Trying to envision a surveyor sucessfully imitating the axel when finding that long sought-for monument.

@olemanriver Forgive me my friend, but, I simply must do this. AXLE . . . AXEL ax·el noun a jump in skating wi...

First job on my own involved a 99-foot steel tape (end had broken off), a digging bar, a shovel. flags for chaining pins and a standard recreational m...

Nice that you added the pic. Too many here have no mental visual of a chaining pin.

@lurker Think of the State of Wyoming. It isn't a rectangle.

That would make Colorado larger than Texas.

The selection of certain names can be much more important than we assume at the time. A ton of ones I see have the person's birth year or high school...

Manual typewriters. A very noisy classroom. The only similarity with today is the location of most of the keys.

You will find this to be a fantastic resource. Chip in frequently and be sure to look in on the coversations every day. What part of the the Centenn...

Remember this: Just because we can does not mean we must. Log cabins were built based on what the eyeball said. People survived well in those homes...