A fellow surveyor calls all snakes "cotton-head water rattlers." "All snakes are poisonous and will fang you to death.""The only good snake is a dead...
Well, you lost that $200 fee!There are some surveys that grow more complicated as you progress with the work. As the changing cost estimate approaches...
You are going to spend some time on the Excel part. That sounds like a tombstone transcription project.The type and purpose of the data I collected wa...
I have done a few cemeteries with my total station and with GPS. Using GPS with my nearby base station, I remained "fixed" for the duration of the wor...
It rained in Northeast Mississippi again today. It will rain tonight and tomorrow. It rained all last week, too.Sheeeeeeeesh! Will it ever stop?! :-/...
Three times I have found firearms or what was left of them.First was an octagon gun barrel marking a quarter section corner set by someone after the G...
Look at hourly or daily rental rates at an ATV rental place near a trail ride. I looked at a few stores in Russellville, Arkansas near the Ouchita Nat...
Cute kid! I wish you well and hope that you have lots of time to spend with her.I have 4.5 grandkids, one due in May. There's nothing like looking int...
Looks like you will need a BIG monument to correctly place the dimples! 😛
I am also glad that we in Mississippi do not have to deal with that.In my humble opinion, YOU are the Professional Surveyor and your map is how you pr...
Yes. Sometimes, I cannot work for the telephone ringing. And by the time I get my thoughts re-organized, it rings again.I bought a cell phone for me t...
Mr. Harris: words of wisdom.It is much easier to drive around something than try and go through or over it. I use my ATV to carry stuff. Any time I ge...
I've got one myself. A guy flew an airplane along the section lines and said my marker was not on the section line. Hmmmm...in an aircraft maybe a tho...
the pickets on a cricket's witch.....wait, what?!?!:-P
Yep. all that nice drafting work is usually for my eyes only.Oh, and I have learned to round off for some folks - 210 X 420 = 2.0 acres. B-)
The history of the Gunter's chain is interesting. From one source, it is based on the English unit of "4" and the number "10".I "Googled" a few websit...
I have a similiar story. I retraced a TVA substation boundary in a neighboring county many years ago. I guessed that the other surveyor probably used ...
