Holy Cow, post: 355224, member: 50 wrote: The helpful types are lots of fun. Frequently I will be asked if I started from the brass disk in the concrete block about 20 feet inside the fence on the hill down at Joe Samples place (or some similar location). They are describing some form of benchmark set by USGS, USCGS, USDA or other government entity that are most definitely not tied to the PLSS system in any way. I usually tell them that the marker they are referring to is one of thousands that are used to figure out where on Earth you really are yet have no connection to where the section lines are. I'll toss out those really big words like longitude and latitude and elevation above sea level and their eyes gloss over just before they decide to head on down the road and leave me alone.
Lol nice!
Nate The Surveyor, post: 355321, member: 291 wrote: Seeing a piece of survey equipment, qualifies them to say "I used to be a surveyor..."
Yep, everyone who has every held the end of a tape "used to be a surveyor". Usually if you start explaining what you're doing, you lose them pretty fast.
Thats the exact same thing I have here. Last one the other day now cleans rugs. Everyone talks like they went on to bigger better things. But 80%of them havent.
jkmonroe, post: 355398, member: 9191 wrote: I've come to the conclusion that every man over the age of 55 must have spent at least one summer working for a surveyor pulling chain or cutting line or pounding hubs. I've had countless old gentlemen stop and tell me their stories of surveying and how we have it so much easier now with edms and gps.
Holy Cow, post: 355085, member: 50 wrote: How much does a survey cost?
Is it cheaper if I help?
So, if I don't have you survey it, can I just do it myself and get by?
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Oh.....and.....Do these feel real to you?
Sure you can do it yourself -- and you can pull your own teeth with a bottle of whiskey and a set a Vise-Grips. Perfectly legal but maybe not smart.
Since I don't get out in the field much anymore, I guess the top three questions I get are:
1. Would you like fries with that?
2. What year is that?
3. Will you pick up milk and bread on your way home?
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Not 1 of the top 3 but got yelled at By a lady the other day, while doing a topo for neighbor's septic design, she was mad because I was taking pictures of her daughter getting dressed in the upstairs part of her house. I told her to tell her daughter I was very sorry & wouldn't post the pics on FB.
Now that's funny, it don't matter who you are.
We get this one in the office a lot. "You did a survey for Client X about 10 years ago, I have a Client Z who bought said property from Client Y who bought it from your client for cash, and didn't get a survey. Can we get a copy of that survey so Client Z can close on the property?". My answer is generally "Only if Client X says I can release his/her/their survey.". To which I usually get snarled at about how I'm a money grubber and hung up on, only to have someone else call a day or so later wondering how much we'd charge to survey said piece of property. Cracks me up every time!
hlbennettpls, post: 356106, member: 10049 wrote: We get this one in the office a lot. "You did a survey for Client X about 10 years ago, I have a Client Z who bought said property from Client Y who bought it from your client for cash, and didn't get a survey. Can we get a copy of that survey so Client Z can close on the property?". My answer is generally "Only if Client X says I can release his/her/their survey.". To which I usually get snarled at about how I'm a money grubber and hung up on, only to have someone else call a day or so later wondering how much we'd charge to survey said piece of property. Cracks me up every time!
In this age of instant info being available with a couple of taps on a keyboard, I believe that kind of thing is actually becoming more common. I'm going to fall short of picking on real estate folks, but most requests are from them. And their "entitled" attitude is, as you noted, sometimes brusque.
Oklahoma is not a recording state when it comes to surveys. A lot of surveys actually get recorded, though. And a lot of counties have size restrictions on Record Book page size (as opposed to a recorded plat). This means that there are a lot of 11x17 to 24x36 sheets that get reduced to 8.5x11....only leaving folks 'hungry' for a legible copy. And they call, a lot. And as a lot of us probably do; I explain my work was done for a specific client, and that client was provided a full size signed original. I usually suggest they look up that client.
I had one person sarcastically ask me, "How much trouble can it be for you to look something up?" I told her it wasn't any trouble at all...while we were talking I brought it up on the screen...but that didn't mean I was going to freely distribute copies.
And some people think I'm the one being rude....
I learned a long time ago everybody wants something for free. I also learned a long time ago, they won't be getting it from me...
hlbennettpls, post: 356120, member: 10049 wrote: I learned a long time ago everybody wants something for free. I also learned a long time ago, they won't be getting it from me...
Yer a poet, and didn't know-it!
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If yinzer surveyin' the Botolokoski's lot, what're yinz doin' dahn here at my lot?
I paid yinz to survey my lot. What're yinz doin' dahn there talkin' to that old biddy?
Is that the corner? (pointing to any nail or flag or scratch mark or anything at all)