Principle 1: Never saw a fence I didn't like.
Principle 2: I ALWAYS let the client show me where the property line is and I just draw the map. I never have a problem getting paid.
signed,
Mr. Popular
> Principle 1: Never saw a fence I didn't like.
>
> Principle 2: I ALWAYS let the client show me where the property line is and I just draw the map. I never have a problem getting paid.
>
> signed,
>
> Mr. Popular
[sarcasm]Are you related to Richard Schaut?[/sarcasm]
> Principle 1: Never saw a fence I didn't like.
I'm exactly opposite you. I always saw the fence I didn't like, and leave the fences I do like. o.O
Sorry bout the tardy response.
😀 Good one!
Equally good one!
Ha!
I had a client like that several years ago. He hired me to come out and find or set his corners on a 40 acre parcel way out in the country. Driving up to the job I noticed a divot in the pavement in the intersection of the roads and noted that it is likely the section corner that the subdivision was built from. He and I walk around the property with Schondstedt and shovel in hand and find all four corners. This is all in wide open prairie so I set up on one of the front corners and shoot the other three. The math matches the plat, a happy dance.
AND THEN! I shoot the section corner. Missed it by 30 feet. Run down to the south 1/2 mile and find the 1/4 corner. 30 feet opposite direction. I call up the original surveyor and report what I found. His first comment in a joking manner was "30 feet, that's nothing I probably got pins out there off 100 feet." At least I think he was joking.
I still don't know what became of that situation, the pins found were the originals set by the original surveyor.
I wonder why we always blame the surveyors. I mean I understand when a private person can't understand the discrepencies, they blame the surveyor, and the land developer and the engineers and architechs all like to blame the surveyor for everything that goes wrong.
But even us. We always automatically believe a land owner and agree with their gripes about surveyors and wonder how so many of us are so stupid.
I'll defer to the old Pogo comic strip on this one.
