Lost corner??? No way. He found the original, controlling monument. If all else fails in finding the exact point on the monument measured to by the...
Try looking on the edge/side of the boulder for possibly a "1/4" or some other marking. On some of the boulders I've found marked, there are marking ...
> I'm going from memory, always dangerous, but early on I was told all caps meant cardinal I've never heard such a thing, it would be interesting i...
> If you are the original surveyor and the parcel has been in existence for some time then you are surveying for both adjoiners of every line, it's...
500 feet, more or less...............
BLM Surveyors Worshiped - not a chance?Jerry, Thanks for your informative post. I was not throwing broad based dispersions or insults at the BLM, an...
> When they set section, quarter and 1/16 on private lands they have authority. Can't work any other way. You have only one section corner at the e...
Interesting, but not surprising. Especially when considering how many of us have been taught that whatever the BLM does is absolute gospel when it co...
> I think it's hilarious that the BLM considers it a "resurvey" when they are tracing lines on the ground which they never surveyed in the first pl...
BLM's statutory authority extends only to the relocation of public land boundaries, that is, lines that mark the boundary between public and private o...
It actually went fairly well. Innocent on 9 of the 11 counts.
rambleon> I believe he may have been trying to make the problem worse in order to create a problem for us with our client.If that was the case he s...
It wasn't the Utah licensing board, it was the Idaho board. They issued their decision/opinion last spring, and currently we are expecting the decisi...
rambleonThat is about the saddest story I've heard for a long time. Talk about a disgusting stain on our profession. It is too bad such stories appe...
> When looking at a plat from the last 10 years, has the way that the subdividing surveyor determined North relative to their basis of bearing ever...
Who said "North really doesn't matter"? Just another straw man................If the discussion is going to turn towards "professionalism" (as it sho...
> Anyway, can anyone tell me the purpose of burying glass with the monument? I have heard of this practice, but never knew (or forgot if I did) wh...
I don't think anyone is saying that a dependable, accurate, and reproducible basis of bearing shouldn't be used by all of us performing boundary surve...
How far is too far?All the mathematical gymnastics may be interesting and stimulating, but you won't find the answer you seek solely in the numbers.
> While I agree with your sentiments about the "legal" being sufficient as it stands I can think of one possibility for the calls being necessary. ...