I'm not going to say that I never kinked a straight line.?ÿ Mostly, I think it's happened when there was a stonewall or fence, running for hundreds or...

I've found a rod next to a pipe/inside a pipe.?ÿ No idea what's gong on in some people's minds

I don't know much about the PLSS, but are there abutter calls that would make this separate parcel disappear?

I guess it depends if I found any of the corners already set.?ÿ I'd probably hold those instead of proportioning the shortage

Before robots, I'd say that I could live with almost any tribrach, as long as it's treated well.?ÿ But now, you need the one that's made for your inst...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but you mentioned street layout, so I can imagine a few property monuments not being exactly on the line of the ...

Wow.?ÿ Specific instructions, arrival times, and even the anticipated hours, all fine.?ÿ But all that other crap is pretty offensive.?ÿ I don't know...

Madison is a great town.?ÿ Thought I was going to be crushed to death by the mass of humanity in the streets there, though, one Halloween 30 years ago

@aliquot?ÿ We don't agree on much here, so your reply doesn't surprise me. I'm not a super positive person, but I'd be concerned if I had such a neg...

@mightymoe?ÿ I still don't care.?ÿ Unless you have a rash of unlicensed staking going on, and they're all way the heck off, it doesn't bother me that...

@aliquot?ÿ Not all of us

@holy-cow?ÿ I don't care where they put the north arrow on a plan.?ÿ I'm just happy if it's there, and it points generally north

I guess I kind of don't care.?ÿ Plastic's fine with me.?ÿ Have seen more aluminum caps sitting next to the rebar, popped off from frost or bad install...

Good luck.?ÿ I'm guessing that none of the lot corners were ever set, and maybe none of the road monuments either.?ÿ Everything supposedly tied to tho...

@jon-payne?ÿ Yeah, I heard that Al Bundy was originally going to be a land surveyor.?ÿ?ÿ But, they didn't want to make him that low on the social or...

@bstrand That's true life poetry, man

@aliquot?ÿ No, I don't think that ensures anything of the kind. But unless I know personally of some wrongdoing or something unethical, passing the t...

@aliquot?ÿ What name did I call you? It's not knee-jerk, it's called presumption.?ÿ Unless you have actual evidence that most surveyors are bad, the...

It's not glamorous enough for many of the college graduates.?ÿ It doesn't foster upward mobility for those already in the field who don't have degrees...