So you want to be a surveyor?The pipe vs stone from the old RPLS site was an original GLO monument established during the original township survey and...
16 for 100'50 for 300'55 for 5 chains (330')On old GLO cadastral surveyor told me to count by starting on either your left or right foot and count as ...
What drivers did you find & install? I have one of mine running on Windows 7 using WinLine Drivers. All the page orientation settings are set in t...
The Same Brinker Who Wrote Surveying Textbooks ?Interesting. Thanks for the link.
The Same Brinker Who Wrote Surveying Textbooks ?I also have his book "4444 Review Questions For Surveyors", which I think is the 1975 version with the...
The Same Brinker Who Wrote Surveying Textbooks ?> > Are you saying you studied under Admiral Russell C. Brinker?Don't know about Dexter Brinker,...
On your posted diagram of Section 20 with the triangles & circles you show the North line bearing as East. The original plat (Retraced) has a bear...
Paul:I was 10 years ahead of you using and marking the caps on monuments as to what corner they were set to represent.Actually when I worked for the B...
Carlson, how about Simplicity Survey 3.0 coordinate files> > FYI, Carlson 2013 (and probably its predecessors) will convert PacSoft files. See ...
> Blue jeans, 33 x 32, relaxed fit do the trick for me.Levi, 501's, 34 x 34, shrink to fit, work good for me.
Jim:Only pertains to socks and gloves. 😛
1855 ManualThere also is a diagram in the "Manual of United States Surveying by J.H. Hawes at page 118 that is pretty clear and is somewhat similar to...
1855 ManualLoyal & Jerry:The Diagram B in my C.A. White's book (PDF and not a printed copy) is not really any better than what is in the compilati...
Jerry:You say that the Township Survey was in 1857, so they evidently were working under the Instructions of 1855. Here is a couple of pages from the ...
Another step closer to make Surveying a trade instead of a profession.
We surveyed on the surface, not some imaginary line that nobody can see. There were lots of checks against direct solar observations on certain projec...
> "True North, by GPS observation". > > My problem with this, is that it leaves the question hanging... does he even know what his Basis of B...