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...

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...

It has been over 30 years for me, and I am on my second rubber stamp. The first one got hard and brittle, and had to be retired. No caps required in ...

I use a 22" Ontario D-handle machete for most work; and a bank blade for briars, blackberry and wild rose bushes. Finding a quality leather sheath fo...

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

I got my two year old windows 7pro machine set up for daily use connected to the internet. I wirelessly connected my workstation with XP to have acce...

I believe that the bearing it is asking for is the bearing leaving the last point that the line coming from the hinge point will intersect. I have su...

My "favorite" was a little ole lady who would call at 5:30 a.m. and want an update or progress report. It was too early in the boundary work to say d...