A great surveyor from Arkie-Saw regaled us with his menu at the Roadkill Cafe he allegedly operated when not surveying. Name that surveyor.
The ardent JAVAD supporter? 😉
I don't remember that subject coming up, but there haven't been very many from Arkansas..
If not him, then DDSM?
Naw, twasn't me... But he was a friend of "Trimble Man".
'Ole Jim Petty... I'd recoon....
Time is like cardboard spacing between the jars... Keeps 'em from hitting each other, an' getting broke.
And, time is getting along quite nicely. I'm getting old these days.
One of these days I'm gonna make a plat that says "Basis of Bearings: TRUE GEODETIC NAWTH, taken as though it was at the central meridian of the State of Arkansas" I am so sick of Grid Nawth. Maybe if I take it at the middle of the state, we could return to TRUE north, instead of untrue nawth!!!
(That's quasi eccentric humor...)
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I always thought that north was just to the top of the page 🙃
Must be one of those regional delicacy things. Around these here parts it's fish head soup and fermented beaver tail served up with a side of muktuk.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Didn’t Washington and Jefferson both write in their journals about the possum. They were both surveyors. Also Taft don’t know if he was a surveyor but he did like possum. Actually trap a possum introduce some grains for a bit and finish him on peaches and it’s not bad. Coon can get greasy if you don’t prepare it right but hey it’s another protein. My mom use to say that it was pushed a bit in the 60’s and her mom and grandparents had cooked it
@landbutcher464mhz I was laying out a water tower a decade or so ago and the arrow on the plan set showing the angles between the anchor bolts read "Structural North". Worst part was the difference between "structural north" and grid north on the civil plans was less than two degrees - so it looked right.
This thread reminds me of Himalayan Possum; “I found him a-layin’ in the road”.
@landbutcher464mhz I was laying out a water tower a decade or so ago and the arrow on the plan set showing the angles between the anchor bolts read "Structural North". Worst part was the difference between "structural north" and grid north on the civil plans was less than two degrees - so it looked right.
Well you caught it before things got f'd up. Seems like there is always something that can trip ya up these days. My favorite is the architect that wants me to stake a 42' wide bldg (when I add up all the pieces) on a 50' wide lot with 5' side yard setbacks. He said don't worry because he had a variance. I said fine send me the paperwork. He sent me a revised 40' wide foundation plan instead. 😏
We have a winner!!!!!!
Jim Petty was a fun fellow to know. Met up with him one day when his daughter and my daughter were both students in Fayetteville at the University of Arkansas.
That stuff must smell like straight up canned dog food when you open it.