The article is interesting because we believe quite a few people who traveled the Oregon Trail may have brought fruit/nut trees with them on the journ...
A locator used brass rods to mark a water line I was mapping. He couldn't look back on his located because of the hills but when it was plotted up, he...
A guy who build his estate on the Long Beach peninsula in Washington did a similar thing for cabins on his estate (46°35'12.49", 124°06'44.78"...
Another crew in our area noticed a guy on the ridge watching them brush all day. They went up the hill to talk to him thinking he might be an irate ne...
I see that as time passes, younger field crew members don't know what they are looking at: "cone shaped iron pipe with 2 flaps"-it was a peevee head b...
I went out last week and recovered control I set for a timber survey in 1983 to do a small boundary survey. Found the control from the little aluminum...
I was involved in a situation where the buyer of a commercial property valued in excess of $4.5M not only didn't have an ALTA survey, but didn't have ...
@mightymoe I was doing a project about 4 years ago and discovered the first "modern" surveyor had forgot to put an entire centerline curve of the sta...
@dave-karoly I was a party chief on the Longview Fibre job and saw where the first "dependent resurvey" didn't follow any of the rules in the BLM man...
I've done a number of them in Zone A (old maps unnumbered A Zone) and have used different methods depending on the circumstances. As TickMagnet states...
Washington does have a design, just the size can vary according to the DOL website. I do research in about 5 counties and the only difference I see is...
As Norman says. In the PNW, if you don't get out in it, you ain't gonna get nothing done. Plus, it keeps the dust down most of the year and the ground...
In the state of Washington the DNR keeps an inventory of the dams and I see the Iowa DNR does likewise. Our state requires a survey (vertical) each ti...
I agree with Mr. Marks. Remember the coefficient of expansion for a steel tape? While doing 500KV line rebuilds the inspector told us the line can sag...
Now imagine meeting with 2 attorneys that have the same lack of knowledge and trying to explain "you changed all the coordinates on the lines" (basis ...
Sounds like you're working on the BNSF tracks around the 39th St. overpass. Depending on phases of the moon, they claim the center is between the 2 se...
I had a project with a similar situation of an area . The parcels were described with perimeter descriptions and then " known as Lot X, Block X in the...
