My immediate reaction is to accept the monuments. The section line "bends" through them. My presumption is that the original surveyor of the box set...

Keith> I am frankly beginning to believe that some land surveyors actually believe that the Robillard-Bouman method of only subdividing sections by...

> Dave I am talking about something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. A monument set subsequent to the ORIGINAL SURVEY conducted under federal rules IS NOT AN ...

Good thread. Welcome back keith.

I kind of like it hot.....but we haven't seen over 105 here in a long time (Pueblo CO). (I think the record recorded temp. has been 109). I am not s...

ADS - A Damn SurveyorActually....TA....hmmm. Total Acreage? Turning Angle? I can't think of any good ones.

> I was told a few years ago that they had included some obvious mistakes in the text as a way to catching those who would violate their copyright....

Chains, when new, are seldom a proper length; they ought always, therefore, to be examined; as should those, likewise, which are stretched by frequent...

> Top link on top for the throw, with a little extra for the rear chainman behind. Rear chain man rolls and moves up.I can't quite picture what you...

sinc;Are you talking about a steel tape without a reel? I could probably still throw one of those but it might take an extra try. I tried unravellin...

> Maybe someone on the crew was on parole ;)...or at least perhaps some evidence to that affect....

> .... I was expecting something from the lunatic fringe.well yeah.....This is a land surveyors site afterall....

Bob....don't you stop when you hear "chain!"?

Thanks Jud!

I agree. I like the ones with the "E" on the left, and the "W" on the right. But a lot of compasses are this way. Notice, too, hooks on the top of ...

This C-S 1/16 for may or may not be in the correct position. Consider that whoever set may (probably) did it from different controlling corners than ...