Andy Nold, post: 363052, member: 7 wrote: In 1881, Giraud resurveyed along the south bank of the Pecos River for the Houston & Great Northern Rail...
Tom Adams, post: 360591, member: 7285 wrote: You memorized the 254 county names?! Holy Cow! No, No, No, not the 254, the 33 in New Mexico. Even my s...
254 in Texas where I was born and currently live.I went to school in NM, we had to memorize the counties for 8th grader social studies.
Sometimes if you work in multiple states, just having a cap w/a company name is F/U efficient so your crew don't cap a NM rod w/a TX cap."But" my caps...
So are you still blue lining there in nowhere Texas? ÷¼
Except the T&P has no quarter corners or latitudinal arc, it's all "perfectly square" B-)
My first job drafting, the "old" PLS said to run em clockwise or I'll run you off, by gosh, 25 years later,they still go clockwise...B-)
The Powell "K" monuments are/were original Kuechler corners K1=K62 I believe, I have found K2-K4, 5 was a McCombs corner and I think I found it too, I...
Greg Shoults RPLS, post: 327733, member: 531 wrote: Your First point is Clark 26, (mile post 45 is close) then there is an Old Stn Mnd at a Fnc Cor at...
Andy Nold, post: 327243, member: 7 wrote: The only thing I don't understand is why my Latitude is slipping. I thought that if you start out on a given...
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy 😀
Texas Rule on Monumentation of SurveysThe jist of my reply was YES a survey CAN be performed w/o setting corners, I wasn't reading the rules or implyi...
The 30' method is what they had us do about a year ago, we meandered one "bank", but then they said to split 15-15 on the c/l from an aerial, not thei...
You're in the ballpark.
You can absolutely do a survey w/o setting a monument, just because you don't pound a bar in the ground don't mean you didn't survey the property, esp...
Henley and Frey are from Texas.
Mid 20's, I was chiefing by 21/22 chief parties by 25/26.
We've tried a few others, none seem to last/hold up like the good ol Schonstedt, we buy the old original GA52 (I think that's it), all metal, just hol...
We have two "new"(er) Schonstedt's that you can barely hear, if there is any traffic you can't hear them at all. I remember older ones used to scream?
