot of him and his wife posing beside it for posterity after he insisted she come out to see their new boundary monument.

The actual visible top of the monument looked like this (so there is plenty of surface for others to apply spray paint and plastic flagging in the future):

The "Krugerrand" brass tablet was stamped along the lines of this one that I have in my office, waiting to be set at the West common corner of the S.D. Gervais and Andrew Dunn Leagues one of these first days when the opportunity arises.

You could go ahead and put a series of dimples on it to totally confuse and confound the Deed Staking guys?

lmbrls, post: 368109, member: 6823 wrote: You could go ahead and put a series of dimples on it to totally confuse and confound the Deed Staking guys?

In Texas we dont dimple to many caps, we just call the rod off 0.03' and say well that Surveyor who set this rod almost got it correct.