@dave-karoly?ÿ As you are one of the most well-studied posters on this forum, I wonder when your book will come out.

Anybody who does that and doesn't explain why the held pins are better is not just not thinking wrong, they aren't thinking at all.

"Found" and the lines drawn to it would be pretty convincing.

@aliquot?ÿ R/M is certainly clearer. Presumably there is a legend on this drawing. IF it says an open circle is a found monument then there is no am...

Not at your latitude. Maybe Point Barrow, nut I haven't calculated it there.

The company would be well advised to buy the crew a turkey baster.

I like the post above by?ÿ @jacavell You don't interpret Record/Measured numbers as placing measurements above monuments, do you? The example here is...

A little ambiguous, but they tell you where the monument is and you can do as you want. I would take it as an alternative notation similar to Record/M...

If I were wanting one of those, I'd probably try an aluminum plate and one of these adapters, re-tapped from 5/8-27 mic stand thread to 5/8-11 surveyi...

If you have to go to a machine shop, instead of having them do the whole thing from scratch it might be cheaper to get one of those speaker mounts as ...

One of my great-great-great uncles was a County Surveyor for decades. Unfortunately it didn't rub off on any others in the family.

I despise numerical months. Even within the US you can run onto variations in the order within dates, and more so in communicating across borders. And...

Wow!

Isn't the mind amazing! You know exactly where that stone was years ago, but probably don't remember what you did 3 days ago without re-assembling a b...

I will say that while Wolf & Ghilani is one of my favorite books, the section on gravity is crap. As Einstein said, everything should be made as ...