Kent
> > Apart from your continued incorrect assertion that mortgage surveys are unique to Colorado, I once again point out your faulty logic that posting a video for discussion's sake and holding it up as good procedure are 2 different things.
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> See, you've made my point again for me. You're in Colorado, but I don't know a single professional surveyor who would give that whole business even two seconds consideration. So, what is the most reasonable inference other than that Colorado standards are so low that zombie surveying practices are a hot topic of discussion?
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> What's next, a lengthy post wondering whether it's a good idea to use a tall aluminum rod around high-tension power lines near the ground?
Hot topic? Nah. My point is your unsuccessful attempts to slight Colorado surveying by using poor arguments is just not working. Hopefully you put more effort into your survey work and don't use so many assumptions. You might try a logic or philosophy course to give you a little help expressing your positions.
Monument resetting fundamentals
> I don't think the fellow gave enough info as to why he put the monument where he did. Maybe he did actually survey the lot, but who knows?
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> I wouldn't have used that hunk of concrete and pipe, it didn't look like it was very stable, and the next mowing crew would very likely knock it out of position again.
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> Why did they even video this and post it, I wonder? The video quality was horrible, and the camera was too far away to really see what was happening. The narration was really lacking any substance.
DJ that was pretty much what I got out of that too. I did not get why that was worth putting up on YouTube at all.
geez video proof of the crapola that happens when unsupervised field crews are running amok.
priceless
shazam
Monument resetting fundamentals
> I did not get why that was worth putting up on YouTube at all.
Several hypotheses come to mind, the first being that it was a training film distributed by either an engineering firm or a survey broker. At least Paris Hilton got some good publicity from *her* home videos.
Monument resetting fundamentals
> Several hypotheses come to mind, the first being that it was a training film distributed by either an engineering firm or a survey broker. At least Paris Hilton got some good publicity from *her* home videos.
But any type of training, or anything specific at all it seems, was either edited out or simply not shown. You see him start digging from across the road, then you see him start to set the monument, then do a footstomp, and that was it. You do not see him really prepare the area. There is one shot of the I-man pushing three buttons or so, but nothing about what was pushed or what it all meant.
The Office, Bryan
> But any type of training, or anything specific at all it seems, was either edited out or simply not shown. You see him start digging from across the road, then you see him start to set the monument, then do a footstomp, and that was it. You do not see him really prepare the area. There is one shot of the I-man pushing three buttons or so, but nothing about what was pushed or what it all meant.
Here's one of the other videos, this one from the office that tells a bit more of the story. I think that Robert Hill has the situation diagnosed. Sadly, the setting is more likely in CT than CO, but it could have been CO.
[flash width=480 height=385] http://www.youtube.com/v/_HuQ_5yi-LU&hl=en_US [/flash]
I really don't understand what those sweat monkeys were doing making a video resetting a disturbed monument. And looked bad doing it!:-P I'm going have to hug my rodman for doing a professional job. I was stroking just watching that video! 🙁
I wonder how many surveyors use a spade like those guys did?
Just this summer doing row parcels I found 4 or 5 3/4 inch iron rod used as row markers just lying on the ground. I told my rodman just to let them lay. Set one of ours. Then I let it be known on my plat that I found the rod lying on the ground, and I set one of mine.
You know it makes me wonder just how many of these kind of corners those dudes reset like that making other surveyors who are trying their best to do a good professional job just scratching their head wondering what the hell was that guy thinking, or smoking when he set that corner? From the corner of a house?:-P
Oh Well! I have my own demons!
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> You know it makes me wonder just how many of these kind of corners those dudes reset like that making other surveyors who are trying their best to do a good professional job just scratching their head wondering what the hell was that guy thinking, or smoking when he set that corner? From the corner of a house?:-P
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I would hazard a guess that what we witnessed on the video is the type of surveying prevails most everyday, in every locale in the country.
Just add Curly and some shenanigans with the "monument" and other tools and this would be a pretty funny video.