Still not as hard as surveying in Texas...

Dave Karoly, post: 441466, member: 94 wrote: I'm reading another thread about an extensive control survey at a reservoir and I'm thinking, wow, that's complex, way above this Country Surveyor's brain power level, but it's still not as hard as surveying in Texas, nope, not even close. 😉

Back in the late 80's and early 90's when I was working in California, one of my first thoughts was:
Damn, this is a LOT easier than Texas.

Dave Karoly, post: 441466, member: 94 wrote: I'm reading another thread about an extensive control survey at a reservoir and I'm thinking, wow, that's complex, way above this Country Surveyor's brain power level, but it's still not as hard as surveying in Texas, nope, not even close. 😉

Yep, Texas surveying AND fences simulaneously- practically insurmountable challenges for mere non-Texan mortals..... 😀

And we "Down-Under" surveyors continue to be really thankful for Torrens titles, The Great Survey of India and the Victorian surveyors that set the strong foundations for the systems we use today...

Great survey of India?!?!?! pa-shahhhhh! Child's play compared to surveying in Texas!!!!!!!!!

Rankin_File, post: 441513, member: 101 wrote: Great survey of India?!?!?! pa-shahhhhh! Child's play compared to surveying in Texas!!!!!!!!!

Right! Not like Mt Everest is hard to find!

Dave Karoly, post: 441516, member: 94 wrote: Right! Not like Mt Everest is hard to find!

Unless you're trying to do it with Dengue Fever.:dizzy::cold_sweat:

Dave Karoly, post: 441516, member: 94 wrote: Right! Not like Mt Everest is hard to find!

Yep, easy to find AND It's a natural monument.

A certain Texan re-traced the Great Survey of India a couple weeks ago. He squeezed it in between some INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT West Texas jobs.... It took him a few minutes to ascertain the exact-o-mundo center of that one big white topped rock mound, but he got it done. and as you'd expect the previous efforts were pretty sketchy. Good thing he was able to clear it up....

rfc, post: 441523, member: 8882 wrote: Unless you're trying to do it with Dengue Fever.:dizzy::cold_sweat:

I think a certain Texan DIED(!!!!)( heck maybe even 2X!!!!!!) of Dengue fever on that last West Texas survey, right before he scaled the mighty fence of impregnability.

Today in Texas.

Dave Karoly, post: 441466, member: 94 wrote: I'm reading another thread about an extensive control survey at a reservoir and I'm thinking, wow, that's complex, way above this Country Surveyor's brain power level, but it's still not as hard as surveying in Texas, nope, not even close. 😉

Texans don't draw maps, they "describe" it.

Peter Ehlert, post: 441574, member: 60 wrote: Texans don't draw maps, they "describe" it.

Why draw a simple map when you can easily describe the same thing with just a few thousand words?

roger_LS, post: 441599, member: 11550 wrote: Why draw a simple map when you can easily describe the same thing with just a few thousand words?

I feel your pain. You work hard in an idiot-proofed system to feel as if somehow you are breaking a sweat and along comes some surveyor in Texas who is dealing with problems on a regular basis that make the idiot-proofed system look, well, really simple. Bummer.

Hey, I've said it before and I'll say it again. Don't paint with a broad brush. Don't ascribe these characteristics to all Texas surveyors when you are talking about just one. But, in the meantime, I'm retracing a survey in Brewster County that involves murder, mystery, intrigue, chili cookoffs, the great grandfather of Howard Hughes' mother, the first person of European descent to transit the Santa Elena Canyon in a boat, the G4 Ranch and a minister turned surveyor who was the Kent McM of declinations. Obviously way more interesting and complicated than anything in the cookbook states. (Tongue planted mildly in cheek).

Andy Nold, post: 441607, member: 7 wrote: But, in the meantime, I'm retracing a survey in Brewster County that involves [...] a minister turned surveyor

That would pretty much have to be R.S. Dod. Dod is relatively easy to follow when you have his field books in hand and can make sense of his quirky style of note taking. Even when he's completely wrong, you can at least figure out where he slipped of the track.

Obviously, many Texas surveyors won't find Dod's work that easy to follow, but the best ones will.

Kent McMillan, post: 441602, member: 3 wrote: I feel your pain. You work hard in an idiot-proofed system to feel as if somehow you are breaking a sweat and along comes some surveyor in Texas who is dealing with problems on a regular basis that make the idiot-proofed system look, well, really simple. Bummer.

That may be so but I note the Moorish National Republic hasn't tackled PLSSia yet, except for Idaho but we can overlook that fact.

Dave Karoly, post: 441611, member: 94 wrote: That may be so but I note the Moorish National Republic hasn't tackled PLSSia yet, except for Idaho but we can overlook that fact.

It may well be that the Moors popped a gasket, collectively speaking, after dealing with the complexities of the East and Texas.

Kent McMillan, post: 441614, member: 3 wrote: It may well be that the Moors popped a gasket, collectively speaking, after dealing with the complexities of the East and Texas.

I was wondering why there is Moorish hydraulic fluid all over everything.

voidintheabyss, post: 441550, member: 11972 wrote:

Today in Texas.

Must be a new arrival from a PLSS state, a native would just walk across.