Or the judge could come pull it.

It looks like a Kebab skewer, although I can't picture a cowboy having any in his bedroll.

It seems likely that you would need to survey at least the ties to the belligerent neighbors corners and listen to his side of the story. If he does ...

Thanks to Dale, Russ, and Dave Ingram for helping with info and procuring the compass and tripod. Dale says that this instrument came from a collecti...

The declination arm pivots right around on its axis, and has a pointer that indicates the hour on the hour angle arc. So you see it has two lenses an...

@rj-schneider You definitely need good eyesight.

Made by Gurley circa 1883 I believe. See the description in the Gurley catalogue page 28. So perhaps 140 years ago in April.

I have been trying to make a solar compass attachment for my Zeiss 3306 and have been using this site.

I do like my Mazda,?ÿ I have a shelf on top of the wheel wells.?ÿ It gets right around 30 mpg.?ÿ it does not have 4 wheel drive, like all my other veh...

I like the look of that also.?ÿ ?ÿIncidentally,?ÿ I used to work out of an Izuzu Trooper, then?ÿ Suzuki Sidekick, then Honda CRV, now a Mazda CX5.

Every survey has discrepancies.

Survey friend uses?ÿ double?ÿ lines for the border on his maps.?ÿ The corners have curved radius, it looks fine.?ÿ He used to use straight arrows to p...

It likely drifts after any more time to be accurate (relative to the last shot).?ÿ ?ÿIf it could be made about 50 times more accurate after about an h...

I think it has potential.?ÿ I have wanted to see an inertial device for surveyors for a long time.?ÿ time is the enemy of inertial devices, as they te...

There is also a prism which shows an image both left and right (and forward), as you move on line, the images align with each other.