Actually, I'm trying to point out that the presumption has been rebutted by calling for the specific mark that does not claim to be in the center.One ...

If I have a call for an iron rod set on the earth, is the rod or the earth the monument? If I can't find the rod, should I presume it was set in the ...

No, there is no presumption, other than it's the center of the "X". The chances of the "X" having landed on the center of the sandstone are negligibl...

A serious questionAbsolutely! :good:

I know exactly where that is; but it's gonna cost ya;-)

If you can't find the "X" and you know the sandstone is eroding at a rapid rate, then you have nothing. Could be the "x" was on part of it that erode...

DuaneYou mean you calculated a line and found it to be 10-20 feet off of the stone wall:)That's actually just about right and proves the stone wall. T...

DuaneI will suggest that lines be marked if the client does not want them marked and I think they should be. I will mark them in whatever way the cli...

I don't understand the question. How is it "extra" to charge for a service provided to a client?If you mean do I give a price that the client does no...

Well, maybe so, but you didn't get paid to take a leisurely stroll around the countryside looking for those old monuments for a couple days. Nor did ...

Exactly. All the more reason for the surveyor not to remove themselves from the process based on the threat of practicing law without a license. Sur...

The limits of a highway ROW, which the State has previously acquired by filing acquisition maps,could be determined by one or more of the following te...

True enough. Unfortunately, what I've seen this lead to is the jobs going to those who will not do ANY topo for the onsite sewage (scan a usgs topo a...

While I was performing my indentured servitude, er I mean getting my valuable experience, a contractor gave the boss a hundred bucks each for me and m...

I don't think you have enough evidence to hold both the irons. One or the other might be a called for, but the distance is way out of tolerance that ...

It would be practicing law for a surveyor to write a deed for pay in some jurisdictions. It is not practicing law to write a description, nor to prin...

This scares me.I know. What ever happened to penalty of death for use of a compass? Maps and deeds instead of beating the bounds? All this new tech...

If we're talking about Honest questions, I think the more honest one is this.IN the next ten years would you (or clients you have been retained by) li...

Yes, and these natives laid out curves 2 millennium before the PLSS manual:-O