Several years ago I saw a survey crew on a shopping center I had surveyed several years ago, and it was a difficult area. I stopped and offered to give them a copy of the previous ALTA survey, and the party chief told me he was not interested. A year later I saw their survey, screwed up. The centerline intersection was previously a brass cap in concrete in a handwell, but a paving contractor had removed the brass cap and never replaced it. The party chief had accepted a "stone in a handwell," not knowing we don't have any stones in handwells and it was just your basic rock. There were references for the brass cap available on each corner of the intersection but he didn't know about those either.
Bruce Small, post: 428397, member: 1201 wrote: Several years ago I saw a survey crew on a shopping center I had surveyed several years ago, and it was a difficult area. I stopped and offered to give them a copy of the previous ALTA survey, and the party chief told me he was not interested. A year later I saw their survey, screwed up. The centerline intersection was previously a brass cap in concrete in a handwell, but a paving contractor had removed the brass cap and never replaced it. The party chief had accepted a "stone in a handwell," not knowing we don't have any stones in handwells and it was just your basic rock. There were references for the brass cap available on each corner of the intersection but he didn't know about those either.
Refusing a copy or data about a previous survey violates the "research" minimum standards in Oklahoma.
Well, it wasn't me. If that matters. I am usually in the mood to talk to anyone, surveyors, neighbor's, clients or the police. Everyone has an angle or story to tell and I want to know it. When I am not in the mood its usually raining, or traffic is bad, or something is being lifted over my head.
Holy Cow, post: 428388, member: 50 wrote: He probably knew a significant percentage of his fellow travelers but he waved at strangers all the same.
I tried that sitting in a car one Saturday night in front of a liquor store in the wrong part of Nashville. Apparently the ugliest lady of the night I have ever laid eyes on thought it was an invitation to walk up to the car and start beating on the window.
You should have let her out.
Brad Ott, post: 428295, member: 197 wrote: That is when the opportunity to be creative and have fun arises. We are putting in an amusement park, you know, "for the kids."
Or an overhead glass sewer line. I nearly got fired over that one.
Holy Cow, post: 428440, member: 50 wrote: You should have let her out.
Let her out hell. If she had gotten in that car Ajax and 409 wouldn't have been able to clean things up.
:):):):):)
Tommy Young, post: 428480, member: 703 wrote: Let her out hell. If she had gotten in that car Ajax and 409 wouldn't have been able to clean things up.
I'm assuming Ajax and 409 and the names of your rottweilers
Bruce Small, post: 428397, member: 1201 wrote: I ....... offered to give them a copy of the previous ALTA survey, and the party chief told me he was not interested.
Of course the party chief wasn't interested. The office LS might have been very interested. A lot of places have a sharp division between field and office, each with their own motivations.
John Carroll, post: 428319, member: 12602 wrote: I say hi to all of them. Even if I'm driving by I'll at least roll down my window and yell at them to get real jobs
I all always yell center line of rail road track to other surveyors. That way they at least know it was another surveyor screwing with them.
