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Heck of a name!

I enjoy the serenity of the woods.

Mine was a tad over a mile using a Topcon total station in 1988 during a large (2,400 acres) boundary survey near Indiantown, FL. Most of the distance...

@party-chef Sounds like what we used to do in the eighties in south Florida in new subdivisions where lot lines were only slightly staggered. We bent...

@murphy If you accept the fence corner as the true corner, is this what is meant by "ownership by occupation" or something like that?

@party-chef What are liners?

What don't you like about it?

Yes, you are absolutely correct! I do remember seeing the line string number field when using EC1, EP1, etc. If I go to Map View, will I see the line,...

Our party chiefs use string numbers to keep track of their work. An example would be: North EOP, EP1 South EOP, EP2 I can't recall seeing a separat...

@squirl I recently learned how to create a stake report in MAGNET Field. It's useful because it shows you your occupied, backsight, staked points, et...

We use AutoCAD with Civil 3D in the office. To create a line in AutoCAD, we add linework codes to our field codes such as: EC1 B, which is Edge of Co...

@bstrand Good point, but the true invert elevation has nothing to do with the wall thickness of the pipe. If you shoot the top of the pipe, measure d...

Good history. I was unaware that this was done on purpose. How else could the pinched pipe that I recently recovered look so good?

I think for a long time surveyors have been cost conscious about the price of iron. You can almost figure out the age of a subdivision by what the ori...

Makes sense to me. If I was a plumber I'd order a pipe using ID because I'd be concerned with fluid flow. I feel a surveyor should be concerned with h...

Do they make pipe gauges?

I recently recovered a pinched 2-1/4" pipe. We recovered a number of 2-1/4" pipes on the project and this appeared to be the same diameter. God only k...