Every time there is a flurry of "ring ring" posts, I start getting nutty phone calls...it's eerie. Enough, already!!
I got a phone call this AM from a neighbor adjoining some property I surveyed a few weeks ago. We had flagged my client's east line (this caller's west line) with nails and lath. My client is pursuing construction of a common fence.
This caller seemed like he really meant well, but he's just checking out everything. His daughter helped him look up my phone number from the caps on the pins I set. Like I said, he's checking everything out...so I asked how I could help him. He tells me my "line is crooked".
I'm thinking he doesn't like where the property line wound up. After a bit of chat I realize he's ok with the corner locations, but the 'line' we staked is crooked. I ask him how he checked it...Well, he borrowed a 'scope' from his son-in-law...and set it up and looked down the line....and it's crooked! He was really pleasant enough and sincere in his confusion, but he thought the line should be straight.
I sent a crew by there to check things out, just to be safe. They just got back with me and I guess everything is OK now. This guy had an old dumpy level that he was attempting to set up and "look" down the stake line...according to my PC he wasn't even really set up over the front pin by a foot or so, and the level had a busted spirit vial...:pinch:
We set a TS up over the point and gave him a quickie run down on optical instruments. He got to put his eye-bone on the line through our TS and see how 'straight' it was. He's apparently happy now (and the crew thinks his daughter is a hottie)...
I'm getting a little gun-shy with these "ring ring" ditties...;-)
Oh great. You posted this and now my phone is ringing. Practice what you preach, pal. :-/
I think the little "Hottie" daughter had just took a shine to the crew, and wanted them back, so, she asked dad to "help her get them back". Ya never know how this may turn out!
(Ha haha)
Nate The Surveyor, post: 330435, member: 291 wrote: I think the little "Hottie" daughter had just took a shine to the crew, and wanted them back, so, she asked dad to "help her get them back". Ya never know how this may turn out!
(Ha haha)
The fella seemed at least as old as me, maybe older...my "kids" are 40 and 43...I don't know how old the daughter is. But then I've disagreed before with the hired help and what they consider "hot"....:pinch:
"There is a bend in the line you marked"...that comes in second to "I only need one line surveyed".
Usually it's due to the field crew not taking the time to plumb the lath.
paden cash, post: 330430, member: 20 wrote: Every time there is a flurry of "ring ring" posts, I start getting nutty phone calls...it's eerie. Enough, already!!
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I'm getting a little gun-shy with these "ring ring" ditties...;-)
Anyone tracking the phases of the moon in relation to these posts? Just remember we recently had a blue moon!
Actual quote from a client: "I don't know where the corner is but THAT isn't right."
mattharnett, post: 330444, member: 6458 wrote: Actual quote from a client: "I don't know where the corner is but THAT isn't right."
Maybe you can get the correct position by process of elimination. Just keep moving around until he doesn't say that any more.
imaudigger, post: 330438, member: 7286 wrote: "There is a bend in the line you marked"...that comes in second to "I only need one line surveyed".
Usually it's due to the field crew not taking the time to plumb the lath.
I've never understood these complaints. I've had a few and the stakes clearly lined up.
One time a client was trying line up stakes on the right property line with stakes on the left line, and they didn't line up! Hmmm... a mystery...
I like the one where " the line isnt straight".. So I stretch a string from the back pin to the front pin (small city lot) and say "look...see it is straight", answer...well..it isnt straight with the street (meaning not perpendicular and deed didnt call for it to be) it is just not straight.
We have tons of subdivisions that were made from aliquot parts. It doesn't matter what some would prefer to think, aliquot parts are not squares and rectangles. They are whatever they happen to be. The vast majority of the ones I encounter from the early years of development consider north-south streets to be parallel to the alignment of one side of the aliquot with east-west streets being parallel to the alignment of another side. The odds of the relative angle being very close to a right angle are not good. Somewhere between 85 and 89 degrees is typical (or 91 to 95 if you prefer). Relatively deep lots of narrow width lead to the fronts of structures not being parallel to that little bitty front line.
My call for the day:
Guy calls trying to work me down on a previous quote. The only problem was I'm not the surveyor that give him the quote. He asked me if I was ready to drop my price below the $800-$1000 talked about before. I finally got it straight where his land was. I told him my minimum to go out on a survey was $1000 and his would probably be more than that. Then he told me he had only paid $2500 for his 2-1/2 acres in an old never really developed mountain subdivision. I told him the value of the land has nothing to do with the value of my time. I also told him there is plenty of land in the world not worth what a survey would cost. I also told him it would probably take $5000 worth of my time to figure out this old subdivision and I'd likely never get enough surveys in there to even break even. We ended friendly and he told me if he did decide to have it surveyed he'd get back to me. Anybody think I'll hear back from this guy? I hope I don't.
paden cash, post: 330430, member: 20 wrote: Every time there is a flurry of "ring ring" posts, I start getting nutty phone calls...it's eerie. Enough, already!!
I got a phone call this AM from a neighbor adjoining some property I surveyed a few weeks ago. We had flagged my client's east line (this caller's west line) with nails and lath. My client is pursuing construction of a common fence.
This caller seemed like he really meant well, but he's just checking out everything. His daughter helped him look up my phone number from the caps on the pins I set. Like I said, he's checking everything out...so I asked how I could help him. He tells me my "line is crooked".
I'm thinking he doesn't like where the property line wound up. After a bit of chat I realize he's ok with the corner locations, but the 'line' we staked is crooked. I ask him how he checked it...Well, he borrowed a 'scope' from his son-in-law...and set it up and looked down the line....and it's crooked! He was really pleasant enough and sincere in his confusion, but he thought the line should be straight.
I sent a crew by there to check things out, just to be safe. They just got back with me and I guess everything is OK now. This guy had an old dumpy level that he was attempting to set up and "look" down the stake line...according to my PC he wasn't even really set up over the front pin by a foot or so, and the level had a busted spirit vial...:pinch:
We set a TS up over the point and gave him a quickie run down on optical instruments. He got to put his eye-bone on the line through our TS and see how 'straight' it was. He's apparently happy now (and the crew thinks his daughter is a hottie)...
I'm getting a little gun-shy with these "ring ring" ditties...;-)
I had one kinda similar one time. The fellow was SURE that where we were setting the pin was wrong and wanted to know HOW we knew that was where it was being set was right. The drew chief had him look through the instrument and sure enough the crosshairs split the pin. "Well OK", said the fellow and walked away.
Andy