@holy-cow 'Possum on the half shell. Andy

@holy-cow I fully agree.?ÿ Having been both a surveyor and a highway designer I have seen MULTIPLE instances of right of way monuments set nowhere nea...

Sometimes you just shake your head.?ÿ Years ago I had the engineer in charge of a local county DOT send a note asking for the radius of a vertical cur...

@stlsurveyor?ÿ The last 3 or 4 years before I left I was about the same way.?ÿ The previous 18 years with the same company were a different ball game....

Your loss puts our daily gripes in perspective.?ÿ You will be in my prayers.?ÿ I'm glad to hear you got your vaccination, mine is scheduled for next w...

@john-putnam The fun part is when the bend in the pipe is NOT made at the manhole.?ÿ There is a large (42 inch) sanitary sewer line near me that has m...

@lurker I'm only talking vertical for shooting over the out pipe.?ÿ For horizontal we did shoot the center of the lid. ?ÿ

@dmyhill I was taught, and therefore taught my crews, that we shot the rim elevation over the "out" pipe.?ÿ It is about repeatability.?ÿ Normally the ...

If you are measuring to the invert of the pipes (invert in/out) I would expect to be within 0.05 feet without some type of obstruction or an offset co...

@bill-c When I was growing up there was an Air Force Base (later a SAC base) across the river from our farm.?ÿ One of my cousins and I used to poke th...

In Georgia the Statute of Limitations is from the date of survey.?ÿ After seven years you can (if you wish) give out copies of that old plat without f...