Favorites: working in the field or courthouse searching for evidence and old records. Talking to landowners about the history of their land. Talking t...
I am with JT Strickland with using an old Indian type of weather indicator. My weather app is a rock tied to a rope and hanging from a tree limb. If ...
In the sunny South, we have our share of the many varieties of wasps, bees and hornets. Once, I found ( or, they found me ) a yellow jacket nest in a ...
Waitaminute....how do you attach an unrecorded plat?If you have a copy and then attach it, does it become a recorded plat? Will the subdividing survey...
When an surveyed piece of property is being subdivided down the middle, and the attorney uses a bearing with degrees, minutes, and seconds along the l...
Is it on the end of your anchor rope? Or did you use one of the kid salesmen?!:-D
I do powdered gatoraide or quencher.B-)
I am new at this. I understand that state plane coordinates are on a flat plane that is not at ground level. My ranger 3 field controller with surve...
Sonofa........!!Hey, Jim! The Koordinate Kowboy probably calculated that the true position of your point should have been S 00 degrees, 02' 47.667843...
That is the most likely explanation. With one step per yard, this is one half of a step, and was probably the smallest unit of measurement used when p...
Wups....1883, not 1833 ! :-$
Thanks, guys. I made a mistake on the date of the deed. It was 1883, not 1833. The most common unit of measurement in 1833 was the chain. Around 1...
Reading thorough a stack of deeds.....now I have a deed call of 25 and 1/7 rod! Grrrrrr....I have a sneaky feeling that this lawyer who wrote the desc...
Thinking out loud.......one acre is 10 square chains or 3.16 chains square.One acre is 160 square rods or 12.65 rods square, or 12 rods, 16 and 1/4 l...
ring, ring!Me: Dendy Engineering.Him: how much does it cost to survey a piece of land? ( silence ensues )Thus begins the extraction of information ...
BS in Civil Engineering. I became a PLS before I became a PE. In my work, I did boundary work first, and topographical work after, and then did constr...
Glad to hear news that is good. I enjoy reading your posts and trading information. Stay around. There are a bunch of really great people on this boa...
