Walking on crusty snow one minute. One leg and part of the torso wedged into where a power pole had been the next. That hurt. I was surprised my butt ...

@Scrim Amen, Brother Scrim, Amen. Yea verily I saith unto you that the truth is evident in your speech. I had a classic example of that happen to me ...

I had a survey firm call me up about six years ago about a topographical survey I had performed about four years earlier. They wanted me to hand them...

@field-dog Easy to be confused until one starts looking at the SPC numbers. The 0,0 point is probably not even in the same State.

Sometimes things don't meet our expectations but we are already doing the best we can. Your crew is what it is. Offer to pay me twice as much if I c...

@ashton In Kansas, our deeds are notarized to verify that the notary knows the signers and that is who signed the deed. Surveys are not notarized.

No problem whatsoever. As a reviewer, I simply turn and hand it back to the Register of Deeds and say, "Record it, as is."

Thanks, Ashton, for pointing out the lack of section corners in our Colonial States.

In PLSSia we tend to go wherever it is we need to go, adjacent or not. In-town lots frequently have no alleys, so we wander across many lots searching...

You should have seen the giant stack of concrete blocks we had to move and then put back just to get to the existing bar at the property corner. I th...

Had one once by a notoriously poor surveyor. I was following his description, word for word, and a four-sided small tract would not close. Bearings ...

I look forward to seeing the solution to this situation. Sadly, the client usually doesn't care about a history lesson. Even though it is critical to...