this is the blazed face- I believeBlaze and/or scribing so low on the tree?

If your closure is legal, and you know you had a consistent offset in the rod, can't you compensate each leg for that offset before doing an overall t...

The fact that the cement around the disk is not the same as the mortar between the bricks argues for it being undisturbed. The slight tilt of the "ho...

That vent hole seems to have been used only for a short time in the late 1950's.Did somebody mistake the hole for a "datum point" punch mark and shoot...

Releveling does not move the point you are over significantly, although it will change the point you see through the optical plummet. So releveling w...

There is no title issue here. Title, as the situation is presented here, says the guy owns the SW1/4 SW1/4, unquestioned, no more, no less.The bounda...

A particularly good collection of this nonsense can be found at:It drags in everything you can imagine including the Federal Reserve, the National Deb...

Mention of pulling pins always brings up objections.What if surveyors used tags saying "Rejected by PLS1234" and pounded down the offending iron a lit...

So you are looking for something on the order of 1-5 minutes difference in the bearings (or angles) from the wrong rock pile? (depending on distance t...

If I paste this into Firefox, it works for me. It's too late for me to search for the message from Wendell that told me what I did wrong a few months...

As an aside, there was a prior thread that discussed the Wiltse family.

Were the lines run with a solar instrument, so he is maintaining his best shot at constant bearings, and just noting the variation because it is requi...