MightyMoe
No, but we did have sines and cosines!
Keith;-)
MightyMoe
> No, but we did have sines and cosines!
>
> Keith;-)
My first calculator was the Red Book...Standard Field Tables. 😉 Still use them on occasion.
DJJ
Dave
well the east quarter probably isn't on exactly the same latitude as the west quarter so maybe I better think about this a little.
MightyMoe
I remember visiting my Dad and being impressed with the big Marchant calculator. When you calculated it sounded like like something was really happening.
Doug
Smiling here; probably not too many surveyors now know what you are talking about?
The red book was necessary in every rear chainman's pouch to determine the horizontal distance of their chaining.
Lots of good stuff in the Red Book!
Keith
Dave
I have cranked the hand crank Monroe more than most as a cadastral draftsman and really thought I had something when I got an electric Monroe!!
First computer in the field was the big Olivetti and then thought I really really had something.
Keith
Dave
clank clank whiiiiiiirrrrrr crash!
Me: Dad, what is the answer?
Dad: I don't know, have to look it up in the book here.
Dave
Ya think? 😛
I think...
this thread has gone off on a TANGENT...
OH HAR HAR HAR!
Dave
Isn't it more on the curve........look at the posts!
Straight lines
Keith would say he could pull a mile of barbed wire to subdivide the section. I guess you might be able to do that with a few teams of horses.
- jlw
Kris
But the subdivision of section lines are defined by the act of 1805 to be straight. One of those little exceptions to the rule. Now Mr. Dahl has decided that is not true any longer, so we have the new manual applies to BLM but no one else. Really that is the truth, and it invokes a concept wherein past acts are forgiven. So any center quarter set by the BLM (darned few) at intersect of straight lines is still okay, but now what?
Get out that spool of barbed wire and pull it up...
By the way what does any of this have to do with presidents day?? as if you needed any validation of something?
- jlw
adam
If this topic is nothing else, it is Keith beating the same horse over and over and over. That is his way of finding meaning in his life I guess.
What does it have to do with the topic of presidents day? Did any of the presidents beat a dead horse or something I missed?
- jlw
adam
Mr. Wahl,
This thread has taken off on a "tangent" and no longer has to do with president's day. I don't know if you missed the picture of the beating of a dead horse above, but if you are lost, that is what I was referring to. It is funny, and it is "beating a dead horse" but my point is that at least it is on the topic of surveying.
Whether any presidents have 'beaten dead horses' or not; I would suspect that they have, but I will not cite a specific reference. Since they are the ultimate politicians, I just can't imagine that it hasn't occured.
adamsurveyor
I did not copy and past the above post from Jerry as it is simply an insult and it can stay without repeating.
Keith