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james-vianna
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Joined: July 2, 2010 6:21 am
Last seen: June 3, 2026 6:39 pm
Topics: 42 / Replies: 640
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RE: Favorite found monument.

Remember looking for one corner and reading the notes and realized I was there 100 years to the day from when the original corner was set. It was an i...

3 years ago
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RE: Favorite found monument.

Leading my retired farmer clients way back in the woods to their rear corner and saying their should be a pipe here from the 30's. I took a step forwa...

3 years ago
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RE: Theodolites of 1890

Here is one from that time period, hard to tell if it has 3 or 4 microscopes. Not sure if it could be inverted. Also had mirror signaling attached to ...

3 years ago
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RE: Theodolites of 1890

should be four microscopes (one to read each quadrant) scope does not invert as you are reading all four quadrants

3 years ago
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RE: Removing Opposing Survey Pin after Court Judgement

Monument Legislation Signed into Law in New York in 2005 Destruction of Survey Monument Legislation That law lost all its teeth when this phra...

3 years ago
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RE: Do you know when to say no?

Ha I saw them along with the dress on the bicentennial train tour

3 years ago
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RE: A neat pile of antique survey junk

Love that 2B. Ran many many miles of traverse with one. Great instrument.

3 years ago
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RE: RR ROW CL vs Design CL?

On one section of an old abandoned spur where they removed the rails in WW2 for scrap, I was able to recover the PC and Pt in the raised bed. They wer...

3 years ago
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RE: If You Find A Bent Tree In The Forest

Dont remember where i saw it but have seen old pics of peace trees where a limb was threaded through another limb

3 years ago
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RE: Lath

Not uncommon to see lath used around here but most have gone to hardwood stakes in the last 30 years

3 years ago
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RE: Equipment Advice

Being blunt here but would suggest a better use of your money would be in hiring a licensed land surveyor. To many pitfalls for a laymen.

3 years ago
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RE: Double Ring Ring

Similar to Paden's tale: I had a wingnut take me out on a row boat to an island in the middle of the Hudson River where he wanted to build his house....

3 years ago
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RE: Do you know any good advertisers?

I mentioned Beerleg to E-38 Survey Solutions

4 years ago
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RE: What is a Set Stone?

They can be all shapes and sizes usually a dressed stone around here. A rather unusual one from tuesday ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Resetting Destroyed Property Corners

@dave-o?ÿ ?ÿBased on what he wrote it is. I understood it to be the original has been washed away so he has two maps showing the corners location that...

4 years ago
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RE: Resetting Destroyed Property Corners

Not sure i fully understand your issue but split the distance between the 2 maps and set it or some kind of o/s. Your using the best available evidenc...

4 years ago
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