Okay, so we have this job to do that is a bunch of 2 acre tracts 75 varas by 150 varas. I'm charged with surveying the residue of these tracts created by the same man in the late teens to early 20's. After I get all the deeds, I figure out who the surveyor is. Took a while. He did very good work for his time.
At the North corner of all of the division corners for this partition, he marked one to two corners. Another surveyor surveyed the tract to the North and set some steel rods and we tied them in. No fences, no nothing but BIG timber. No fence row humps, no timber change, nada.
So, we get them all calculated and I took the crew back up there today because I knew that had to be some evidence of these corners and lines left. We found one tree standing, and 5 stump holes which shore up the construction of the tracts. The tract is pretty rough, and the corner locations I have that fit the holes are all within 1 to 2 feet of the line between the two rods I'd already tied in.
All in all, pretty good day!
Today must be surveyor's "have a good day" day.....I set a small record myself getting 16 houses staked in one day. Now if that were just EVERY day I'd be a happy man!
Good on ya! Three paragraphs to teach a whole course. Why is it so hard to learn? Take the rest of the day off!
The survey gods were busy today.
I started my day from an email last night that had in it ".....and I built per the stakes. I can't get a 17 degree curve across this bridge." He thought he could move the abutments 5 inches". NOTT!!!!
Good day, no doubt!
Duane
Yes, but it only took a few decades to get where it looks this easy. 🙂