Educate me>advertised as being brassWhere? The page at Dave's link contains the word "copper" 4 times, brass or bronze only in a link to another p...

Educate meWhy are the Berntsen markers copper, when bronze is more common for disks? When is one better than the other?

Like any level, there are two principle sources of error. First, if it sweeps out a cone instead of a flat plane then balancing sight lengths will be...

If multiple crews worked the township, the GLO field notes should reflect that by the surveyor certifications and chainmen's oaths.

As a defensive transport, I would have expected it to have better protection for the radiator, and perhaps gun ports in the walls.

Back when my daughter was in college ....Would the paper delivered by the guy in the other thread who was surveying in the wrong state qualify as an "...

I believe this is in Utah, as indicated by the copyright line at the very bottom of the page. I hate how every newspaper assumes you are local and kn...

I would think you could and certainly should retain an attorney for a few hours fee. Courts aren't about truth and spontaneity - this isn't small cla...

[sarcasm]What, you don't believe the water will have a 4.5% slope?[/sarcasm]

I might guess that if the grantee was a utility which made use in a timely manner, the purposes could be inferred even though not stated and thus hold...

You might want to contact the reenacters of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, particularly Don Erickson. They have a zenith sector that they demo...

With that interpretation I get a rough S shape that doesn't begin to resemble a parcel. Not even a wrong quadrant blunder would seem to fix it.

How do you interpret 8 degrees East, North ?My first attempt (reading it as 8 degrees East of North) didn't close by far too much. Or isn't the last c...

Truncating to small numbers risks mis-identification. I can show you a set of 3 data sheets where somebody did nice job in advance of highway constru...

repro trick for pencilAt least two county recorder offices in Iowa prohibit cameras. As of a couple years ago, others still allowed them. I haven't ...

Surveying with the spouse/significant udderThese jokes aren't the cream of the crop.