So my party chief goes to the field and ties monuments along a line for a new legal, the line was staked by us in 2006. He locates a 1/16 and sees it's 0.015' from the record position and off he goes storing the new point. Well.........
The new point gets attached to on a preliminary drawing and the line gets labeled 02" different from the first plat. Going through and checking we see the difference and are going to change it when the client who we gave the preliminary drawing too calls,.....why are these bearings "different", probably spent half an hour on the phone over that one........
I keep a "foot wedge" in my golf bag. Maybe your PC needs to learn to golf. Or even learn to lean the rod a tad so it's dead nut's. WGAS
But I love the "rounding error" reporting by whoever. No error in my planet, but what do I know.... 😉
You should stop talking trash, this was clearly your fault.
Trash? Yes it was all my fault, the line work got hooked to the check shot, that a on me;-)
How was I blaming anyone else?
As a rookie surveyor, long ago, a title inspector and landowner "caught" me being "off" by one second between bearing on plat and written legal description, which I fixed immediately and sent new plats. When It came time a couple years later to subdivide the property, which in those days took days of time in woods to survey the perimeter, he hired another company.
When I asked why he didn't want me to subdivide his property, he brought up that I had made an error in my previous work. That surveyor came in and set pincushions all over the place, but his bearings on plat matched his legals.
That landowner never hired me again in 25 years. That incident, having a button pusher hired over me, who had to resurvey all my work and did nothing more than botch the whole thing with pin gardens, sparked something in me that lead me to where I am today - dedicated and doing everything I can to reduce the phenomenon of multiple monuments which achieve the exact OPPOSITE of what we are supposed to be doing. And to this day, I could care less about one second mistakes - but try like heck to not let it happen again.
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In the late '70s we were setting centerline control (hubs and tacks) for curb and gutter installation in a new subdivision. A city survey crew was sent by the inspector to check our work. One of the crew members came up to my party chief and told him that "your meridian is off by a minute." We walked over to where the city crew was set up and saw that they had occupied one of our hub-and-tack points, backsighted another about 50 feet away, and turned the record angle toward a third one in the other direction. The measured the distance from the record angle to the foresight tack, calculated the included angle and concluded that the control was unacceptable for building the concrete street improvements. I was too green at the time to appreciate the nuttiness of the city crew chief's thinking, but my party chief wasn't. As I recall he just said "Okay, we'll fix it" and everyone went on about their business.
One minute in 50' that's .015';-)
Your party chief not only knew that, but he also knew enough not to get into a discussion about it. Unlike me, lol
what time did Rex call you?
Not sure who Rex is, this time is was Will;-)
You should follow the military command and "Fire at Will".
Na, he's a good guy, my problems are mostly self-inflicted:-/
I have never understood the changing of data that you actual returned to numbers that you NEVER returned. I would think an attorney would have a field day with you on the stand. Asking "Are the numbers on your stamped plat the numbers you retuned". I would not want to be in that position. I don't see any problem with returning different numbers no matter how small a difference is.
My 2 cents worth.
Not sure I understand: the "changing of data" part. I agree, I wish to keep it consistent 😉