@mightymoe Wow! That's a ton of corner records. I'm certain you would have recognized the original stone if it had been anywhere near the expected ...

What was the monument? Section corner or an aliquot corner? Stone or brass cap? When was it last found? Where the nearest monuments found where ex...

Had a case with a big stack of concrete blocks right over the corner. Moved way too many, set the corner, then put the blocks back except for where t...

@g-gurneyary_g SOMETHING to rely on and someone to blame besides each other. The classic truth, right there.

It's a preliminary route survey for a new, overhead, solid glass, sewer main so the city sewage guys can find problems easier.

Remember the days of the worry about Y2K? For the youngsters, I will explain that there were people who firmly believed the world was going to be des...

Had a client one time who informed me that all descriptions had to be written in a clockwise order. Said it was illegal to do it the other way. If t...

If I had a dollar for every nosy neighbor encountered who claimed to have worked in surveying at some point in the past, I could fly around the world.

Back in the early 1980s, another surveyor shared with me that he had been run off a job by the client, with whom he had history on several previous su...

@williwaw Time to break out the chain saw and add an "access" fee to the client's invoice.

I had to memorize a couple hundred magic formulae to survive my engineering studies. The big trick is to remember the units of each item in the formu...

Ran onto proof today of one of the stupid things done by clients. A family I know split off a strange tract no more than three months ago. That trac...

A significant issue in writing descriptions is defining the math without defining the corners well. For example, thence S 00 degrees 11 minutes, 27 s...

"Hardpacked".............is there any other kind of county road. Nearly all county roads here are crushed limestone. If the rock is too big, it is l...

Several major former participants posted on that thread. Sure miss those guys.

Another zombie thread comes to life. @john-putnam Check for your input to that thread.

In my part of PLSSia most section lines have county roads running along them. Most road intersections now have sign posts with the road names on them...