For random location such as edge of pavement and utilities, why not? The new 2011 proposed regulations now speak to error ellipse etc...so I think t...

Local PracticeI don't understand the practice either. I set a Drill hole in stones, I use concrete bounds with pre-drilled holes, and I'll scribe con...

oh, gotcha now. That's why I mentioned "local practice."

good lord, no! They don't use station markers on the highway's around here. We know where the road is, it's been there since about 1630 or so... p...

Introduce them to the probate records and how to use them...

heh heh heh... you said "inches."yes, and then no for your questions. If I recall them correctly.How can you ever ignore a deed call? i am sure that...

Correct Kent, MHB= Mass. Highway Bound, which is a granite stone bound about 10" x 10" on top and 4' deep.The CB = Concrete Boundnow what's funny (I j...

Would you 'pin cushion' either of these two monuments?I hate this sort of thing myself.... two monuments were held, across the street,a nd several we...

Regardless of your practice, I think that there is good field practice and bad field practice and straddling a tripod leg is bad practice, in my book....

If I use someone I run it through our payroll service... I would rather not create problems that I don't need...

Easiest and hardest places to survey in the US-SeanYou got that right, and the same description has been carried forward for the past 350 years. Plus...

Paul, of course you do have to define what is "hard" or "easy."Here in MA, or at least out here on the Cape we have to deal with some bounding descrip...

Only 53, and have 8 years of solo surveying with my wife helping out on occasion. I get sore, I get that "beat up' feeling, and it hurts to move, but ...