Limits of closure???William, the method used with a solar compass would follow along a latitudinal arc as opposed to a straight line. Offsets would n...
KW:good: I don't think the precision of how some of these lines were run in the 1800's, is very pertinent to where you find them, as the difference be...
Good points Mr. Nixon. I have read a lot of old descriptions and have never been confused reading 'degrees' 'minutes' and 'seconds' spelled out, or "...
I agree with cmsurveyor, that there are places to use it if it clarifies or unmuddies the language. Good example ".....section 11, a distance of........
Payback....> Calculated Section Corners (Land Surveying)> > by MightyMoe, Friday, September 21, 2012, 14:25 (19 days ago)>> I need to c...
Dang.....I wish you hadn't posted that...:-/ Actually I'm glad you did. I was just working on a long description and I used a auto-description writin...
The proportioned corner? Why, that's the infamous "corner-monument-guaranteed-to-not-be-in-the-original-position corner"; as I believe the technical t...
Joe, You should be able to get records from your highway department on request (allowing enough time for them to be looked up). They are a government...
> How did I screw that up!haha...that's the first thing I assume too. I thought everyone else asked how someone else screwed that up. Not me, I a...
> ..... I have just undertaken an approximate 4,000 acre survey at 10,000 feet, and nothing is level or even an easy walk. > Talk about gettin h...
> I'm in Australia and am just finishing up my first year of a surveying degree. I feel like there hasn't been enough prac time in the course so f...
I like the idea of getting the old survey into the public records, or at least with a government entity like the county surveyor.I wonder if you could...
I thought you were holding a snake at first, then saw the little feet. What is that?
I just bought this one:I don't know how well it will work out, but it was immediately comfortable. I can wear it all day right away. It appears to h...
Got it. Call him up for a free property-corner inspection for every survey you do.Either have/him come out ahead of your crews and recover the existin...
> If I got my RLS stamp tatooed with stamp pad ink, then I would never loose it and I could stamp plans with .... no, forget it.you need the rls st...
My daddy's topcon> It really seemed a lot tighter than your daddy's Topcons.I recently broke out my father's topcon. I got it after he died in 199...
Paden ? Keep your head low and keep movin'....How about the E-¼ corner before you go working on that monument on the township line. You want to propo...