This post and others show that RTK has not improved boundary work in my area at all. In fact in some cases it has gone the other way."Gitter done".

Drill 1/4" hole deep enough for a 1/4" PK or MAG nail, then counterbore with a larger masonry drill(maybe 5/8" dia.)about a quarter of inch down. The ...

Probably 40 year old. Used ship building, aircraft, etc.

I just finished a rural tract whose North was a straight line per its deed. A fence started and ended at its two end points, but in the middle was bow...

The equations were to fix mistakes and errors in distances only, so that everything did not have to be remarked in the field after a screwup was disco...

There is no training, but if there was, the first lesson on the first day would be ,"Bearings don't have to match".

If the fence bows to the right of the intended course and distance, I might say," North 45 degrres East, slightly West of a crooked fence, a distance ...

Again, some of you folk are giving too much credit to insurance agents and real estate agents for knowing technical information.

I think this is going right over the heads of some who are reading it.

There was a distance meter with that name. I think is was made in Sweden. We demo'd one in 1973. It took two men to carry all the crap that it took to...

E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g gets a new description even if only a few months old.

Kent, I think you hit the nail on the head.No description was written or at least it does not affect in the record. A lawyer prepared blanket easement...

I only show the stuff that could affect title, could reasonably affect value, or what the client has asked to be located.Little incidental stuff I ign...

Fine and dandy, but when the plat in the recorded document is a part of the record for location how can this stuff be OK.

How can this created easement be shown in its relationship to the tract out of which it came with only coordinates, unless everyting is on the same sy...